"Engineer and deliver nucleic acid immunotherapeutics and vaccines – a focus on small circular mRNA (circRNA) vaccines" Guizhi (Julian) Zhu, Ph.D. Ara G. Paul Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Science University of Michigan   In-person: BSRB, ABC Seminar Rooms / hybrid link Abstract: Our ultimate research goal is to develop clinically translatable nucleic acid therapeutics and...

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...

"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...