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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.

Date	Speaker	Seminar Title & Zoom Link	Faculty Host
December 14, 2021 10am - 11:30am EST	Ian MacRae, PhD Professor, Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Scripps Research Institute	"Diverse small RNA mechanisms in plants, animals, and viruses" * Recording available upon request	Phillip Zamore, PhD
January 11, 2022 11am - 12:30pm EST	Eric T. Kool, PhD George A. and Hilda M. Daubert Professor of Chemistry Stanford University	"Small-Molecule Reactive Probes of RNA" * Recording available upon request	Jon Watts, PhD
February 1, 2022 11am - 12:30pm EST	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
To be rescheduled	Jue Chen, PhD 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	TBD	Nikolaus Grigorieff, PhD
February 22, 2022	Huda Zoghbi, PhD 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	TBD	Wen Xue, PhD
March 8, 2022	Toshiyuki Shimizu, PhD Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences The University of Tokyo	TBD	Wenwen Fang, PhD
March 15, 2022	Andrea Pauli Group Leader EMBO Young Investigator EMBO Member	TBD	Andrei Korostelev, PhD
April 5, 2022	Joana A. Vidigal, PhD NIH Distinguished Scholar Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator Center for Cancer Research National Cancer Institute, NIH	TBD	Anastasia Khvorova, PhD
April 26, 2022	ChangHwan Lee, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Biological Sciences University of Albany, SUNY	TBD	David Grunwald, PhD
May 24, 2022	Nicola Allen, PhD Associate Professor, Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies	TBD	Craig Mello, PhD