Postdoc and Student Council Announcement | |
Join the Postdoc and Student Council for a virtual recruiting meeting THIS Friday, August 16 | 1 p.m. | | |
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The Center for RNA Biomedicine Postdoc and Student Council invites all student and postdoc members of the community to our first virtual recruiting meeting for the 2024 – 2025 term, scheduled for THIS Friday, August 16 at 1 p.m.
Please join us for this initial meeting to introduce ourselves, learn more about the council, and brainstorm priorities for the upcoming year.
There will also be an opportunity to self-nominate to become a Council member and hone your leadership skills through working in a collegial, collaborative team.
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Deconstructing RNA and reconstructing championships:
Center co-director, Mats Ljungman, Ph.D., nabs 5th straight
Swedish Mens 65 National Title in Tennis
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Unlocking the secrets of inflammation:
Dr. Feldman and Dr. Rosenzweig discuss heart and brain health
with Health Lab’s Leona Falconer
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Congratulations,
Dr. Colacino!
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Justin Colacino, Ph.D., has been named a 2024 Rogel Scholar!
The Rogel Scholars Awards Program supports exceptional faculty dedicated to achieving impact through novel breakthroughs in cancer research.
Scholar awards are provided for a three-year term that may be renewed for an additional two-year term.
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Congratulations,
Dr. Prensner!
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John Prensner, M.D., Ph.D., has received a Clinical Investigator Award from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation for his proposal
"Therapeutic opportunities and mechanistic insights of protein-RNA dyssynchrony in medulloblastoma."
The award supports outstanding early-career physician-scientists whose disease-oriented research has the potential to directly impact patients.
Read more on the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation website.
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U-M Seminars and Symposiums | |
e-HAIL Symposium 2024: Generative A.I. in Healthcare | |
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Click here to submit an abstract.
The deadline for abstract submissions is Monday, August 26. Poster presenters should also register for the symposium no later than Monday, September 2.
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Center for
RNA Interference and Non-Coding RNAs
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“Unraveling the role of lncRNA in cardiomyopathies”
Chunru Lin, Ph.D.
Molecular and Cellular Oncology,
MD Anderson Cancer
“Enhancer RNA in gene regulation”
Wenbo Li, Ph.D.
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
University of Texas
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Center for
Molecular Biology of RNA
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"Sperm small RNA-mediated intergenerational epigenetic inheritance"
Upasna Sharma, Ph.D.
Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC)
"Non-invasive insights into health and disease via extracellular RNA"
Daniel Kim, Ph.D.
Biomolecular Engineering, UCSC
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Biosciences Initiative Quarterly Newsletter | | |
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Our members' publications are available through Altmetric.
Queries currently available:
CRISPR, microRNA, molecule, RNA, RNA therapeutics, transcriptome, and translation.
Below are recent highlights.
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Yee C, Xiao Y, Chen H, Reddy AR, Xu B, Medwig-Kinney TN, Zhang W, Boyle AP, Herbst WA, Xiang YK, Matus DQ, Shen K. An activity-regulated transcriptional program directly drives synaptogenesis. Nat Neurosci. 2024 Aug 5. doi: 10.1038/s41593-024-01728-x. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39103556. | | |
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Zhang C, Freddolino L. FURNA: A database for functional annotations of RNA structures. PLoS Biol. 2024 Jul 29;22(7):e3002476. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002476. PMID: 39074139; PMCID: PMC11309384. | | |
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Chauvier A, Walter NG. Beyond ligand binding: Single molecule observation reveals how riboswitches integrate multiple signals to balance bacterial gene regulation. Curr Opin Struct Biol. 2024 Jul 26;88:102893. doi: 10.1016/j.sbi.2024.102893. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39067113. | | |
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Zhao SG, Bootsma M, Zhou S, Shrestha R, Moreno-Rodriguez T, Lundberg A, Pan C, Arlidge C, Hawley JR, Foye A, Weinstein AS, Sjöström M, Zhang M, Li H, Chesner LN, Rydzewski NR, Helzer KT, Shi Y; West Coast Dream Team Consortium; Lynch M, Dehm SM, Lang JM, Alumkal JJ, He HH, Wyatt AW, Aggarwal R, Zwart W, Small EJ, Quigley DA, Lupien M, Feng FY. Integrated analyses highlight interactions between the three-dimensional genome and DNA, RNA and epigenomic alterations in metastatic prostate cancer. Nat Genet. 2024 Aug;56(8):1689-1700. doi: 10.1038/s41588-024-01826-3. Epub 2024 Jul 17. PMID: 39020220. | | |
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Mannan R, Wang X, Mahapatra S, Wang S, Chinnaiyan AK, Skala SL, Zhang Y, McMurry LM, Zelenka-Wang S, Cao X, Sangoi AR, Dadhania V, Picken MM, Menon S, Al-Ahmadie H, Chinnaiyan AM, Dhanasekaran SM, Mehra R. Expression of L1 Cell Adhesion Molecule, a Nephronal Principal Cell Marker, in Nephrogenic Adenoma. Mod Pathol. 2024 Jun 18;37(8):100540. doi: 10.1016/j.modpat.2024.100540. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38901674. | | |
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The Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia's (IIT's) RNA Technologies flagship is seeking to appoint a Scientific Project Manager that will have a key research role on planning, managing, monitoring and implementing all the activities necessary for the successful completion of internal and external projects for which IIT is the Coordinator.
Click here for more details and to apply.
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Six fully-funded, four-year Ph.D. projects in Italy.
Projects are shared across different labs in the Isituto Italiano di Tecnologia — RNA flagship and address various topics on our favorite molecule. RNA.
Click here to learn more.
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For complete details on current openings and how to apply for these positions, visit the Recruitment Opportunities page on our website. | | | | |
