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
“Say hello to GlnRS”
9:55 am Ian Willis
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
“Going a bit Schizo”
10:15 am BREAK
Marsh Auditorium Lobby
Session II Chaired by David Frendewey, Regeneron
10:55 am Lynn Cooley
Yale University
“Stop making sense with Drosophila”
11:15 am Omar Orellana
University of Chile, Santiago de Chile
“Chile(ing) with tRNA”
11:35 am Patricia Hoben
City Forward Collective, Milwaukee, WI
“Learning with GlnRS”
11:55 am Connie Mulligan
University of Florida, Gainesville
“From tRNA splicing to psychosocial stress”
12:15 pm LUNCH (for registered attendees only) map
Session III Chaired by Martina Jahn
Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany
1:45 pm Alison DeLong
Brown University
“Roots [and Shoots] in the Söllarium”
2:05 pm Mike Ibba
Chapman University
“Entering the third kingdom”
2:25 pm Hubert Becker
University of Strasbourg, France
“Getting things wrong on purpose I”
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
“Dogstas”
3:30 pm Stephanie Herring
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO
“Pyling it on””
3:50 pm Patrick O’Donoghue
Western University, London, ON, Canada
“Messing with the code”
4:10 pm Sergey Melnikov
Newcastle University, UK
“Getting things wrong on purpose II”
4:30 pm Juan Alfonzo
The Ohio State University
“She says, he says, she says, he says…I was Solled”
4:40 p.m. Dieter Söll
CLOSING
Lynn Cooley, Yale University
RECEPTION AND DINNER TO FOLLOW
By invitation only