The RNA Transcript, January 17th 2023 | |
Pharmacology Innovation Seminar | | |
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Molecular Spell-Checking with tRNA to Correct Stop Codon-Opathies
Christopher Ahern, Ph.D.
Professor Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
University of Iowa
Wednesday January 18, 2023
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
North Lecture Hall
3695 MedSci2
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Medicinal Chemistry Innovation Seminar | | |
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Talk Title TBD
Jay Schneekloth, Ph.D.
Senior Investigator, Chemical Biology Laboratory
Head, Chemical Genetics Section
National Cancer Institute
Thursday January 19, 2023
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
2548 NUB
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U-M RNA Innovation Seminar | | |
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"Role of Circular RNA in Alzheimer's Disease"
Carlos Curchaga, Ph.D.
Director, NeuroGenomics & Informatics Center
Washington University in St. Louis
January 30, 2023
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
BSRB, ABC Seminar Rooms, Zoom
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Uncovering Novel Translational Control Elements within 5'-UTRs.
Speaker: Rachel Niederer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry
Medical School
The Structural Basis of Translational Initiation and its Regulation by the RNA Helicase eIF4A
Speaker: Jay Querido, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Biological Chemistry
Medical School
Moderator: Nils Walter, Ph.D.
Wednesday, January 18, 2023.
4:00 pm.
Zoom.
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Biophysics Innovation Seminar | | |
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Heterogeneous Structure (and other) of Disordered FUS Condensation
Sapun Parekh, Ph.D Assistant Professor
Molecular, Cellular & Tissue Biomechanics
The University of Texas at Austin
Friday January 27, 2023
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Zoom (link to follow)
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U-M RNA Innovation Seminar | | |
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Talk Title TBA.
Gal Heimovich, PhD
Department of Molecular Genetics
Weizmann Institute of Science
Monday, Fenruary 13, 2023
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Virtual Only, Zoom
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2023 RNA Institute Annual Symposium (UAlbany & UR Center for RNA Biology) | | |
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The 2023 RNA Institute Symposium will be held March 16th-17th at the University at Albany, in collaboration with the UR Center Center for RNA Biology.
Links to event details and registration below.
Abstracts and early-bird registration deadline: February 3rd.
Dates: Thursday, March 16 & Friday 17, 2023.
Venue: University at Albany, 1400 Washington Ave, Albany NY 12222.
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The Research Operations, Management & Strategy (ROMS) Fellowship Application
The ROMS Fellowship is a two-year, paid, full-time position at the U-M Medical School designed to transition biomedical trainees from the bench to careers in research operations and administration through a series of unit rotations, hands-on learning experiences, and direct mentorship from leaders in the field.
The application will be open January 1 – February 19, 2023.
Current fellows will be hosting an informal Q&A-style session on January 19th from 12-1pm EST. You can register for this event HERE.
Any additional questions can be addressed to ROMS.Fellowship@umich.edu
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6th International Course on "Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation: From Mechanisms to RNA Chemistry & Therapeutics" | | |
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The 6th international course on “Post-transcriptional gene regulation: from mechanisms to RNA chemistry and therapeutics" will take place on 24-28 April 2023 at Institut Curie in Orsay (Paris area, France).
We would greatly appreciate if you could transfer this information to your team and colleagues.
For more information, please visit the course webpage: https://training.institut-curie.org/courses/post-transcriptional-gene-regulation-2.
Deadline to register: February 17th
Registration is free but mandatory HERE.
Audience: Master and PhD students coming from European laboratories.
Candidates are selected based on their CV & a letter of motivation (mentioning the research theme and the authorization from the PI).
We would greatly appreciate if you could transfer this information to your team and colleagues.
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The Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) Fellowship Application | | |
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The Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) is seeking applications for a new AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at the University of Michigan (the Schmidt AI in Science program). Funding for the program comes from the Eric & Wendy Schmidt Postdoctoral Fellowship, a program of Schmidt Futures. This program provides outstanding early-career researchers with intensive training & research experience as they ready themselves for independent research in academic & other sectors. We aim to enable the substantive us of AI for breakthroughs in science & engineering, & cultivate global science leaders. Specifically, we will:
1) Catalyze creative & transformative applications of AI with the potential to lead to major scientific breakthroughs carried out by the Fellows and their mentors.
