"How chaperones help RNAs choose the right partner" Sarah Woodson, Ph.D. T.C. Jenkins Professor of Biophysics Johns Hopkins University   In-person: BSRB, ABC seminar rooms / hybrid link Abstract: Non-coding RNAs must fold into specific structures to create the machinery for protein synthesis or to control gene expression.  As nascent transcripts can form different base...

"Noncoding RNA Targets in Heart Failure" Anthony Rosenzweig, M.D. Professor of Internal Medicine Director of the MM Institute of Heart & Brain Health University of Michigan     In-person: BSRB, ABC seminar rooms / hybrid link Abstract: TBA

"Mis-splicing in repeat expansion diseases and development of potential therapeutics" Andy Berglund, Ph.D. Empire Professor of Innovation Director of the RNA Institute University at Albany   In-person: BSRB, ABC Seminar Rooms / hybrid link Abstract: Repeat or microsatellite expansions are responsible for more than 50 human diseases. Myotonic dystrophy (DM), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and...