Organizers:
Tamas Dalmay (University of East Anglia, UK)
Mark Lindsay (Imperial College London, UK)
Sterghios Moschos (Imperial College London, UK)
08:00 - 09:00 Registration
Welcome by Mark Lindsay (Imperial College London, UK)
Control of lymphocyte differentiation by miRNA and RNA binding proteins
Martin Turner (Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK)
Mechanisms and regulation of the miRNA-mediated repression in mammalian cells
Witold Filipowicz (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland)
Regulation of hepatitis C virus by microRNA-122
Selected Oral Communication- Catherine Jopling (The University of Nottingham, UK)
10:25 - 10:50 Coffee/tea break
Experimental target identification of miRNAs
Tamas Dalmay (University of East Anglia, UK)
Roles of small RNAs in C. elegans development
Eric Miska (University of Cambridge, UK)
Antagonizing microRNAs for therapeutics
Sakari Kauppinen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Emerging role of microRNAs in myeloid differentiation
Alessandro Fatica (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
miRNAs in T cell Development
Bradley Cobb (Imperial College London, UK)
MicroRNAs in hematopoiesis and cancer
Laura Fontana (Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy)
14:50 - 15:15 Coffee/tea break
MicroRNA-mediated translational repression is dependent upon the nuclear history of the message
Selected Oral Communication- Yi Wen Kong (University of Nottingham, UK)
Role of miRNAs in the innate immune response
Mark Lindsay (Imperial College London, UK)
The impact of target site accessibility on siRNA/microRNA efficacy
Gregor Obernosterer (Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austria)
16:30 - 18:30 Drinks Reception and Poster Session