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Weekly News

The Center for RNA Biomedicine publishes a weekly newsletter, the RNA Transcript.
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2021

Week of February 15

  • Meredith Purchal, Ph.D. candidate is “featured scientist”

Week of February 8

  • Ameya Jalihal, Ph.D.: “Zooming in to zoom out: learning from molecules to understand life”

Week of February 1

  • Upcoming webinar: February 10, 2021, 4:00– 5:00pm EST. “A timely confluence: the backstory of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine” with Melissa Moore, Chief Scientific Officer at Moderna Therapeutics. Under Dr. Moore’s scientific leadership, Moderna Therapeutics developed one of the two mRNA-based vaccines authorized for emergency use in the US. MORE INFORMATION

Week of January 25

  • In two months, for two days, our 5th RNA Symposium, “Processing RNA”
  • Featured Scientist: Jiaqiang Zhu, Biostatistics, School of Public Health

Week of January 18

  • Repurposing Prostate Cancer Drug for COVID-19
  • Featured Scientist: Tasha Thong, Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health

Week of January 11 

  • “The CRISPR Craze: Scientific Breakthroughs Come to the Prepared when Least Expected”
  • Featured Scientist: Daniel Wilinski, Ph.D., Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

Week of January 4 

  • Translating from dissertation to dream job: a nascent RNA career

2020

Week of December 21

  • The RNA Collaborative Seminar Series welcomes its 17th and 18th partners, the Cambridge RNA Club (UK) and the Groupe de Recherche RNA (GDR RNA – France).
  • Featured Scientist: Laura Scott, Ph.D., Biostatistics, School of Public Health

Week of December 14

  • A Washington Post video, “How mRNA helped scientists create a COVID-19 vaccine in record time,” with Alice Telesnitsky, Microbiology and Immunology, and Nils G. Walter, Chemistry, Biophysics & Biological Chemistry and co-director of the Center for RNA Biomedicine, explain how RNA research allows to save millions of lives with an RNA vaccine, and why it is possible to have a vaccine so quickly.
  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 Lectures by laureates E. Charpentier and J. Doudna

Week of December 7

  • Aaron Frank receives NSF Grant
  • The Win-Win of Mentoring and Advising

Week of November 30

  • Featured Scientist: Stephen Parker, Ph.D., Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics and Human Genetics

Week of November 23

  • Sara Aton and Laura Scott join our Executive Committee
  • Publication: Broad noncoding transcription suggests genome surveillance by RNA polymerase V, Masayuki Tsuzuki, Shriya Sethuraman, Adriana N. Coke, M. Hafiz Rothi, Alan P. Boyle, and Andrzej T. Wierzbicki, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, first published November 16, 2020; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2014419117

Week of November 16

  • Featured Scientist: Zhonggang Hou, Ph.D., Research investigator, Biological Chemistry, Medical School
  • Publication: Classification and segmentation of single-molecule fluorescence time traces with deep learning, Jieming Li, Leyou Zhang, Alexander Johnson-Buck and Nils G. Walter, Nature Communications, (2020)11:5833, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19673-1

Week of November 9

  • Featured Scientist: Kristin Koutmou, Ph.D., Chemistry, College of LSA

Week of November 2

  • Dr. DiFeo and Dr. Alumkal join the U-M Center for RNA Biomedicine (VIDEO)

Week of October 26

  • Rare disease collaboration receives NIH funding for a new Center for Fragile X disease. An interview with Dr. Peter Todd, M.D, Ph.D., Neurology, Medical School, University of Michigan (U-M), and member of the Executive Committee of the U-M Center for RNA Biomedicine
  • Featured Scientist: Maria Castro, Ph.D., Professor, Neurosurgery and Cell & Developmental Biology, Medical School

Week of October 19

  • CRISPR in the Nobel spotlight – U-M researchers aim to improve CRISPR tools and use them to target cancerWorld CRISPR Day 2020, Tuesday, Oct. 20
  • Featured Scientist: Patricia Wittkopp, Ph.D., Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Sally L. Allen Collegiate Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, College of LSA

Week of October 12

  • Did you miss it? RNA Translated, our annual magazine is out!

Week of October 5

  • RNA Translated, our annual magazine and brief report is out!

