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5th Colmar Symposium - November 8th and 9th, 2007 |
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Updated on: October 24th, 2007. |
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| Thursday, November 8th, 2007 |
| 9:00 AM |
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Opening Ceremony - Jean-Claude Koeberlé, President of Colmar Liberty |
| Session 1 – The RNA World (Chair: Prof. Eric Westhof, IBMC-CNRS) |
| 9:15 AM |
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RNA Silencing Networks
Prof. David Baulcombe, The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, UK |
| 10:00 AM |
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Translational regulation by microRNAs in mammalian cells
Prof. Witold Filipowicz, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland |
| 10:45 AM |
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Coffee break |
| 11:15 AM |
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The human genome as an RNA machine
Prof. John Mattick, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia |
| 12:00 AM |
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Poster session and lunch |
| Session 2 – Bacterial Virulence (Chair: Dr. Pascale Romby, IBMC-CNRS) |
| 1:30 PM |
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Integrating bacterial non-coding RNAs into regulatory networks
Dr. Susan Gottesman, NIH, Bestheda, USA |
| 2:15 PM |
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Multiple target regulation by /Salmonella /small RNAs
Dr. Joerg Vogel, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany |
| 3:00 PM |
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Coffee break |
| Session 3 – Antiviral RNA Silencing (Chair: Dr. Pascal Genschik, IBMP,CNRS) |
| 3:45 PM |
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Small RNA-directed viral immunity in Drosophila and C. elegans
Prof. Shou-wei Ding, Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, USA |
| 4:15 PM |
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The polerovirus F-box protein P0 targets ARGONAUTE1 to suppress RNA silencing
Dr. Véronique Ziegler-Graff - Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, CNRS, Strasbourg, France |
| 5:00 PM |
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Discovery of microRNA cancer biomarkers - using miRCURY™ LNA Array
Mr. Carsten Alsbo, Product Manager, Exiqon, Vedbaek, Denmark - Gold Sponsor |
| 5:30 PM |
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End of first day |
| 7:30 PM |
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Banquet at Château la Confrérie St Etienne in Kientzheim, supported by CIVA |
| Friday, November 9th, 2007 |
| 8:45 AM |
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The drosophila response to RNA virus infections
Dr. Jean-Luc Imler, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS, Strasbourg, France |
| Session 4 - Development, Epigenetics and Evolution (Chair: Dr. Olivier Voinnet, IBMP, CNRS) |
| 9:30 AM |
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Silencing, spreading and copying heterochromatin with RNAi
Prof. Robert Martienssen, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA |
| 10:15 AM |
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X-chromosome inactivation : developmental dynamics and epigenetic regulation
Dr. Edith Heard, CNRS/Institut Curie, Paris |
| 11:00 AM |
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Coffee break |
| 11:30 AM |
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Induction by microRNAs of hereditary epigenetic modifications (paramutation) in the mouse
Dr. François Cuzin, Université de Nice-Sophia-Antipolis, Nice, France |
| 12:15 PM |
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Poster session and lunch |
| Session 5 - Micro-RNAs, Human Viruses, and Cancer (Chair: Prof. Jules Hoffmann, IBMC, CNRS) |
| 1:45 PM |
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Staying On Target with chemically modified siRNAs and SMARTvectors for Lentiviral shRNA mediated RNAi
Dr. Stéphanie Urschel, Field Application Scientist Europe, Thermo Fisher Scientific, France |
| 2:30 PM |
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Forward and reverse genetics of miRNA activity in Arabidopsis thaliana
Dr. Olivier Voinnet, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, CNRS, Strasbourg, France
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| 3:15 PM |
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Mechanism of mammalian small-RNA-mediated gene regulation
Prof. Tom Tuschl, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rockefeller University, New York, USA |
| 4:00 PM |
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Short Presentations of Best Posters Awards (Chair: Prof. Catherine Florentz, Ecole doctorale Vie et Santé, ULP) |
| 4:45 PM |
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Closing ceremony by Gilbert Meyer, Mayor of Colmar |
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Updated on: October 24th, 2007. |
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