Previous Meetings
September 24 – 28, 2023
Chéribourg hotel, Quebec, Canada
RNA vs pathogens: biology, medicine and technology
Sessions:
Viral RNA
Immunology and host response
Bacteria and other infectious agents
RNA therapeutics
Machine learning, AI, and computational biology
RNA visualization
Ribosomes and mRNA translation
RNA modifications and non-coding RNAs
RNA binding proteins
RNA evolution
Eukaryotic RNA maturation and decay
Sessions’ Chairs:
Viral RNA
Aaron Schmidt, Ragon institute of Mass General, MIT and Harvard, USA
Immunology and host response
Gaya Amarasinghe, Washington University, USA
Bacteria and other infectious agents
Seth Childers, University of Pittsburgh
RNA therapeutics
Ryan Flynn, Harvard University, USA
Machine learning, AI, and computational biology
Yoseph Barash, University of Pennsylvania, USA
RNA visualization
Éric Lécuyer, Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montéral (IRCM), Canada
Ribosomes and mRNA translation
Haribabu Arthanari, Harvard Medical School, USA
RNA modifications and non-coding RNAs
Richard Gregory, Harvard Medical School, USA
RNA binding proteins
Jinwei Zhang, National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA
RNA evolution
Irene Chen, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Eukaryotic RNA maturation and decay
Olivia Rissland, University of Colorado, USA
Keynote:
Roy Parker, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
After dinner speakers:
Éric Westhof, CNRS, France
Gabriel Lander, Scripps Research, USA
Students’ choice:
Maria Carmo-Fonseca, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Hanah Margalit, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Featured speakers:
Britt A. Glaunsinger, UC Berkeley, USA
Selena Sagan, McGill University, Canada
Karin Musier-Forsyth, The Ohio State University, USA
Sebla Kutluay, Washington University, USA
Barbara Papadopoulou, Université Laval, Canada
Juan Alfonzo, The Ohio State University, USA
Amanda Hargrove, Duke University, USA
Jesse Gray, Head of Discovery at Ascidian Therapeutics, USA
Mano Manoharan, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, USA
Debora Marks, Harvard Medical School, USA
Olivia Corradin, MIT, USA
Blake Sweeney, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
Christine Mayr, Sloan Kettering Institute, USA
Sabine Schneider, LMU Munich, Germany
Fei Chen, Harvard University, USA
Nahum Sonenberg, McGill University, Canada
Hani Zaher, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Stirling Churchman, Harvard Medical School, USA
Ryan Flynn, Harvard University, USA
Amanda Whipple, Harvard University, USA
Valerie de Crecy-Lagard, University of Florida, USA
Nadya Dimitrova, Yale University, USA
Kristen Lynch, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Markus Hafner, NIH, USA
Alan Davidson, University of Toronto, Canada
Sergey Melnikov, Newcastle University Medical School, UK
Narry Kim, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
Hagen Tilgner, Weill Cornell Medicine, USA
Athma Pai, UMass Chan Medical School, USA
Susan Shao, Harvard Medical School, USA
Daniel Larson, NIH/CCR, USA
Nicole Martinez, Stanford University, USA
Previous Featured Speakers
YEAR | FEATURED SPEAKER |
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2023 | Roy Parker, University of Colorado Boulder, USA |
2023 | Maria Carmo-Fonseca, University of Lisbon, Portugal |
2023 | Hanah Margalit, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel |
2023 | Britt A. Glaunsinger, UC Berkeley, USA |
2023 | Selena Sagan, McGill University, Canada |
2023 | Karin Musier-Forsyth, The Ohio State University, USA |
2023 | Sebla Kutluay, Washington University, USA |
2023 | Barbara Papadopoulou, Université Laval, Canada |
2023 | Juan Alfonzo, The Ohio State University, USA |
2023 | Amanda Hargrove, Duke University, USA |
2023 | Jesse Gray, Head of Discovery at Ascidian Therapeutics, USA |
2023 | Mano Manoharan, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, USA |
2023 | Olivia Corradin, MIT, USA |
2023 | Blake Sweeney, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK |
2023 | Sabine Schneider, LMU Munich, Germany |
2023 | Fei Chen, Harvard University, USA |
2023 | Nahum Sonenberg, McGill University, Canada |
2023 | Hani Zaher, Washington University in St. Louis, USA |
2023 | Stirling Churchman, Harvard Medical School, USA |
2023 | Ryan Flynn, Harvard University, USA |
2023 | Amanda Whipple, Harvard University, USA |
2023 | Valerie de Crecy-Lagard, University of Florida, USA |
2023 | Nadya Dimitrova, Yale University, USA |
2023 | Kristen Lynch, University of Pennsylvania, USA |
2023 | Markus Hafner, NIH, USA |
2023 | Alan Davidson, University of Toronto, Canada |
2023 | Sergey Melnikov, Newcastle University Medical School, UK |
2023 | Narry Kim, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea |
2023 | Hagen Tilgner, Weill Cornell Medicine, USA |
2023 | Athma Pai, UMass Chan Medical School, USA |
2023 | Susan Shao, Harvard Medical School, USA |
2023 | Daniel Larson, NIH/CCR, USA |
2023 | Nicole Martinez, Stanford University, USA |
2022 | Rhiju Das, Stanford University, USA |
2022 | Melissa Moore, Moderna Therapeutics Inc., USA |
2022 | Shobha Vasudevan, Harvard University, USA |
2022 | David Tollervey, University of Edinburgh, UK |
2022 | Phil Bevilacqua, Pennsylvania State University, USA |
2022 | Gene Yeo, UCSD, USA |
2022 | Andrej Luptak, University of California, USA |
2022 | Jeannie Lee, Harvard University, USA |
