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RNA Collaborative Seminar Series

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The RNA Collaborative seminar series consists of a number of RNA research centers worldwide working together to provide online seminars during and beyond the COVID-19 institutional shutdowns. The RNA Collaborative aims to cross-promote RNA research to strengthen and connect the RNA scientific community.

Scientists are welcome to present RNA-related research spanning from foundational discoveries to potential therapeutic applications. Host centers can choose to present one hour-long seminar, two 30-minute seminars, four poster sessions with introductory lightning talks, or a combination of talks and poster sessions.

Seminars are held virtually every other Wednesday, at either 10 am EST, 4 pm EST, or host chooses, and are recorded and made freely available for viewing on the RNA Collaborative YouTube Channel.

Please see the RNA Society-sponsored page for up-to-date seminar schedule information: RNA Collaborative

RNA Collaborative seminars are sponsored by the RNA Society and are organized by the following international RNA Centers (27 current members and growing):

 

Please email Liz at elizabeth_raymonda@urmc.rochester.edu for more information or to be added to the seminar distribution list​.

 

Schedule

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RNA Collaborative, Harvard: “A RNA-guided approach to epigenetic therapy” & “Efficient integration of spatial transcriptomics and single cell sequencing technologies for in depth tissue interrogation”

Annalisa Di Ruscio, MD, PhD; Ioannis Vlachos, PhD - Assistant Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School Initiative for RNA Medicine (HIRM); Assistant Professor of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School Initiative for RNA Medicine (HIRM)

 Dec 15, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.

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Host: Frank Slack, PhD, Director, Harvard Medical School Initiative for RNA Medicine and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

RNA Collaborative, UPenn: "IMP-licating RNA binding proteins in intestinal tissue regeneration" & “Consequences of RNA-binding protein mutations in cancer”

Kathryn Hamilton, PhD; Peter Choi, PhD - Assistant Professor of Pediatrics; Co-Director, Gastrointestinal Epithelium Modeling Program Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia & Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania; Assistant Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia & Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

 Dec 01, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.

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Host: Kathy Liu, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine, Penn RNA Group, University of Pennsylvania

RNA Collaborative, RNA Institute, SUNY Albany: “RACK1 as a regulator of Protein biosynthesis” & “RNA shapes Zika virus gene expression”

Gabriele Fuchs, PhD; Cara Pager, PhD - Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, The RNA Institute, University at Albany, SUNY; Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences , The RNA Institute, University at Albany, SUNY

 Nov 17, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.

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Host: Marlene Belfort, PhD, Distinguished Professor and Senior Advisor of The RNA Institute, University at Albany, SUNY

RNA Collaborative, UCSC: "Post-transcriptional control of oncogenic gene expression by IGF2BP3” & "Multiplexed single-molecule analysis of human telomerase catalysis"

Jeremy Sanford, PhD; Michael Stone, PhD - Professor of Molecular, Cell & Development Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Center for Molecular Biology of RNA ; Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, Center for Molecular Biology of RNA

 Nov 03, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.

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Host: University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) Center for Molecular Biology of RNA

RNA Collaborative, HIRI: "CRISPR-Cas systems and the dilemma(s) of adaptive immunity” & "Uncovering host-pathogen interaction modalities using single-cell RNA-seq and RNA metabolic labeling"

Chase Beisel, PhD; Antoine-Emmanuel Saiba, PhD - “CRISPR-Cas systems and the dilemma(s) of adaptive immunity”, Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research, Würzburg, Germany; “Uncovering host-pathogen interaction modalities using single-cell RNA-seq and RNA metabolic labeling”, Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research, Würzburg, Germany

 Oct 20, 2021 @ 9:00 a.m.

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Host: Prof. Neva Caliskan, Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI), Würzburg, Germany

RNA Collaborative, NUS-CSI: "Crosstalk between RNA editing and RNA splicing” & "Widespread 3’UTR splicing promotes oncogene expression and tumorigenesis”

Polly CHEN; & Yvonne TAY - “Crosstalk between RNA editing and RNA splicing”; “Widespread 3’UTR splicing promotes oncogene expression and tumorigenesis”, Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore

 Oct 06, 2021 @ 9:00 a.m.

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Host: Daniel G. Tenen, RNA Biology Center, NUS-CSI

RNA Collaborative, NCI: "A small RNA perspective on genomic conflict” & “Targeting RNA with small molecules: tools and tactics”

Astrid Haase, MD, PhD; John (Jay) Schneekloth, Jr, PhD - “A small RNA perspective on genomic conflict”; “Targeting RNA with small molecules: tools and tactics”, NCI RNA Biology Initiative

 Sep 22, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.

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Host: Host: Sandra Wolin, MD, PhD - National Cancer Institute RNA Biology Initiative

RNA Collaborative, UR: “DALRD3 targets specific arginine-tRNAs for 3-methylcytosine modification” & “Using conservation to determine RNA secondary structure”

Jenna Lentini, MS; David Matthews, MD, PhD - “DALRD3 targets specific arginine-tRNAs for 3-methylcytosine modification”; “Using conservation to determine RNA secondary structure”, University of Rochester

 Sep 08, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.

