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RTI Seminar Series

Join the RNA Therapeutics Institute (RTI) Seminar Series at UMass Chan Medical School.

The RTI Seminar Series provides students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff with the opportunity to engage directly with leading researchers and experts presenting a wide range of topics across the field of RNA science and therapeutics.

The 2026-2027 Seminar Series will be offered in both in-person and virtual formats. Most seminars are accessible via Zoom.

Seminar Details
Day: Tuesdays
Time: 10:00 - 11:00 AM
Location: AS4-2072 or Zoom (unless otherwise noted)
Format: Most seminars are hybrid, some will be held virtualy only.

Most seminars are recorded for later viewing by the UMass Chan community. If you would like access please reach out to us.

Please note: The RTI Seminar Series is intended for the UMass Chan Medical School faculty, trainees, staff, and students only.

  • Sonia Vallabh & Eric Minikel

    Sonia Vallabh & Eric Minikel , PhD

    Assistant Professors, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
  • Jingyi Fei

    Jingyi Fei , PhD

    Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago
  • Jessica L. Rouge

    Jessica L. Rouge , PhD

    Paul Krenicki Professorship in Chemistry, University of Connecticut
  • Alex de Marco

    Alex de Marco , PhD

    Director of the Simons Electron Microscopy Center, New York Structural Biology Center
  • Philip Kranzusch

    Philip Kranzusch , PhD

    Professor of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School
  • William J. Greenleaf

    William J. Greenleaf , PhD

    Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, Stanford University
  • Don W. Cleveland

    Don W. Cleveland , PhD

    Distinguished Professor Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California at San Diego
  • Craig L. Duvall

    Craig L. Duvall , PhD

    Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University
  • Justin Kinney

    Justin Kinney , PhD

    Professor and Chair Simons Center for Quantitative Biology Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
  • Karen Adelman

    Karen Adelman , PhD

    Edward S. Harkness Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School
  • Edward B. Lee

    Edward B. Lee , MD, PhD

    John Q. Trojanowski, Professor for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
  • Carla Kim

    Carla Kim , PhD

    Principal Investigator, Boston Children’s Hospital, Stem Cell Program Faculty, Stem Cell Program Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
  • Lin Guo

    Lin Guo , PhD

    Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Jefferson University
  • Matthew D. Simon

    Matthew D. Simon , PhD

    Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University
  • Torben Heick Jensen

    Torben Heick Jensen , PhD

    Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics RNA Biology and Innovation, Aarhus University
  • Jinwei Zhang

    Jinwei Zhang , PhD

    Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, NIDDK National Institutes of Health
  • Julius B. Lucks

    Julius B. Lucks , PhD

    Margery Claire Carlson Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Co-Director, Center for Synthetic Biology Northwestern University
  • Nathan Luedke

    Nathan Luedke , PhD

    Professor, Department of Chemistry, McGill University