2022 | Yuanchao Xue, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
2022 | Silvi Rouskin, Harvard Medical School, USA |
2022 | Karim Mekhail, University of Toronto, Canada |
2022 | Jun Lu, Yale School of Medicine, USA |
2022 | Ru-Juan Liu, Shanghai Tech University, China |
2022 | Eliezer Calo, MIT, USA |
2022 | Stacy Horner, Duke University Medical Center, USA |
2022 | Homa Ghalei, Emory University School of Medicine, USA |
2022 | Yuri Motorin, Université de Lorraine, France |
2022 | Yue Wan, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore |
2022 | Jérôme Cavaillé, Université Paul Sabatier, France |
2022 | Éric Lécuyer, Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal, Canada |
2021 | Jody Puglisi, Stanford University, USA |
2021 | Tom Cech, University of Colorado Boulder, USA |
2021 | Sarah Woodson, Johns Hopkins University, USA |
2021 | Saba Valadkhan, Columbia University, USA |
2021 | Rory Johnson, University of Bern, Switzerland |
2021 | Elena Rivas, Harvard University, USA |
2021 | Seth Darst, The Rockefeller University, USA |
2021 | Anita Hopper, The Ohio State University, USA |
2021 | Kevin Weeks, University of North Carolina, USA |
2021 | Jennifer Kugel, University of Colorado Boulder, USA |
2021 | Karissa Sanbonmatsu, Columbia University, USA |
2021 | Irmtraud Meyer, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany |
2021 | Katrin Karbstein, The Scripps Research Institute, USA |
2021 | Michelle Hastings, Rosalind Franklin University,USA |
2021 | Danny Nedialkova, Max Planck Institute of Biocheministry, Germany |
2021 | Christopher Lee Holley, Duke University of Medicine, USA |
2021 | Kamena Kostova, Carnegie Institution for Science, USA |
2021 | Ailong Ke, Cornell University, USA |
2021 | Beate Schwer, Weill Cornell Medical College, USA |
2021 | Laurence Maréchal-Drouard, Centre national de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France |
2021 | Dominique Gagliardi, Centre national de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France |
2021 | Sébastien Pfeffer, Centre national de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France |
2021 | David Lalaouna, Centre national de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France |
2020 | Lynne Maquat, University of Rochester, USA |
2020 | Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco, UTMB, USA |
2020 | Phillip Sharp, MIT, USA |
2020 | David H. Mathews, University of Rochester, USA |
2020 | Matthew Disney, The Scripps Research Institute, USA |
2020 | Peter Unrau, Simon Fraser University, Canada |
2020 | Yingfu Li, McMaster University, Canada |
2020 | Matthew Frieman, University of Maryland at Baltimore, USA |
2020 | Jon Dinman, University of Maryland at Baltimore, USA |
2020 | Stanley Perlman, University of Iowa, USA |
2020 | Amanda Hargrove, Duke University, USA |
2020 | Amy S. Gladfelter, University of North Carolina, USA |
2020 | Silvia Rouskin, Whitehead Institute, USA |
2020 | Benjamin tenOever, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA |
2020 | Sara Cherry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA |
2020 | Sasha Gorbalenya, Leiden University, Netherlands |
2020 | Anastasia Khvorova, University of Massachusetts, USA |
2020 | Tao Pan, University of Chicago, USA |
2020 | Stacy Horner, Duke University, USA |
2020 | Cara Pager, State University of New York, USA |
2020 | Bruno Canard, LAFMB, France |
2020 | Volker Lohmann, University of Heidelberg, Germany |
2020 | Wei-Shau Hu, NIH/NCI, USA |
2020 | Florian Krammer, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA |
2020 | Alyson Kelvin, Dalhousie University, Canada |
2020 | Pieter Cullis, University of British Columbia, Canada |
2020 | Darryl Falzarano, University of Saskatchewan, Canada |
2020 | Jeffery S. Kieft, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, USA |
2020 | Karen Mossman, McMaster University, Canada |
2020 | Marceline Côté, University of Ottawa, Canada |
2020 | Carrie Bourassa, University of Saskatchewan, Canada |
2019 | Joan Steitz, Yale University, USA |
2019 | Katherine Borden, Université de Montréal, Canada |
2019 | Allan Jacobson, University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA |
2019 | Michael McManus, University of California, USA |
2019 | Lin He, University of California, USA |
2019 | Olivia Rissland, University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA |
2019 | Lydia Contreras, The University of Texas at Austin, USA |
2019 | Anton Petrov, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, UK |
2019 | Marat Yusupov, Université de Strasbourg, France |
2019 | Jamie Williamson, The Scripps Research Institute, USA |
2019 | Lynne Maquat, University of Rochester Medical Center, USA |
2019 | Karla Kirkegaard, Stanford University, USA |
2019 | Mark Ashe, The University of Manchester, UK |
2019 | Graciela L. Boccaccio, Instituto Leloir, Argentina |
2019 | Ross Buchan, University of Arizona, USA |
2019 | David Mathews, University of Rochester Medical Center, USA |
2019 | Phillip Sharp, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA |
2019 | Hans-Joachim Wieden, University of Lethbridge, Canada |
2019 | Stephen Rader, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada |
2019 | Adrian Krainer, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA |
2019 | Erik Sontheimer, UMASS Medical School, USA |
2019 | Andrew Fire, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA |
2019 | Victor Ambros, UMASS Medical School, USA |
2019 | Tsutomu Suzuki, The University of Tokyo, Japan |
