The deadline for applications is April 15th, 2018.
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
It is estimated that 30% of diseases caused by mutations can be linked to splicing. Mutation of a splice site can result in site loss of function and specificity, causing insertion or deletion of aminoacids or a disruption of the reading frame. The importance of understanding and properly decoding roles governing splicing have become a fact for the research community as demonstarted by the increasing number of manuscripts devoted to this subject. Splicing 2018 intends to join in a friendly academic environment all of us working or interested in moving to this area of research. The conference will take place in summer in one of the best beach areas from Portugal, the sea village of Caparica (South Lisbon area). We aim you to present your latest results in Splicing and to join the best researchers in this area of knowledge. Please do not hesitate in contacting me should you have any suggestion to help us make of this event a remarkable one.
Yours truly
J. L. Capelo
C. Lodeiro
Conference chairs
On behalf of the organizing and scientific committee
Subjects
- RNA Splicing
- Protein Splicing
- DNA Splicing
- Alternative Splicing
- Splicing and disease
- Splicing and nanotechnology
- Autosplicing
- Espliceosome
- Computational Biology of Splicing
- Translational Applications
And last, but not least, we have some of the best in the arena:
Plenary Speakers
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Benoit Chabot, PhD Département de microbiologie et d’infectiologie, Faculté de médecine et des sciences de la santé, Université de Sherbrooke (Canada) |
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Eduardo Eyras, PhD Pompeu Fabra University & ICREA (Spain)Functional impact of differential splicing in cell differentiation and disease |
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Vânia Prado, PhD Professor Anatomy & Cell Biology /Physiology & Pharmacology The Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry University of Western Ontario Scientist- Molecular Medicine Group – Robarts Research Institute (Canada)Cholinergic Surveillance over Hippocampal RNA Metabolism and Alzheimer’s-Like Pathology |
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Franco Pagani, PhD Human Molecular Genetics, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (Italy)Rescue of exon skipping defects using modified U1 snRNAs |
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Peter Kloetzel, PhD Institut fur Biochemie Charité, Uniiversitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin (Germany) |
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Diana Baralle, PhD University of Southampton, Southampton (UK)Genomic Medicine and RNA |
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Keynote Speakers
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David Bates, PhD
Division of Cancer and Stem Cells,School of Medicine,University of Nottingham (UK) |
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Ruth Sperling, PhD
Department of Genetics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem (Israel) |
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Niketa A. Patel, PhD
University of South Florida And James A. Haley Veterans Hospital Scientist, Florida (USA) |
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Alexander Huttenhofer, PhD
Division of Genomics and RNomics , Medical University Innsbruck (Austria) |
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Steve Wilton, PhD
MURDOCH UNIVERSITY (AUSTRALIA) |
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Raymond Kaempfer, PhD
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University (Israel) |
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KPRK Talks (Caparica Talks)
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Hui Li, PhD
University of Virginia (USA) |
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The Oral Contributions can be viewed here
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We look forward to seeing you soon.
With kindest regards
The BIOSCOPE Team
Special Issue on the The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology
We are please to announce the Special issue devoted to Splicing2018 in The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology from Elsevier, impact factor 3,505. This Special Issue is devoted to Splicing & Alternative Splicing.
If you are interested in sending a contribution, please send us a preliminary title and a short preliminary abstract (no more than 10 lines) to jlcapelom.splicing2018@bioscopegroup.org using the subject: SPLICING SPECIAL ISSUE.
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