IGC Symposium 2017 – Plant RNA Biology
Wednesday, 27th September 2017
9:30 – 9:45 Registration
9:45 – 10:00 Welcome note
10:00 – 11:15 Session 1 - mRNA processing I Sponsored by the Journal of Cell Science
10:00 – 10:30 Tino Köster, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Cartography of RNA-binding proteins - transcriptome-wide mapping of in vivo targets in Arabidopsis
10:30 – 10:45 Cristiane Calixto, University of Dundee, UK
The impact of alternative splicing on Arabidopsis cold response
10:45 – 11:00 Dale Richardson, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
The Arabidopsis SCL30a RNA-binding protein confers ABA-dependent salt and osmotic stress tolerance
during seed germination
11:00 – 11:15 Christian Schmitz-Linneweber, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Germany
The intron maturase MatK associates with an ancient RNA structure within chloroplast group II introns
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee break and poster viewing
11:45 – 12:45 EMBO Keynote Lecture
Robert Martienssen, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA
Epigenetically activated small RNAs mediate chromosome segregation and dosage
12:45 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 16:00 Session 1 - mRNA processing II
14:30 – 15:00 Paula Duque, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
Alternative splicing control of ABA-mediated stress responses during early plant development
15:00 – 15:15 Allan James, University of Glasgow, UK
A putative splicing factor network contributes to thermoplasticity of the Arabidopsis circadian clock
15:15 – 15:30 Katja Meyer, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Genome-wide analysis of in vivo RNA-protein interactions
15:30 – 15:45 Jakub Dolata, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
ARGONAUTE1 acts in a close relation to chromatin and is involved in alternative splicing regulation in Arabidopsis
thaliana
15:45 – 16:00 Naheed Tabassum, Martin-Luther University, Germany
The Tandem Zinc Finger Protein 9 (TZF9), a mitogen-activated protein kinase substrate, mediates immunity in
Arabidopsis thaliana
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break and poster viewing
16:30 – 17:45 Session 2 - mRNA degradation
16:30 – 17:00 Dominique Gagliardi, IBMP-CNRS, France
mRNA uridylation and decay
17:00 – 17:15 Karel Riha, CEITEC Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Comparative analysis of Arabidopsis mutants revealed distinct impact of the core non-sense mediate RNA decay
factors on transcriptome homeostasis
17:15 –17:30 Andor Auber, National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre, Hungary
The Nonstop decay and the RNA silencing systems operate cooperatively in plants
17:30 – 17:45 Wen‐Chi Lee, Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Taiwan
Global Analysis of Truncated RNA Ends Reveals New Insights into Ribosome Stalling in Plants
17:45 – 20:00 Poster session with light refreshments
20:30 Social dinner Sponsored by Câmara Municipal de Oeiras
Thursday, 28th September 2017
9:30 – 11:00 Session 3 - Small RNAs I Sponsored by ARALAB
9:30 – 10:00 Zofia Szweykowska-Kulińska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Posttranscriptional coordination of splicing and microRNA biogenesis in plants
10:00 – 10:30 Peter Brodersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
From unexpected links between isoprenoid metabolites and microRNAs to ARGONAUTE-chaperone complexes
10:30 – 10:45 Jungnam Cho, Sainsbury Laboratory at Cambridge University, UK
Regulation of rice root development by a retrotransposon acting as a miRNA sponge
10:45 – 11:00 Zhaoxue Ma, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Molecular determinants of AGO7 subcellular localization and its functionality in Arabidopsis
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break and poster viewing
11:30 – 12:30 Session 3 - Small RNAs II
11:30 – 12:00 EMBO Young Investigator Lecture
Lionel Navarro, Institut de Biologie de l’École Normale Supérieure, France
Small RNA-directed control of the host immune response and its targeting bacterial effectors
12:00 – 12:15 Francisco J Navarro, University of Cambridge, UK
miRNA-mediated regulation of synthetic gene circuits in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
12:15 – 12:30 Ganna Reshetnyak, IRD, France
Xanthomonas oryzae-triggered production of atypical rice small RNAs during infection
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Session 4 - Long non-coding RNAs
14:00 – 14:30 Sebastian Marquardt, Copenhagen Plant Science Centre, Denmark
Rules and Roles of non-coding Transcription
14:30 – 15:00 Rossana Henriques, CRAG, Spain
Fine tuning the clock - oscillating long non-coding RNAs as novel regulators of circadian-mediated processes
15:00 – 15:15 Stefanie Rosa, University of Potsdam, Germany
Sense/Antisense transcription coordination at the single locus level
15:15 – 15:30 Rodrigo Siqueira Reis, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Translational regulation by noncoding antisense RNAs
15:30 – 15:45 Jeremie Bazin, Institute of Plant Science-Paris Saclay, France
Global analysis of ribosome-associated non-coding RNAs unveils new modes of translational regulation
15:45 – 16:15 Coffee break and poster viewing
16:15 – 17:15 Session 5 - RNA structure Sponsored by Enzifarma
16:15 – 16:45 Yiliang Ding, John Innes Centre, UK
Genome-wide Study of Relationship between RNA Structure and Translation in Arabidopsis thaliana
16:45 – 17:15 Brian Gregory, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Global analysis of the RNA secondary structure and RNA-protein interaction landscapes of plants
17:15 – 17:30 Closing remarks
