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