Non-protein-coding RNAs - the DNA–RNA dialogue in shaping the transcriptome

Dr Andreas Werner, Newcastle University, UKWhat are natural antisense transcripts good for?

Professor Denise Barlow, Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Science, AustriaMacro ncRNAs in imprinted gene clusters in the mouse and human genome

Professor Kevin Morris, The Scripps Research Institute, USADo pseudogenes function as master non-coding RNA regulators of gene expression in human cells?

Dr Piero Carninci, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, JapanThe complexity of the mammalian transcriptome

Dr Thomas Gingeras, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USAImportant lessons from the transcriptomes of complex genomes

Professor John Mattick, University of Queensland, AustraliaRNA at the epicentre of development and cognition

Professor John Rinn, Harvard University, USALarge intergenic noncoding RNAs (lincRNAs): from parasites to pluripotency a panoply of functional roles

Dr Matt Wright, European Bioinformatics Institute, UKThe long and small of ncRNA gene nomenclature

Professor Claes Wahlestedt, University of Miami, USAMechanisms of discordant and concordant natural antisense regulation of gene expression

Professor Ingrid Grummt, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany Noncoding RNA targets chromatin modifying enzymes to regulatory gene sequences

Dr Zdravko Lorkovic, Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, AustriaRNA-directed DNA methylation in Arabidopsis

Professor David Tollervey FRS, University of Edinburgh, UKLinking RNA surveillance and genome stability

Dr Marc Bühler, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, SwitzerlandEmerging roles of RNA interference in genome regulation

Professor Kevin Morris, The Scripps Research Institute, USADo pseudogenes function as master non-coding RNA regulators of gene expression in human cells?

Professor E. Gerhart H. Wagner, Uppsala University, SwedenRegulatory RNAs in bacteria: biological roles, molecular mechanisms, protein involvement

Dr Monika Gullerova and Professor Nicholas Proudfoot FRS, University of Oxford, UKConvergent transcription and the induction of transcriptional gene silencing in eukaryotes

Professor Denise Barlow, Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Science, AustriaMacro ncRNAs in imprinted gene clusters in the mouse and human genome

Dr Edith Heard, Institut Curie - Centre de Recherche Pole de Biologie du Développement et Cance, FranceThe role of non-coding RNAs in regulating X-chromosome inactivation

Dr Andreas Werner, Newcastle University, UKWhat are natural antisense transcripts good for?