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NOTE: This meeting occurs in 2009 (June 10 - 15, 2009)

LANGUAGE NOTE: This meeting will be conducted in English.
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Meeting Program

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Wednesday, June 10
3:00 - 7:30 PM Registration Shavano Peak Foyer
6:30 - 7:30 PM Refreshments Shavano Peak Foyer
7:30 - 8:30 PM Keynote Address
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 05/10/2009 		Shavano Peak
Joan Massagué, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA
Deconstructing Metastasis
Thursday, June 11
7:30 - 8:30 AM Breakfast Torreys Peak
8:30 - 11:30 AM Regulation of Development by miRNAs
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 05/10/2009 		Shavano Peak
Alexander F. Schier, Harvard University, USA
MicroRNAs in Embryogenesis
Amy E. Pasquinelli, University of California, San Diego, USA
miRNAs in C. elegans Development
Eric N. Olson, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA
miRNAs in Cardiac Development
Eric C. Lai, Sloan-Kettering Institute, USA
MicroRNAs in Drosophila Development
9:50 - 10:10 AM Coffee Break Shavano Peak Foyer
11:30 AM- 1:00 PM Poster Setup Torreys Peak
11:00 AM- On Own for Lunch
1:00 - 10:00 PM Poster Viewing Torreys Peak
2:30 - 4:30 PM Workshop 1: Bench to Bedside: Translating miRNA Discoveries into Clinical Applications
 Shavano Peak
Short Talks to be Chosen from Abstracts, , USA
4:30 - 5:00 PM Coffee Available Shavano Peak Foyer
5:00 - 7:00 PM Gene Regulation by Non-Coding RNAs
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 05/10/2009 		Shavano Peak
John Mattick, University of Queensland, Australia
The Small RNA World
George A. Calin, University of Texas - M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, USA
A Noncoding RNA Revolution in the Cancer Society
Mark A. Kay, Stanford University, USA
The Role of Small RNAs in Gene Regulation
7:00 - 8:00 PM Social Hour w/ Lite Bites Torreys Peak
7:30 - 10:00 PM Poster Session 1
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 05/10/2009 		Torreys Peak
Friday, June 12
7:30 - 8:30 AM Breakfast Torreys Peak
8:30 - 11:30 AM MicroRNAs in Cancer
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 05/10/2009 		Shavano Peak
Curtis C. Harris, National Institutes of Health, USA
MicroRNAs in Solid Cancers
Frank J. Slack, Yale University, USA
miRNAs in Cancer
Joshua Mendell, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Talk Title to be Determined
Carlo M. Croce, Ohio State University, USA
miRNAs and Cancer
9:50 - 10:10 AM Coffee Break Shavano Peak Foyer
11:30 AM- 1:00 PM Poster Setup Torreys Peak
11:00 AM- On Own for Lunch
1:00 - 10:00 PM Poster Viewing Torreys Peak
4:30 - 5:00 PM Coffee Available Shavano Peak Foyer
5:00 - 7:00 PM Hot Topics in miRNA Research
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 05/10/2009 		Shavano Peak
Hannele Ruohola-Baker, University of Washington, USA
miRNA and Stem Cells
Christine Esau, Regulus Therapeutics, USA
Therapeutic Targeting of miRNA
Isidore Rigoutsos, International Business Machines Corporation, USA
Expanding the Role of miRNA Activity
7:00 - 8:00 PM Social Hour w/ Lite Bites Torreys Peak
7:30 - 10:00 PM Poster Session 2
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 05/10/2009 		Torreys Peak
Saturday, June 13
7:30 - 8:30 AM Breakfast Torreys Peak
8:30 - 11:30 AM Mechanisms of miRNA Form and Function
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 05/10/2009 		Shavano Peak
Jennifer A. Doudna, University of California, Berkeley/HHMI, USA
Talk Title to be Determined
Marianthi Kiriakidou, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA
miRNA Function in Normal and Cancer Cells
Alla Grishok, Columbia University Medical Center, USA
Rb and RNAi-Related Pathways Repress Intestinal Cell Divisions in C. elegans
Michele A. Cleary, Rosetta Inpharmatics LLC, USA
Molecular Profiling-Based Approaches to Understanding miRNA Function and Targets
9:50 - 10:10 AM Coffee Break Shavano Peak Foyer
11:00 AM- On Own for Lunch
2:30 - 4:30 PM Workshop 2: Emerging Ideas and Technologies in Small RNAs
 Shavano Peak
Short Talks to be Chosen from Abstracts, , USA
4:30 - 5:00 PM Coffee Available Shavano Peak Foyer
5:00 - 7:00 PM Roles of Small RNAs in Cancer
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 05/10/2009 		Shavano Peak
Aurora Esquela-Kerscher, Eastern Virginia Medical School, USA
MicroRNA Control of Cell Proliferation and Differentiation
Bryan R. Cullen, Duke University Medical Center, USA
Viral miRNAs
Judy Lieberman, Harvard Medical School, USA
miRNAs and Breast Cancer also Small RNAs as Therapeutics
7:00 - 8:00 PM Social Hour w/ Lite Bites Torreys Peak
7:30 - 10:00 PM Poster Session 3
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 05/10/2009 		Torreys Peak
Sunday, June 14
7:30 - 8:30 AM Breakfast Torreys Peak
8:30 - 11:30 AM MiRNAs as Diagnostics and Therapeutics
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 05/10/2009 		Shavano Peak
Elaine Fuchs, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rockefeller University, USA
Fine Tuning Stem Cell Fate Determination
Lin He, University of California, Berkeley, USA
miRNAs in Cancer
Joanne B. Weidhaas, Yale University School of Medicine, USA
MicroRNAs as Potential Diagnostics and Therapeutics
Scott M. Hammond, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
MicroRNAs and Cancer
9:50 - 10:10 AM Coffee Break Shavano Peak Foyer
11:00 AM- On Own for Lunch
4:30 - 5:00 PM Coffee Available Shavano Peak Foyer
5:00 - 7:00 PM Lessons from Developmental Biology
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 05/10/2009 		Shavano Peak
Allison L. Abbott, Marquette University, USA
Genetic Analysis of microRNA Functions in C. elegans Development
Helge Großhans, Friedrich Miescher Institute (FMI), Switzerland
MicroRNAs in C. elegans Development
Stephen M. Cohen, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore
MicroRNAs in Drosophila Development
7:00 - 8:00 PM Social Hour w/ Lite Bites Torreys Peak
8:00 - 11:00 PM Entertainment Torreys Peak
Monday, June 15
Departure
      *=Session Chair     †=Speaker invited, not yet responded.


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Merck & Co., Inc.


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MicroRNAs have recently emerged as key regulators of gene expression during development and are frequently mis-expressed in human disease states, in particular cancer. MicroRNAs act to promote or repress cell proliferation, migration and apoptosis during development, all processes that can go awry in cancer. Thus, microRNAs have the ability to behave like oncogenes or tumor suppressors. Their small size and molecular properties make miRNAs amenable as targets and therapeutics in cancer treatment. While hundreds of human microRNAs are known, relatively little is known about their roles and targets. This meeting will focus on the exciting biology of microRNAs in controlling developmental and cancer processes like cell proliferation, differentiation, cell cycle, apoptosis and metastasis. It will also focus on the latest efforts to harness the power of these small RNAs as agents in the fight against cancer.