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Host: Lynne Maquat, PhD, UR Center for RNA Biology

RNA Collaborative, IMB Mainz: "Regulation of neurodegeneration-linked RNA-binding proteins by nuclear import receptors and post-translational modifications" & "Small RNAs and epigenetic inheritance"

Prof. Dorothee Dormann, PhD; Prof. René Ketting, PhD - Johannes Gutenberg University, JGU & Institute of Molecular Biology, IMB Mainz, Germany; Institute of Molecular Biology, IMB Mainz, Germany

 Aug 25, 2021 @ 9:00 a.m.

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Host: Julian König, PhD, IMB Mainz, Germany

RNA Collaborative, RiboClub: "Insights into the subcellular travels of cellular RNAs and RNA binding proteins"

Éric Lécuyer, PhD - Principal Investigator & Associate Professor at IRCM / UdeM - Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine / McGill - Experimental Medicine, Montréal, Québec, RiboClub, Canada

 Aug 11, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.

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Host: Sherif Abou Elela, PhD, RiboClub

RNA Collaborative: “SINEUPs: a new functional class of antisense long non-coding RNAs”

Prof. Stefano Gustincich, PhD - Associate Director for Technologies for Life Science (LifeTech); Director - Central RNA Laboratory, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia – IIT Genova, Italy

 Jul 14, 2021 @ 9:00 a.m.

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Host: Gian Gaetano Tartaglia, RNA Initiative at Italian Institute of Technology (iRNA@IIT); Moderator: Prof. Gian Gaetano Tartaglia, PhD

“Dynamic multivalent interactions drive mammalian RNA regulation” & “Characterizing cellular RNA-protein interaction networks with chemical probes”

Sethu Pitchiaya, PhD & Chase Weidmann, PhD - University of Michigan, Center for RNA Biomedicine

 Jun 30, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.

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Host: Nils Walter, PhD, Co-Director, U-M Center for RNA Biomedicine

"Revealing new functions for ancient RNA modifying enzymes in health and disease" & "Mechanisms of posttranscriptional regulation during the maternal to zygotic transition"

Wendy V. Gilbert, PhD & Antonio Giraldez, PhD - Yale Center for RNA Science and Medicine

 Jun 16, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.

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Host: Jessie Mohsen, Yale Center for RNA Science and Medicine

“An evolutionarily conserved structure-to-function axis governs the functional mechanism of the regulatory lncRNA MEG3“ & “Mechanistic dissection of SPEN function during X chromosome inactivation”

Lena Anastasakou (PhD student, Marco Marcia Lab) & François Dossin (PhD student, Edith Heard Lab) - European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)

 Jun 02, 2021 @ 9:00 a.m.

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Host: Marco Marcia, PhD (EMBL)

“Quadruplexes are everywhere” & “RNA Epigenetics steers colorectal cancer cell fate”

Jean-Louis Mergny, PhD (Ecole Polytechnique) & Alexandre David, PhD (Institute of Functional Genomics) - Groupe de Recherche RNA (GDR)

 May 20, 2021 @ 9:00 a.m.

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Host: Fabrice Leclerc, PhD (Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC))

“A small-molecule targeted RNA degradation approach: empowering RNA methylation analysis” & “Mechanistic insight into the mRNA poly(A) tail machinery"

Gonçalo Bernades, PhD & Lori Passmore, PhD - Cambridge RNA Club

 May 05, 2021 @ 9:00 a.m.

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Host: Eric Miska, PhD

“Structural insights into molecular mechanism for N6-adenosine methylation by MT-A70 family" & "A fight against SARS-CoV-2 powered by RNA structure systems biology and machine intelligence”

Jinbiao Ma, PhD (Fudan Univ) & Qiangfeng Zhang, PhD (Tsinghua Univ) - Shanghai RNA Club

 Apr 21, 2021 @ 9:00 a.m.

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Host: Jinzhong Lin, PhD

RNA Collaborative: “RNA chaperones remodel gene expression” & “Data-inspired genome technology for RNA-guided recombineering and lineage recording”

Stephen Floor, PhD (UCSF) & Le Cong, PhD (Stanford) - The Bay Area RNA Club

 Apr 07, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.

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Host: The Bay Area RNA Club

“Efficient chemical RNA copying with 2-aminoimidazole activated nucleotides” & “Sensing RNA: from microRNA biogenesis to innate immunity”

Li Li, PhD & Wenwen Fang, PhD - UMass Medical School, RNA Therapeutics Institute

 Mar 24, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.

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Host: Erik Sontheimer, PhD

“Grad School to Biotech: A start up perspective” & “RNA Innovation: The power of academic and industry collaborations”

Wieden Group (Luc Roberts, Kristi Turton, and Riya Roy) - Alberta RNA Research and Training Institute (ARRTI)

 Mar 10, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.

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"A timely confluence: The backstory of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine"

Melissa J. Moore, PhD, Moderna Therapeutics - U-M Center for RNA Biomedicine

 Mar 03, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.

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Host: Nils Walter, PhD, Co-Director, U-M Center for RNA Biomedicine

"Structural and molecular basis for Cardiovirus 2A protein as a viral gene expression switch" & "The SARS-CoV-2 RNA–protein interactome in infected human cells"

Neva Caliskan, PhD & Mathias Munschauer, PhD - Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI)

 Feb 24, 2021 @ 9:00 a.m.

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“Ribosome collisions and sites of quality control revealed by ribosome profiling” & “CRISPR screening to identify biologically important microRNA targets”

Nicholas Guydosh, PhD & Katherine McJunkin, PhD - NCI RNA Biology Initiative

 Jan 13, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.

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