Meeting Program

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Sunday, March 20
3:00 - 7:30 PM	Registration	De Anza Foyer
6:30 - 7:30 PM	Refreshments	De Anza Foyer
7:30 - 9:30 PM	Keynote Session Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/20/2011	Steinbeck Forum
	Dinshaw J. Patel, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA Structural Insights into the Mechanisms of Silencing
	Eric N. Olson, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, USA MicroRNA Control of Muscle Development and Disease
Monday, March 21
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Breakfast	De Anza 1-3
8:00 - 11:30 AM	Evolution and Conservation of Silencing Mechanisms Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/20/2011	Steinbeck Forum
	David C. Baulcombe, University of Cambridge, UK Silencing in Plants
	David P. Bartel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Silencing in Mammals and Yeast
	Xuemei Chen, University of California, Riverside, USA Small RNAs in Diatoms
	Kathleen Collins, University of California, Berkeley, USA Silencing in Tetrahymena
	Nikolaus Rajewsky, Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany Post-Transcriptional Gene Regulation by Small RNAs and RNA Binding Proteins
9:20 - 9:40 AM	Coffee Break	De Anza Foyer
11:00 AM- 1:00 PM	Poster Setup	De Anza 1-3
1:00 - 10:00 PM	Poster Viewing	De Anza 1-3
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Coffee Available	De Anza Foyer
5:00 - 7:00 PM	miRNAs Biogenesis and Target Identification Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/20/2011	Steinbeck Forum
	V. Narry Kim, Seoul National University, South Korea Biogenesis of miRNAs
	Eric Alexander Miska, University of Cambridge, UK Regulation of miRNA Stability
	Thomas Tuschl, Rockefeller University, USA Transcriptome-Wide Identification of miRNA Target Sites
	Short Talk to be Chosen from Abstracts,
7:00 - 8:00 PM	Social Hour w/ Lite Bites	De Anza 1-3
7:30 - 10:00 PM	Poster Session 1 Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/20/2011	De Anza Foyer
Tuesday, March 22
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Breakfast	De Anza 1-3
8:00 - 11:00 AM	Mechanisms of miRNA Mediated Gene-Silencing Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/20/2011	Steinbeck Forum
	Elisa Izaurralde, MPI for Developmental Biology, Germany Role of GW182 Proteins in Silencing
	Witold Filipowicz, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland miRNA-Mediated Gene Silencing in Human Cells
	Thomas F. Duchaine, McGill University, Canada Mechanisms of Translational Repression by miRNAs in C. elegans
	Yukihide Tomari, University of Tokyo, Japan miRNA Actions in Drosophila
	Short Talk(s) to be Chosen from Abstracts,
9:20 - 9:40 AM	Coffee Break	De Anza Foyer
11:00 AM- 1:00 PM	Poster Setup	De Anza 1-3
1:00 - 10:00 PM	Poster Viewing	De Anza 1-3
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Coffee Available	De Anza Foyer
5:00 - 7:00 PM	Transcriptional Gene Silencing Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/20/2011	Steinbeck Forum
	Shiv I. S. Grewal, NCI, National Institutes of Health, USA Epigenetic Control of RNAi
	Nicholas J. Proudfoot, University of Oxford, UK RNA-Mediated Heterochromatin Formation
	Rachel Green, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA The Role of Allostery in Argonaute Protein Function
	Short Talk to be Chosen from Abstracts,
7:00 - 8:00 PM	Social Hour w/ Lite Bites	De Anza 1-3
7:30 - 10:00 PM	Poster Session 2 Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/20/2011	De Anza Foyer
Wednesday, March 23
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Breakfast	De Anza 1-3
8:00 - 11:00 AM	piRNAs and Endo-siRNAs Biogenesis and Function Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/20/2011	Steinbeck Forum
	Mikiko C. Siomi, Keio University School of Medicine, Japan piRNA Biogenesis
	Julius Brennecke, IMBA - Institut für Molekulare Biotechnologie GmbH, Austria Role of piRNAs in Drosophila
	Speakers to be Announced,
	Short Talk(s) to be Chosen from Abstracts,
9:20 - 9:40 AM	Coffee Break	De Anza Foyer
11:00 AM- 1:00 PM	Poster Setup	De Anza 1-3
1:00 - 10:00 PM	Poster Viewing	De Anza 1-3
2:30 - 4:30 PM	Workshop 1	Steinbeck Forum
	Short Talks to be Chosen from Abstracts, ,
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Coffee Available	De Anza Foyer
5:00 - 7:00 PM	Late Breaking Topics Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/20/2011	Steinbeck Forum
	Olivier Voinnet, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, France Unexpected Ways of Modulating AGO Activities in Plants and Mammals
	Speakers to be Announced,
	Short Talk to be Chosen from Abstracts,
7:00 - 8:00 PM	Social Hour w/ Lite Bites	De Anza 1-3
7:30 - 10:00 PM	Poster Session 3 Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/20/2011	De Anza Foyer
Thursday, March 24
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Breakfast	De Anza 1-3
8:00 - 11:00 AM	miRNAs in Development and Disease Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/20/2011	Steinbeck Forum
	Kenneth S. Kosik, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Role of miRNAs in Silencing Neuronal mRNAs
	Stephen M. Cohen, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore miRNAs in Drosophila Development
	Antonio J. Giraldez, Yale School of Medicine, USA Role of miRNAs in Zebrafish Development
	Maria Carla Saleh, Institut Pasteur, France RNAi as an Antiviral Defense Mechanism
	Short Talk(s) to be Chosen from Abstracts,
9:20 - 9:40 AM	Coffee Break	De Anza Foyer
2:30 - 4:30 PM	Workshop 2	Steinbeck Forum
	Short Talks to be Chosen from Abstracts, ,
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Coffee Available	De Anza Foyer
5:00 - 7:00 PM	Novel Classes of Non-Coding RNAs Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/20/2011	Steinbeck Forum
	Geir Skogerbø, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Interactions between MicroRNAs and Long Non-Coding RNAs
	Yi Liu, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA Multiple Small RNA Production Pathways in Fungi
	Thomas R. Gingeras, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA Promoter-Associated Small RNAs
	Short Talk to be Chosen from Abstracts,
7:00 - 8:00 PM	Social Hour w/ Lite Bites	De Anza 1-3
8:00 - 11:00 PM	Entertainment	De Anza 1-3
Friday, March 25
	Departure
*=Session Chair     †=Speaker invited, not yet responded.

Mechanisms of gene regulation mediated by small RNAs, including microRNAs, siRNAs and piRNAs, play critical roles in processes central to the growth and metabolism of eukaryotic cells and to the development and homeostasis of tissues and organs in humans. Genetic, molecular and biochemical research into RNA silencing, employing model organisms and/or human cells and tissues, continues to reveal new insights and understanding of processes fundamental to human development and disease.