RNA regulation in brain function and disease 2022 (NeuroRNA): A conference report

Front Mol Neurosci. 2023 Mar 13:16:1133209. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2023.1133209. eCollection 2023.

Abstract

Recent research integrates novel technologies and methods from the interface of RNA biology and neuroscience. This advancing integration of both fields creates new opportunities in neuroscience to deepen the understanding of gene expression programs and their regulation that underlies the cellular heterogeneity and physiology of the central nervous system. Currently, transcriptional heterogeneity can be studied in individual neural cell types in health and disease. Furthermore, there is an increasing interest in RNA technologies and their application in neurology. These aspects were discussed at an online conference that was shortly named NeuroRNA.

Keywords: RNA biology; RNA processing; RNA therapeutics; brain tumors; miRNA; neurodegenerative disorders; non-coding RNAs; transcriptomics.

Publication types

  • Review

Grants and funding

The NeuroRNA Conference was supported by the Polish Ministry of Education and Science, the Excellent Science — Support for Scientific Conferences program, grant no. DNK/SP/514092/2021, sponsors and Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry PAS (https://neurorna2022.com/organisers/). The authors would also like to acknowledge their funding sources: MP — the National Agency for Academic Research, Polish Returns 2019, grant no. PPN/PPO/2019/1/00035, the National Science Centre, Sonata Bis 8, grant no. 2018/30/E/NZ3/00624, and Opus 19, grant no. 2020/37/B/NZ3/03633, AF - the National Science Centre, Opus, grant no. 2021/41/B/NZ3/03803, and KR — the National Science Centre, grant no. 2017/25/B/NZ3/02173.