Plenary Speakers

Hermona Soreq, PhD

Affiliation: The Edmond & Lily Satra Center for Brain Sciences, Jerusalem (Israel)
Title:
Capturing alternative splicing patterns in the human degenerating brain

Thomas Cooper, PhD

Affiliation: Baylor College of Medicine (USA)
Title:
Alternative splicing regulatory networks in development and their disruption in disease

Francisco Baralle, PhD

Affiliation: International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, RNA Biology Group, Padriciano 99, Trieste (Italy)
Title:
TDP 43 self regulation, aggregation and neurodegeneration onset

Benoit Chabot, PhD

Affiliation: Département de microbiologie et d’infectiologie, Faculté de médecine et des sciences de la santé, Univesite de Sherbrooke (Canada)
Title:
Connecting DNA damage with splicing decisions

David Bates, PhD

Affiliation: Division of Cancer and Stem Cells School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham (UK)
Title:
Development of alternative splicing regulators as novel therapeutics