Symposium
Molecular machines in RNA processing,
translation and transport
Program (last update:12.02.2013) 
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Wednesday, Feb. 13
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Registration |
| Session I (Chairperson: Ralf Ficner) | |
| 17:30 - 18:15 | Tim Nilsen Stable Translating Deadenylated mRNAs In Drosophila S2 Cells |
| 18:15 - 18:35 | Laurent Larivière Structure of the Mediator head module |
| 18:35 - 19:20 | Karl-Peter Hopfner Innate immune sensing of viral RNA by RIG-I like receptors |
| 19:30 | Dinner |
Thursday, Feb. 14
| 08:30 - 11:00 | Registration |
| Session II (Chairperson: Jörg Stülke) | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Dagmar Klostermeier Nucleic acid unwinding by SF2 helicase modules: A common theme and its variations |
| 09:45 - 10:05 | Debora Makino The Crystal Structure of a Yeast 11-Subunit Exosome Complex Bound to RNA |
| 10:05 - 10:50 | Eckhard Jankowsky How RNA helicase and poly(A) polymerase regulate each other in the TRAMP complex. |
| 10:50 – 11:20 | Coffee Break |
| Session III (Chairperson: Jörg Enderlein) | |
| 11:20 - 12:05 | David Lilley k-turns in RNA : architecture and folding |
| 12:05 - 12:50 | Marat Yusupov From crystallization of bacterial ribosome to structure determination of eukaryotic ribosome |
| 13:15 – 14:15 | Lunch |
| Session IV (Chairperson: Marina Rodnina) | |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Wolf Holtkamp GTP hydrolysis by EF-G synchronizes tRNA translocation on small and large ribosomal subunits |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Niels Fischer Cryo-EM structure of the SelB-Sec-tRNASec- ribosome complex at 6 Å resolution |
| 15:10 - 15:55 | Charalampos Kalodimos Structural basis for the progressive binding of nascent polypeptide chains by the trigger factor chaperone |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30 – 18:30 | Poster Session |
| 18:30 | Dinner |
Friday, Feb. 15
| 08:30 - 09:30 | Registration |
| Session V (Chairperson: Markus Zweckstetter) | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Frederic Allain Splicing and translation regulation by small RNA binding protein |
| 09:45 - 10:05 | Thorsten Stafforst Engineering Guide-RNA-Dependent Deaminases To Selectively Introduce Point Mutations Into mRNA |
| 10:05 - 10:50 | Utz Fischer Structural insights into the assembly of RNA-protein complexes |
| 10:50 – 11:20 | Coffee Break |
| Session VI (Chairperson: Henning Urlaub) | |
| 11:20 - 12:05 | Jean Beggs Cwc21p regulates intron branch site usage in splicing |
| 12:05 - 12:25 | Jean-Baptiste Fourmann Dissection of the factor requirements for spliceosome disassembly and the elucidation of its dissociation products using a purified splicing system |
| 12:25 - 13:10 | Markus Wahl Regulation of the Brr2 RNP remodeling enzyme during snRNP and spliceosome assembly |
| 13:15 – 14:15 | Lunch |
| Session VII (Chairperson: Reinhard Lührmann) | |
| 14:30 - 15:15 | Douglas Black Mechanisms of Splicing Regulation |
| 15:15 - 16:00 | Michael Sattler Molecular recognition and dynamics in splicing regulation |
| 16:00 - 16:45 | Janusz Bujnicki Structural bioinformatics of the spliceosome |
| 16:50 – 17:00 | Coffee break |
| 17:00 – 19:00 | Poster Session |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
Saturday, Feb. 16
| 08:30 - 09:30 | Registration |
| Session VIII (Chairperson: Holger Stark) | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Oscar Llorca Transient geometries in nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) visualized by cryo-EM |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Elisa Izaurralde mRNA quality control: protecting cells from aberrant mRNA function |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| Session IX (Chairperson: Ralf Ficner) | |
| 11:00 - 11:10 | Florian Heyd Rhythmic U2AF26 alternative splicing regulates the circadian clock in mice |
| 11:20 - 12:05 | Ed Hurt Structural and functional analyses of ribosome assembly |
| 12:10 – 13:10 | Lunch |
| 13:10 | End of the Symposium |
