"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...

RNA Plasticity in Neuronal Health & Disease Junjie Guo, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Neuroscience Yale University School of Medicine In-person: BSRB, ABC seminar rooms / hybrid link Abstract: Spatial and temporal regulation of gene expression at both transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels underlies the development and functions of the nervous system, whereas dysregulated gene expression...

"Mapping Novel RNA Regulatory Networks" Lydia Contreras, Ph.D. Professor-Chemical Engineering Interdisciplinary Life Science Graduate Program University of Texas at Austin   In-person: BSRB ABC Seminar Rooms / hybrid link Abstract: While advances in omics-based technologies has led to the discovery of hundreds of sRNAs, their identification and characterization has lagged. Even in the model gram-negative...