Scottish RNA Club Meeting.

MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh

4.00pm Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Speakers

4 - 4:25 Silvana van Koningsbruggen (Lamond Lab, Dundee) 'The nucleolus as a model for chromatin organization and function'

4:25 - 4:50 Eve Hartswood (Finnegan Lab, Edinburgh University) "Retrotransposon RNA motifs win the race to localise in Drosophila oocytes."

4:50 Pizza and beer.

5:30 - 5:55 Amy Buck (Marie Curie Research Fellow , Division of Pathway Medicine The Chancellor's Building, 49 Little France Crescent) "Discrete clusters of viral encoded miRNAs are associated with complementary strands of the genome and the 7.2- kb stable intron in murine cytomegalovirus."