"Dancing to a Different Tune: TANGO Provides Hope for Dravet Syndrome" Lori Isom, Ph.D. Chair, Department of Pharmacology Maurice H. Seevers Collegiate Professor of Pharmacology Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Professor of Neurology, University of Michigan Medical School In-person: BSRB, ABC seminar rooms / zoom link Abstract: Dravet syndrome (DS) is a severe developmental...
"Dissect Enhancer Architecture and Map Regulatory Genomic Landscape Across Diverse Cell and Tissue Types Through Nascent Transcriptome Studies" Haiyuan Yu, Ph.D. Tisch University Professor Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology Director, Center for Innovative Proteomics (CIP@Cornell) In-person: BSRB, ABC seminar rooms / hybrid link Abstract: Recent studies...
"RNA Synthetic Biology: Towards an Era of RNA Design for Biology & Global Health" Julius B. Lucks, Ph.D. Professor & Associate Chair, Chemical & Biological Engineering Co-Director, Center for Synthetic Biology Northwestern University In-person: BSRB, ABC seminar rooms / hybrid link Abstract: RNAs are emerging as a powerful substrate for engineering cellular behavior. As with...
"Repeat Expansions Instigate Supply Chain Issues in the Nucleus & Cytoplasm" Eric Wang, Ph.D. Associate Professor Molecular Genetics & Microbiology Center for Neurogenetics University of Florida In-person: BSRB, ABC seminar rooms / hybrid link Keywords: Repeat expansions, myotonic dystrophy, RNA biology, RNA splicing, RNA localization, microscopy
"Mapping Novel RNA Regulatory Networks" Lydia Contreras, Ph.D. Professor-Chemical Engineering Interdisciplinary Life Science Graduate Program University of Texas at Austin In-person: BSRB ABC Seminar Rooms / hybrid link Abstract: While advances in omics-based technologies has led to the discovery of hundreds of sRNAs, their identification and characterization has lagged. Even in the model gram-negative...
RNA Plasticity in Neuronal Health & Disease Junjie Guo, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Neuroscience Yale University School of Medicine In-person: BSRB, ABC seminar rooms / hybrid link Abstract: Spatial and temporal regulation of gene expression at both transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels underlies the development and functions of the nervous system, whereas dysregulated gene expression...
"Discovering and Targeting Repeat Expansions in Human Disease" Graham Erwin, Ph.D. Stanford Cancer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Genetics Stanford University In-person: BSRB, ABC seminar rooms / hybrid link Abstract: Expansion of a single repetitive DNA sequence, termed a tandem repeat (TR), is known to cause more than 50 diseases. However, repeat expansions...
Stop by the CRB booth (#1) and the SMART Center (#2) on September 13 at the Researchpalooza event!
"Turning Bugs into Features: Engineering and Evolving Insect Symbiont-Mediated RNA Interference" Jeffrey Barrick, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Molecular Biosciences University of Texas at Austin In-person: BSRB, ABC seminar rooms / hybrid link Abstract: Many insects have co-evolved associations with microbial symbionts that are more consequential than our relationship with the human microbiome. These...
https://youtu.be/7exeVt7CaE4 "Awakenings" (1990) The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them. Join us for a pre-film panel discussion at 6:00 PM with neurology and neurologic disease physicians and scientists from University of Michigan's Center for RNA Biomedicine: Michelle...
