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RNA Collaborative Seminar Series

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The RNA Collaborative seminar series consists of RNA research centers worldwide working together to provide online seminars sharing new and exciting research with the RNA scientific community. The RNA Collaborative aims to cross-promote RNA research to strengthen and connect RNA research institutions around the world.

Scientists are welcome to present RNA-related research spanning from foundational discoveries to potential therapeutic applications. Each month, two host centers collaborate to present 2-4 research talks during a one-hour seminar session. Each speaker also holds a Q&A session to answer further questions from attendees after their talk concludes.

Seminars are held virtually the second Wednesday of each month (and the last Wednesday of March, September, and October), at either 10 am ET or 4 pm ET and are recorded and made freely available for viewing on the RNA Collaborative YouT ube Channel.

2025 RNA Collaborative Seminar Series Schedule

Please see the RNA Society-sponsored page for up-to-date seminar schedule information: RNA Collaborative

RNA Collaborative seminars are sponsored by the RNA Society and are organized by the following international RNA Centers (29 current members and growing):

Please email Lindsay at Lindsay_Vicars@URMC.Rochester.edu for more information or to be added to the seminar distribution list.

Logos - December 2024 - 29 centers

Schedule

Upcoming 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021

RNA Collaborative, Harvard: “A RNA-guided approach to epigenetic therapy” & “Efficient integration of spatial transcriptomics and single cell sequencing technologies for in depth tissue interrogation”

Annalisa Di Ruscio, MD, PhD; Ioannis Vlachos, PhD - Assistant Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School Initiative for RNA Medicine (HIRM); Assistant Professor of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School Initiative for RNA Medicine (HIRM)

Dec 15, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.

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Host: Frank Slack, PhD, Director, Harvard Medical School Initiative for RNA Medicine and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

RNA Collaborative, UPenn: "IMP-licating RNA binding proteins in intestinal tissue regeneration" & “Consequences of RNA-binding protein mutations in cancer”

Kathryn Hamilton, PhD; Peter Choi, PhD - Assistant Professor of Pediatrics; Co-Director, Gastrointestinal Epithelium Modeling Program Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia & Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania; Assistant Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia & Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Dec 01, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.

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Host: Kathy Liu, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine, Penn RNA Group, University of Pennsylvania

RNA Collaborative, RNA Institute, SUNY Albany: “RACK1 as a regulator of Protein biosynthesis” & “RNA shapes Zika virus gene expression”

Gabriele Fuchs, PhD; Cara Pager, PhD - Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, The RNA Institute, University at Albany, SUNY; Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences , The RNA Institute, University at Albany, SUNY

Nov 17, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.

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Host: Marlene Belfort, PhD, Distinguished Professor and Senior Advisor of The RNA Institute, University at Albany, SUNY

RNA Collaborative, UCSC: "Post-transcriptional control of oncogenic gene expression by IGF2BP3” & "Multiplexed single-molecule analysis of human telomerase catalysis"

Jeremy Sanford, PhD; Michael Stone, PhD - Professor of Molecular, Cell & Development Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Center for Molecular Biology of RNA ; Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, Center for Molecular Biology of RNA

Nov 03, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.

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Host: University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) Center for Molecular Biology of RNA

RNA Collaborative, HIRI: "CRISPR-Cas systems and the dilemma(s) of adaptive immunity” & "Uncovering host-pathogen interaction modalities using single-cell RNA-seq and RNA metabolic labeling"

Chase Beisel, PhD; Antoine-Emmanuel Saiba, PhD - “CRISPR-Cas systems and the dilemma(s) of adaptive immunity”, Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research, Würzburg, Germany; “Uncovering host-pathogen interaction modalities using single-cell RNA-seq and RNA metabolic labeling”, Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research, Würzburg, Germany

Oct 20, 2021 @ 9:00 a.m.

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Host: Prof. Neva Caliskan, Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI), Würzburg, Germany

RNA Collaborative, NUS-CSI: "Crosstalk between RNA editing and RNA splicing” & "Widespread 3’UTR splicing promotes oncogene expression and tumorigenesis”

Polly CHEN; & Yvonne TAY - “Crosstalk between RNA editing and RNA splicing”; “Widespread 3’UTR splicing promotes oncogene expression and tumorigenesis”, Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore

Oct 06, 2021 @ 9:00 a.m.

Zoom Registration

Host: Daniel G. Tenen, RNA Biology Center, NUS-CSI

RNA Collaborative, NCI: "A small RNA perspective on genomic conflict” & “Targeting RNA with small molecules: tools and tactics”

Astrid Haase, MD, PhD; John (Jay) Schneekloth, Jr, PhD - “A small RNA perspective on genomic conflict”; “Targeting RNA with small molecules: tools and tactics”, NCI RNA Biology Initiative

Sep 22, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.

