Date: April 23, 2026
Location: Sanquin, Amsterdam
12.30 – 13.00 Registration
13.00 – 13.05 Welcome from the Dutch RNA Club Organizing Team
13.05 – 13.30 Sabine de Lange – Leiden University Medical Center RNA sensing induces a sterile interferon response in the placenta
13.30 – 13.55 Yumna Adnan Butt – Sanquin Research Effect of m6A methylation on CD8 T cells
13.55 – 14.20 Aniek Verstappen – Radboud University Identification of a novel mRNA m5C reader protein using interaction proteomics
14.20 – 14.45 Roan Arends – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Subcellular RNA localization in Candida albicans during epithelial cell infection
14.45 – 15.15 Coffee break
15.15 – 15.40 Maritte Willems – Maastricht University RNA mechanisms in platelet-endothelial crosstalk upon heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
15.40 – 16.05 Zainab Rashid – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam TAV2b peptide derivatives underwind and stabilize double-stranded RNA upon binding
16.05 – 16.30 Martin Emmaneel – Radboud University Mixed poly(A) tails affect translation through structural changes in the 3’UTR
16.30 – 16.55 Min Gao – Amsterdam UMC Identification of cis-regulatory regions and sequence-specific factors regulating tRNA transcription
16.55 – 17.00 Closing remarks
17.00 Borrel!