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The Remix RNA School: Mitochondria and Beyond

The Remix RNA School: Mitochondria and Beyond will take place 15-16 May 2019 in Cambridge, UK. Afterwards the Remix Transferable Skills Course on Data Visualisation will be held 17-18 May 2019.

Venue:

3.37 Seminar Room
MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
The Keith Peters Building
Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Hills Road
Cambridge
CB2 0XY
United Kingdom

Directions:

http://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/contact-us

https://map.cam.ac.uk/MRC+Mitochondrial+Biology+Unit#52.176557,0.141651,18

 

Agenda and Lectures - RNA School:

Day 1, Wednesday 15 May 2019 - Mitochondrial RNA   
09:00 - 09:15 Welcome
09:15 - 10:15 Mitochondrial transcription Viktor Posse 
10:15 - 11:15 Mitochondrial RNA stability and polyadenylation Robert Lightowlers
11:15 - 11:45 Coffee Break   
11:45 - 12:24 Post-transcriptional modification of mitochondrial RNA  Michal Minczuk/Chris Powell
12:45 - 13:45 Mitochondrial RNA granules Sofia Zaganelli
13:45 - 14:45 Lunch
14:45 - 15:45 Mitochondrial ribosome  Alexey Amunts
15:45 - 16:45  Mitochondrial translation  Martin Ott 
16:45 - 17:00 Closing Remarks  
19:00 Dinner

 

Day 2, Thursday 16 May 2019 - RNA beyond mitochondria   
09:00 - 09:15 Welcome   
09:15 - 10:15  Mass spectrometry of RNA Byron Andrews 
10:15 - 11:15 New insights from Ribosome Profiling into RNA virus gene expression Andrew Firth 
11:15 - 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:45  Cracking the epitranscriptome: high throughput characterization
of RNA modifications
Aldema Sas-Chen 
12:45 - 13:45 Protein-RNA complexes in development and disease: insights from iCLIP  Jerney Ule 
13:45 - 14:45  Lunch
14:45 - 15:45  Mechanistic insights into the mRNA poly(A) tail machinery Lori Passmore 
15:45 - 16:45 Analysis of newly synthesised and nascent RNA Pawel Grzechnik 
16:45 - 17:00 Closing Remarks  

 

Hotel Information:

Rooms for Remix fellows have already been booked from 14-18 May 2019.
Please note: the Check-In at the hotel is 14 May 2019 as the RNA school starts at 9:00 am on the next day.

Fenners Hotel 
144 - 146 Tenison Road
Cambridge CB1 2DP
United Kingdom
Telephone: 01223 360246
FAX: 01223 518175
E-mail: info(at)fennershotel.com

This hotel is very close to the rail station and 20-30 min walk from the MRC MBU and 10-15 min walk to the town centre. No breakfast included in the room rate, but plenty of good places around.

Dinner Information:

The Dinner will take place 15 May 2019, 7:00 p.m. in Jamie's Italian 

Address:
Jamie's Italian, Cambridge
The Old Library
Wheeler Street
Cambridge
CB2 3QJ

Please  upload your menu choices for the dinner. You can also provide allergy information etc. You will need to enter your name and then click ‘PreOrder for Guest’.

Link: https://easypreorders.com/Organiser/BookingDetail/456580?k=8c37b23b-0042-4d10-96e7-8907f36f6e25

Local organizer: