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...

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