Program

May 18th 2012

Saturday, 26 May 2012
Arrival at Hotel Argosy Hotel, Iva Dulčića 41, 20000, Dubrovnik, Croatia
16:00	Registration
17:30	Welcome Remarks	Magdalena Grce and Saleem Khan
17:45-18:15	Friend or foe? The role of small RNAs in viral infections	Sébastien Pfeffer
18:30-19:30	Welcome cocktails
19:30	Visit to the old town and free time for dinner

Sunday, 27 May 2012
Session 1	9:00-10:45 Virus-Encoded miRNAs and their Functions I	Chair: Saleem Khan
09:00-09:35	Role of herpesvirus microRNAs in pathogenesis	Venugopal Nair
09:35-10:10	Analysis of the viral and cellular miRNA targetome during EBV infection	Rebecca Skalsky
10:10-10:45	Restraint of ICP34.5 expression controls outcome of HSV-1 infection	Igor Jurak
10:45-11:15	Coffee Break

Session 2	11:15-12:25 Virus-Encoded miRNAs and their Functions II	Chair: Lou Laimins
11:15-11:50	Roles and regulation of microRNAs in viral infections	Sébastien Pfeffer
11:50-12:25	Degradation of cellular miR-27 by a novel, highly abundant viral transcript is important for efficient MCMV replication in vivo	Lars Dölken
12:30-14:00	Lunch

Session 3	14:00-15:10 Virus-Encoded miRNAs and their Functions III	Chair: Dennis McCance
14:00-14:35	An RNA virus encodes a cluster of microRNAs with implications for viral-mediated tumorigenesis	Chris Sullivan
14:35-15:10	MiRNA based immunoevasion mechanism of the human polyomaviruses	Yoav Bauman
15:10-15:40	Coffee Break

Session 4	15:40-16:50 miRNAs and Regulation of Cellular Pathways	Chair: Venugopal Nair
15:40-16:15	(De)regulatory microRNA disease networks: a computational perspective	Takis Benos
16:15-16:50	Probing cellular pathways with polyomaviruses	James Pipas
17:00-21:00	Visit to the old town and organized dinner

Monday, 28 May 2012
Session 5	9:00-11:00 Host-Encoded miRNAs Relevant to Viral Infection and Cancer I	Chair: Sébastien Pfeffer
09:00-09:35	Human papillomaviruses downregulate miR-203 and mir-146a expression to control late gene expression and amplification	Lou Laimins
09:35-10:10	Regulation of miR203, miR-24 and miR-205 by HPV-16 E6 and E7 in primary human keratinocytes	Dennis McCance
10:10-10:45	Induction of cellular senescence by repression of HPV oncogenes increases the expression of miR-29 and miR-30, which target the cell cycle regulator B-Myb	Ivan Martinez
10:45-11:15	Coffee Break

Session 6	11:15-12:50 Host-Encoded miRNAs Relevant to Viral Infection and Cancer II	Chair: Magdalena Grce
11:15-11:50	Regulation of cellular microRNAs by the human papillomavirus type 16 E6 oncogene	Saleem Khan
11:50-12:25	Oncogenic HPV infections and growth factor signaling pathways: a positive feedback loop	Michelle Ozbun
12:25-12:35	Concluding remarks	Saleem Khan
12:45-14:00	Lunch and departure

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