Talk title: The RNA exosome complex: the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde of RNA degradation Elena Conti, PhD Director, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry ZOOM REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IjnWw1UcRkW8zcDeuAM2tQ   Flyer in PDF Keywords: molecular mechanisms, RNA, ribosome, biochemistry, cryo-EM, X-ray crystallography Abstract: All RNAs in eukaryotic cells are eventually degraded. The RNA exosome is a conserved macromolecular...

"Regulating the axonal proteome through mRNA transport and translation" Jeffrey L. Twiss, M.D., Ph.D. SmartState Chair in Childhood Neurotherapeutics Professor of Biological Sciences University of South Carolina ZOOM REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Rss4i-7WTwyf8m8ogCPXEQ     FLYER IN PDF Abstract: Neurons are extremely polarized cells with axonal and dendritic processes extending 100 to 1000 fold longer or more than...

Structural biophysics of RNA interactions that contribute to viral replication Blanton S. Tolbert, Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry Case Western Reserve University LSI Seminar Series Interests: Biochemistry, Biophysical Chemistry, Structural Biology Blanton S. Tolbert is a professor of chemistry at Case Western Reserve University, where he oversees a diverse research group that endeavors to understand biochemical mechanisms...

"Dynamics of co-transcriptional pre-mRNA processing and assembly of related biomolecular condensates" Prof. Karla Neugebauer, Ph.D. Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and of Cell Biology Director of Graduate Studies, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Director, Yale Center for RNA Science and Medicine Yale School of Medicine ZOOM REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aZggyZ0yQcSPcJrsHloXjQ FLYER IN PDF Abstract: My lab is...

"Choreographing Ribosome Assembly" Katrin Karbstein, Ph.D. Scripps Institute Florida Department of Biological Chemistry, Greenberg Lecture Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96151442305

Hosted by Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI)
Neva Caliskan, Ph.D.
Mathias Munschauer, Ph.D.

"Mechanistic Insights into the mRNA Poly(A) Tail Machinery" Lori Passmore, Ph.D. MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology     Department of Biological Chemistry, Greenberg Lecture

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"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...