RTI Seminar Series Archive

Ian MacRae, PhD
Professor, Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Scripps Research Institute

"Diverse small RNA mechanisms in plants, animals, and viruses"

Eric T. Kool, PhD
George A. and Hilda M. Daubert Professor of Chemistry
Stanford University

"Small-Molecule Reactive Probes of RNA"

Mihaela Zavolan, PhD
Professor in Computational Biology/Genomics, Biozentrum, University of Basel

“Cell-type specific expression of 3’ UTR isoforms: quantification, regulation, functional relevance”

Huda Y. Zoghbi, MD
Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics, Molecular and Human Genetics, Neurology and Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine

"Molecular and neurobiological studies in Rett syndrome and other MECP2 disorders"

Nadya Dimitrova, PhD
Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University

Stefan L. Ameres, PhD
Professor of RNA Biology, University of Vienna
EMBO Young Investigator
Group Leader at the Max Perutz Labs
Group Leader at IMBA – Institute of Molecular Biotechnology

“Dissecting gene regulatory mechanisms by time-resolved transcriptomics”

Toshiyuki Shimizu, PhD
Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
The University of Tokyo

"Structural biology of nucleic acid sensing Toll-like receptors"

“Pre-mRNA processing and the organization of the cell nucleus”

March 29, 2022

Guocai Zhong, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Immunology and Microbiology
The Scripps Research Institute

“Devising an RNA switch toolbox for developing regulatable gene therapies”

RTI &
GTC (faculty candidate)

Joana A. Vidigal, PhD
NIH Distinguished Scholar
Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator
Center for Cancer Research
National Cancer Institute, NIH

April 12, 2022

Jue Chen
William E. Ford professor of biochemistry and head of the Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Biophysics at the Rockefeller University and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator

"CFTR, the odd ABC transporter responsible for cystic fibrosis"

April 26, 2022

ChangHwan Lee, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Albany, SUNY

"Understanding dynamics of Notch-induced transcriptional bursting in its native context"

Andrea Pauli
Group Leader, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP)

Nicola Allen, PhD
Associate Professor, Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

"Astrocyte-neuron interaction in health and disease"

Ruet Shalgi, PhD
Associate Professor, Rappaport Institute of Medical Research

"The many faces of proteostasis regulation: from splicing control in stress to chaperone isoforms and their impact on neurodegeneration"

Rotem Sorek, PhD
Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science

TITLE:
"The immune system of bacteria: Beyond CRISPR"

Julia Mahamid, PhD
Structural and Computational Biology Unit,
European Molecular Biology Laboratory

TITLE:
"Molecular views into cellular functions by in-cell cryo-electron tomography"

Molly Przeworski, PhD
Professor, Biology Sciences Department,
Columbia University

TITLE:
"Causes and consequences of recombination hotspot evolution in vertebrates"

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"

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”

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"

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women's Hospital
BWH Division of Genetics, Redox Medicine

TITLE:
“Quantifying and Targeting the Aging Process"

Brooke Rock, PhD
Director of Research, Amgen

TITLE:
"Bioanalytical techniques for siRNA; moving molecules from discovery to the clinic"

Group Leader
Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science and Interdisciplinary Centre for Bioinformatics
Leipzig University

TITLE: "Catalytic RNAs: strange structural variants in mysterious organisms"

Professor of Molecular Genetics,
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology

TITLE:
"The Mysterious World of the Pol II CTD Kinases"

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Host

Seminar Title

Sept. 19, 2019

Lin He, Ph.D.

University of California, Berkeley

Wen Xue

Oct. 3, 2019

Hiten Madhani, M.D., Ph.D.

University of California, San Francisco

Erik Sontheimer

Oct. 24, 2019

Andrew York, Ph.D.

Calico Labs

David Grunwald

Nov. 7, 2019

Michael Axtell, Ph.D.

Pennsylvania State University

Phil Zamore

Dec. 12, 2019

Samie Jaffrey, M.D., Ph.D.

Weill Medical College, Cornell University

RTI Trainees