2020-2021 Seminars

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Translating from dissertation to dream job: a nascent RNA career

Only a couple of weeks after defending her Ph.D. thesis in November, Sarah Owen, a graduate student in Chemical Engineering in Dr. Sunitha Nagrath’s lab, landed her dream job. “It all went very fast,” she explained, “I had a seven-hour zoom interview on Thursday, and they offered me the job the following Monday!” In January…

2018-2019 Seminar Themes

Day Month Date Start End Scientific Tool/Approach in RNA Monday Sep 10 3:00 PM 4:00 PM Transcriptome analysis Monday Oct 1 3:00 PM 4:00 PM Computational Analysis Monday Oct 15 3:00 PM 4:00 PM Molecular Biology Monday Nov 19 3:00 PM 4:00 PM Cell Biology Monday Nov 26 3:00 PM 4:00 PM Genetics Monday Dec…

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How mRNA helped scientists create a COVID-19 vaccine in record time

A Washington Post video (duration 6’16”) – December 8, 2020 How mRNA helped scientists create a COVID-19 vaccine in record time Our RNA scientists, Alice Telesnitsky, Microbiology and Immunology, and Nils G. Walter, Chemistry, Biophysics & Biological Chemistry and co-director of the Center for RNA Biomedicine, explain how RNA research allows to save millions of…

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“Kinetic fingerprinting” of single protein molecules to find the biomarker needle in the haystack

  A cross-disciplinary team of scientists from the University of Michigan (U-M) has developed a biochemical technique that successfully measures the number of individual protein molecules present in blood at low concentrations. These findings are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), September 2020. The scientists developed special antibody probes that…

Building a better scientific world with hands-on science

Sometimes it takes exploration outside our usual interests to find our true passion. This is what happened to Sydney Rosenblum, now a graduate student in Rackham Graduate School Program in Chemical Biology, in Professor Amanda Garner’s lab. In high school, Sydney felt that “science was not for her,” somewhat irrelevant or too abstract, until she…

“Zooming in to zoom out: learning from molecules to understand life”

Photo: Jalihal describing his research based on live cell single particle tracking. Growing up in Chennai, in South India, Ameya Jalihal, Ph.D., has always loved going on nature walks, watching birds, and collecting insects and seashells. While observing nature and biodiversity, young Jalihal had many questions that fueled his passion for life sciences. Inspired by…