From the Center’s co-directors, Fall 2020
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In our September 2020 issue of RNA Translated, 2020 the year of the RNA virus, we presented how University of Michigan (U-M) Center for RNA Biomedicine’s scientists pivoted their research to address the COVID-19 pandemic. One of them is Dr. Chinnaiyan and his team of prostate cancer researchers who focused on two proteins that are…
Monika Franco Ph.D. Candidate Program in Chemical Biology Koutmou Lab What are your research interests? My thesis work is centered around investigating mRNA modifications and how they impact protein translation. Who/what brought you to science? People. People brought me to science. My friends, my family, my professors. It was the idea that…
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…
Renke Tan Ph.D. Student, advisor: Yan Zhang Department of Biological Chemistry Google Scholar LinkedIn Twitter Who/what brought you to science? Central dogma! I was obsessed by the central dogma in high school textbook and became interest in biological science. What are your research interests? I’m interested in developing new CRISPR based tools to enable previously…
March 22, 2017 // FOUND IN: Updates & Resources Michigan Medicine faculty and staff will soon have the opportunity to learn more about one of the newest — and most innovative — fields of medical research. The second annual U-M Center for RNA Biomedicine symposium takes place on Friday, March 31 at various sites across…
By Elisabeth Paymal, Center for RNA Biomedicine As soon as COVID-19 information was released, RNA biologist and child neurologist Dr. Vivian Cheung looked at what was known about this new RNA virus. “What I saw was amazingly surprising: the RNA of the virus encodes a familiar protein, the one that I’ve studied for years in…