RNA
2006
Welcome to the III National Meeting on
RNA Biology.
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The RNA program is available
here
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Manuel Santos (Univ. Aveiro)
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Alexandra Moreira (IBMC - Porto)
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Margarida Carvalho (IMM - Lisboa)
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PROGRAM
09:30-10:00 – Registration
10:00-10:30
EFFECTS OF SPLICING ON TRANSCRIPTION AND mRNA STABILITY. Alexandre
Teixeira.
10:30-11:00
“AUG-PROXIMITY EFFECT”: WHAT MAKES mRNAS BEARING A SMALL ORF ESCAPE
NMD? Ana Luísa Silva, Patrícia Ribeiro, Paula
Faustino, Stephen A. Liebhaber, Luísa Romão
11:00-11:30 Coffee-break
11:30-12:00 CFTR
MISSENSE MUTATIONS RESULTING IN ALTERNATIVE TRANSCRIPTS. Anabela S.
Ramalho, Celeste Barreto, Margarida D. Amaral.
12:00-12:30
ALTERNATIVE SPLICING OF AN ARABIDOPSIS RING E3 UBIQUITIN LIGASE
INVOLVED IN PLANT STRESS AND DEVELOPMENT.
Sofia Carvalho, Paula Duque.
12:30-13:15 – 1st Plenary talk
RNASE II: MODUS OPERANDI OF A
MOLECULAR KILLER.
Cecília M. Arraiano.
13:15-14:45 – Lunch
14:45-15:30 – 2nd Plenary talk
The structure of RNase II and its RNA-bound complex explains the
enzyme specificity, its processivity and distributive properties,
and the dynamics of RNA degradation.
Carlos Frazão, Colin E. McVey, Mónica Amblar, Ana Barbas, Clemens
Vonrhein, Cecília M. Arraiano, Maria A. Carrondo.
15:30-16:00
Integrity of
P-bodies is not required for RNA-mediated gene silencing.
Ana Eulalio, Jan Rehwinkel, Isabelle Behm-Ansmant, Elisa Izaurralde.
16:00-16:30 LARGE SCALE
COMPARATIVE CODON CONTEXT ANALYSIS UNVEILS NOVEL RULES GOVERNING
GENE EVOLUTION. Gabriela Moura, Miguel Pinheiro, Cristina Gomes, Adelaide Freitas, José
Luís Oliveira and Manuel A. S. Santos.
16:30-17:00 – Coffee-break
17:00-17:30 GENOME
WIDE IDENTIFICATION OF FUNCTIONALLY DISTINCT SUBSETS CELLULAR mRNAS
ASSOCIATED WITH THE MAMMALIAN SPLICING FACTORS U2AF65 AND PTB.
Margarida Gama-Carvalho, Nuno L.
Barbosa-Morais, Alex Brodsky, Pamela Silver, Maria Carmo-Fonseca.
17:30-18:00 RNASE
MUTANTS AND SMALL RNAS IN SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM. Sandra C. Viegas,
Cecilia M. Arraiano.
18:00-18:30
ALTERNATIVE POLYADENYLATION OF POLO IS REQUIRED FOR CORRECT
DEVELOPMENT IN DROSOPHILA. Pedro Pinto, Alexandra Moreira.
18:30-19:00
EPIGENETIC REGULATION OF miRNAS. Rui P.Neves, Sandra Weinhold,
Simeon Santourlidis, Markus Uhrberg.
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