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RTI 2021 Virtual Seminar Series

Join the Virtual Seminar Series, organized by the RNA Therapeutics Institute at UMass Medical School

This biweekly seminar series offers students, postdocs, and faculty the opportunity to interact directly with speakers discussing a diverse array of topics within the RNA world. The Spring 2021 seminar series will be held virtually. See the schedule below for the upcoming seminars.

Date & Time	Speaker, Affiliation, Title & Zoom Information	Faculty Host
Feb 2 - 9am	Rotem Sorek, PhD Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science TITLE: "The immune system of bacteria: Beyond CRISPR"	Erik Sontheimer, PhD
Feb 23 - 10am	Julia Mahamid, PhD Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory TITLE: "Molecular views into cellular functions by in-cell cryo-electron tomography"	Niko Grigorieff, PhD
Mar 2 - 11am	Molly Przeworski, PhD Professor, Biology Sciences Department, Columbia University TITLE: "Causes and consequences of recombination hotspot evolution in vertebrates"	Phil Zamore, PhD
Mar 9 - 9am	Annemieke Aartsma-Rus, PhD Professor of Translational Genetics, Dept of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center TITLE: "Developing antisense-mediated exon skipping: beyond the scientific state of the art"	Jon Watts, PhD
Mar 24 - 4pm	Wenwen Fang, PhD Assistant Professor, RNA Therapeutics Institute TITLE: “Sensing RNA: from microRNA biogenesis to innate immunity” Li Li, PhD Assistant Professor, RNA Therapeutics Institute TITLE: “Efficient chemical RNA copying with 2-aminoimidazole activated nucleotides”	RNA Collaborative Seminar Series
Mar 30 - 10am	Sun Hur, PhD Oscar Schloss Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School Program in Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital TITLE: "RIG-I-like receptors: assembly, action & clearance of the signalosome"	Wenwen Fang, PhD
April 6 - 10am	Vadim Gladyshev, PhD Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women's Hospital BWH Division of Genetics, Redox Medicine TITLE: “Quantifying and Targeting the Aging Process"	Andrei Korostelev, PhD
April 27 - 10am	Brooke Rock, PhD Director of Research, Amgen TITLE: "Bioanalytical techniques for siRNA; moving molecules from discovery to the clinic"	Anastasia Khrovova, PhD
May 11 - 10am	Zasha Weinberg, PhD Group Leader Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science and Interdisciplinary Centre for Bioinformatics Leipzig University TITLE: "Catalytic RNAs: strange structural variants in mysterious organisms"	Li Li, PhD
May 25 - 10am	Shona Murphy, PhD Professor of Molecular Genetics, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology TITLE: "The Mysterious World of the Pol II CTD Kinases"	Athma Pai, PhD

If you have any questions about the seminar series, please contact Stacey O'Neil, RTI Project Coordinator.