2021 Symposium – Matching our keynote speakers with their topics
- Our 5th Annual Symposium,”Processing RNA,” March 25–26, 2021, 11:00–2:30 pm ET
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4th annual Toronto RNA Enthusiasts Day (TREnD) 7/30/19 (flyer) Keynote speaker: Dr. Tracy Johnson (UCLA) SickKids Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning (686 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario) For more information visit: trendrna.com 2nd Conference on Biomotors, Virus Assembly and Nanobiotechnology 7/29/19 (flyer) Ohio State University, Cleveland OH For more information visit: rnanano.osu.edu/Guo/Biomotor2019/Biomotor2019.html ENCODE 2019: Research Applications and…
Nico Gomez MSTP Fellow, Cellular and Molecular Biology Sami Barmada Lab Who/what brought you to science? I’ve been fascinated with nature for as long as I can remember. My curiosity for biological systems eventually turned inwards towards those that governed my behavior, thoughts, and emotions. My exposure to the medical field, in turn, reshaped these…

Center RNA Therapeutics Director Michelle Hastings, and faculty members Rachel Niederer and Alexandra Piotrowski-Daspit address the need for new treatment strategies, and the subsequent barriers that must be overcome for success, by working together as an interdisciplinary team with unique expertise in CFTR physiology, designing RNA therapeutics, identifying targetable regulatory sequences, and developing engineered delivery…

Update 5.8.25 The LUMICKS C-Trap® optical tweezers microscopy instrument is now up and running at the SMART Center Installation of the LUMICKS C-Trap® is now complete at the SMART Center, a CRB core facility. The instrument allows researchers to measure or exert extraordinarily small forces combined with simultaneous multicolor fluorescence imaging. The system boasts up to…
Congratulations to Dr. Rajesh Rao for receiving a Career Advancement Award from Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB). The Career Advancement Award assists outstanding early-career vision scientists in pursuit of ongoing research of unusual significance and promise. This one-time award is available to candidates who have already received their first NIH R01 and are collecting new…
An initiative to make the University of Michigan a world leader in RNA therapeutics, spearheaded by the Center for RNA Biomedicine and the Biointerfaces Institute Fueled by the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine success and the recent Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and elucidation of the bacterial CRISPR systems that can be harnessed for…