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Committee & Speakers

Conference Chairs

Dorothee Dormann, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Fen-Biao Gao, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, USA

Aaron Gitler, University of Stanford, USA

Speakers

Keynote

Victor Ambros

Victor Ambros

University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, USA

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Session 1: Dysregulated RNA metabolism in neurological diseases

FP

Fratta Pietro

University of College London, UK

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LT

Leslie Thompson

University of California, Irvine, USA

Session 2: Physiological functions of disease-linked RNA-binding proteins

Joel Richter

Joel Richter

University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, USA

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Gene Yeo

Gene Yeo

University of California, San Diego, USA

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Session 3: Biomolecular condensates and their role in normal RNA processing and in disease

Simon Alberti

Simon Alberti

Dresden University of Technology, Germany

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Roy Parker

Roy Parker

University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

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Session 4: Human genetics and genomics insights into neurological diseases

Don Cleveland

Don Cleveland

University of California, San Diego, USA

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Rosa Rademakers

Rosa Rademakers

VIB Center for Molecular Neurology, Antwerp, Belgium

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Session 5: Structural insights into pathological RNA-binding proteins

Magdalini Polymenidou

Magdalini Polymenidou

University of Zürich, Switzerland

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Ben Ryskeldi-Falcon

Ben Ryskeldi-Falcon

MRC Cambridge, UK

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Session 6: Toxicity of repeat RNAs and repeat proteins

DE

Dieter Edbauer

German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Munich, Germany

LR

Laura Ranum

University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

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Session 7: Novel biomarkers due to dysregulated RNA metabolism

Philip Wong

Philip Wong

Johns Hopkins University, USA

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Session 8: RNA-based therapeutics

AK

Anastasia Khvorova

University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, USA

Matt Simon

Matthew Simon

Denali Therapeutics, USA

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Discussion leaders

Session 1: Benjamin Wolozin, Boston University, USA Session 2: Albert La Spada, University of California Irvine, USA Session 3: Yi Lin, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Session 4: Nancy Bonini, University of Pennsylvania, USA Session 5: Lin Guo, Thomas Jefferson University, USA Session 6: Jeffrey Rothstein, Johns Hopkins University, USA Session 7: Leonard Petrucelli, Mayo Clinic, USA Session 8: Dorothee Dormann, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany