RNA Collaborative Seminar Series
The RNA Collaborative seminar series consists of RNA research centers worldwide working together to provide online seminars sharing new and exciting research with the RNA scientific community. The RNA Collaborative aims to cross-promote RNA research to strengthen and connect RNA research institutions around the world.
Scientists are welcome to present RNA-related research spanning from foundational discoveries to potential therapeutic applications. Each month, two host centers collaborate to present 2-4 research talks during a one-hour seminar session. Each speaker also holds a Q&A session to answer further questions from attendees after their talk concludes.
Seminars are held virtually the second Wednesday of each month (and the last Wednesday of March, September, and October), at either 10 am ET or 4 pm ET and are recorded and made freely available for viewing on the RNA Collaborative YouTube Channel.
2025 RNA Collaborative Seminar Series Schedule
Please see the RNA Society-sponsored page for up-to-date seminar schedule information: RNA Collaborative
RNA Collaborative seminars are sponsored by the RNA Society and are organized by the following international RNA Centers (29 current members and growing):
- Alberta RNA Research and Training Institute (ARRTI)
- Cambridge RNA Club
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
- Groupement de Recherche (GDR) RNA
- Harvard Medical School Initiative for RNA Medicine (HIRM)
- Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI)
- Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB)
- MD Anderson Center for RNA Interference and Non-Coding RNAs
- NCI RNA Biology Initiative
- NUS-CSI Singapore RNA Biology Center
- Penn Institute for RNA Innovation, University of Pennsylvania
- RiboClub Sherbrooke
- RNA initiative at the Italian Institute of Technology (iRNA@IIT)
- RNA MaxiGroup, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- RNA Research Centre in Poznan
- Shanghai RNA Club
- The Bay Area RNA Club (BARC)
- The OSU Center for RNA Biology
- The RNA Institute, SUNY University at Albany
- UCSC Center for Molecular Biology of RNA
- UMass Chan Medical School, RNA Therapeutics Institute
- University of Michigan Center for RNA Biomedicine
- UNC-CH RNA Discovery Center
- University of Rochester Center for RNA Biology
- University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) RNA Institute
- UNSW RNA Institute
- Yale Center for RNA Science and Medicine
- Zhejiang University (ZJU) Center for RNA Medicine
Please email Lindsay at Lindsay_Vicars@URMC.Rochester.edu for more information or to be added to the seminar distribution list.
Schedule
RNA Collaborative, Harvard: “A RNA-guided approach to epigenetic therapy” & “Efficient integration of spatial transcriptomics and single cell sequencing technologies for in depth tissue interrogation”
Annalisa Di Ruscio, MD, PhD; Ioannis Vlachos, PhD - Assistant Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School Initiative for RNA Medicine (HIRM); Assistant Professor of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School Initiative for RNA Medicine (HIRM)
Dec 15, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.
Zoom LinkHost: Frank Slack, PhD, Director, Harvard Medical School Initiative for RNA Medicine and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
RNA Collaborative, UPenn: "IMP-licating RNA binding proteins in intestinal tissue regeneration" & “Consequences of RNA-binding protein mutations in cancer”
Kathryn Hamilton, PhD; Peter Choi, PhD - Assistant Professor of Pediatrics; Co-Director, Gastrointestinal Epithelium Modeling Program Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia & Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania; Assistant Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia & Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Dec 01, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.
Zoom LinkHost: Kathy Liu, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine, Penn RNA Group, University of Pennsylvania
RNA Collaborative, RNA Institute, SUNY Albany: “RACK1 as a regulator of Protein biosynthesis” & “RNA shapes Zika virus gene expression”
Gabriele Fuchs, PhD; Cara Pager, PhD - Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, The RNA Institute, University at Albany, SUNY; Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences , The RNA Institute, University at Albany, SUNY
Nov 17, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.
Zoom LinkHost: Marlene Belfort, PhD, Distinguished Professor and Senior Advisor of The RNA Institute, University at Albany, SUNY
RNA Collaborative, UCSC: "Post-transcriptional control of oncogenic gene expression by IGF2BP3” & "Multiplexed single-molecule analysis of human telomerase catalysis"
Jeremy Sanford, PhD; Michael Stone, PhD - Professor of Molecular, Cell & Development Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Center for Molecular Biology of RNA ; Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, Center for Molecular Biology of RNA
Nov 03, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.
Zoom RegistrationHost: University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) Center for Molecular Biology of RNA
RNA Collaborative, HIRI: "CRISPR-Cas systems and the dilemma(s) of adaptive immunity” & "Uncovering host-pathogen interaction modalities using single-cell RNA-seq and RNA metabolic labeling"
Chase Beisel, PhD; Antoine-Emmanuel Saiba, PhD - “CRISPR-Cas systems and the dilemma(s) of adaptive immunity”, Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research, Würzburg, Germany; “Uncovering host-pathogen interaction modalities using single-cell RNA-seq and RNA metabolic labeling”, Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research, Würzburg, Germany
Oct 20, 2021 @ 9:00 a.m.
Zoom RegistrationHost: Prof. Neva Caliskan, Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI), Würzburg, Germany
RNA Collaborative, NUS-CSI: "Crosstalk between RNA editing and RNA splicing” & "Widespread 3’UTR splicing promotes oncogene expression and tumorigenesis”
Polly CHEN; & Yvonne TAY - “Crosstalk between RNA editing and RNA splicing”; “Widespread 3’UTR splicing promotes oncogene expression and tumorigenesis”, Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore
Oct 06, 2021 @ 9:00 a.m.
Zoom RegistrationHost: Daniel G. Tenen, RNA Biology Center, NUS-CSI
RNA Collaborative, NCI: "A small RNA perspective on genomic conflict” & “Targeting RNA with small molecules: tools and tactics”
Astrid Haase, MD, PhD; John (Jay) Schneekloth, Jr, PhD - “A small RNA perspective on genomic conflict”; “Targeting RNA with small molecules: tools and tactics”, NCI RNA Biology Initiative
Sep 22, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.
Zoom RegistrationHost: Host: Sandra Wolin, MD, PhD - National Cancer Institute RNA Biology Initiative
RNA Collaborative, UR: “DALRD3 targets specific arginine-tRNAs for 3-methylcytosine modification” & “Using conservation to determine RNA secondary structure”
Jenna Lentini, MS; David Matthews, MD, PhD - “DALRD3 targets specific arginine-tRNAs for 3-methylcytosine modification”; “Using conservation to determine RNA secondary structure”, University of Rochester
Sep 08, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.
Zoom RegistrationHost: Lynne Maquat, PhD, UR Center for RNA Biology
RNA Collaborative, IMB Mainz: "Regulation of neurodegeneration-linked RNA-binding proteins by nuclear import receptors and post-translational modifications" & "Small RNAs and epigenetic inheritance"
Prof. Dorothee Dormann, PhD; Prof. René Ketting, PhD - Johannes Gutenberg University, JGU & Institute of Molecular Biology, IMB Mainz, Germany; Institute of Molecular Biology, IMB Mainz, Germany
Aug 25, 2021 @ 9:00 a.m.
Zoom Registration LinkHost: Julian König, PhD, IMB Mainz, Germany
RNA Collaborative, RiboClub: "Insights into the subcellular travels of cellular RNAs and RNA binding proteins"
Éric Lécuyer, PhD - Principal Investigator & Associate Professor at IRCM / UdeM - Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine / McGill - Experimental Medicine, Montréal, Québec, RiboClub, Canada
Aug 11, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.
Zoom Registration LinkHost: Sherif Abou Elela, PhD, RiboClub
RNA Collaborative: “SINEUPs: a new functional class of antisense long non-coding RNAs”
Prof. Stefano Gustincich, PhD - Associate Director for Technologies for Life Science (LifeTech); Director - Central RNA Laboratory, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia – IIT Genova, Italy
Jul 14, 2021 @ 9:00 a.m.
Zoom registrationHost: Gian Gaetano Tartaglia, RNA Initiative at Italian Institute of Technology (iRNA@IIT); Moderator: Prof. Gian Gaetano Tartaglia, PhD
“Dynamic multivalent interactions drive mammalian RNA regulation” & “Characterizing cellular RNA-protein interaction networks with chemical probes”
Sethu Pitchiaya, PhD & Chase Weidmann, PhD - University of Michigan, Center for RNA Biomedicine
Jun 30, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.
