2022 EMBO Workshop on PIWI Proteins and piRNAs
April 6-9, 2022
Virtual
About the Workshop
The piRNA pathway is an RNA-silencing pathway involving small non-coding RNAs and PIWI proteins.This pathway was discovered fifteen years ago as a defense mechanism against transposons. Since then, this field has experienced rapid progress. Recent studies have implicated piRNAs and PIWI proteins in a broad range of functions, including epigenetic and post-transcriptional gene regulation, genome rearrangements, germ cell development, and stem cell biology. The aim of this EMBO Workshop is to discuss the latest findings in all aspects of piRNA biology. We will address piRNA biogenesis; the role of piRNAs/PIWI proteins in genome defense; epigenetic regulation; gene regulation; genome rearrangements; germ cell development and fertility; stem cell biology; somatic functions; and cancers. We have invited the leading specialists in the field, who have expressed their enthusiasm for the workshop. This EMBO Workshop is part of a series and both previous workshops were big success. We expect this EMBO Workshop to have a strong impact on the piRNA field and beyond.
This EMBO Workshop was partly supported by The Company of Biologists and ShanghaiTech University.
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We would like this edition to be interactive with AV discussions over the talks and full of opportunities to network. Providing you with a smooth meeting technically speaking is also one of our main priorities.
A welcome desk will be available every day with a staff member that you can talk with and each participant can ask for a technical test prior to the event by sending an email to EMBO-piRNA-workshop-2022@premc.org​.
- Topics of Posters & Flash talks:
- Biogenesis of piRNAs
- PIWI-piRNA-guided transcriptional silencing and epigenetic regulation
- PIWI-piRNA in genome defense
- PIWI-piRNA in regulating endogenous gene expression
- PIWI-piRNAs in transgenerational inheritance
- PIWI-piRNAs in genome rearrangements
- PIWI proteins and piRNAs in germline development
- PIWI and piRNAs in somatic tissues
- PIWI and piRNAs in cancer and other diseases
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ORGANIZER
Dr. Haifan Lin
Yale University
CO-ORGANIZER
Mofang Liu
Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Martine Simonelig
University of Montpellier
Philip Zamore
University of Massachusetts
PLENARY SPEAKERS
Astrid Haase
NIH
Donal O'Carroll
University of Edinburgh
Yang Yu
Institute Of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Julie Claycomb
University of Toronto
Julius Brennecke
IMBA, Vienna
Kata Fejes Toth
CalTech
Ligang Wu
Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Martine Simonelig
University of Montpellier
Zissimos Mourelatos
University of Pennsylvania
Rene Ketting
Institute of Molecular Biology gGmbH (IMB)
Mireille Betermier
French National Centre for Science Research
Mofang Liu
Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Philip Zamore
University of Massachusetts
Haruhiko Siomi
Keio University
Severine Chambeyron
University of Montpellier
Toshie Kai
Osaka University
William Theurkauf
University of Massachusetts
Yishi Jin
UCSD
Yukiko Yamashita
Whitehead Institute/MIT
Zhao Zhang
Duke University
Germano Cecere
Institut Pasteur
Greg Hannon
University of Cambridge
Eric Miska
University of Cambridge
Ramesh Pillai
University of Geneva
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