Symposium Honoring Dieter Söll
“tRNA and the genetic code: From the three domains of life and the four corners of the globe.”
You may download the tentative symposium schedule at the following link:
8:00 am REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST
Marsh Auditorium Lobby
9:00 am WELCOME
Scott Strobel, Yale University
Mike Ibba, Chapman University
Session I Chaired by Alex Ambrogelly, Gilead Sciences
& Oscar Vargas-Rodriguez, University of Connecticut
“Söll Lab longevity, a brief introduction”
9:15 am Paul Agris
Duke University
“Modifying RNA, the early years”
9:35 am Alice Cheung
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“From KBT to deciphering the biology of plant reproduction”
9:55 am Ian Willis
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
“Increased health span and neurodegeneration: Opposing outcomes from perturbations impacting tRNA”
10:15 am BREAK
Marsh Auditorium Lobby
Session II Chaired by Patricia Hoben, City Forward Collective,
Milwaukee, WI
10:55 am Lynn Cooley
Yale University
“Stop codons make sense in Drosophila”
11:15 am Omar Orellana
University of Chile, Santiago de Chile
“From transfer RNAs to codon usage and metabolic reprogramming”
11:35 am David Frendewey
Regeneron
“RNase P(lease) — from tRNA to Lou Gehrig’s Disease”
11:55 am Connie Mulligan
University of Florida, Gainesville
“From tRNA splicing to psychosocial stress”
12:15 pm LUNCH (for registered attendees only)
Session III Chaired by Martina Jahn
Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany
1:45 pm Alison DeLong
Brown University
“Roots [and Shoots] in the Söllarium: Travels with Arabidopsis PP2A”
2:05 pm Mike Ibba
Chapman University
“Archaeal genomics-based discovery of novel pathways for aminoacyl-tRNA synthesis”
2:25 pm Hubert Becker
University of Strasbourg, France
“Getting things wrong on purpose: First, charging the wrong tRNA; then, not even a tRNA; now, what else?”
2:45 pm Sotiria Palioura
Athens, Greece
“Keeping an eye on Sec”
3:00 pm BREAK
Marsh Auditorium Lobby
Session IV Chaired by Jesse Reinhart, Yale University
& Constantinos Stathopoulos, University of Patras, Greece
3:30 pm Stephanie Herring
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO
“Did climate change do that? Explaining extreme events from a climate perspective”
3:50 pm Patrick O’Donoghue
Western University, London, ON, Canada
“Messing with the genetic code: Transfer RNAs in health and disease”
4:10 pm Sergey Melnikov
Newcastle University, UK
“Getting things wrong on purpose: What organisms with the smallest natural genomes can teach us about pains and pleasures of being alive”
4:30 pm Juan Alfonzo
The Ohio State University
“She says, he says, she says, he says…I was Solled”
4:40 pm Dieter Söll
CLOSING
Lynn Cooley, Yale University
RECEPTION AND DINNER TO FOLLOW (by invitation only)