Ben Lee, PhD Student Affiliation: University of Exeter Medical School (UK) Title: Splicing Regulatory Factors and Lifespan in Mouse Models

Ling Li, PhD Student Affiliation: University of Exeter Medical School (UK) Title: Modulation of alternative splicing regulators during EMT in tumour progression

Lisa Müller, PhD Student Affiliation: Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (Germany) Title: HEXplorer based analysis of splicing regulatory elements

Gerald Hysenaj, PhD Student Affiliation: Newcastle University (UK) Title: System wide identification and analysis of critical Tra2b-controlled exons within the breast cancer transcriptome

Mazdak Ehteramyan, PhD Student Affiliation: King’s College London, London (UK) Title: Identification of a novel shear stress responsive gene in the intron of Laf4

Om Rathore, PhD Student Affiliation: University of Algarve, Algarve (Portugal) Title: Available Soon.

Maxime Blijlevens, PhD Student Affiliation: VUmc Cancer Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Netherlands) Title: High-throughput functional screening identifies cancer-selective lethal targets in the RNA spliceosome

Ainhoa Martinez, PhD Student Affiliation: Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid (Spain) Title: Functional analysis and therapeutic approaches for two splicing mutations identified in aPTPS-deficient patient

Adam Mol, PhD Student Affiliation: Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany) Title: Control of protein translocation by synthetic riboswitches in human cells

Tessa Arends, PhD Student Affiliation: University of Colorado Denver- Anschutz Medical Campus, National Jewish Health (USA) Title: Control of signaling and response in B cells through regulation of alternative RNA splicing

Zoe Blackley, PhD Student Affiliation: University of Nottingham (UK) Title: SRPK1 Inhibition as a Novel Analgesic Strategy

Maxime Blijlevens, PhD Student Affiliation: VUmc Cancer Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Netherlands) Title: Available Soon.

Juste Wesche, PhD Student Affiliation: Institute of Molecular Toxicology & Pharmacology, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich (Germany) Title: The Jumonji domain-containing protein 6 (Jmjd6) – an important splicing regulator?

Wojtek Drabarek, PhD Student Affiliation: Erasmus University Medical Center (Netherlands) Title: The effect of spliceosome inhibitor E7107 on SF3B1 mut uveal melanoma cell lines

Nina Lackner, PhD Student Affiliation: University Hospital of the Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Salzburg (Austria) Title: Antisense RNA-mediated improvement of SMaRT therapy for KRT14 correction

Nuno Saraiva-Agostinho, PhD Student Affiliation: Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon (Portugal) Title: psichomics: a bioinformatics application for the quantification, analysis and visualisation of alternative splicing from large transcriptomic datasets

Marie Bordone, PhD Student Affiliation: Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon (Portugal) Title: The alternative splicing landscape of neurodegenerative disorders: decoupling disease-specific effects from loss of neurons

Mariana Ascenção-Ferreira, PhD Student Affiliation: Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon (Portugal) Title: Profiling the alternative splicing landscape of senescent cells

Samantha Jumbe, PhD Student Affiliation: Faculty of Health and Applied Science, University of the West of England (UK) Title: Function of the Cassette Exon 7b of the Transcription Factor ERG

Usama Ashraf, PhD Student Affiliation: Institut Pasteur (France) Title: Structural analysis of the human RED-SMU1 splicing complex and potential for host-directed anti-influenza therapy

Najate AIT-ALI, PhD Student Affiliation: INSERM (France) Title: The Regulation of alternative splicing of the nucleoredoxin-like 1 gene

Simon Uzor, PhD Student Affiliation: University of the West of England (UK) Title: Treatment of prostate cancer cells with the CLK1 inhibitor TG003 reduces tumour cell growth and induces apoptosis

Denise Rawcliffe, PhD Student Affiliation: Umeå University (Sweden) Title: Regulation of the incorrect splicing of ISCU in HML

Rosina Savisaar, PhD Student Affiliation: The Milner Centre for Evolution, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath (UK) Title: Functional exonic splice enhancers are common and under strong selection

Napsugár Kavalecz, PhD Student Affiliation: University of Debrecen (Hungary) Title: A lariat branch point motif-interrupted spliceosomal twin intron in Aspergillus nidulans

Cristina Domingos, PhD Student Affiliation: Kingston University London (UK) Title: Splice variants of matricellular proteins in cancer

Peter Zorn, PhD Student Affiliation: Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany) Title: Rbfox1 mediates splicing control in cardiovascular disease

Ángeles Arzalluz-Luque, PhD Student Affiliation: Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe (Spain) Title: Single-cell RNAseq for the study of isoforms: how is that possible?

Lorena de la Fuente, PhD Student Affiliation: Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe (Spain) Title: Regulation of 3’untranslated regions along neural differentiation systems

Francisco Pardo, PhD Student Affiliation: Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe (Spain) Title: Differential Splicing across tissues of maize B73 cultivar and their functional implications

Alexandra Filatova, PhD Student Affiliation: Research Centre of Medical Genetics (Russia) Title: Congenital aniridia is caused by PAX6 mutations affecting splicing

Vindhya Vijay, PhD Student Affiliation: College of Medicine, University of Florida (USA) Title: The Role of Aberrant mRNA Splicing in Cancer

Naseeb Malhi, PhD Student Affiliation: University of Nottingham (UK) Title: The SRPK1 inhibitor SPHINX31 stabilises retinal permeability in vitro and in vivo models of diabetes

Gaë Quéré, PhD Student Affiliation: Inserm U1078-ECLA, Faculté de Médecine (France) Title: Available Soon.

Antoine Bernard, PhD Student Affiliation: Département de Biologie et de Pathologie des Tumeurs, INSERM (France) Title: Available Soon.

Hatice Esenkaya, PhD Student Affiliation: University of Leicester, University Road (UK) Title: Investigating the effects of G-quadruplex stabilising ligands on alternative splicing of Bcl-x and Mcl-1 pre-mRNA in vivo

Juliana Inês Pinto dos Santos, PhD Student Affiliation: Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge (Portugal) Title: Development of an U1 snRNA-adapted gene therapeutic strategy to correct a 5′ splicing defect causing a lysosomal storage disease

Mercedes del Río Moreno, PhD Student Affiliation: Maimonides Institute for Biomedical Research of Córdoba (IMIBIC) University of Córdoba, Córdoba (Spain) Title: Hepatic Steatosis in Obese Women is Associated with a Dysregulation in Splicing Machinery

Emilia M Alors Pérez, PhD Student Affiliation: Maimonides Institute for Biomedical Research of Córdoba (IMIBIC) University of Córdoba, Córdoba (Spain) Title: Peptides derived from the extracellular domain of the oncogenic sst5TMD4 splicing variant of the somatostatin receptor 5 increase malignancy of cancer cells

Juan Manuel Jiménez Vacas, PhD Student Affiliation: Maimonides Institute for Biomedical Research of Córdoba (IMIBIC) University of Córdoba, Córdoba (Spain) Title: Antitumoral effects of the splicing inhibitor Pladienolide-B in prostate cancer cells

Sergio Pedraza-Arévalo, PhD Student Affiliation: Maimonides Institute for Biomedical Research of Córdoba (IMIBIC) University of Córdoba, Córdoba (Spain) Title: Splicing machinery is deeply dysregulated and associated with malignancy in pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors