Conference Programme

 

 

Day 1 – Tuesday 4th September
10.00 – 12.00 Guided City Tour of Brno
12.00 – 13.00 Registration desk open, coffee & sandwiches
13.00 – 13.10 Opening remarks
13.10 – 17.30 SESSION 1: Nucleic Acid Modifications
  Chair Mark Helm
13.10 – 13.50 Vincent Kelly: Getting the message straight; translation regulation as a therapeutic approach to autoimmune disease 
13.50 – 14.30 Thomas Carell: New DNA bases establish a 2nd code in DNA
14.30 – 14.50 Dagmar Zigáčková: The effect of the Perlman syndrome DIS3L2 exoribonuclease in regulation of gene expression
14.50 – 15.10 Heinz Fischer: Control of epidermal innate immunity by DNA methylation
15.10 – 15.40 Coffee Break
15.40 – 16.20 Schraga Schwartz: Cracking the epitranscriptome
16.20 – 17.00 Mark Helm: A pipeline for total tRNA composition analysis broken down to isoacceptors and differential modification content
17.00 – 17.30 Dalibor Blažek: Function of cyclin-dependent kinase 11
17.30 – 20.00 Poster Session & Dinner 
   

Day 2 – Wednesday 5th September
9.00 – 12.40 SESSION 2: Nucleic Acid Sensors
  Chair Sara Macias Ribela
9.00 – 10.00 Gunther Hartmann: Essential Role of TLR8 in Malaria 
10.00 – 10.40 Ann-Kristin Östlund-Farrants: Transcriptional response of ribosomal protein genes and rRNA genes in innate immune cells 
10.40 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 – 11.40 Sara Macias Ribela: Intrinsic antiviral immunity of embryonic stem cells 
11.40 – 12.20 Liam Keegan: Evolutionarily conserved biological roles of ADAR RNA editing enzymes
12.20 – 12.40 Carine Meignin: A three steps model for the activation of antiviral RNA interference by the nucleic acid sensor Dicer-2
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch & Photo
14.00 – 17.20 SESSION 3: RNA Modifications
  Chair Vincent Kelly
14.00 – 14.40 Erez Y. Levanon: The interplay between RNA editing and dsRNA evolution can contribute to autoimmune disorders
14.40 – 15.20 Jean-Yves Roignant: Shaping the Nervous System by m6A RNA Modification in Drosophila melanogaster
15.20 – 16.00 Coffee Break
16.00 – 16.40 Frank Lyko: Distribution and Regulation of Cytosine-5 RNA Methylation
16.40 – 17.00 Prajakta Bajad: Phenotypic characterization of ADAR1∆7-9 mice
17.00 – 17.20 Alexis Dziedziech: Conservation of pyroptosis, an inflammatory cell death mechanism in Drosophila melanogaster
18.30 – 22.00 Gala Dinner*
   

* In case of nice weather, dinner will take place on the NEST terrace adjacent to the conference hotel. In case of bad weather, dinner will take place at the premises of CEITEC MU. The venue will be specified at the registration desk.
 

Day 3 – Thursday 6th September
9.00 – 12.30 SESSION 4: Diseases
  Chair Erez Y. Levanon
9.00 – 9.40 Mariano Garcia-Blanco: Flaviviral RNAs and host innate immunity: a love-hate relationship
9.40 – 10.20 Jan Rehwinkel: SAMHD1 at the Crossroads of Nucleotide Metabolism and Cell Death
10.20 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 – 11.40 Rayk Behrendt: Ribonucleotide Excision Repair is Essential to Prevent Cancer
11.40 – 12.20 Sébastien Pfeffer: Role of Dicer and microRNAs during viral infection
12.20 – 12.30 Poster Award
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch and departure