2019 | Wendy Gilbert, Yale School of Medicine, USA |
2019 | Pierre Close, University of Liège, Belgium |
2019 | Chuan He, University of Chicago |
2019 | Sandra Wolin, NIH – National Cancer Institute, USA |
2019 | Uttiya Basu, Columbia University, USA |
2019 | Witold Filipowicz, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland |
2019 | David Bartel, Whitehead Institute – MIT, USA |
2019 | Sherif Abou Elela, Université de Sherbrooke. Canada |
2019 | Lingling Chen, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, China |
2019 | Kathy Collins, UC Berkeley, USA |
2019 | Claus M. Azzalin, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
2019 | Jorgen Kjems, Aarhus University, Denmark |
2019 | Howard Chang, Stanford University, USA |
2019 | Joachim Frank, Columbia University, USA |
2019 | Andrei Korostelev, UMASS Medical School, USA |
2019 | Rui Zhao, University of Colorado, USA |
2019 | Dan Larson, NIH – National Cancer Institute, USA |
2019 | Doug Black, UCLA, USA |
2019 | Manny Ares, UC Santa Cruz, USA |
2019 | Benoit Chabot, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada |
2019 | Ben Blencowe, University of Toronto, Canada |
2019 | Kristen Lynch, University of Pennsylvania, USA |
2019 | Karla Neugebauer, Yale University, USA |
2019 | Susan Gottesman, NIH – National Cancer Institute, USA |
2019 | Jörg Vogel, IMIB – Würzburg University, Germany |
2019 | Eric Masse, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada |
2019 | Lori Passmore, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK |
2019 | Torben Heick Jensen, Aarhus University, Denmark |
2019 | Jianjun Chen, City of Hope, USA |
2019 | Roy Parker, University of Colorado Boulder, USA |
2019 | Larry Gold, University of Colorado Boulder, USA |
2019 | Jack Szostak, Harvard University, USA |
2019 | Adrian R. Ferré-D’Amaré, National Institutes of Health, USA |
2019 | Alan Lambowitz, The University of Texas at Austin, USA |
2019 | Michelle Meyer, Boston College, USA |
2019 | Yann Ponty, CNRS-École Polytechnique-Inria Saclay, France |
2019 | Yoseph Barash, University of Pennsylvania, USA |
2018 | Matthias Hentze Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany |
2018 | Maria Barna Stanford University, Stanford, USA |
2018 | Cari Vanderpool University of Illinois, Urbana, USA |
2018 | Maude Guillier Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris, France |
2018 | Quaid Morris University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada |
2018 | Manuel Irimia CRG, Barcelona, Spain |
2018 | Nuno Barbosa-Morais iMM Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal |
2018 | Davide Ruggero UCSF, California, USA |
2018 | Scott Blanchard Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA |
2018 | Jin Billy Li Stanford University, Stanford, USA |
2018 | Sander Granneman University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland |
2018 | Alan G. Hinnebusch NIH, Bethesda, USA |
2018 | Joel Belasco New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA |
2018 | Christine Clayton Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany |
2018 | Jack Keene Duke University, Durham, USA |
2018 | Joseph Wade State University of New York, Albany, USA |
2018 | Shona Murphy University of Oxford, Oxford, UK |
2018 | Nicholas Conrad University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA |
2018 | Lydia Sohn University of California, Berkeley, USA |
2018 | Hanah Margalit The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel |
2018 | Eric Brown McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada |
2018 | Uwe Ohler BIMSB, Berlin, Germany |
2018 | Jernej Ule The Francis Crick Institute & UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK |
2018 | René Ketting Institute of Molecular Biology gGmbH, Mainz, Germany |
2018 | Samuel Marguerat MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, London, UK |
2017 | Peter Sarnow Stanford University, Stanford, USA From bench to clinical trial: microRNA 122 as an antiviral target for hepatitis C virus |
2017 | Jack Szostak Harvard University, Cambridge, USA Advances in Nonenzymatic Template-Directed Primer Extension |
2017 | Norbert Polacek University of Bern, Bern, Swiss The multifaceted roles of ribosome-associated ncRNAs (rancRNAs) |
2017 | Juan Mata University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Transcriptional and translational responses to amino acid starvation: no homology required |
2017 | Martine Collart University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Swiss Ccr4-Not is at the core of the gene expression circuitry |
2017 | Melissa Moore University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA Spliceosome profiling and footprinting: New tools for intron discovery and alternative pre-mRNA processing pathway analysis |
2017 | Helge Grosshans Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Swiss Two distinct transcription termination modes dictated by promoters |
2017 | Martin Jinek University of Zurich, Zurich, Swiss Structural insights into RNA-guided genome editor nucleases |
2017 | Constance Ciaudo ETH Zürich, Zürich, Swiss Non-canonical function of DGCR8 controls mESCs exit from pluripotency |
2017 | Catherine Dargemont Paris Diderot University, Paris, France The mRNA journey from chromatin to nuclear pore complex |
2017 | Omar Abdel-Wahab Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA Understanding and Targeting Spliceosomal Gene Mutations in Cancer |
