Programme

Monday, 30th of June 2014

10:00 - 10:30 | Registration

10:30 - 11:00 | Welcome

11:00 – 12:30 | Introduction to Next Generation Sequencing | Invited speaker Erik Bongcam-Rudloff(Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)

12:30 – 12:45 | Coffee Break

12:45 – 13:30 | Introduction to Non Coding RNAs

13:30 - 14:30 | Lunch Break

14:30 – 16:30 | Databases of Non Coding RNAs

16:30 - 17:00 | Coffee Break

17:00 – 18:00 | Experimental Techniques for microRNA Target Identification

Tuesday, 1st of July 2014

09:15 – 11:00 | Analysis of small RNA seq Data | Invited Speaker Vesselin Baev(Department of Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology, University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria)

11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break

11:30 - 13:00 | Analysis of small RNA seq Data

13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch Break  & Poster session

14:30 – 16:30 | In silico miRNA target identification

16:30 - 17:00 | Coffee Break

17:00 – 18:00 | Functional analysis of mRNA/lncRNA/small RNA expression data

20:00         |    Dinner

Thursday, 2nd of July 2014

09:15 – 11:00 | Introduction to Long Non Coding RNAs | Invited speaker Rory Johnson Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain)

11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break

11:30 - 13:00 | miRNA long-noncoding RNA Interactions: Identification of miRNA Targets on lncRNAs

13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch Break  & Poster session

14:30 – 16:30 | Regulation of miRNA Expression – miRNA gene Promoter Identification & Epigenetics   

16:30 - 17:00 | Coffee Break

17:00 – 18:00 | Regulation of miRNA Expression – miRNA gene Promoter Identification & Epigenetics  (continues)

Wednesday, 3d of July 2014

09:15 – 11:00 | The combinatorial effect of miRNAs on molecular Pathways

11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break

11:30 - 13:00 | Automated functional analysis of miRNAs

13:00 - 14:30 | Closing Remarks and Open Discussion with Trainers

14:30 - 15:00 | Lunch

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