Minisymposium	SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL – NON-CODING RNAS ARE INVOLVED IN GENE CONTROL IN BACTERIA	Biochemistry and Fundamental Medicine
Date	May 25, 2009
Organisers	Patrick Linder, Dieter Haas and Karl Perron
Site	Centre Medical Universitaire (CMU) Geneva
Theme	During growth from a single cell through exponential phase up to stationary phase, bacteria need to adapt to variety of environmental challenges, be it in a human being or in mountain lake. To do so, bacteria communicate amongst each other and coordinate gene expression. The population density dependent communication system is known as Quorum Sensing and is present in a wide variety of bacteria. Within the system of gene regulation by the Quorum Sensing system, small regulatory RNA play an important function. Since some time it is known that the regulation of gene expression in bacteria does not function solely through activator and repressor proteins, but also through a sophisticated system of regulatory RNAs. Most of these regulatory RNA molecules are relatively small (up to 100nt) and are generally non-coding, and therefore designated sRNA or ncRNA During this one-day mini-symposium, six prominent speakers will address the function of ncRNA in bacteria and the mechanism of gene regulation by these small regulators. The symposium is open to everybody interested and should certainly be an exciting event for under-graduate and graduate students, as well as for more senior scientists
Requirements	patrick.linder@unige.ch Patrick LINDER Microbiology and Molecular Medicine CMU University of Geneva 1, rue Michel Servet 1211 Geneva 4 The deadline for registration is: Mai 15, 2009 Note: Only registered participants will have access to coffee breaks and lunch
Deadline	May 15, 2009
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