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
Session 1: Dysregulated RNA metabolism in neurological diseases
PF
Pietro Fratta
University of College London, UK
LT
Leslie Thompson
University of California, Irvine, USA
Session 2: Physiological functions of disease-linked RNA-binding proteins
JR
Joel Richter
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, USA
Session 3: Biomolecular condensates and their role in normal RNA processing and in disease
Session 4: Human genetics and genomics insights into neurological diseases
DC
Don Cleveland
University of California, San Diego, USA
Session 5: Structural insights into pathological RNA-binding proteins
MP
Magdalini Polymenidou
University of Zürich, Switzerland
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
Session 7: Novel biomarkers due to dysregulated RNA metabolism
MW
Michael Ward
National Institutes of Health, USA
Session 8: RNA-based therapeutics
AK
Anastasia Khvorova
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, USA
MS
Matthew Simon
Denali Therapeutics, USA
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