The Seoul National University School of Biological Sciences’ National Creative Research Center for MicroRNA is hosting the Seoul RNA Symposium on Wednesday, May 7th 2008.  Please see below for further details.

Time & Date : Wednesday, May 7th 2008, 13:00 ~ 18:00

Location: Building 201, Room 101 (Building to the right of the CALS Cafeterias)

Schedule:

1:00 - 1:40   Gideon Dreyfuss (U Penn)
The SMN complex: master orchestrator of cellular RNAs

1:40 - 2:00   Lili Wan (U Penn)
Chemical genetic dissection of SMN complex and snRNP biogenesis

2:00 - 2:20   Jeongsik Yong (U Penn)
The SMN complex: An assemblyosome of snRNPs

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2:35 - 2:50   Narry Kim (SNU)
Birth, maturation and death of microRNA

2:50 - 3:15   Frank Slack (Yale U)
MicroRNAs in development and cancer

3:15 - 3:35   Yong Sun Lee (U Virginia)
Tumor suppressor let-7 represses HMGA2

3:35 - 4:05   Chirlmin Joo (SNU)
Lin28-mediated uridylation of the let-7 precursor

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4:20 - 4:45   Naoyuki Kataoka (Tokyo U)
Functional association of Microprocessor with spliceosome

4:45 - 5:10   Mikiko Siomi (Keio U)
Drosophila endogenous small RNAs bind to AGO2 in somatic cell

5:10 - 5:35   Zissimos Mourelatos (U Penn)
Small regulatory RNAs: biogenesis & functions

5:35 - 6:00   Yang Do Choi (SNU)
Closing Remarks

For further information, please refer to the website www.narrykim.org or call (02)887-1343.

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