Program

Juli Feigon, Professor, UCLA, Structural Biology of Telomerase Mechanism and Interactions at Telomeres

10:00 – 10:20 am, Dave Brow, Professor, UW–Madison, Early History of the Butcher Lab
10:20 – 10:40 am, Aaron Hoskins, Professor, UW–Madison, L-S-Ms with S-A-M

11:10 – 11:15 am, David Staple, Attorney, Casimir Jones, Introductory Remarks
11:15 – 11:30 am, Nick Reiter, Associate Professor, Marquette University, From RNA Origins to Intrinsically Disordered Protein-Protein Interactions
11:30 – 11:45 am, Dipa Sashital, Professor, Iowa State University, Destroying DNA to Provide Cellular Defense
11:45 am – 12:00 pm, Vincenzo Venditti, Associate Professor, Iowa State University, Conformational Disorder as a General Regulatory Mechanism in Enzyme and Nanoparticle Catalysts
12:00 – 12:15 pm, Joel McManus, Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, IRES-TrAPPr: A High-Throughput Hunt for Functional RNA Structures

1:30 – 1:50 pm, Ci Ji Lim, Associate Professor, UW–Madison, Human RPA is an Essential Telomerase Productivity Factor for Maintaining Telomeres
1:50 – 2:10 pm, Scott Kennedy, Professor, Harvard University, Eukaryotic Systems Promoting Host-Transposon Co-existence
2:10 – 2:30 pm, Nathan Sherer, Professor, UW–Madison, A Frameshift in Perspective: RNA Stem-Loop Stability Regulates HIV-1 Translational Recoding
2:30 – 2:50 pm, Chris Trotta, Senior Vice President, PTC Therapeutics, Targeting Pre-mRNA Splicing with Small Molecules Splicing Modulators to Develop Novel Therapeutics
2:50 – 3:10 pm, Yun-Xing Wang, Chief and Senior Investigator, NCI-Frederick, RNA Structures and Conformations in 1 mM Mg2+

3:40 – 3:55 pm, Allison Didychuk, Assistant Professor, Yale University, How to Build a Herpesvirus
3:55 – 4:10 pm, Eric Montemayor, R&D, Luminex, The U6 snRNP Was Knot Normal, and It Was a Lot of Fun Too
4:10 – 4:25 pm, Katie Mouzakis, Associate Professor, Loyola Marymount University, Programmed — 1 Ribosomal Frameshifts Provide Alternate Paths to a Thriving Undergraduate Research Program
4:25 – 4:40 pm, Riley Petersen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Medical College of Wisconsin, Defining Ligand Recognition Mechanisms of CUG Repeat RNA to Enable RNA-Targeted Therapeutics for Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1
4:40 – 4:55 pm, Rahul Vivek, Graduate Student, UW–Madison, TDP-43 Controls RNA Structure Through High Affinity Lattice Interactions

Hashim Al-Hashimi, Professor, Columbia University, From Spins to Cells: Butchering the Boundary Between NMR and Biology

Sam Butcher, Professor, UW–Madison
Dipa Sashital, Professor, Iowa State University