On the occasion of his retirement, Agamemnon J. Carpousis is organising a minisymposium based on the main research themes of his laboratory. The event will take place on the 2^nd and 3^rd of December in the 4R4 conference room of the CBI, and will include four talks as detailed below. After the event on Friday morning, we will celebrate AJs career around a buffet.

Thursday 2^nd December
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/97444598341?pwd=QTFwVDdTMHMrOHZmVWo3ZjAvRVpGdz09

15h00 – A.J. Carpousis, CNRS, Toulouse
Compartmentalization of RNA degradation machinery in bacteria

16h00 – Joel Belasco, NYU Medical School, New York
RNase E – paratrooper or zipliner?

Friday 3^rd December
Zoom link : https://zoom.us/j/93170214814?pwd=d0swdFVoZ2FXT0N2UnNVcEV0enBlQT09

9h00 – Cecilia Arraiano, ITQB, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon
Reprogramming bacteria with RNA regulators AND Targeting Ribonucleases from SARS-CoV2 to Combat COVID-19

10h00 – Ben Luisi, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
Dynamic chaperone assembly and its role in riboregulation