2017 | Gabriele Varani University of Washington, Seattle, USA Structure, evolution and targeting of non coding RNAs |
2017 | Juan Alfonzo Ohio State University, Columbus, USA A deaminase and a methyltransferase that act co-dependently to edit and modify tRNA at a single site |
2017 | Thomas Preiss Australian National Univeristy, Acton, Australia Investigating the function of 5-methylcytosine in coding and noncoding RNA |
2017 | Robert J Schneider NYU School of Medicine, New York, USARole of mRNA Decay Protein AUF1 in Muscle Stem Cell Differentiation and Disease |
2017 | Oliver Mühlemann University of Berne, Berne, Swiss Comparing “normal” and NMD-sensitive mRNPs and their behaviour in translation termination |
2017 | Georg Stoecklin University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany Control of Cell Cycle Checkpoint Activation and Genome Stability by the RNA-Binding Protein TIAR |
2017 | Andrzej Dziembowski Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Warszawa, Poland The FAM46C gene encodes a cytoplasmic non-canonical poly(A) polymerase and acts as an onco-suppressor in multiple myeloma |
2017 | Kristian Baker Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA Isolation and characterization of an NMD mRNP from yeast provides mechanistic insight into recognition and rapid degradation of nonsense-containing mRNAs |
2017 | Frédéric Allain ETH Zürich, Zurich, Swiss The solution structure of FUS bound to RNA reveal a bipartite mode of RNA recognition with both sequence and shape specificities |
2017 | Magdalini Polymenidou University of Zurich, Zurich, Swiss The role of cellular stress in the initiation of FUS pathology |
2017 | Simon Alberti Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany RNP granules: how they form, age and cause disease |
2017 | Ueli Schibler University of Geneva, Geneva, Swiss Research in life sciences: hypothesis or discovery-driven? |
2016 | Adrian R. Ferré-D.Amaré NIH, Bethesda, USA RNA mimics of GFP and RFP: new tools for the in vivo study of noncoding RNAs |
2016 | Alexander Mankin University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA Ribo-T, the ribosome with covalently linked subunits |
2016 | Beate Schwer Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA The role of RNA polymerase II CTD phospho-sites in the repression of pho1 gene expression by lncRNA transcription |
2016 | David Bentley University of Colorado, Denver, USA Spatial and kinetic coupling of co-transcriptional processes in mRNA synthesis |
2016 | David Engelke University of Colorado, Denver, USA Aggregation and amyloid fiber formation by Mod5 is affected by RNA binding |
2016 | Andrey S. Krasilnikov Penn State University, University Park, USA Proteins in catalytic RNPs: from RNase P to telomerase |
2016 | Gisela Storz NIH, Bethesda, USA Not just ncRNAs: overlap between protein coding and regulation |
2016 | Jingyi Fei The University of Chicago, Chicago, USA Determination of in vivo regulation kinetics of small non-coding RNA in bacteria |
2016 | Éric Massé Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada The RNA chaperone Hfq directly binds target mRNAs to promote sRNA-mediated cleavage |
2016 | Ben Luisi University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK The dynamic machinery of RNA degradation, processing and riboregulation in E. coli |
2016 | Sean A. McKenna University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Recognition of unique RNA structures by quadruplex helicases and their functional consequences |
2016 | Jean-Pierre Perreault Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada The G-Quadruplex Translation Regulation of BAG-1; an mRNA Involved in Colorectal Cancer |
2016 | Elissa Lei NIH, Bethesda, USA Argonaute2 functions with LaminB to Mediate Transcriptional Silencing of Spermatogenesis Genes |
2016 | Jonathan D. Dinman University of Maryland, College Park, USA A programmed ribosomal frameshifting defect potentiates the transforming activity of the JAK2-V617F mutation |
2016 | Jean Schaffer Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA Rpl13a snoRNAs are critical mediators of metabolic stress |
2016 | Michelle Scott Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada Small nucleolar RNAs as regulators of gene expression |
2016 | Denis L.J. Lafontaine Université Libre de Bruxelles, Charleroi, Belgium The human box C/D snoRNAs U3 and U8 are required for pre-rRNA processing and tumorigenesis |
2016 | Stephen Rader University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, Canada A single LSm complex in C. merolae associated with splicing factors |
2016 | Tony Russell University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada Characterization of snRNAs, snoRNAs and other ncRNAs, and their protein binding partners in model protists |
2016 | Andrea Barta University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria The fate of alternative spliced transcripts in plants |
2016 | Arthur Günzl UConn Health, Farmington, USA Deciphering the spliced leader trans splicing machinery in trypanosomes |
2016 | Brenton Graveley University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, USA Comprehensive Characterization of the Functional RNA Elements Encoded in the Human Genome |
2016 | Daniel Larson NIH, Bethesda, USA Regulation of Transcription and Splicing in Single Cells: Understanding Heterogeneity in Gene Expression |
2016 | John L. Woolford Jr. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA Remodeling events driving ribosome assembly in Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
