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, EMBL: "Liquid or solid - Do material properties of RNP granules matter in vivo?" & "Molecular insights into the remodelling of roX lncRNA during Drosophila dosage compensation"
Mainak Bose, PhD; Pravin Jagtap, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow, Ephrussi Group, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany; Postdoctoral Fellow, Hennig Group, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Mar 09, 2022 @ 10:00 a.m.
Zoom RegistrationHost: Janosch Hennig, PhD, Group Leader, Structural and Computational Biology Unit, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
RNA Collaborative, University of Rochester: "Hyperactive translation programs during cardiac remodeling" & "Unexpected interactions within the integrator complex"
Peng Yao, PhD; Eric J. Wagner, PhD - Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute; Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics; Member, UR Center for RNA Biology, University of Rochester Center for RNA Biology; Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics; Member, Wilmot Cancer Institute; Member, UR Center for RNA Biology, University of Rochester Center for RNA Biology
Feb 23, 2022 @ 4:00 p.m.
Zoom RegistrationHost: Lynne E. Maquat, PhD, J. Lowell Orbison Endowed Chair and Professor, Departments of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Oncology, and Pediatrics; Director, UR Center for RNA Biology; Chair, UR GWIS
RNA Collaborative, USTC: "CircRNA subclasses and functions" & "The role of long noncoding RNAs in brain aging"
Ge Shan, PhD; Xiaoyuan Song, PhD - Professor, Laboratory of Functional Study for noncoding RNAs, School of Life Sciences, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, China; Professor, Laboratory of Aging and Transcriptional Regulation, School of Life Sciences, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, China
Feb 09, 2022 @ 10:00 a.m.
Zoom RegistrationHost: Shouhong Guang, PhD, Professor, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, University of Science & Technology of China (USTC) RNA Institute, Hefei, China
RNA Collaborative, U Michigan: “Consequences of uridine modifications on translation” & “Repeat associated Non-AUG initiated Translation in neurodegenerative disease”
Kristin Koutmou, PhD; Peter Todd, MD, PhD - Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan Center for RNA Biomedicine; Professor and Associate Chair for Research, Department of Neurology, University of Michigan Center for RNA Biomedicine
Jan 26, 2022 @ 4:00 p.m.
Zoom RegistrationHost: Mats Ljungman, Ph.D., Co-Director, University of Michigan Center for RNA Biomedicine; Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan Medical School
RNA Collaborative, UW-Madison: Graduate Student Talks
Justin Mabin; Bo Peng; Brian Carrick - “Human spliceosomal snRNA sequence variants generate variant spliceosomes”, PhD Candidate, Cellular and Molecular Biology Program, Peter Lewis and David Brow Labs, Department of Biomolecular Chemistry; “Characterization of RNA binding protein regulation in neural stem cell quiescence exit”, MD/PhD Candidate, MSTP and Cellular and Molecular Biology Programs, Darcie Moore Lab, Department of Neuroscience; “Unraveling the multiple key roles of a single RBP in development”, PhD Candidate, Marvin Wickens and Judith Kimble Labs, Department of Biochemistry
Jan 12, 2022 @ 4:00 p.m.
Zoom Webinar RegistrationHost: Aaron Hoskins, PhD, RNA MaxiGroup, University of Wisconsin-Madison