EURASNET Workshop “Splicing in Cell Biology”

Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Universidade de Lisboa

The participants will be members of EURASNET labs, including graduate students and post-docs.

Each invited speaker will present an introductory lecture in the morning and a more specialist research seminar in the afternoon. Each lecture will be followed by an informal tutorial discussion with participants.

Participants are invited to contribute short presentations.

Program

October 5

9:30 – 10:30 Douglas Black (University of California, Los Angeles)
Introductory overview: Splicing mechanisms

10:30 – 11:30 Jamal Tazi (Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier)
Introductory overview: Splicing and Disease

11:30 – 12:30 Luis Ferreira Moita (Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisboa)
Using RNAi screens to study splicing regulation

Lunch

14:00 – 15:00 Douglas Black
Research seminar
15:00 – 16:00 Jamal Tazi
Research seminar

16:00 – 17:30 Participant’s presentations (15 min talks)

Free time downtown and Dinner

October 6

9:30 – 10:30 Torben Heick Jensen (University of Aarhus)
Introductory overview: mRNA surveillance

10:30 – 11:30 Giuseppe Biamonti (Institute of Molecular Genetics, Pavia)
Introductory overview: Splicing and cell differentiation

11:30 – 12:30 Andreas Ladurner (EMBL, Heidelberg)
Introductory overview: Splicing and chromatin

Lunch

14:00 – 15:00 Torben Heick Jensen
Research seminar
15:00 – 16:00 Giuseppe Biamonti
Research seminar

16:00 – 17:00 Andreas Ladurner
Research seminar

Free time downtown and Dinner

Students and post-docs from EURASNET teams are invited to participate, free of charge.

To register, please contact Maria Carmo-Fonseca [1]