Zoom Registration

Host: Host: Sandra Wolin, MD, PhD - National Cancer Institute RNA Biology Initiative

RNA Collaborative, UR: “DALRD3 targets specific arginine-tRNAs for 3-methylcytosine modification” & “Using conservation to determine RNA secondary structure”

Jenna Lentini, MS; David Matthews, MD, PhD - “DALRD3 targets specific arginine-tRNAs for 3-methylcytosine modification”; “Using conservation to determine RNA secondary structure”, University of Rochester

RNA Collaborative Seminar: University of Rochester Center for RNA Biology
Wednesday, Sept 8^th, 2021 at 4:00 PM EST

Hosted by: UR Center for RNA Biology
Zoom Registration Link: https://urmc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3gRvgjQ0RQuNG3CeI8cr7Q

“DALRD3 targets specific arginine-tRNAs for 3-methylcytosine modification”

Jenna Lentini, MS, Graduate Student, Department of Biology, Dragony Fu’s Lab, UR, Rochester, NY

“Using conservation to determine RNA secondary structure”

David Mathews, MD, PhD, Lynne E. Maquat Distinguished Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics; Director, Graduate Program in Biophysics, Structural & Computational Biology; Associate Director, Center for RNA Biology, URMC, Rochester, NY

Moderator & Host: Lynne E. Maquat, PhD, J. Lowell Orbison Endowed Chair and Professor, Departments of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Oncology, and Pediatrics; Chair, Graduate Women in Science; Director, Center for RNA Biology, URMC, Rochester, NY

For more information on the RNA CSS, please visit: https://www.rnasociety.org/rna-collaborative-seminar-series

RNA Collaborative YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7QawzQsUqhgIqjKGTny41A

Sep 08, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.

Zoom Registration

Host: Lynne Maquat, PhD, UR Center for RNA Biology

RNA Collaborative, IMB Mainz: "Regulation of neurodegeneration-linked RNA-binding proteins by nuclear import receptors and post-translational modifications" & "Small RNAs and epigenetic inheritance"

Prof. Dorothee Dormann, PhD; Prof. René Ketting, PhD - Johannes Gutenberg University, JGU & Institute of Molecular Biology, IMB Mainz, Germany; Institute of Molecular Biology, IMB Mainz, Germany

Hosted by: Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB)

Zoom Registration Link: https://form.123formbuilder.com/5969319/form

NOTE: Participants will be sent a link to the virtual seminar a few days prior to the seminar. Please check your email for the link, which will be sent by: events@imb.de. Follow-up Q&A and discussion will be hosted on Discord: #imb-august-25.

"Regulation of neurodegeneration-linked RNA-binding proteins by nuclear import receptors and post-translational modifications"

Prof. Dorothee Dormann, PhD, Johannes Gutenberg University, JGU & Institute of Molecular Biology, IMB Mainz, Germany

"Small RNAs and epigenetic inheritance"

Prof. René Ketting, PhD, Institute of Molecular Biology, IMB Mainz, Germany

Moderator: Julian König, PhD

Aug 25, 2021 @ 9:00 a.m.

Zoom Registration Link

Host: Julian König, PhD, IMB Mainz, Germany

RNA Collaborative, RiboClub: "Insights into the subcellular travels of cellular RNAs and RNA binding proteins"

Éric Lécuyer, PhD - Principal Investigator & Associate Professor at IRCM / UdeM - Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine / McGill - Experimental Medicine, Montréal, Québec, RiboClub, Canada

RNA Community,

This is a reminder that the next RNA Collaborative Seminar will be tomorrow, August 11^th at 4pm ET, hosted by RiboClub, Sherbrooke, Québec. Please see below for details on the seminar and the Zoom registration link.

Please share this information within your RNA network.

Wednesday, August 11^th, 2021 from 4:00 – 5:00pm ET

Hosted by: RiboClub

Zoom Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkcemoqjwsH9QKhUJ_ioqc6aNEjEy0iWn8

“Insights into the subcellular travels of cellular RNAs and RNA binding proteins”
Éric Lécuyer, PhD
Principal Investigator & Associate Professor at IRCM / UdeM - Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine / McGill - Experimental Medicine, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Moderator: Sherif Abou Elela, PhD

Aug 11, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.

Zoom Registration Link

Host: Sherif Abou Elela, PhD, RiboClub

RNA Collaborative: “SINEUPs: a new functional class of antisense long non-coding RNAs”

Prof. Stefano Gustincich, PhD - Associate Director for Technologies for Life Science (LifeTech); Director - Central RNA Laboratory, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia – IIT Genova, Italy

RNA Collaborative Seminar Series

Wednesday, July 14^th 2021
9 AM ET (Eastern Time, US) / 3 PM CEST (Central European Summer Time)

Hosted by: RNA initiative at the Italian Institute of Technology (iRNA@IIT)

Teams Registration Link: GDPR Disclaimer (iit.it)

Prof. Stefano Gustincich, PhD
Associate Director for Technologies for Life Science (LifeTech); Director - Central RNA Laboratory; Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia – IIT Genova, Italy

Moderator: Prof. Gian Gaetano Tartaglia, PhD
RNA System Biology, PI; Center for Human Technologies; Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia – IIT Genova, Italy

Jul 14, 2021 @ 9:00 a.m.

Zoom registration

Host: Gian Gaetano Tartaglia, RNA Initiative at Italian Institute of Technology (iRNA@IIT); Moderator: Prof. Gian Gaetano Tartaglia, PhD

“Dynamic multivalent interactions drive mammalian RNA regulation” & “Characterizing cellular RNA-protein interaction networks with chemical probes”

Sethu Pitchiaya, PhD & Chase Weidmann, PhD - University of Michigan, Center for RNA Biomedicine