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...

5th Annual RNA Symposium: “Processing RNA” – Day 1

Day 1 11:00–11:05 / Welcome 11:05–12:00 / Keynote 1: Tracy Johnson, Ph.D., University of California - Los Angeles (RNA splicing) 12:00–12:10 / Short break 12:10–1:05 / Keynote 2: Kevin Weeks, Ph.D., University of North Carolina (RNA structure in vivo) 1:05–1:35 / Data Blitz (three finalists from the poster submissions) 1:35–2:30 / Keynote 3: Feng Zhang,...

5th Annual RNA Symposium: “Processing RNA” – Day 2

Day 2 11:00–11:05 / Welcome 11:05–12:00 / Keynote 4: Brenda Bass, Ph.D., University of Utah (RNA editing & silencing) 12:00–12:10 / Short break 12:10–1:05 / Keynote 5: Christopher Lima, Ph.D., Memorial Sloan-Kettering (RNA degradation) 1:05–1:35 / Data Blitz (three finalists from the poster submissions) 1:35–2:25 / Panel discussion with keynote speakers 2:25–2:30 / Closing REGISTRATION...

RNA Innovation Seminar: Natoya Peart, University of Pennsylvania

"Direct binding of ESRP1 to regulated transcripts is required for position-dependent splicing regulation" Natoya Peart, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Researcher – Carstens Lab/Lynch Lab Department of Medicine/Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics University of Pennsylvania ZOOM REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0lUfePb0Qdac-cQZDpeiEQ FLYER IN PDF KEYWORDS: Alternative splicing, RNAMap, Esrp1 ABSTRACT: Coordinated regulation of alternative splicing is essential to the establishment...

Seminar: Eva Nogales, Ludwig Lecture

"Exploring the Modularity of Large Complexes Involved in Transcription Initiation and Chromatin Modifications" Eva Nogales, PhD Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of California, Berkeley Senior Faculty Scientist Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Department of Biological Chemistry, Ludwig Lecture

Stephanie Moon, Ph.D., “RNA regulation in proteotoxic stress and genetic neurological disorders”

"RNA regulation in proteotoxic stress and genetic neurological disorders" Stephanie Moon, PhD Assistant Professor of Human Genetics, a Faculty Scholar of the Center for RNA Biomedicine, and an Affiliate Faculty of Biological Chemistry at the University of Michigan Faculty Host: Sundeep Kalantry, PhD, Associate Professor of Human Genetics Zoom link: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/92442599246 FLYER IN PDF Center...

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...