Selected talks are scheduled for 15 min + 5 min discussion.
| Thursday July 18-2019 | GHS Schänzlestr. 1 in the Institute for Biology II/III | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Registration | |
| 13:00 - 13:10 | Welcome address | |
| 13:10 - 15:10 | Session 1 | Chair: Annegret Wilde |
| 13:10 - 13:50 | Pascale Romby | Keynote lecture: Regulatory RNAs studies in Staphylococcus aureus revealed complex and dynamic networks interconnecting stress responses, metabolism adaptation, decision-making and virulence |
| 13:50 - 14:10 | Kathrin Fröhlich | Post-transcriptional regulation by a cell-cycle controlled small RNA in Caulobacter crescentus |
| 14:10 - 14:30 | Ines Vollmer | Analysis of the RNA-based regulatory mechanisms controlling the type III secretion system in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Britta Jordan | A potential type I toxin/antitoxin system in Methanosarcina mazei |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Stefano Marzi | S. aureus S1 is an RNA chaperone which promotes translation of secreted virulence factors by modulating mRNA structures |
| 15:10 - 15:40 | Coffee break | |
| 15:40 - 17:20 | Session 2 | Chair: Rolf Backofen |
| 15:40 - 16:20 | Sebastian Will | Keynote lecture: A brief overview of RNA Bioinformatics |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Martin Raden | The impact of various seed, accessibility and interaction constraints on sRNA target prediction - a systematic assessment |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Jens Georg Steffen Lott |
Using “social networks” for sRNA homolog prediction |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | Björn Voss | Data analysis for RNA interactomics |
| 17:20 - 19:30 | Poster session | |
| 19:30 | Barbecue in the Botanical Garden | |
| Friday July 19-2019 | HS1 Hauptstraße 1 in the Institute for Biology I | |
| 9:00 - 10:40 | Session 3 | Chair: Kai Papenfort |
| 9:00 - 9:40 | Shoshy Altuvia | Keynote lecture: Signal-dependent transcriptional and translational pausing influences the dynamics of RNA folding and formation of alternative conformations |
| 9:40 - 10:00 | Matthias Riediger | Gradient profiling by sequencing (Grad-Seq) - on the quest for sRNA-protein interactions in the cyanobacterial model organism Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Julian Grützner | DUF1127 protein RSP_6037 is a RNA-binding protein |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Hendrik Melior | Posttranscriptional regulation of ribosomal genes by an antibiotic-dependent complex of the leader peptide peTrpL and the attenuator sRNA rnTrpL |
| 10:40 - 11:20 | Coffee break | |
| 11:20 - 12:50 | Session 4 | Chair: Franz Narberhaus |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Lydia Hadjeras | Global examination of bacterial translatomes using ribosome profiling |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Stephan Pienkoß | Temperature-dependent modulation of the sRNA CyaR |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | Florian Sikora | The phosphotransferase protein EIIANtr regulates AcnB aconitase activity in a phosphorylation-independent manner in Escherichia coli |
| 12:20 -12:40 | Katharina Höfer | Revising RNA Architecture - Characterization of NAD-capped RNA in bacteria |
| 12:40 - 12:50 | Closing remarks |