June 30, 2016: Palmer Commons, Fourth Floor Forum Hall – Edgar Otto : “Microfluidic droplet generation technology (Drop-Seq) enables high-throughput single cell transcriptomics” and Peter Freddolino : “The logic of transcriptional regulation in bacteria: From molecules to cells”
June 23, 2016: Palmer Commons, Fourth Floor Forum Hall – John Moran : “Studies of a Human Retrotransposon” and Eric Fearon: “Working toward improved mouse models of somatic tissue mosaicism and cancer development”
June 16, 2016: Palmer Commons, Fourth Floor Forum Hall – Shigeki Iwase : “Taming enhancers by histone H3K4 methylation reversal”and Tom Wilson : “The influence of RNA transcription on replication timing and genomic instability at very large genes”
June 2, 2016: 1300 Chemistry Building – Guest Speaker Daniel R. Schoenberg Ph. D. : “The CAPtivating impact of cytoplasmic mRNA recapping on the transcriptome and the proteome”
May 26, 2016: Palmer Commons, Fourth Floor Forum Hall – Guest Speaker David Arnosti Ph. D. : “Transcriptional enhancers: new insights from thinking genome-wide and up-close and personal”
May 19, 2016: Palmer Commons, Fourth Floor Forum Hall –Daniel Lorenz : “High-Throughput Platform Assay Technology for microRNA-Targeted Drug Discovery”and Muneesh Tewari : “Extracellular RNA”
May 12, 2016: 1300 Chemistry Building – Bob Lyons : “Opportunities for RNA biology at the U of M Sequencing Core ” and Peter Todd: “How RNA repeats trigger translation and drive neurodegeneration”
May 5, 2016: Palmer Commons, Fourth Floor Forum Hall – Ebrahim Azizi : “Exploring tumor cells Heterogeneity using Single Cell technologies”and Kamlesh Bisht : “sunRNA mediated regulation of human TPP1”
April 28, 2016: Palmer Commons, Fourth Floor Forum Hall – Mats Ljungman Ph.D. : “The nascent RNA Bru-seq technology platform” andScott Barolo : “Cis-regulatory control of gene transcription: decoding the enhancer”
April 21, 2016: Palmer Commons, Fourth Floor Forum Hall – Nils Walter Ph. D. : “Single Molecule Microscopy Reveals the Mechanisms of Non-Coding RNA Nanomachines” and Sundeep Kalantry Ph. D.“To Xist or not to Xist: an X-chromosome Inactivation Tale”
April 14, 2016: 1300 Chemistry Building –Michael Kearse, Todd lab : “Using CRISPR/Cas9 for visualizing RNA in live cells”and Hilary Archibald, Barmada lab : “Assessing global RNA metabolism in human iPSC models of ALS/FTD using BruChase-seq”