CDB Spring Symposium 2010
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
2050 Valley Life Sciences Building, Chan Shun Auditorium
See schedule for times
See overview for background reading lists

Morning session

Thomas Gingeras
"Eukaryotic transcriptomes: Windows on organization genetic information"
Professor and Head of Functional Genomics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Chris Ponting
"How ephemeral are long ncRNAs over evolutionary time?"
Professor of Genomics, University of Oxford and Group Leader, MRC Functional Genomics Unit

David Spector
"Nuclear retained non-coding RNAs"
Professor and Director of Research, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Jeannie Lee
"A myriad of long ncRNA at the X-inactivation center"
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School

Afternoon session

David Bartel
"MicroRNAs and other small regulatory RNAs"
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor of Biology, Whitehead Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Xuemei Chen
"Noncoding RNAs and three polymerases in plants"
Professor of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside

V. Narry Kim
"Maturation of microRNAs in animals"
Professor, Seoul National University

Erik Sontheimer
"CRISPR interference mechanisms in pathogenic staphylococci"
Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology, Northwestern University

There is no cost to attend but space is limited.
Click Here to Register

Organizations that have contributed funding:

HHMIHoward Hughes Medical Institute RNA SocietyRNA Society
AgilentAgilent Technologies BioLegendBioLegend
NEBNew England Biolabs GenentechGenentech
System BiosciencesSystem Biosciences Applied BiosystemsApplied Biosystems
ExiqonExiqon

For questions contact Deby Johns at 510-643-5524 or djohns@berkeley.edu, or Stephanie Lim at 510-643-9446 or sj_lim@berkeley.edu