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Saturday, April 25
3:00 - 7:30 PM Registration Salon B
6:30 - 7:30 PM Refreshments Palm Court
7:30 - 9:30 PM Keynote Session
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 03/25/2009 		Crystal Ballroom
* Witold Filipowicz, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland
and
* Erik Sontheimer, Northwestern University, USA
Welcoming Remarks
Phillip A. Sharp, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Biology of Small RNAs in Mammals
Andrew Fire, Stanford University, USA
RNAi and Other Pathways in C. elegans
Sunday, April 26
7:00 - 8:00 AM Breakfast Crystal Ballroom
8:00 - 11:00 AM Mechanism of Small RNAs I
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 03/25/2009 		Salon A
V. Narry Kim, Seoul National University, South Korea
Biogenesis of miRNAs
Speaker to be Announced,
Erik Sontheimer, Northwestern University, USA
Assembly of RISCs
David P. Bartel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
MicroRNA Target Recognition
Short Talk(s) to be Chosen from Abstracts,
9:20 - 9:40 AM Coffee Break Victoria Conference Center-Level 2
11:00 AM- 1:00 PM Poster Setup Salon B
11:00 AM- On Own for Lunch
1:00 - 10:00 PM Poster Viewing Salon B
4:30 - 5:00 PM Coffee Available Victoria Conference Center-Level 2
5:00 - 7:00 PM Chromatin Silencing and Modification
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 03/25/2009 		Salon A
Shiv I. S. Grewal, National Institutes of Health, USA
RNAi and Heterochromatin in S. pombe
Steven E. Jacobsen, HHMI/University of California, Los Angeles, USA
RNAi-Mediated Silencing in Arabidopsis
Speaker to be Announced,
Short Talk(s) to be Chosen from Abstracts,
7:00 - 8:00 PM Social Hour w/ Lite Bites Salon B
7:30 - 10:00 PM Poster Session 1
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 03/25/2009 		Salon B
Monday, April 27
7:00 - 8:00 AM Breakfast Crystal Ballroom
7:00 - 8:00 AM Poster Setup Salon B
8:00 - 11:00 AM Mechanism of Small RNAs II
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 03/25/2009 		Salon A
Scott G. Kennedy, University of Wisconsin, USA
Talk Title to be Determined
Craig C. Mello, University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA
Complexity of RNA Silencing in C. elegans
David C. Baulcombe, University of Cambridge, UK
Small RNAs in Plants and Chlamydomonas
Peter Sarnow, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Talk Title to be Determined
Short Talk(s) to be Chosen from Abstracts,
9:20 - 9:40 AM Coffee Break Victoria Conference Center-Level 2
11:00 AM- 12:00 PM Lunch Salon B
12:00 - 2:30 PM Poster Session 2
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 03/25/2009 		Salon B
2:30 - 4:30 PM Workshop 1: Identification of New miRNA Targets
 Salon A
* Mihaela Zavolan, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
Short Talks to be Chosen from Abstracts, , USA
4:30 - 5:00 PM Coffee Available Victoria Conference Center-Level 2
5:00 - 7:00 PM Intersection of RNAi/miRNA Silencing with Other Cellular Pathways
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 03/25/2009 		Salon A
Olivier Voinnet, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, France
RNAi and Pathogen Defense in Plants
Bryan R. Cullen, Duke University Medical Center, USA
Viruses, miRNAs and RNA Interference
Craig P. Hunter, Harvard University, USA
dsRNA Traffic in Worms and Mammals
7:00 PM- On Own for Dinner
Tuesday, April 28
7:00 - 8:00 AM Breakfast Crystal Ballroom
8:00 - 11:00 AM Regulation of Translation and Stability by miRNAs
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 03/25/2009 		Salon A
Elisa Izaurralde, MPI for Developmental Biology, Germany
miRNA Mechanism in Drosophila
Witold Filipowicz, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland
Regulation of miRNA Repression
Nahum Sonenberg, McGill University, Canada
Dissection of the miRNA Repression Mechanism in vitro
Joan A. Steitz, Yale U/Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University, USA
MiRNAs: Versatile Regulators of Translation in Mammalian Cells
Short Talk(s) to be Chosen from Abstracts,
9:20 - 9:40 AM Coffee Break Victoria Conference Center-Level 2
11:00 AM- 1:00 PM Poster Setup Salon B
11:00 AM- On Own for Lunch
1:00 - 10:00 PM Poster Viewing Salon B
2:30 - 4:30 PM Workshop 2: Lessons from Deep Sequencing
 Salon A
* Nikolaus Rajewsky, Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany
Short Talks to be Chosen from Abstracts, , USA
4:30 - 5:00 PM Coffee Available Victoria Conference Center-Level 2
5:00 - 7:00 PM RNA Silencing in the Germline
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 03/25/2009 		Salon A
Gregory J. Hannon, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA
Talk Title to be Determined
Mikiko C. Siomi, Institute for Genome Research, Japan
Piwi Proteins in Drosophila
Rene Ketting, Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands
Germ Cell Regulation in Zebrafish
Short Talk to be Chosen from Abstracts,
7:00 - 8:00 PM Social Hour w/ Lite Bites Salon B
7:30 - 10:00 PM Poster Session 3
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 03/25/2009 		Salon B
Wednesday, April 29
7:00 - 8:00 AM Breakfast Crystal Ballroom
8:00 - 11:00 AM MicroRNAs in Development
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 03/25/2009 		Salon A
Richard W. Carthew, Northwestern University, USA
miRNA Circuits
Victor Ambros, University of Massachusetts, USA
miRNAs in Animal Development
Antonio J. Giraldez, Yale School of Medicine, USA
Function of miRNAs in Zebrafish Embryogenesis
Short Talk(s) to be Chosen from Abstracts,
9:20 - 9:40 AM Coffee Break Victoria Conference Center-Level 2
11:00 AM- On Own for Lunch
4:30 - 5:00 PM Coffee Available Victoria Conference Center-Level 2
5:00 - 7:00 PM Small RNAs in Medicine
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 03/25/2009 		Salon A
John Van der Oost, Wageningen University, Netherlands
Small CRISPR RNAs guide Antiviral Defense in Bacteria and Archaea
Beverly L. Davidson, University of Iowa, USA
RNA Silencing and Neurodegenerative Diseases
Speaker to be Announced,
Short Talk to be Chosen from Abstracts,
7:00 - 8:00 PM Social Hour w/ Lite Bites Crystal Ballroom
8:00 - 11:00 PM Entertainment Crystal Ballroom
Thursday, April 30
Departure
      *=Session Chair     †=Speaker invited, not yet responded.


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During the past decade, a set of pathways collectively known as “RNA silencing” has been shown to use small RNA molecules to regulate gene expression and protect cells from pathogens. RNA silencing pathways control an ever-expanding range of biological phenomena, and defects in these pathways lead directly to disease. In addition, small RNAs hold great promise as therapeutic agents. The physiological mechanisms of RNA silencing are only partially understood. Furthermore, small RNAs are known to affect gene expression at many different levels, but the ways in which these different levels of silencing are integrated remain obscure. Our ability to harness RNA silencing for therapeutic purposes depends critically on our knowledge of the underlying biology. The goals of this meeting are to bring together leading researchers working on different branches of RNA silencing to share their findings and facilitate a deeper understanding of the breadth and complexity of small RNA-related phenomena.