71st CSHL SYMPOSIUM:
Regulatory RNAs
May 31 - June 5, 2006
Abstract Deadline: March 8, 2006

Organizers:
Bruce Stillman and David Stewart
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Past Program

We are pleased to host the 71st Cold Spring Harbor Symposium which will address Regulatory RNAs. The Symposium will begin at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 and end on the evening of Monday June 5 with normal departure on the following morning.

The Symposium will include 12/13 oral sessions and 2/3 poster sessions covering molecular strategies aimed at understanding and controlling the cancerous state. Most of the talks will be given by invited speakers but we may select a few talks from openly submitted abstracts. Social events throughout the Symposium provide ample opportunity for informal interactions and will include a wine-and-cheese party, a beach picnic, cocktails and banquet, and departure brunch.

Topics:
RNA Interference
Micro RNAs
Genome regulation by double-stranded RNA
Heterochromatin and RNA
Post-transcriptional regulation
Translational control by RNA
Regulation of cell fate determination
Novel ribonucleoprotein complexes
Sense-antisense transcription
Bacterial small RNAs
Viral regulatory RNAs
RNA guides
Riboswitches
Ribonuclease III Superfamily
Hidden transcriptome - non-coding RNAs of unknown function
Applications of small RNAs in human health and disease

Speakers:
David Barford, Institute of Cancer Research, UK
David Bartel, Whitehead Institute, MIT/HHMI
Brenda Bass, University of Utah School of Medicine/HHMI
David Baulcombe, John Innes Centre, UK
Rene Bernards, Netherlands Cancer Institute
Elizabeth Blackburn, University of California, San Francisco
Irene Bozzoni, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
Gordon Carmichael, University of Connecticut Health Center
Richard Carthew, Northwestern University
Thomas Cech, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Bryan Cullen, HHMI/Duke University
James Dahlberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Robert Darnell, HHMI, Rockefeller University
Jennifer Doudna, University of California, Berkeley
Gideon Dreyfuss,HHMI/University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Sean Eddy, HHMI/Washington University School of Medicine
Don Ganem, University of California, San Francisco
Thomas Gingeras, Affymetrix
Susan Gottesman, National Cancer Institute
Rachel Green, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Carol Greider, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Shiv Grewal, National Intitute of Health
Eduardo Groisman, HHMI/Washington University School of Medicine
Gregory Hannon, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Edith Heard, Curie Institute, France
Tina Henkin, The Ohio State University
Oliver Hobert, Columbia University College of P&S
Craig P. Hunter, Harvard University
Alexander Huttenhofer, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Elisa Izaurralde, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Steve Jacobsen, HHMI/University of California, Los Angeles
Richard Jorgensen, University of Arizona
Leemor Joshua-Tor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
V. Narry Kim, Seoul National University, South Korea
Mitzi Kuroda, Harvard University
Jeannie Lee, Massachusetts General Hospital
Robert Martienssen, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Marjori Matzke, Gregor Mendel Institute, Austria
Danesh Moazed, Harvard Medical School
Timothy Nilsen, Case Western Reserve University
Renato Paro, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Dinshaw Patel, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cance Center
Norbert Perrimon, Harvard Medical School
Craig Pikaard, Washington University
Ronald Plasterk, Hubrecht Laboratory Netherlands
Scott Poethig, University of Pennsylvania
Nicholas Proudfoot, University of Oxford, UK
Nikolaus Rajewsky, New York University
Gary Ruvkun, Massachusetts General Hospital
Peter Sarnow, Stanford University
Alexander Schier, Harvard University
Phillip Sharp, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Frank Slack, Yale University
Michael Snyder, Yale University
Nahum Sonenberg, McGill University, Canada
David Spector, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Joan Steitz, Yale University School of Medicine
Gisela Storz, National Institute of Child Health & Human Development
Michael Terns, University of Georgia
William Theurkauf, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Marja Timmermans, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Wade Winkler, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Sandra Wolin, Yale University School of Medicine
Phillip Zamore, Univeristy Of Massachusetts Medical School
Qiang Zhou, University of California, Berkeley

We are accepting abstracts for consideration as poster presentations. Abstracts should contain only new and unpublished material and must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Status of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.

We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. Apply in writing to meetings@cshl.edu stating need for financial support - preference is given to those submitting abstracts.

We look forward to seeing you at Cold Spring Harbor in May/June.

This conference is supported in part by funds provided by CSHL's Corporate Sponsor Program and the National Cancer Institute.

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Regular packages are all inclusive and cover registration, food, housing, parking, wine-and-cheese party, lobster banquet, etc. No Housing packages include all costs except housing. Full payment is due 4 weeks prior to the meeting.