2016 | Jean-Louis Mergny Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France Quadruplexes are everywhere! |
2015 | Utz Fischer University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany Mechanistic dissection of UsnRNP biogenesis and its role in disease |
2015 | Eric Westhof Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Strasbourg, France Non-Watson-Crick base pairs, RNA architectural modules and recognition fidelity in translation |
2015 | Witold Filipowicz Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland Mechanism and Regulation of miRNA-mediated Repression in Cultured Cells and Mouse Retina |
2015 | Martine Simonelig Institute of Human Genetics, Montpellier, France Messenger RNA regulation by the piRNA pathway in drosophila |
2015 | Bertrand Seraphin IGBMC, Illkirch, France Starting from the end: From eukaryotic mRNA decay mechanisms to diseases |
2015 | Bryan R. Cullen Duke University, Durham, USA Viruses and microRNAs |
2015 | Robert Feil IGMM, Montpellier, France Role of non-coding RNAs in mammalian genomic imprinting |
2015 | Michael Kiebler LMU, Munich, Germany The role of RNA-binding proteins in dendritic mRNA localization |
2015 | Edouard Bertrand IGMM, Montpellier, France Systematic analysis of the sub-cellular localization of mRNAs coding for motor proteins |
2015 | Howard Lipshitz University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Spatial and temporal control of the maternal-to-zygotic transition in Drosophila |
2015 | Nahum Sonenberg McGill University, Montreal, Canada Translational control by the eIF4E homolog, 4EHP |
2015 | Jeffrey Kieft University of Colorado, Aurora, USA Structure and function of viral RNAs that manipulate or co-opt host cell machinery |
2015 | Rachel Green Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Baltimore, USA Messenger RNA surveillance revealed by biochemistry and ribosome profiling |
2015 | Paul McKellips One Health Research, Washington D.C., USA The Miracle |
2015 | Alain Jacquier Institut Pasteur, Paris, France Quality control of transcription start site selection by nonsense-mediated-mRNA decay |
2015 | Gene Yeo UC San Diego, La Jolla, USA Large-scale discovery of RNA binding sites and assigning of functions to RNA binding proteins |
2015 | Jeffrey Pleiss Cornell University, New York, USA Widespread alternative and aberrant splicing revealed by lariat sequencing |
2015 | Mathieu Quesnel-Vallières University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Role of a neuronal-specific alternative splicing regulatory network in autism spectrum disorders |
2015 | Benoit Chabot Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada Connecting DNA damage to the alternative splicing of apoptotic and DNA repair genes |
2015 | Karla Neugebauer Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, USA Co-transcriptional splicing: full speed ahead! |
2015 | Jamal Tazi IGMM, Montpellier, France Durable control of viral rebound with a new drug ABX464 targeting Rev . mediated viral RNA biogenesis |
2015 | Thomas Cooper Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA Alternative splicing regulatory networks in development and their disruption in disease |
2015 | Mariano Garcia Blanco University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA The RNA helicase DDX39B regulates alternative splicing of the interleukin-7 receptor exon 6 and is a novel susceptibility gene for Multiple Sclerosis |
2015 | Wenqian Hu Mayo Clinic, Minnesota, USA Regulation of erythropoiesis by mRNA-binding proteins |
2015 | Adrian Krainer The old Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA Mechanism-based antisense therapy targeting splicing or NMD |
2015 | Charles Thornton University of Rochester, Rochester, USA RNA-targeted treatment for myotonic dystrophy |
2015 | Nicholas Ingolia University of California, Berkeley, USA Rocaglamide A converts RNA helicase eIF4A into a sequence-specific translational repressor |
2014 | Shu-ou Shan California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA Molecular Mechanism of an Essential Targeting Machine |
2014 | Brian Nosek University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA Scientific Utopia: Improving Openness and Reproducibility in Scientific Research |
2014 | Christina Smolke Stanford University, Stanford, USA Designing synthetic regulatory RNAs: new tools for temporal and spatial control in biological systems |
2014 | Ron Breaker Yale University, New Haven, USA Prospects for Ribozyme Discovery and Analysis |
2014 | Eduardo Groisman Yale University, New Haven, USA Gene control by bacterial mRNA leaders |
2014 | Haifan Lin Yale University, New Haven, USA Retrotransposons and pseudogenes regulate mRNAs and lincRNAs via the piRNA pathway in the germline |
2014 | Matt Simon Yale University, New Haven, USA Insight into lncRNA function and mechanism using capture hybridization analysis |
2014 | Philip C. Bevilacqua Penn State University, State College, USA Combining experiments with theory to obtain deeper insight into ribozyme mechanism |
2014 | Peter Baumann Stowers Institute, Kansas City, USA Telomerase biogenesis, stability and regulation in fission yeasts and other fungi |
2014 | Julian Chen Arizona State University, Phoenix, USA Divergent structure and mechanism of telomerase ribonucleoprotein |
2014 | Nikolaus Rajewsky Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany Regulatory RNAs |
