RTI Calendar

Nadia Amrani, PhD (Sontheimer Lab)  

Title: “The Type II-C Neisseria meningitidis Cas9 is an Intrinsically High-Fidelity Genome Editing Enzyme.”

G. W. Gant Luxton, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
Assistant Professor
Title: “Mechanisms of LINC Complex Assembly and Regulation During Mechanotransduction Across the Nuclear Envelope”

Stephen Floor, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow from the Jennifer Doudna Lab at UC Berkeley

Title:" “Control of human translation by RNA chaperones and transcript isoforms.”

Nicolas Fawzi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Medical Science   Brown University

Title: “Structural biology of low complexity protein domain aggregation and phase separation in ALS and cancers.”

Matthew Shoulders, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
Title: “Making Bone:  Solving Complex Protein Folding Challenges in the ER”

Harry F. Noller, PhD
Robert L. Sinsheimer Prof. of Molecular Biology, Director of Center for Molecular Biology of RNA
University of California Santa Cruz
Department of Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology
Title: “RNA Mechanics and Translation”

Guangyu Xu, Ph.D.,

Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UMass Amherst

Title: “Building Integrated Molecule Detection and Multiplexed Cell Imaging Tools for Personal Health.”

"Transposon control and genome organization”
William Theurkauf
Molecular Medicine
 
"TDP-43, a key Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) protein, regulates alternative polyadenylation”
Lingtao Peng
Moore Lab
 
"Cryo-EM brings insights into rescue
of stalled ribosomes”
Gabriel Demo
Korostelev Lab

Stephen C. Blacklow, MD, Ph.D.
Professor
Harvard Medical School
TItle: “Unraveling Notch Signal Transduction”

Manju Hingorani, Ph.D.
Professor
Wesleyan University
Title: “DNA mismatch repair – mopping up after messy polymerases”