2023-2024 Seminars

Over 1,450 people attended our webinar with Melissa Moore, Chief Scientific Officer at Moderna Therapeutics, on March 3rd, 2021. In her presentation, Dr. Moore explained how the mRNA vaccine works, and how it was developed in record time of just 45 days. To put an end to this pandemic, she strongly encouraged the audience to…

2017-2018 RNA Innovation Seminar Series RNA Innovation Seminars (6/18/18) Melani Ohi, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Research Associate Professor, Life Sciences Institute Using Cryo-EM to study RNA based molecular machines Jacob Kitzman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Human Genetics, Assistant Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics Massively parallel measurement of mutations’ functional effects RNA Innovation Seminars|| Theme: RNA viruses/retroviruses (6/4/18)  Andrew Tai, M.D.,…

2022 Monday, September 12, 4:00 pm, Zhipeng Lu, USC – Link to Recording Monday, September 26, 4:00 pm, David Shechner, University of Washington  Monday, October 10, 4:00 pm, Polly Hsu, Michigan State University – Link to Recording Monday, October 17, 4:00 pm, John Cooke, Houston Methodist – Link to Recording Monday, November 21, 4:00 pm,…

An initiative to make the University of Michigan a world leader in RNA therapeutics, spearheaded by the Center for RNA Biomedicine and the Biointerfaces Institute   Fueled by the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine success and the recent Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and elucidation of the bacterial CRISPR systems that can be harnessed for…

February 2, 2016 Ann Arbor, Mich. – Five prominent scientists, including two Nobel Laureates, will share the stage on March 25, 2016, when the University of Michigan’s Center for RNA Biomedicine holds its Inaugural Symposium. The Symposium, titled “Can RNA Answer It All? From the Origin of Life to a Future of Personalized Medicine,” will…