2014 | Alan Lambowitz The University of Texas, Austin, USA Mobile Group II Introns: Mechanisms, Evolution, and Biotechnological Applications |
2014 | Antonio Giraldez Yale University, New Haven, USA Gene regulation during embryonic development from microRNAs to micropeptides |
2014 | Wendy Gilbert MIT, Cambridge, USA Pseudouridine profiling (Pseudo-seq) reveals widespread regulated mRNA pseudouridylation in yeast and human cells |
2014 | Joan Steitz Yale University, New Haven, USA Structural Insights into the Stabilization of MALAT1 Noncoding RNA by Formation of a Bipartite Triple Helix |
2014 | Jens Lykke-Andersen UC San Diego, San Diego, USA Target discrimination in the nonsense-mediated decay pathway is governed by the differential ability of mRNPs to promote ATPase-powered UPF1 release |
2014 | Ian Eperon University of Leicester, Leicester, UK RNA splicing: still in Plato's cave? |
2014 | Hervé Le Hir IBENS, Paris, France The versatility of RNA helicases highlighted by the Exon Junction Complex |
2014 | Sandra Wolin Yale University, New Haven, USA A new class of bacterial noncoding RNAs that are tRNA mimics |
2014 | Javier Martinez Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria The human tRNA ligase complex and Archease: A dual enzyme with functions beyond tRNA splicing |
2014 | John Rinn Harvard University and Medical School, Cambridge, USA RNA binding proteins interact specifically with transposable element sequence in human genes |
2014 | Susan Baserga Yale University, New Haven, USA RNA polymerase I transcription and craniofacial dysmorphology |
2014 | Maria Barna Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, USA Specialized Ribosomes: A new frontier in gene regulation, organismal development and evolution |
2013 | Tsutomu Suzuki University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan RNA modifications as naturally-selected chemical diversity involved in various biological processes |
2013 | Piero Carninci RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Kobe, Japan The complexity of mammalian transcription |
2013 | Shinichi Nakagawa RIKEN, Hirosawa, Japan Functional analyses of abundant nuclear long noncoding RNAs |
2013 | André Verdel Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France RNA-mediated epigenetic silencing in fission yeast |
2013 | Fabrizio d.Adda di Fagagna IFOM Foundation, Milan, Italy The direct role of nuclear non coding RNAs at sites of DNA damage in the control of genome integrity |
2013 | Toshifumi Inada Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan Novel E3 ubiquitin ligase is required for an endonucleolytic cleavage of mRNA by translation arrest |
2013 | Roy Parker University of Colorado, Boulder, USA The eukaryotic mRNA cycle: Movement of yeast mRNAs between polysomes, stress granules, and P-bodies and its role in the control of translation and degradation |
2013 | Alan Bernstein Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Canada My life as an RNA molecule |
2013 | Danesh Moazed Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA RNAi-mediated heterochromatin formation |
2013 | Matthew Levy Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA Aptamer-targeted antigen delivery |
2013 | Hiroaki Suga University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Genetic code reprogramming for the expression of de novo macrocycles |
2013 | Feng Zhang Broad Institute of MIT, Boston, USA Genome Engineering: Technologies and Applications |
2013 | Kurt Fredrick The Ohio State University, Columbia, USA Learning from ribosomes that make mistakes |
2013 | Christian Spahn Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany Structure and structural dynamics of mammalian ribosomal complexes during translation elongation |
2013 | Harry Noller University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Structural Changes in the Ribosome During Translocation |
2013 | Doug Black UCLA, Los Angeles, USA Splicing kinetics and transcript release from the chromatin compartment limit the rate of Lipid-A induced gene expression |
2013 | Stefan Stamm University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA Regulation of gene expression by processed snoRNAs |
2013 | John Mattick University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia The hidden layer of regulatory RNA in human development |
2013 | Mikiko Siomi University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Biogenesis of PIWI-interacting RNAs |
2012 | Georgios Skiniotis University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA Molecular Architecture of a Late 40S Ribosome Assembly Intermediate |
2012 | Eric Lai Memorial Sloan-Kettering, New-York, USA Biogenesis and function of microRNAs |
2012 | Gary Bassell Emory University, Atlanta, USA Regulation of local mRNA translation by the fragile x mental retardation protein and microRNAs |
2012 | Matt Disney The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, USA Rational Design of Small Molecules Targeting RNA from Sequence |
2012 | Ellen Welch PTC Therapeutics Inc., South Plainfield, USA Identifying small molecules for the treatment of orphan diseases |
2012 | Maurice Swanson University of Florida, Gainesville, USA The Expanding Universe of RNA-Mediated Disease |
2012 | Craig Mello University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA Surveillance of transcription and persistent silencing of foreign sequences in the C. elegans germline |
