Poster abstracts

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Number Presenter Title PI
1Divyaa Bhagdikar
Identification and characterization of S-box riboswitches that regulate at the level of translation initiation Tina M. Henkin
2Daniel Binzel
Thermodynamics and Kinetics of the Three-component Collision of Phi29 pRNA-3WJ Assembly for Nanoparticles Targeting and Therapeutic Delivery to Prostate Cancer Peixuan Guo
3Aaron Bruns
SnRK1 phosphorylates eIF4E/eIFiso4E to inhibit translation as a component of antiviral defense David M. Bisaro
4Menglin Chen
Measurements of first- versus multiple- round translation in E. coli argue against a mechanism to ensure coupling of transcription and translation Kurt Fredrick
5Sarah Choudury
Identification of A Novel Epigenetic Silencing Factor in Arabidopsis Thaliana R. Keith Slotkin
6Marcos Corchado
The role of lpr-3 as a cell non-autonomous activator of oncogenic let-60/Ras in C. elegans Helen Chamberlin
7Natalie Deans
RMR12 is a CHD3 nucleosome remodeler required for maintaining paramutations and normal development Jay Hollick
8Samantha Dodbele
Characterization of the Function of an Orphan 3'-5' RNA Polymerase Involved in Noncoding RNA Processing. Jane Jackman
9Benjamin Donovan
Reb1 is a pioneer factor that dynamically regulates nucleosomal DNA accessibility Michael Poirier
10Lisa Dorn
The mRNA methyltransferase, METTL3, regulates cardiac hypertrophy Federica Accornero
11Dana Driver
Construction of AFM Imaging of Hexameric pRNA of phi29 DNA Packaging Motor by RNA Nanotechnology Dr. Peixuan Guo
12Janie Frandsen
New tRNA interaction sites in the US T-box riboswitch Tina Henkin
13Pooja Gangras
Proximal 3'UTR introns elicit EJC-dependent NMD during zebrafish embryonic development Sharon Amacher and Guramrit Singh
14Michelle Gibbs
Role of the conserved GTPase BipA in assembly of the 50S subunit of the ribosome Kurt Fredrick
15Max Gilliland
Using Molecular Dynamics to Characterize Mutants in the Connector Region of Rho Irina Artsimovitch
16Sijin Guo
Size, shape, and sequence-dependent of immunogenicity of RNA nanoparticles Peixuan Guo
17Samantha Hinckley
Interrogating the conformation of HIV-1 Gag and its stoichiometry of binding to genomic RNAs Vicki Wysocki
18Pepsi Holmquist
Elucidating the allosteric mechanism of ligand binding to TRAP using native MS Mark P. Foster and Vicki H. Wysocki
19Nathan Howell
Distinct substrate specificities of human tRNA methyltransferases TRMT10A and TRMT10B Jane Jackman
21Leanne Kelley
Uncovering variations in conserved signal transduction pathways: the case of the EGFR pathway in Caenorhabditis vulval development Helen M. Chamberlin
22Safiya Khurshid
ASO screen uncovers splicing as a therapeutic vulnerability in the insulin-like growth factor (IGF) signaling pathway Dawn Chandler
23Jonathan Kitzrow
Probing 5′UTR Conformational Dynamics by FRET Karin Musier-Forsyth
24Lexie Kuzmishin
Quality control by trans-editing factor prevents global mistranslation of non-protein amino acids Karin Musier-Forsyth
25Richard A. Lease
A structured antisense RNA motif can filter out RNA:RNA hybridization mismatches Richard A. Lease
26James Li
Global Local Folding of the Human Transcriptome Peter White
27Taiwei Li
The host protein SAMHD1 interacts with the HIV-1 promoter to suppress viral transcription Li Wu
28Weicheng Li
Insights into the Homotropic Allostery of the Oligomeric Trp- and RNA-binding protein TRAP via Mechanistic Modelling and Protein Engineering Mark P. Foster
29Zhefeng Li
Nanoparticle orientation to control RNA loading and ligand display on exosome for cancer therapy Peixuan Guo
30Yufeng Liang
Melamine functionalized lipid particles for selective siRNA loading and delivery Dennis Bong
31Jacob Longenecker
