BIOCENTER OULU DAY 2012 Biological Dark Matter – Cracking the Non-Coding

Time Tuesday, March 20, 2012 Place Auditorium 101A in the Main Building of the Medical Campus, Aapistie 5A,University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland Registration Teija Luoto, e-mail teija.luoto@oulu.fi tel. (08) 537 6103, fax (08) 537 6115 by March 9, 2012. Biocenter Oulu scientists and students register to contact persons in research groups Information Ritva Saastamoinen, Biocenter Oulu, P.O. Box 5000, FIN-90014 Oulu, Finland tel. (08) 537 6102, e-mail ritva.saastamoinen@oulu.fi Credits Certificate of participation will be written. Transportation There will be bus transportation from Linnanmaa to Aapistie 5A.The bus will leave at 8.30 hrs at door J from Linnanmaa and return at 17.15 hrs from Aapistie 5A to Linnanmaa Chairpersons Madhura Patankar, Pauli Ohukainen and Mikko Vuorela

PROGRAMME

09.00 – 09.05 Opening remarks Chairperson of the Organizing Committee, Biocenter Oulu 09.05 – 09.15 Welcome Prof. Johanna Myllyharju, Scientific Director of Biocenter Oulu 09.15 - 09.20 Welcome Prof. Seppo Vainio, Director of Biocenter Oulu Doctoral Programme 09.20 – 10.00 ”Small regulatory RNAs and their targets in Salmonella” Dr. Kai Papenfort IMIB, University of Würzburg, Germany 10.00 – 10.35 Coffee at the exhibition area (35 min) 10.35 – 11.15 “Finding the sequences that matter in non-coding RNAs: Evolutionary analysis coupled to functional characterization” Dr. Mikko Frilander Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Finland 11.15 – 11.55 ”Transcriptional dynamics of miRNA promoters and long noncoding RNAs” Dr. Chirag Nepal HIB, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, Norway 11.55 – 13.25 Lunch break and exhibition (1 h 30 min)

13.25 – 14.05 “Biochemical dissection of small RNA-guided gene silencing pathways” Prof. Dr. Gunter Meister Biochemistry, University of Regensburg, Germany 14.05 – 14.45 “The heat shock response: implications in cell stress and development” Prof. Lea Sistonen Biocity, Åbo Akademi, Turku, Finland 14.45 – 15.25 Coffee at the exhibition area (40 min) 15.25 – 16.05 ”Control of lipid metabolism by miR-33” Prof. Carlos Fernandez-Hernando NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, USA 16.05 – 16.45 “Epigenetic regulation of genes by small RNAs: a novel tool for gene therapy of cardiovascular disease” Dr. Mikko Turunen Ark Therapeutics Oy, Kuopio, Finland 16.45 – 17.00 General discussion and concluding remarks

******************************** Teija Luoto, Secretary Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu P.O. Box 5000 FI-90014 UNIVERSITY OF OULU, FINLAND Street address: Aapistie 5A, 90220 OULU, FINLAND Tel +358 8 537 6103, Fax +358 8 537 6115 e-mail: teija.luoto@oulu.fi BIOCENTER OULU URL: http://www.biocenter.oulu.fi (internal mail: 5BIOCENTER)