2012 | Jeanne Lawrence University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA XIST RNA in Chromosome Regulation and Architecture: Implications for the Repeat Genome |
2012 | Kristen Lynch University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA Regulation of splicing through extended spliceosomal contacts |
2012 | Andrei Korostelev University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA Mechanistic insights into translation termination |
2012 | Bill Theurkauf University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA Organization of a transposon silencing compartment |
2012 | Victor Ambros University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA MicroRNA pathways link development and stress responses in C. elegans |
2012 | Wade C. Winkler University of Maryland College Park, USA Regulatory RNAs in Bacillus subtilis |
2012 | Larry Gold Somalogic Inc., University of Colorado, USA Human Proteomics at Scale: SOMAmers and the SOMAscan Platform |
2012 | Mike Kiledjian Rutgers University, Piscataway, USA mRNA 5´-end Quality Control |
2012 | Jeff Coller Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA Decapping of coding and non-coding RNAs |
2012 | Melissa Moore University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA Nuclear RNP Egress by Nuclear Envelope Budding |
2012 | Allan Jacobson University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA NMD and the dynamic interactions of yeast Upf factors |
2012 | Joseph Gall Carnegie Institute of Science, USA Revisiting Lampbrush Chromosomes |
2012 | James Manley Columbia University, New-York, USA Processing of mRNA precursors and links to human disease |
2011 | Jennifer Doudna University of California, Berkeley, USA Dicing and Beyond: Regulatory RNA in Humans and Bacteria |
2011 | James E. Dahlberg University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA Limiting Ago proteins restricts RNAi during X. laevis early development |
2011 | Paul Fox Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, USA The GAIT system and the "translational trickle" control mechanism |
2011 | Martin Dutertre Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon, France Alteration of the coupling between transcription and splicing hits the core of the genotoxic stress response |
2011 | David Wassarman University of Wisconsin Madison, USA Control of alternative splicing by signal-dependent degradation of splicing regulatory proteins |
2011 | Andrew White York University, Canada Regulation of RNA virus processes by long-range RNA-RNA interactions |
2011 | Biao Ding Ohio State University, USA RNA motif-mediated intercellular RNA trafficking |
2011 | Andrés Aguilera CABIMER, Sevilla, Spain Factors and mechanisms connecting mRNP biogenesis and genome instability |
2011 | David Zappulla Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA Telomerase RNP mechanism in yeast: determining the limits of flexibility within the 1157-nt RNA |
2011 | Frédéric Allain Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Zürich, Switzerland Guanine recognitions by Lin28 zinc-binding domains and SR protein RRMs |
2011 | Robert Batey University of Colorado at Boulder, USA Structural and Mechanistic Studies of Riboswitches |
2011 | Gary Ruvkun Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA Small RNAs of C. elegans |
2011 | Françoise Stutz Université de Genève, Switzerland Characterization of antisense mediated transcriptional gene silencing |
2011 | Jody Puglisi Stanford University School of Medicine, USA Dynamics of Translation Initiation |
2011 | David Rueda Wayne State University, Detroit, USA RNA Folding Memory Effects |
2011 | Robert Singer Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, USA Single molecule mRNA decay measurements reveal promoter regulated mRNA stability in yeast |
2011 | David Grünwald Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Crossing The Gate: Imaging mRNAs with Millisecond Time Resolution Inside Living Cells |
2011 | Peter Moore Yale University, USA How We Got Here: an Informal History of the Structural Biology of RNA |
2011 | Domenico Libri Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, Paris, France A comprehensive analysis of exosome targets in yeast S. cerevisiae |
2010 | Jörg Vogel University of Wurzburg, Germany Bacterial small RNAs have come a long way |
2010 | Marvin Wickens University of Wisconsin, Madisson, USA Proteins that control mRNAs: from finding a partner to making a memory |
2010 | Paul Myers University og Minnesota, Morris, USA Communicating science to a fickle public |
2009 | Jack Szostack Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA The Origin of Life and the Emergence of Darwinian Evolution |
2009 | Phillip Sharp Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge , MA Ribonicleotides in Life |
2009 | Timothy W. Nilsen Case Western Center for RNA Molecular Biology, Clevland, OH Overview of the current state of RNA Molecular Biology |
2009 | W. Ford Doolittle Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS Why are molecular machines such as the editosome, the spliceosome and the ribosome so ridiculously complex? |
2009 | Sandra Wolin Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT One ring to find them: A bacterial Ro protein adapts an exoribonuclease for stress-induced RNA decay |
2009 | Roy Parker University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ The Eukaryotic mRNA Cycle: Movement of yeast mRNAs between polysomes, stress granules, and P-bodies and its role in the control of translation and degradation |
