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Protein Synthesis and Translational Control

September 2nd, 2025, Heidelberg, Germany

Mitoxantrone is a potent translation inhibitor that binds within the ribosomal exit tunnel and induces ribosome-rich stress granule formation.

Marta LeÅ›niczak-Staszak, Chih-Wei Chen, Haaris A. Safdari, Paulina Pietras, Martino Morici, Mateus SowiÅ„ski, Agnieska Fedoruk-Wyszomirska, Clifford Yerby, Christiane Zorbas, Ludivine Wacheul, Max J. Berger, Mohamed Abouzid, MaÅ‚gorzata Andrzejewska, Jasbir Dalal, Marcin RuciÅ„ski, Ewelina Gowin, MichaÅ‚ Mowicki, Paul J. Anderson, Eliza Wyzko, Denis L.J. Lafontaine, Shawn M. Lyons, Pavel Ivanov, Yuri Polikanov, Daniel N. Wilson, Witold Szaflarski

Protein Synthesis and Translational Control

September 2nd, 2025, Heidelberg, Germany

Translation of a subset of cellular mRNAs is independent of canonical eukaryotic initiation factors.

Mollie A. Brekker, Autumn Grimins, Ryan Johnston, Shawn M. Lyons. 

Protein Synthesis and Translational Control

September 2nd, 2025, Heidelberg, Germany

Short 5'UTRs allow for eIF4E-independent translation of negative-sense RNA viruses

Autumn Grimins, Ryan Johnston, Anne Aldrich, Victoria Kleiner, Ellen Suder, Adaline Brekker, Sami Gritli, Alan Wacquiez, Rachel Fearns, Mohsan Saeed, Elke Muhlberger, John H Connor, Shawn M. Lyons

Protein Synthesis and Translational Control

September 2nd, 2025, Heidelberg, Germany

Start codon stringency as a translational checkpoint in inflammaging and lifespan regulation

Ryan Johnston, Alan Wacquiez, Valentina Pannarele, Thomas Liontis, Alla Grishok, Mohsan Saeed, Shawn M. Lyons

Protein Synthesis and Translational Control

September 3rd, 2024, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA

eIF4E1-independent translation driven by short 5’UTRs of nsNSVs

Autumn O. Grimins, Ryan Johnston, Anne Aldrich, Ellen Suder, Victoria Kleiner, Elke Mühlberger, Rachel Fearns, John Connor, Shawn Lyons

Protein Synthesis and Translational Control

September 3rd, 2024, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA

eIF3L and eIF3K regulate start codon stringency and enterovirus 2A-protease mediated eIF4G1 cleavage.

Ryan Johnston, Alan Wacquiez, Anne Aldrich, Mohsan Saeed, Shawn M. Lyons.

Protein Synthesis and Translational Control

September 3rd, 2024, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA

Mononegavirales adopt diverse mechanisms to regulate viral mRNA translation.

Autumn O Grimins, Ellen L Suder, Mollie A Brekker, Victoria Anne Kleiner, Sami Gritli, Ryan Johnston, Anne Aldrich, Kate Lewis, Elke Mühlberger, Rachel Fearns, John H. Connor, Shawn M. Lyons

29th Meeting of the RNA Society

May 30th, 2024, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Mononegavirales adopt diverse mechanisms to regulate viral mRNA translation. 

Autumn O. Grimins, Ellen L. Suder, Adeline Brekker, Victoria Anne Kleiner, Ryan Johnston, Anne Aldrich, Elke Mühlberger, Rachel Fearns, John Connor, Shawn M. Lyons

Protein Synthesis and Translational Control

September 10th, 2023, Heidelberg, Germany

Exploring mechanisms of host translation inhibition by Vesicular Stomatitis Virus matrix protein

Ryan M. Johnston, Autumn Grimins, Anne Aldrich, John H. Connor, Shawn M. Lyons

Protein Synthesis and Translational Control

September 10th, 2023, Heidelberg, Germany

Building a Degron System “toolbox” to assess viral translation

Autumn Grimins, Ryan Johnston, Anne Aldrich, Victoria Kleiner, Rachel Fearns, John H. Connor, Shawn Lyons

Protein Synthesis and Translational Control

September 10th, 2023, Heidelberg, Germany

Stress-dependent stalling of early rRNA processing maintains the balance between ribosomal protein and rRNA synthesis

Anne Aldrich, Raghu Goel, Witold Szaflarski, Marta Leśniczak-Staszak, Autumn Grimins, Andrew Emili, Shawn M. Lyons.

