Symposium and Workshop: Alternative Splicing and Disease

Symposium and Workshop
Alternative Splicing and Disease
Organizers: Jamal Tazi and Stefan Stamm
With the participation of Sigma-Aldrich
February 18 – 23, 2008, Montpellier, France

 Program     General information    Organizers    Links   Video

 

Learn more about alternative splicing and its implication in human disease! Take part in the Workshop on Alternative Splicing and Disease organized by EURASNET with the participation of Sigma-Aldrich.

Symposium Program                       Monday, Feb 18
 

8:00 – 9:00 AM Registration      
9:00 – 10:30 AM Keynote session
9:00 – 9:45 AM Jamal Tazi University of Montpellier, France
Splicing diseases from the bench to the clinic
9:45 – 10:30 AM Tito Baralle, I.C.G.E.B., Italy
(Topic to be announced)
10:30 – 11:00 AM Refreshment break
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Splicing and Cancer
11:00 – 11:45 AM Bepe Biamonti, Institute of Molecular Genetics Pavia, Italy
Alternative splicing in cancer
11:45 – 12:30 AM Elmar Stickeler, University of Freiburg, Germany
Splicing and cancer
12:30 – 2:00 PM Lunch break
2:00 – 4:40 PM Splicing in Disease and its Correction
2:00 – 2:40 PM Diana Baralle, University of Southampton, UK
Identification and analysis of mutations causing splicing disease
2:40 – 3:20 PM Tilman Achsel, University of Leuven, Belgium
Splicing in Neurodegeneration
3:20 – 4:00 PM Stefan Stamm, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Pathologies associated with tra2-beta1
4:00 – 4:40 PM Daniel Schümperli, University of Bern, Switzerland
Correction of mis-splicing by U7 RNAs
4:40 – 5:00 PM Refreshment break
5:00 – 6:50 PM Splicing Variants and Bioinfpormatics
5:00 – 5:40 PM Albrecht Bindereif, University Giessen, Germany
Cis-elements regulating alternative splicing
5:40 – 6:10 PM Didier Aubeuf, Hôpital Saint Louis Paris, France
Bioinformatics of alternative splicing
6:10 – 6:50 PM Speaker to be announced, Affymetrix,
Splicearrays
6:50 – 7:30 PM Conclusions
Stefan Stamm,
University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Jamal Tazi, University of Montpellier, France

Workshop Program                        Tue, Feb 19 – Sat, Feb 23

Topics:
• Array experiments
• Bioinformatics
• CLIP
• Construction of reporter mini genes
• Correction of splicing
• Drug treatment of cells
• In vitro splicing
• In vivo splicing
• Isolation of RNA protein complexes from nuclear extracts
• SiRNA technology and QPCR analysis                                                                                      Top

General information

Venue

Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
CNRS-UMR 5535
Institute of Molecular Genetics
1919 Route de Mende
34293 Montpellier Cedex 5
France
 Map

The symposium and workshop will take place at the University of Montpellier 2:
UNIVERSITE MONTPELLIER 2
Administration building (Bat 7) (symposium)
place Eugène Bataillon
34095 Montpellier
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Scientific Organizers
Jamal Tazi, University of Montpellier, France
Stefan Stamm, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Meeting Organizer
Elisabetta ANDERMARCHER MD, PhD
Conference Secretary
Workshop on Alternative Splicing and Disease
Montpellier, 18-23.2.2008
Telephone: 0033-6-33221134                                                                                                          Top

Links
Eurasnet
Sigma-Aldrich
Montpellier                                                                                                                                    Top
   

Video
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