Heart-centric regulation of cellular and systemic metabolism by the m6A methyltransferase METTL3 Federica Accornero
32Emily Lundstedt
How LPS structure affects its transport by LptB2FG Natividad Ruiz
33Xiao Ma
Selectivity and editing mechanisms of an aminoacyl-tRNA trans-editing factor Mark Foster
34Rebecca Mann
Regulation of translational quality control in Salmonella Typhimurium Michael Ibba
35Colton Martens
Role of EPRS and BEX1 in the post-transcriptional control of pro-inflammatory genes in the heart Federica Accornero
36Allison McClish
Using GRO-Seq as a tool to understand transcriptional regulation in maize Jay Hollick
37Tyler Mendes
Identifying motor proteins that function in male germ unit movement in Arabidopsis pollen tubes Iris Meier
38Shiqin Miao
A novel structural probe: fluorescent-labeled bPNA(+) Dennis Bong
39Matias Montes
The role of the nuclear matrix protein Matrin3 as a regulator of MDM2 alternative splicing Dawn Chandler
40Blythe Moreland
Model of pulldown alignments from SssI-treated DNA can improve methylation quantification from MBD enrichment-capture experiments Ralf A. Bundschuh
41Geeta Palsule
Transcriptional control and biogenesis of intronic RNase P RNA in Drosophila Amanda Simcox
42Mi Seul Park
Human Argonaute3 can be uniquely activated to become “mature slicer” Kotaro Nakanishi
43Jennifer Petrosino
BEX1 mediated translational control of muscle growth Federica Accornero
44Xijun Piao
The effect of chemical modifications on thermal and in vivo stability of phi29 bacteriophage RNA three-way junction Peixuan Guo
45Liudmila Popova
Using Proximity-Dependent Biotinylation to Identify Proteins Proximal to Histone Acetyltransferase 1 in vivo Mark Parthun
46Vedud Purde
Reconstitution of diphtheria toxin catalytic domain in cancer cells Dmitri Kudryashov
47Zhihua Qin
The HD domain of SAMHD1 is required for its suppression of interferon regulatory factor 7-mediated type I interferon induction Li Wu
48Elizabeth Regedanz
Regulation of a geminivirus late gene promoter by PRC2 David M. Bisaro
49Tracy Roach
Recognition of RNA substrates by Thg1 family proteins Jane Jackman
50Priscila Rodriguez Garcia
Identifying RIN4 amino acid motifs necessary for its function in plant immunity David Mackey
51Corey Ruhno
Identification of Deletion Junctions and Variants that Affect Genotype-Phenotype Prediction in Spinal Muscular Atrophy Arthur H.M. Burghes
52Christopher Schwebach
Characterizing a Novel Method of Human Plastin Regulation Dmitri Kudryashov
53Meredith Sigman
Tipping the epigenetic scales between genes and transposable elements R. Keith Slotkin
54Gabriel Silveira dAlmeida
Overcoming a “molecular ruler” mechanism: the unusual heterotrimeric tRNA splicing endonuclease of Trypanosoma brucei Juan Alfonzo
55Nicholas Sunday
Investigating the Role of the Connector Region in E. coli Termination Factor Rho Irina Artsimovitch
56Rodney Tollerson II
EF-P functions as a growth-rate dependent translation elongation factor Michael Ibba
57Jackson Trotman
Protein interactome analysis reveals stabilization of mammalian capping enzyme by heat shock protein 90 Daniel R. Schoenberg
58Allison Webb
Pax/EGL-38 cell-specific functions in the C. elegans uterine ventral cells Helen Chamberlin
59Lauren Woodward
A subpopulation of Exon Junction Complexes (EJC) containing CASC3 represents a late stage of EJC composition and is displaced during translation to the 3’UTR Guramrit Singh
60Zhongxia Yi
Investigating UPF3B-independent nonsense-mediated mRNA decay Guramrit Singh
61Hongran Yin
RNA-based micelles: A novel platform for paclitaxel loading and delivery Dan Shu Peixuan Guo
62Lanqing Ying
Global analysis of translation processivity in E. coli Kurt Fredrick
63Ben Jepson
Assessing the biological function of cytoplasmic tRNA methyltransferase (Trm10) enzymes in Danio rerio Jane Jackman