Date: June 5 (Tue) 2012
Venue: # 1111, BioMedical Research Center
Contact: call to ex 2620 (prof. CHO Byung-Kwan)

09:50 – 09:55 Opening Address
CHOE Joonho (BK21 Program Director, KAIST, Korea)

09:55 – 10:00 Welcoming Address
KANG Changwon (Symposium Organizer, KAIST, Korea)

10:00 – 10:30
Regulation of RNA Polymerase: from the Catalytic Center to Genome Distribution
Robert LANDICK (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)

10:30 – 11:00
Post-transcriptional Regulators as Genome Sentinels - How Do hnRNP C and U2AF65 Prevent the Formation of Unwanted Exons?
Nicholas LUSCOMBE (EMBL – European Bioinformatics Institute, UK)

11:00 – 11:30
Single-Molecule Imaging of RNA Polymerases in Bacteria
Achillefs KAPANIDIS (University of Oxford, UK)

11:30 – 12:00
Isolation and Characterization of Transcription Factors in Rice for Improvement of High Salt and Drought Tolerance
PHAM Xuan Hoi (The Institute of Agricultural Genetics, Vietnam)

12:00 – 13:00 Closing Address and Lunch
CHO Byung-Kwan (Symposium Co-organizer, KAIST, Korea)