A Biochemical Society Focused Meeting

Proceedings (invited speakers) will be published in Biochemical Society Transactions

Abstract deadline: 30 March 2010.

Abstract submission is now open

Earlybird registration deadline: 07 April 2010.
Registration is now open

Oral communication slots are available at this meeting. All attendees, particularly researchers in the early stages of their career, are invited to submit a poster abstract for consideration as an oral communication.

Student Travel Grants are available for this meeting.
 

Biology of the Cell poster prize

Biology of the Cell will award a £150 prize to the best poster presented during the programme. The winner will receive £150 and a host of Biology of the Cell goodies. Entrants must be PhD students or post doctoral scientists within 7 years of receiving their PhD. To enter, please collect a sticker from the registration desk before the start of your poster session.

BJ Gene oral communication prize

BJ Gene will award a £100 prize to the best selected oral communication presented during the programme. Oral communications will be selected from poster abstract and will be given during the main science programme. If you wish your abstract to be considered for an oral communication slot, please tick the box during abstract submission. 

Meeting Background:

The importance of post-transcriptional regulation in the cytoplasm is highlighted by recently increased estimates of the numbers of genes that are subject to these forms of control and by the number of diseases that are linked to the misregulated post-transcriptional gene expression. Indeed it is becoming increasingly apparent that the processes of mRNA translation, localization and turnover are closely intertwined and should not be studied in isolation. Consistent with this, the increasing understanding of miRNA-mediated regulation implicates the intimate coupling of multiple levels of post-transcriptional control.

There is a large, constantly expanding scientific community in the UK whose work focuses on mRNA translation and/or aspects of mRNA localization and turnover. However their work touches upon diverse aspects of biology such as metabolism, immunity, neuroscience, reproduction and viral lifecycle regulation and, consequently, they do not have the opportunity to come together at meetings to present and discuss their work. This meeting will provide an exciting forum for such researchers who utilize varying combinations of animal models, cellular, genetic, biochemical and molecular biological approaches to the study of a wide variety of diseases and basic processes but whose foundation hinges on post-transcriptional control of gene expression.

We strongly encourage scientists with specific interests in post-transcriptional control or a general interest in the regulation of gene expression to attend. The majority of the talks will be selected from submitted abstracts and we particularly encourage early-stage researchers and post-graduate students to submit abstracts for consideration for oral presentation.

Topics:

mRNA translational regulation

mRNA stability/turnover

mRNA localization

mRNA translation factors

Ribosomes

Viral mRNA translation

miRNA-mediated regulation

Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay