Keynotes

Guillaume Hautbergue, PhD
Affiliation: Department of Neuroscience, The University of Sheffield (UK)
Title: GRASPSTM: A novel translatome technology to identify functional consequences of widespread RNA dysregulation in neurodegeneration

Mario Guarracino, PhD
Affiliation: Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni, Napoli (Italy)
Title:
Computational identification and annotation of alternative splicing
HO

Hiroshi Okamoto, PhD
Affiliation: Kanazawa University (Japan)
Title: Functionally distinct ryanodine receptor variants generated by alternative splicing using GG/AG intron
WT

Woan-Yuh Tarn, PhD
Affiliation: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica (Taiwan)
Title: RBM4 promotes neuronal cell differentiation by modulating alternative splicing of signaling factors
RS

Ruth Sperling, PhD
Affiliation: Department of Genetics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Title: Supraspliceosomes a General Multi Fuctional Machine for the Processing of pre mRNA in the Cell Nucleus
AS

Dr. Anthony Schweitzer
Affiliation: Affymetrix Expression Business Unit, Thermo Fisher Scientific (USA)
Title: Uncovering Biomarkers Deep within the Complex Transcriptome and Considerations on the depth of sequencing required
FP

Dr. Franco Pagani
Affiliation: Human Molecular Genetics, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (Italy)
Title: Structural requirement of modified U1 core spliceosomal RNA particles for therapeutic activity
PK

Dr. Peter Kloetzel
Affiliation: Institut fur Biochemie Charité, Uniiversitätsmedizin Berlin (Germany)
Title: Neuronal activity regulates splicing of retained intron-containing transcripts