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RTI Seminar Series

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

This 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 2021/2022 seminar series will be held virtually. See the schedule below for the upcoming seminars.

Most seminars are recorded. Please contact us if you would like a link to view the seminar.

Date	Speaker	Seminar Title & Zoom Link	Faculty Host
December 14, 2021	Ian MacRae, PhD Professor, Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Scripps Research Institute	"Diverse small RNA mechanisms in plants, animals, and viruses"	Phillip Zamore, PhD
January 11, 2022	Eric T. Kool, PhD George A. and Hilda M. Daubert Professor of Chemistry Stanford University	"Small-Molecule Reactive Probes of RNA"	Jon Watts, PhD
February 1, 2022	Mihaela Zavolan, PhD Professor in Computational Biology/Genomics, Biozentrum, University of Basel	“Cell-type specific expression of 3’ UTR isoforms: quantification, regulation, functional relevance”	Athma Pai, PhD
February 22, 2022	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"	Voices In Science
March 1, 2022	Nadya Dimitrova, PhD Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University	"Long noncoding RNAs at the intersection of cancer pathways"	Wen Xue, PhD
March 4, 2022	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”	Phil Zamore, PhD
March 8, 2022	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"	Wenwen Fang, PhD
March 21, 2022	Karla Neugebauer, PhD Yale University Dept Mol Biophysics and Biochemistry Dept Cell Biology Director, Yale Center for RNA Science and Medicine Director of Graduate Studies in MB&B	“Pre-mRNA processing and the organization of the cell nucleus”	RTI Trainees
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)
April 5, 2022	Joana A. Vidigal, PhD NIH Distinguished Scholar Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator Center for Cancer Research National Cancer Institute, NIH	"AGO2 unchained: in vivo roles in the miRNA pathway and beyond"	Anastasia Khvorova, PhD
April 12, 2022 10:00 - 11:30am	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"	Niko Grigorieff, PhD
April 26, 2022 10:00 - 11:30am	ChangHwan Lee, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Biological Sciences University of Albany, SUNY	"Understanding dynamics of Notch-induced transcriptional bursting in its native context"	David Grunwald, PhD
May 10, 2022 10:00 - 11:30am	Andrea Pauli Group Leader, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP)	“Kicking off life – new insights into the egg-to-embryo transition”	Andrei Korostelev, PhD
May 24, 2022 1:00 - 2:30pm	Nicola Allen, PhD Associate Professor, Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies	"Astrocyte-neuron interaction in health and disease"	Craig Mello, PhD