November 11, 2024

Center news and events

2024 – 2025 RNA Innovation Seminar Series presents:

“The science of connections: Bridging chromatin folding, synaptic plasticity, and neurophysiology"

Jennifer E. Phillips-Cremins, Ph.D.

Associate Professor / Dean's Faculty Fellow,

Bioengineering and Genetics,

University of Pennsylvania Epigenetics Institute

Monday, November 18 | 4 p.m.

In-Person: Kahn Auditorium, BSRB

Hybrid: https://myumi.ch/zXk14

Click here for more details.

In new atlas, center faculty members explore cellular diversity of the human uterus

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) this month, Sue Hammoud, Ph.D., Jun Li, Ph.D., and their team, have created a groundbreaking map of the cell types and cell states at play in the human uterus. This builds on previous work by the team in which they mapped the cellular diversity of the human fallopian tubes and ovaries.

Find out more about this exciting work in this article in Michigan Medicine's Health Lab.

U-M Seminars

U-M Structure Seminar Series:

"Visualizing TDP43 pathology with cryo-electron tomography"

Amanda Erwin, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Cell and Developmental Biology

Mosalaganti Lab

University of Michigan

Friday, November 15

10 a.m.

LSI Library

This seminar is hosted by center faculty member, Jayakrishnan Nandakumar, Ph.D.

13th Annual Thomas D. Gelehrter Lectureship:

“How GWAS and functional genomics provide insight into molecular pathways of human trait biology”

Jonathan Pritchard, Ph.D.

Bing Professor of Population Studies

Biology and Genetics

Stanford University

Thursday, November 21

2 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Kahn Auditorium and ABC Seminar Rooms, BSRB

This seminar is hosted by center faculty member,

Sundeep Kalantry,

Ph.D.

Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar Series:

"New roles for spatially organizing organelles and

cellular metabolism"

Mike Henne, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Cell Biology and Biophysics

University of Texas,

Southwestern

Tuesday, November 12

12 p.m.

5330 MS I

This seminar is hosted by center faculty member, Phyllis Hanson,

Ph.D.

Publications

Our members' publications are available through Altmetric.

Queries currently available:

CRISPR, microRNA, molecule, RNA, RNA therapeutics, transcriptome, and translation. Below are recent highlights.

Dai L, Johnson-Buck A, Laird PW, Tewari M, Walter NG. Ultrasensitive Amplification-Free Quantification of a Methyl CpG-Rich Cancer Biomarker by Single-Molecule Kinetic Fingerprinting. Anal Chem. 2024 Oct 29;96(43):17209-17216. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.4c03002. Epub 2024 Oct 19. PMID: 39425638.

Reynolds EL, Koenig F, Watanabe M, Kwiatek A, Elafros MA, Stino A, Henderson D, Herrmann DN, Feldman EL, Callaghan BC. Comparison of intraepidermal nerve fiber density and confocal corneal microscopy for neuropathy. Ann Clin Transl Neurol. 2024 Oct 12. doi: 10.1002/acn3.52218. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39394845.

Affiliated Seminars

Hosted by the RNA Institute, SUNY University at Albany

November 20, 2024 | 10 a.m.

Click here to join via Zoom.

Click here for more information including talk titles and presenters.

Oral defenses

"Nucleoside Modifications in Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2"

Laura Snyder,

Chemistry

Wednesday, November 13 | 10 a.m.

1706 Chemistry Bldg.

Click her to visit via Zoom.

Zoom Passcode: 314028

Advisor: Kristin Koutmou, Ph.D.

Meetings

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Now accepting abstracts for the center's 2025 RNA Symposium

Interested in presenting your work at the 2025 Symposium?

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Call for Abstracts

Job Postings

UMass Chan Early Independence Fellows Program

seeks talented junior researchers

The RNA Therapeutics Initiative (RTI) at UMass Chan aims to recruit exceptionally talented junior scientists with the potential to become independent investigators as Maraganore Early Independence Fellows.

Click here to view a flyer with more information including details on eligibility and how to apply.

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