Zoom RegistrationHost: Nils Walter, PhD, Co-Director, U-M Center for RNA Biomedicine
"Revealing new functions for ancient RNA modifying enzymes in health and disease" & "Mechanisms of posttranscriptional regulation during the maternal to zygotic transition"
Wendy V. Gilbert, PhD & Antonio Giraldez, PhD - Yale Center for RNA Science and Medicine
Jun 16, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.
Zoom RegistrationHost: Jessie Mohsen, Yale Center for RNA Science and Medicine
“An evolutionarily conserved structure-to-function axis governs the functional mechanism of the regulatory lncRNA MEG3“ & “Mechanistic dissection of SPEN function during X chromosome inactivation”
Lena Anastasakou (PhD student, Marco Marcia Lab) & François Dossin (PhD student, Edith Heard Lab) - European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
Jun 02, 2021 @ 9:00 a.m.
Zoom RegistrationHost: Marco Marcia, PhD (EMBL)
“Quadruplexes are everywhere” & “RNA Epigenetics steers colorectal cancer cell fate”
Jean-Louis Mergny, PhD (Ecole Polytechnique) & Alexandre David, PhD (Institute of Functional Genomics) - Groupe de Recherche RNA (GDR)
May 20, 2021 @ 9:00 a.m.
Zoom RegistrationHost: Fabrice Leclerc, PhD (Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC))
“A small-molecule targeted RNA degradation approach: empowering RNA methylation analysis” & “Mechanistic insight into the mRNA poly(A) tail machinery"
Gonçalo Bernades, PhD & Lori Passmore, PhD - Cambridge RNA Club
May 05, 2021 @ 9:00 a.m.
Zoom RegistrationHost: Eric Miska, PhD
“Structural insights into molecular mechanism for N6-adenosine methylation by MT-A70 family" & "A fight against SARS-CoV-2 powered by RNA structure systems biology and machine intelligence”
Jinbiao Ma, PhD (Fudan Univ) & Qiangfeng Zhang, PhD (Tsinghua Univ) - Shanghai RNA Club
Apr 21, 2021 @ 9:00 a.m.
Zoom webinarHost: Jinzhong Lin, PhD
RNA Collaborative: “RNA chaperones remodel gene expression” & “Data-inspired genome technology for RNA-guided recombineering and lineage recording”
Stephen Floor, PhD (UCSF) & Le Cong, PhD (Stanford) - The Bay Area RNA Club
Apr 07, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.
Zoom LinkHost: The Bay Area RNA Club
“Efficient chemical RNA copying with 2-aminoimidazole activated nucleotides” & “Sensing RNA: from microRNA biogenesis to innate immunity”
Li Li, PhD & Wenwen Fang, PhD - UMass Medical School, RNA Therapeutics Institute
Mar 24, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.
Zoom LinkHost: Erik Sontheimer, PhD
“Grad School to Biotech: A start up perspective” & “RNA Innovation: The power of academic and industry collaborations”
Wieden Group (Luc Roberts, Kristi Turton, and Riya Roy) - Alberta RNA Research and Training Institute (ARRTI)
Mar 10, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.
Zoom Link"A timely confluence: The backstory of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine"
Melissa J. Moore, PhD, Moderna Therapeutics - U-M Center for RNA Biomedicine
Mar 03, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.
Zoom RegistrationHost: Nils Walter, PhD, Co-Director, U-M Center for RNA Biomedicine
"Structural and molecular basis for Cardiovirus 2A protein as a viral gene expression switch" & "The SARS-CoV-2 RNA–protein interactome in infected human cells"
Neva Caliskan, PhD & Mathias Munschauer, PhD - Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI)
Feb 24, 2021 @ 9:00 a.m.
Zoom Registration“Ribosome collisions and sites of quality control revealed by ribosome profiling” & “CRISPR screening to identify biologically important microRNA targets”
Nicholas Guydosh, PhD & Katherine McJunkin, PhD - NCI RNA Biology Initiative
Jan 13, 2021 @ 4:00 p.m.
Zoom Registration