Conference Description
The Post-Transcriptional Gene Regulation GRC is a premier, international scientific conference focused on advancing the frontiers of science through the presentation of cutting-edge and unpublished research, prioritizing time for discussion after each talk and fostering informal interactions among scientists of all career stages. The conference program includes a diverse range of speakers and discussion leaders from institutions and organizations worldwide, concentrating on the latest developments in the field. The conference is five days long and held in a remote location to increase the sense of camaraderie and create scientific communities, with lasting collaborations and friendships. In addition to premier talks, the conference has designated time for poster sessions from individuals of all career stages, and afternoon free time and communal meals allow for informal networking opportunities with leaders in the field.
The 2024 Gordon Research Conference on Post-Transcriptional Gene Regulation will be the 10th in a biennial series that began in 2004. This meeting will discuss the most up-to-date research on the basic mechanisms that underlie the processing, regulation, and functions of RNA. Topics of interest include but are not limited to RNA synthesis, folding, modification, splicing, 3´ end formation, mRNA translation, decay, localization, non-coding RNAs, and how these processes are coupled in cells. The versatility of RNA functions and mechanisms from a broad range of organisms will be emphasized. An important goal of the meeting is to foster interactions between academic and industrial scientists that lead to the identification and development of novel drug targets and therapeutic potential of RNAs. Moreover, the meeting seeks to support interactions among scientists at all stages of their careers, and the limitation of the attendance to ~180 participants will promote such conversations. The meeting will include approximately 40 invited speakers from academia and industry representing a variety of post-transcriptional control topics in nine sessions. In addition, a limited number of short talks will be selected from submitted abstracts. Four late afternoon poster sessions will ensure that the science of every participant will be discussed in depth. Sessions will generally have 4-6 speakers each.
An important goal of the meeting is to foster interactions between academic and industrial scientists that lead to the identification and development of novel drug targets and therapeutic potential of RNAs. Moreover, the meeting seeks to support interactions among scientists at all stages of their careers, and the limitation of the attendance to ~180 participants will promote such conversations. The meeting will include approximately 40 invited speakers from academia and industry representing a variety of post-transcriptional control topics in nine sessions. In addition, a limited number of short talks will be selected from submitted abstracts. Four late afternoon poster sessions will ensure that the science of every participant will be discussed in depth. Sessions will generally have 4-6 speakers each.
The topics, speakers, and discussion leaders for the conference sessions are displayed below. The conference chair is currently developing their detailed program, which will include the complete meeting schedule, as well as the talk titles for all speakers. The detailed program will be available by March 16, 2024. Please check back for updates.
RNA Modifications
Discussion Leaders
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Nicole Martinez (Stanford University, United States)
Speakers
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Kate Meyer (Duke University, United States)
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Ryan Flynn (Boston Children's Hospital, United States)
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Yunsun Nam (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States)
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Brenda Bass (University of Utah, United States)
RNA Mechanisms in Disease
Discussion Leaders
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Auinash Kalsotra (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States)
Speakers
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Tom Cooper (Baylor College of Medicine, United States)
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Stacy Horner (Duke University, School of Medicine, United States)
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Hailing Jin (University of California, Riverside, United States)
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Stavroula Mili (Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, United States)
Pre-mRNA Splicing
Discussion Leaders
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Tracy Johnson (University of California, Los Angeles, United States)
Speakers
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Wojciech Galej (EMBL Grenoble, France)
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Aaron Hoskins (University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States)
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Kristen Lynch (University of Pennsylvania, United States)
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Jimena Giudice (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States)
RNA Fate
Discussion Leaders
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David Bentley (University of Colorado School of Medicine, United States)
Speakers
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Gene-Wei Li (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)
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Torben Heick Jensen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
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Karen Adelman (Harvard Medical School, United States)
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Steven West (The Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter, United Kingdom)
3'-end Formation
Discussion Leaders
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Yongsheng Shi (University of California, Irvine, United States)
Speakers
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Valérie Hilgers (Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Germany)
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Athma Pai (University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, United States)
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David Bartel (Whitehead Institute / MIT / HHMI, United States)
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Liang Tong (Columbia University, United States)
RNA Folding
Discussion Leaders
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Alain Laederach (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States)
Speakers
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Yiliang Ding (John Innes Centre, United Kingdom)
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Philip Bevilacqua (Pennsylvania State University, United States)
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Sarah Woodson (Johns Hopkins University, United States)
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Maria Hondele (University of Basel, Switzerland, Switzerland)
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Anthony Mustoe (Baylor College of Medicine, United States)
RNP Structure and Function
Discussion Leaders
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Douglas Black (University of California, Los Angeles, United States)
Speakers
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Elena Conti (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Munich, Germany)
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Gene Yeo (University of California, San Diego, United States)
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Matthias Hentze (EMBL, Germany)
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Daniel Dominguez (UNC Chapel Hill, United States)
Non-Coding RNAs
Discussion Leaders
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Angela Brooks (University of California, Santa Cruz, United States)
Speakers
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Zhipeng Lu (USC, United States)
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Joshua Mendell (HHMI/The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States)
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Stefania Nicoli (Yale University, United States)
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Shinichi NAKAGAWA (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Mechanisms of Translation
Discussion Leaders
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Wendy Gilbert (Yale University, United States)
Speakers
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Olivia Rissland (University of Colorado School of Medicine, United States)
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Eliezer Calo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)
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Sebastian Klinge (Rockefeller University, United States)
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Rachel Green (Howard Hughes Medical Institute / Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, United States)
The GRC Power Hour™
Organizers
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Wendy Gilbert (Yale University, United States)
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Eliezer Calo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)