EURASNET Workshop “Splicing in Cell Biology”

EURASNET Workshop “Splicing in Cell Biology”

Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Universidade de Lisboa

The participants will be members of EURASNET labs, including graduate students and post-docs.

Each invited speaker will present an introductory lecture in the morning and a more specialist research seminar in the afternoon. Each lecture will be followed by an informal tutorial discussion with participants.

Participants are invited to contribute short presentations.

Program

October 5

9:30 – 10:30 Douglas Black (University of California, Los Angeles)
Introductory overview: Splicing mechanisms

10:30 – 11:30 Jamal Tazi (Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier)
Introductory overview: Splicing and Disease

11:30 – 12:30 Luis Ferreira Moita (Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisboa)
Using RNAi screens to study splicing regulation

Lunch

14:00 – 15:00 Douglas Black
Research seminar
15:00 – 16:00 Jamal Tazi
Research seminar

16:00 – 17:30 Participant’s presentations (15 min talks)

Free time downtown and Dinner

October 6

9:30 – 10:30 Torben Heick Jensen (University of Aarhus)
Introductory overview: mRNA surveillance

10:30 – 11:30 Giuseppe Biamonti (Institute of Molecular Genetics, Pavia)
Introductory overview: Splicing and cell differentiation

11:30 – 12:30 Andreas Ladurner (EMBL, Heidelberg)
Introductory overview: Splicing and chromatin

Lunch

14:00 – 15:00 Torben Heick Jensen
Research seminar
15:00 – 16:00 Giuseppe Biamonti
Research seminar

16:00 – 17:00 Andreas Ladurner
Research seminar

Free time downtown and Dinner

Students and post-docs from EURASNET teams are invited to participate, free of charge.

To register, please contact Maria Carmo-Fonseca