2009 | David Tollervey Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology and Centre for System Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Same Cracking Results with RNA |
2009 | Gideon Dreyfuss University of Pennsylvania School of Medecine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Ribonucleoproteins in mRNA processing and disease |
2009 | Paul Griffiths University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia The Evolving Concept of Homology |
2009 | Robert Darnell The Rockefeller University, New York, NY Decoding protein-RNA regulation with HITS-CLIP maps |
2009 | Mariano Garcia-Blanco Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Imaging splicing reveals phenotypic transitions in cancer cells |
2009 | Tom Maniatis Harvard University, Cambridge, MA A Possible Role of RNA Metabolism in ALS Disease Mechanisms |
2009 | Alan Hinnebusch Laboratory of Gene Regulation and Development, Bethesda, MD Structural elements in elF1A regulate AUG selection by controlling distinct modes of initiator binding tot he preinitiation complex |
2009 | Thomas Steitz Yale University, New Haven, CT Understanding function from structures of elongation factors, tRNAs and antibiotics bound to the 70S ribosome |
2009 | Nahum Sonenberg McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Translational Control of Cell Proliferation by the 4E-Binding Proteins |
2009 | Victor Ambros University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA MicroRNA Pathways in animal development |
2009 | Joan Steitz Yale University, New Haven, CT Regulating the activity of MicroRNAs in vertebrate cells |
2009 | Lynne Maquat University of Rochester, Rochester, NY Regulation of gene expression through quality-control and condition-dependant mechanisms of mRNA decay |
2009 | Shiv Grewal Natinal Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland RNAi-mediated Epigenetic control of the genome |
2009 | Robin Allshire The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Synthetic heterochromatin can bypass RNAi to from heterochromatin and functional centromeres |
2009 | Jef Boeke Johns Hopins University, Baltimore, MD Building Saccharomyces cerevisiae v2.0: The Synthetic Yeast genome project |
2009 | Ronald Breaker Yale University, New Haven, CT Large Noncoding RNAs in bacteria |
2009 | Alan Lambowitz University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX Mobile group II introns: site-specific integration into DNA and application in gene targeting |
2009 | Allan Jacobson University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcestor, MA Genetic nonsense: from bench to beside |
2009 | Muthiah Manoharan Alnylam Pharmaceticals, MassachusettsUniversity of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX Making siRNA into drugs using chemistry |
2009 | Peter Campochiaro Johns Hopkins University,School of Medecine, Baltimore, MD Toll-like receptor 3 is falsely accused |
2009 | Alexander Rich Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Teh ERA of RNA awakening: structural biology of RNA in the Early Years |
2008 | Reinhard Lührmann Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany At the heart of the splicesome |
2008 | Karla M. Neugebauer Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany What is necessary for gender equality in science? |
2008 | Susan Gottesman National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA Network of small RNAs and their regulators E.coli |
2007 | Gideon Dreyfuss University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA The SMN complex: a molecular assembly machine for RNPs |
2007 | Jack Szostak Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA Towards the design and synthesis of a simple artificial cell |
2007 | Boyan Konforti Nature Structural & Molecular Biology The editorial process and the habits of effective authors |
2006 | Dorit Zuk Molecular Cell, Life as Scientific Editor |
2006 | Robert Darnell The Rockfeller University, New York, USA Modular regulation of RNA in the brain |
2006 | Jef Boeke The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA Retrotransposons - gene mobilization through an RNA intermediate |
2005 | Ronald Breaker Yale University, New Haven, USA Genetic control by riboswitches and ribozymes |
2005 | Alan Weiner University of Washington, Seattle, USA CCA-adding enzymes: Sequence-specific RNA polymerases with no nucleic acid template |
2004 | David Bartel Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, USA Small Regulatory RNAs in animals and plants |
2004 | Kazunari Taira University of Tokyo, Japan RNA-based rapid identification of functional genes |
2003 | Sandra Wolin Yale University, New Heaven, USA RNA folding and misfolding within cells: lessons from patients with autoimmune disease |
2003 | Brenda Bass University of UTAH, Salt Lake City, USA dsRNA binding proteins in RNA editing and RNAi |
2002 | Lynne Maquat University of Rochester, Rochester, USA Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in mammalian cells: Evidence for a pioneer round of translation |
2002 | Joachim Frank Wadsworth Center, New York, USA The dynamics of ribosome-ligand interaction as explored by cryo-EM |
2001 | Iain Mattaj European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany |
2001 | Phillip Sharp Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA |
2000 | Sidney Altman Yale University, New Heaven, USA |
2000 | Nahum Sonenberg McGill University, Montréal, Canada |