• Co-translational mRNA surveillance by the ER stress sensor, IRE1.

  Smriti Sangwan, PhD | Poster Presentation

  Topics: Unfolded Protein Response

• Structural analysis of DDX3 targeted 5’ UTRs

  Till Schroeder | Poster Presentation

  Topics: 5' untranslated region, 5' UTR, DDX3X, SHAPE-MaP, translation initiation, RNA structure

• PDBCleanV2: A Python Library for Creating Self-Consistent Structure Datasets.

  Fatima Pardo Avila, PhD | Poster Presentation

  Topics: RNA structure, RNA-Protein complex, software

10:10am - 10:20am

• A Legionella toxin exhibits tRNA mimicry and glycosyl transferase activity to target the translation machinery and trigger a ribotoxic stress response.

  Advait Subramanian, PhD | Oral presentation

  Topics: transfer RNA, molecular mimicry, ribosomes

10:20am - 10:30am

• Unraveling the architecture of nuclear mRNA-protein complexes (mRNPs) by single molecule TIRF imaging

  Ryuta Asada, PhD | Oral presentation

  Topics: mRNA export, RNA-binding proteins, mRNP, single molecule analysis

10:30am - 10:40am

• lncRNA Pnky is a highly structured RNA molecule that regulates neuronal differentiaion

  Parna Saha, PhD | Oral presentation

  Topics: RNA structure

10:40am - 10:50am

• Exploring the Allosteric Mechanism of Ligand Binding-induced Multivalent RNA Binding in Homo-oligomeric Regulatory Protein TRAP

  Weicheng Li, PhD | Oral presentation

  Topics: allostery, cooperativity, native MS, thermodynamics

10:50am - 11:00am

• Dissection of structural heterogeneity in human telomerase RNA

  Nicholas Forino | Oral presentation

  Topics: RNA structure, ribonucleoprotein, Next-generation sequencing, bioinformatics