RNA Innovation Seminar: Melissa J. Moore – Chief Scientific Officer, Moderna Therapeutics

This event was rescheduled from February 10, 4:00 pm. To attend on March 3rd, please register again. Apologies for the inconvenience.  ZOOM REGISTRATION REQUIRED "A timely confluence: The backstory of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine" Melissa Moore, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, Moderna Therapeutics Dr. Moore will address scientists and non-scientists, and will take live questions.  FLYER IN...

RNA Innovation Seminar: James Nuñez, HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow, UCSF

"Programmable transcriptional memory by CRISPR-based epigenome editing" James Nuñez, Ph.D. HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow University of California, San Francisco ZOOM REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hZw_8jjWQo-7goOvohXOPg FLYER IN PDF ABSTRACT: General approaches for heritably altering gene expression would enable many discovery and therapeutic efforts. I will present CRISPRoff— a programmable epigenetic memory writer consisting of a single dead Cas9...

RNA Innovation Seminar: Jailson (Jay) Brito Querido, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

"Structural insights into mRNA translation initiation in humans" Jailson (Jay) Brito Querido, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Scientist MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge, UK ZOOM FLYER IN PDF REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_78YYOhIhTbOBy2_JSdM7Wg ABSTRACT: A key step in translational initiation is the recruitment of the 43S pre-initiation complex (43S PIC) by the cap-binding complex (eIF4F) at the 5´ end of...