London RNA Club: RNA Regulation in the Nucleus
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London RNA Club: RNA Regulation in the Nucleus

Mini-symposium

25 March 2026  ·  UCL (Chadwick Building, Lecture Theatre B05)
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM (GMT)

This London RNA Club mini-symposium aims to bring together researchers working in the field of RNA-mediated regulation in the nucleus. The symposium includes talks by Prof. Neil Brockdorff (University of Oxford), Prof Victoria Cowling (CRUK Scotland Institute) and Dr Folkert van Werven (Francis Crick Institute), together with short talks from Postdocs and PhD students.

Please note that the event will take place in-person only.

Programme

Wednesday, March 25
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Vicky Cowling (CRUK Scotland Institute, University of Glasgow)
RNA cap regulation in neurons
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Ruth Partridge (University of Cambridge / UCL)
Molecular grammar of the intrinsically disordered domain of a splicing regulator
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Emilie Alard (University of Oxford)
Nucleolar localisation of CK2 initiates a positive feedback loop to drive rRNA synthesis in cancer
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Roberto Vendramin (UCL & Francis Crick Institute)
Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay inhibition reshapes the cancer immunopeptidome
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Folkert Van Werven (Francis Crick Institute)
Co-option of a mouse-specific retrotransposon rewires Ash2l isoform usage to prime developmental promoters
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Jinjie Chen (UCL)
Exploring the Roles of Long Intergenic Non-Coding RNAs in Mitochondrial Regulation
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Tek Hong Chung (King's College London)
Hybridization-proximity labelling provides new insights into nuclear RNA-containing compartments
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Neil Brockdorff (University of Oxford)
The m6A complex and SETDB1/HUSH directly modulate levels of Xist RNA in X chromosome inactivation
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Beer and pizza

Location

Location: UCL (Chadwick Building, Lecture Theatre B05), Chadwick Building University College London Gower Street, England WC1E 6BT

Organisers

Getting there

Getting there

The symposium will take place in the B05 Lecture Theatre of the Chadwick Building, which is located by the entrance to the main UCL quad (pictured above).

The nearest tube stations are Euston Square (2-minute walk) and Warren Street (5-minute walk).


The following video shows directions to the lecture theatre from the main quad: https://mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Play/91443

Organisers


Prof. Andres Ramos

Professor of RNA Biology, UCL


Prof. Richard Jenner

Professor of Molecular Biology, UCL


Dr. John Houslay

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Francis Crick Institute 

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