Week of September 28

  • Featured Scientist: Sami Barmada, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Neurology, Medical School

Week of September 21

  • Our fall seminar series goes international
  • Thank you to all our postdocs!

Week of September 14

  • Our members’ promotions: four Associate Professors and one Professor!<
  • Featured Scientist: Peter Freddolino, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biological Chemistry, Medical School and Member of our Executive Committee

Week of September 7

  • From the Center’s co-directors, introducing Fall 2020

Week of August 31, 2020

  • “Stressed cellular proteins break social distancing rules,” a Molecular Cell publication
  • Featured scientist: Amanda Garner, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy and Member of our Executive Committee

Week of August 24, 2020

  • S. Moon and N. Walter receive a “Collaborative Pairs Pilot Project” Award from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
  • Featured scientist: Sara Aton, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, College of LSA

Week of August 17, 2020

  • Take an RNA Course
  • Become DEI Certified

Week of August 10, 2020

  • Running Grant Sprints
  • Featured scientist: Sethu Pitchiaya, Ph.D., Pathology and Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Medical School

Week of August 3, 2020

  • News: This fall, join our RNA Student & Postdoc Council!
  • Featured scientist: Joshi J. Alumkal, M.D., Professor, Associate Division Chief for Basic Research, Hematology-Oncology Division; Section Head, Genitourinary Medical Oncology Section, Internal Medicine, Medical School

Week of July 27, 2020

  • News: RNA Skill Share
  • Featured scientist: Alan Boyle, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, and Human Genetics, Medical School

Week of July 20, 2020

  • Featured scientist: Analisa DiFeo, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Pathology and Ob/Gyn, Medical School

Week of July 13, 2020

  • RNA Innovation Seminar with Kate Fitzgerald, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Week of July 6, 2020

  • Featured scientist: Dan Peltier, M.D, Ph.D., Clinical Lecturer, Pediatric/Oncology

Week of June 29, 2020

  • Dr. Analisa DiFeo’s publication in Nature Communications: “miR-181a, a microRNA that regulates ovarian cancer cells”
  • Featured Scientist: Dr. Vivian Cheung

Week of June 22, 2020

  • Sarah Keane, Ph.D., Biophysics and Dept of Chemistry, College of LSA, is named 2020 PEW Scholar.
    Read her featured profile.

Week of June 15, 2020

  • Featured scientist: Peter Todd, M.D., Ph.D., Neurology, Medical School

Week of June 8, 2020

  • Featured scientist: Charles L. Brooks, Ph.D., Biophysics and Chemistry, College of LSA

Week of June 1, 2020

  • Featured scientist: Carlos Andres Aguilar, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering

Week of May 25, 2020

  • Our Members present at the RNA Society Annual Meeting

Week of May 18, 2020

  • Maria G. Castro, Ph.D., and Deepak Nagrath, Ph.D., both members of our Center for RNA Biomedicine, are the 2020 Forbes Scholars
    New section: Our member’s publication

Week of May 11, 2020

  • Two U-M Center for RNA Biomedicine members (Stephanie Moon, Ph.D., and Peter Freddolino, Ph.D, presented at the RNA Collaborative Seminar Series, May 6, 2020
  • U-M researchers advance COVID19 antibody test production.

Week of May 4, 2020

  • Two RNA Biomedicine experts, Janet Smith, Ph.D. and Arul Chinnaiyan, M.D., Ph.D., are elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Week of April 27, 2020

  • From a rare neurologic disease to a potential antiviral medication against corona virus

Week of April 20, 2020

  • Making patients resilient to COVID-19: Lessons to be learned from kidney single cell analysis
  • Transposable elements play an important role in genetic expression and evolution – Publication in Nature Communications

Week of April 13, 2020

  • COVID-19 Funding opportunities

Week of April 6, 2020

  • Coronaviruses 101: Focus on Molecular Virology

Week of March 30, 2020

  • Remdesivir Works against Coronaviruses in the Lab
  • Moderna Charts Fast Track of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine to Clinical Trials

Week of March 23, 2020

  • Thank you from MI DHHS

Week of March 16, 2020

  • How can U-M RNA labs help with Coronavirus pandemic?

Week of March 9, 2020

  • Seminars and Symposium

Week of March 2, 2020

  • Welcome to Stephanie Moon!

 

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