2) Enable a broader U-M research community to adopt AI in imagining, planning, executing, & supporting research applications across a range of science & engineering domains.
3) Provide outstanding traing to the Fellows.
4) Collaborate with other sites to maximize the impact of the program.
Submit Application: here.
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Postdoctoral & Research Associate Positions in Microbiology & Systems Biology | | |
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The Jiang Lab (www.jianglab.org) at Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York invites applications for Postdoctoral Research Scientist and Research Associate positions in microbiology, microbial engineering and systems biology. We welcome individuals with experimental and/or computational backgrounds to apply. Candidates with specialties in antimicrobial resistance, single-cell RNA-sequencing, CRISPR and various systems biology approaches are highly sought after. To apply, please send your CV and the names and contact details of two or three references to wenyanjianglab@gmail.com
Over the last decade, the PI (Dr. Wenyan Jiang) developed revolutionary technologies that enhance the precision, throughput and resolution for bacterial genomics and transcriptomics. These include development of the very first CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing (Nature Biotech 2013, >2,000 citation) and gene expression modulation technology (Nucleic Acids Research 2013, >1,000 citation) in bacteria; a high-throughput bacterial functional genomics platform called CALM (Cell 2020); and the first bacterial high-throughput single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) technology called PETRI-seq (Nature Microbiol 2020). Using these technologies, Jiang lab aims to study microbiology at a systems-level, such as understanding bacterial genetic architecture, evolution, single-cell behaviors, microbe-phage, and host-microbe interactions. The fundamental principles we learn from these studies could help us develop more effective antimicrobial drugs, and engineer commensal bacteria to promote human health.
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SAVE THE DATE 7th Annual RNA Symposium. March 24th, 2023 | | |
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2023 Symposium
7th Annual RNA Symposium, “Title TBA”
Friday, March 24, 2022, 8:30am – 4:00pm
A. Alfred Taubman Biomedical Science Research Bldg, Kahn Auditorium
109 Zina Pitcher Pl, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Keynote Speakers:
Steve Henikoff, PhD, Talk Title TBA
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Jody Puglisi, PhD, Talk Title TBA
Stanford University
Professor, Department of Structural Biology
Director, Stanford Magnetic Resonance Laboratory
Geraldine Seydoux, PhD, Talk Title TBA
Johns Hopkins University
Huntington Sheldon Professor in Medical Discovery
Professor of Molecular Biology & Genetics
Amy Gladfelter, PhD, Talk Title TBA
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Associate Professor of Biology
Joe Wedekin, PhD, Talk Title TBA
University of Rochester, Medical School
Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics
More details of the day's agenda will be available in February
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Our members' publications are available through Altmetrics. Queries are currently available: CRISPR, microRNA, molecule, RNA, RNA therapeutics, transcriptome, and translation.
Below are recent highlights.
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Nemudraia, A., Nemudryi, A., Buyukyoruk, M., Scherffius, A. M., Zahl, T., Wiegand, T., Pandey, S., Nichols, J. E., Hall, L., McVey, A., Lee, H. H., Wilkinson, R. A., Snyder, L. R., Jones, J. D., Koutmou, K. S., Santiago-Frangos, A., & Wiedenheft, B. (2022). Sequence-specific capture and concentration of viral RNA by type III CRISPR system enhances diagnostic. Research square, rs.3.rs-1466718. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1466718/v1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35445-5 | |
Watts, J. A., Grunseich, C., Rodriguez, Y., Liu, Y., Li, D., Burdick, J. T., Bruzel, A., Crouch, R. J., Mahley, R. W., Wilson, S. H., & Cheung, V. G. (2022). A common transcriptional mechanism involving R-loop and RNA abasic site regulates an enhancer RNA of APOE. Nucleic acids research, 50(21), 12497–12514. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkac1107. doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2022.167688 | | | | |
