"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...