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DBB Seminar: “Tackling Functional Elements in the Putative Noncoding Genome: Polyadenylation and Noncanonical Translation”

Zhe Ji, PhD - Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Feinberg School of Medicine; Department of Biomedical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

 Sep 25, 2024 @ 2:00 p.m.
 Medical Center | K-307

Host: Dr. Yi-Tao Yu (co-sponsored by the RNA Structure & Function Cluster)

DBB Seminar: “The Mechanism of Translation Termination Informs Approaches to Suppress Nonsense Mutations”

David M. Bedwell, PhD - Professor and Chair, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics; James C. & Elizabeth T. Lee Endowed Chair of Biochemistry; Associate Director, Gregory Fleming James CF Research Center, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham

 Oct 02, 2024 @ 2:00 p.m.
 Medical Center | K-307

Host: Dr. Yi-Tao Yu (co-sponsored by the RNA Structure & Function Cluster)

DBB Seminar: “How Genes Turn Off”

Scott Hiebert, PhD - Professor,, Department of Biochemistry; Associate Professor, Department of Medicine; Hortense B. Ingram Chair in Cancer Research, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

 Oct 09, 2024 @ 2:00 p.m.
 Medical Center | K-307

Host: T32 graduate student, Hannah Clary & Dr. Kielkopf (co-sponsored by the NIH NIGMS T32 Training Grant in Cellular, Biochemical and Molecular Sciences, Dr. Lynne Maquat, PI & Dr. Jeffrey Hayes, Co-PI)

Call for Abstracts! UR & UAlbany’s 2024 New York RNA Symposium in the Finger Lakes

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October 14-15, 2024
Hotel Canandaigua, a Tapestry by Hilton
205 Lakeshore Dr.
Canandaigua, NY 14424

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We are pleased to announce our upcoming 2024 New York Symposium in the Finger Lakes, co-organized and hosted by the University of Rochester Center for RNA Biology and The RNA Institute at the University at Albany. This year's meeting will be held at the Hotel Canandaigua on October 14-15th, 2024. The symposium will feature a rich exchange of information leveraging the innovative and interdisciplinary research ongoing within the regional RNA community (including primarily New England and mid-Atlantic states).

The symposium will feature keynote talks, invited faculty talks, and trainee presentations (including posters, 15-minute talks, and 1-min lightning talks selected from abstract submissions). This year’s event is trainee-focused, with a networking lunch, a trainee gathering the day before the formal meeting starts (to be held on Oct 13th), poster and talk awards, and opportunities for trainees to interact with senior scientists and industry partners.

Keynote Speakers:

  • Eckhard Jankowsky, PhD, VP of RNA Science, Moderna
  • Karla Neugebauer, PhD, Director, Yale Center for RNA Science & Medicine
  • Sally Temple, PhD, Co-Founder and Scientific Director, Neural Stem Cell Institute
  • Blanton Tolbert, PhD, (UR Alumnus) VP of Science Leadership and Culture, HHMI; Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania

Faculty Speakers:

  • Mitchell O’Connell, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics; Member, Center for RNA Biology; University of Rochester Medical Center
  • Kathleen McDonough, PhD, Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, The RNA Institute, University at Albany

Early-bird registration, abstract submission, and hotel deadline: September 13th

  • Registration costs include meals and attendance for both days.
  • Trainees, plan to arrive Sun, Oct 13th in time for an early afternoon event (TBD).
  • Abstracts should be submitted separately using this template; see Abstracts for more info
    • Abstract submission closes after September 13, 2024
  • Hotel Accommodations must be booked separately from registration.
    • Click here for our event hotel booking links & rates.
    • UR trainees are encouraged to double-up at the 2-Queen room rate at the Hotel Canandaigua.

Visit our Symposium Page     Register Today

If you have any questions, please reach out to FingerLakesRNA@urmc.rochester.edu.

 

 Oct 14, 2024 @ 8:00 a.m.

DBB Seminar: “Ribosome Stalling and Angiogenin Function in ALS and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases”

Andrei Korostelev, PhD - Professor, RNA Therapeutics Institute, UMASS Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA “Ribosome Stalling

 Nov 06, 2024 @ 2:00 p.m.
 Medical Center | K-307

Host: Dr. Dmitri Ermolenko (co-sponsored by the Protein Synthesis Cluster and by the RNA Structure & Function Cluster)

DBB Seminar: “Evolution of mRNA Translational Control Mechanisms”

Amy Si-Ying Lee, PhD - Assistant Professor, Department of Cancer Immunology & Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

 Nov 13, 2024 @ 2:00 p.m.
 Medical Center | K-307

Host: Dr. Dmitri Ermolenko and Dr. Eric Phizicky (co-sponsored by the Protein Synthesis Cluster and by the RNA Structure & Function Cluster)