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2025 Symposium

NCIBC RNA

Nebraska Center for Integrated Biomolecular Communication

Symposium 2025 - RNA Biology, Structure, and AI-Driven Innovations
Monday, April 28, 2025

Lied Commons, 301 N 12th St, Lincoln, NE 68588

REGISTER HERE: https://go.unl.edu/yejx

Time	Event/Speaker
Opening Activities
8:30 - 9:00 AM	Check-in & Light Breakfast
9:00 - 9:05 AM	Welcome from Dr. Jiantao Guo
Session 1
9:05 - 10:00 AM	Qi Zhang, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UNC-Chapel Hill “RNA in Action: Bring RNA Structure to Life”
10:00 - 10:55 AM	Tao Pan, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago "New roles of tRNA and snoRNA in translation"
10:55 - 11:15 AM	Break
Session 2
11:15 - 12:10 PM	Catherine Eichhorn, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln “Visualizing structural dynamics of multi-state RNAs”
12:10 - 1:05 PM	Julia Salzman, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Data Science, Department of Biochemistry, and Department of Statistics – By courtesy, and Department of Biology – By courtesy, Stanford University “Detecting genomic regulation and structural conservation without genomes”
Lunch & Poster Session
1:05 - 2:05 PM	Lunch
2:05 - 3:05 PM	Scientific Poster Session - The Steinhart Room
Session 3
3:05 - 4:00 PM	Shi-Jie Chen, Curators' Distinguished Professor, Department of Physics, Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Data Science and Informatics, University of Missouri-Columbia “Advancing RNA-Based Therapeutics: From Structure Prediction to Drug Design”
4:00 - 4:55 PM	Joseph Yesselman, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln “Characterizing 3D RNA structural features from DMS reactivity”

4:55 - 5:00 PM	Closing Remarks from Dr. Yesselman