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Robert Darnell, M.D., Ph.D., Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor, senior attending physician, head, Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-Oncology, The Rockefeller University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Camila Villasante, biomedical fellow, The Rockefeller University

Benjamin Weiner, Ph.D., fellow, Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, The Rockefeller University

Anna-Katerina (Kat) Hadjantonakis, Ph.D., Alfred P. Sloan Chair, developmental biology program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

1:00 p.m.: Anna Marie Pyle, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, HHMI, Structure and Mechanism of RNA Self-splicing Machines: Implications for Evolution, Regulated Gene Expression, and the Targeting of RNA with Small Molecule Drugs

2:00 p.m.: Saurja DasGupta, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Primordial RNA Assembly: Chemistry, Catalysis, and Compartmentalization

2:15 p.m.: Yang Luo, Ph.D., Sloan Kettering Institute, mRNA Interactions with Disordered Regions Control Protein Activity

3:45 p.m.: Rohit Roy, Duke University School of Medicine, Columbia University, Kinetic Resolution of the Atomic 3D Structures Formed by Ground and Excited Conformational States in an RNA Dynamic Ensemble

4:00 p.m.: Mildred Unti, Weill Cornell Medicine, Highly Efficient Cellular Expression of Circular mRNA Enables Prolonged Protein Expression from Virus-like Particles

4:15 p.m.: Ariel Pourmorady, Columbia University, Olfactory Receptor mRNAs Act as “Selfish” Non-coding RNAs That Enforce Transcriptional Singularity

4:30 p.m.: Shira Weingarten-Gabbay, Ph.D., Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, The Rockefeller University, Systematic Discovery of Thousands of ORFs in ~700 Human Viruses Using Massively Parallel Ribosome Profiling

4:45 p.m.: Madeline Sherlock, Ph.D., New York Structural Biology Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Widespread Viral RNA Structures Induce Downstream Reinitiation through Dynamic Ribosome Interactions

Cesar Vargas, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

Sebastian Klinge, Ph.D., associate professor and head, Laboratory of Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry, The Rockefeller University