Agenda, November 14th-16th, 2023
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Tuesday, November 14th: Arrival |
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Varies |
Guests arrive at MSY. Local transportation available through Lyft Pass. |
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After 3:00pm |
Check-in to Hotel |
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6:15pm- |
Dinner for speakers, advisory board members, and organizers. |
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Wednesday, November 15th: Main Symposium Day |
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Talks will be 25 minutes plus 10 minutes for Q&A |
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8:00am – 8:30am |
Registration; Breakfast and coffee available |
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8:30am - 8:40am |
Opening
Remarks by the Organizers |
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8:40am – 9:05am |
Yunsun Nam, PhD: From Cutting to Chemical Modifications—How Proteins Recognize Substrate RNAs
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9:15am – 9:40am |
Jeffery Sample, PhD: Diversity of Contributions to EBV Infection by the Viral lncRNA-encoding BHLF1 Locus |
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9:50am – 10:15am |
Mathias Munschauer, PhD: RNA Interactomics: A New Perspective on RNA Viruses and Beyond |
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10:25am – 10:45am |
Morning Break |
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10:45am – 11:10am |
Grace Chen, PhD: Circular RNA Immunity |
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11:20am – 11:45am |
Eric
Johannsen, MD: Epstein-Barr Fluorescent Reporter Viruses Illuminate the Virus and Host Transcriptomes During Replication |
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11:55am – 12:20pm |
Erik Flemington, PhD: Viral Reprogramming of Cell Transcription Initiation |
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12:30pm – 1:30pm |
Lunch |
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1:30pm – 1:55pm |
Karla Neugebauer, PhD: The Role of Co-transcriptional RNA Processing in Gene Regulation |
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2:05pm – 2:30pm |
Rolf Renne,
PhD: High Density Resolution of the KSHV Transcriptome Identifies Novel Transcript Isoforms Generated by Long-range Transcription and Alternative Splicing |
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2:40pm – 3:05pm |
Yongsheng Shi, PhD: The Nuclear RNA Degradation Code in Virus-Host Interaction |
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3:15pm - 3:45pm |
Afternoon Break |
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3:45pm – 4:10pm |
Scott Tibbetts, PhD: Revealing in vivo Functions of Gammaherpesvirus Noncoding RNAs During Chronic Infection and Tumorigenesis |
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4:20pm – 4:45pm |
Britt
Glaunsinger, PhD: Induction and Co-option of Noncoding Retrotransposons During Herpesvirus Infection |
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4:55pm – 5:00pm |
Closing Statements |
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6:30pm - |
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Thursday, November 16th: Departure |
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Varies |
Guests will depart for their designated return flights. Local
transportation available through Lyft Pass. |