Protein Synthesis and Translational Control

September 6th, 2022, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA

Stress-dependent stalling of early rRNA processing maintains the balance between ribosomal protein and rRNA synthesis

Witold Szaflarski, Marta LeÅ›niczak-Staszak, Mateusz SowiÅ„ski, Sandeep Ojha, Anaïs Aulas, Dhwani Dave, Soluchan Malla, Paul Anderson, Pavel Ivanov, Shawn M. Lyons 

12th Meeting on Ribosome Biogenesis 

August 17th, 2022, Engelberg, Switzerland

Stress-dependent stalling of early rRNA processing maintains the balance between ribosomal protein and rRNA synthesis

Witold Szaflarski, Marta LeÅ›niczak-Staszak, Mateusz SowiÅ„ski, Sandeep Ojha, Anaïs Aulas, Dhwani Dave, Soluchan Malla, Paul Anderson, Pavel Ivanov, Shawn M. Lyons

Protein Synthesis and Translational Control

September 8th 2019, Heidelberg, Germany

eIF4G possesses G-quadruplex binding activity that is required for tiRNA function

Shawn M. Lyons, Dhwani Dave, Prakash Kharel, Vladimir B. Tsvetkov, William C. Merrick, Pavel Ivanov

Protein Synthesis and Translational Control

September 8th, 2019, Heidelberg, Germany

The anticancer drug Mitoxantrone is a protein biosynthesis inhibitor. 

Witold Szaflarski, Marta Leśniczak, Shawn M. Lyons, Ledevine Wacheul, Mateusz Sowiński, Agnieszka Fedoruk-Wyszomirska, Michał Nowicki, Eliza Wyszko, Paul J. Anderson, Denis L.J. LaFontaine, Pavel Ivanov

24th Meeting of the RNA Society

June 11th, 2019, Kraków, Poland

Modulation of rRNA processing pathways conserves energetic reserves and maintains nucleolar structure during stress

Witold Szaflarski, Anaïs Aulas, Dhwani Dave, Mateusz SowiÅ„ski, Marta LeÅ›niczak, Paul Anderson, Pavel Ivanov, Shawn M. Lyons

27th tRNA Conference

September 2018, Strasbourg, France

Tetra-molecular 5’tiRNAs inhibit 48S ribosome scanning through direct inhibition of eIF4F

Shawn M. Lyons, Pavel Ivanov, Paul Anderson.  

11th International Conference on Ribosome Synthesis

August 2018, Orford, Quebec, Canada

Stress-induced modulation of ribosomal RNA processing 

Shawn M. Lyons, Pavel Ivanov, Paul Anderson.

Symposium on RNA Biology XII: Tool and Target

October 2017, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

5’TOG containing RNAs assemble into G-quadruplexes to promote translation repression.

Shawn M. Lyons, Dorota Gudanis, Zofia Gdaniec, Paul Anderson, Pavel Ivanov.

Protein Synthesis and Translational Control

September 2017, Heidelberg, Germany

Identification of protein cofactors and mRNA targets of tiRNA mediated translation repression

Shawn M. Lyons, Pavel Ivanov, Paul Anderson.

22nd Meeting of the RNA Society

May 2017, Prague, Czechia

5’TOG containing RNAs assemble into G-quadruplexes to promote translation repression.

Shawn M. Lyons, Dorota Gudanis, Zofia Gdaniec, Paul Anderson, Pavel Ivanov.

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