NCCR RNA & Disease Seminar Series
Upcoming Seminars
Mai 2024: Susan Gottesman - National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
"Bacterial Small RNAs: Regulatory Circuits, On and Off Switches, and Quality Control"
6.5.2024, University of Bern, DCBP UG113
7.5.2024, ETH Zurich Hönggerberg, HPM H33
June 2024: Laura Ranum - University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
"Repeat associated non-AUG (RAN) proteins in neurologic disease: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities"
3.6.2024, University of Bern, DCBP UG113
4.6.2024, University of Zurich Irchel Campus, room to be announced
June 2024: Rhiju Das - Stanford University, Stanford, USA
"Worldwide competitions and the RNA folding problem"
17.6.2024, University of Bern, DCBP EG16
18.6.2024, ETH Zurich Hönggerberg, HPM H33
October 2024: Cynthia Sharma - University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
Title to be announced
30.09.2024, University of Bern, DCBP UG113
01.10.2024, ETH Zurich Hönggerberg, room to be announced
December 2024: Elena Conti - Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Title to be announced
09.12.2024, University of Bern, DCBP UG113
10.12.2024, ETH Zurich Hönggerberg, room to be announced
Past Seminars 2023/2024
March 2024: Roland Beckmann - Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
"Structural basis of cotranslational quality control"
4.3.2024, University of Bern, DCBP, UG113
5.3.2024, ETH Zurich Hönggerberg, HPM H33
February 2024: David Tollervey - University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
"Lighting up RNA-protein interactions"
26.2.2024, University of Bern
27.2.2024, ETH Zurich
November 2023: Thomas Cooper - Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA
"Mechanistic insights of RNA toxicity and disrupted RNA processing from modeling Myotonic Dystrophy in mice"
27.11.2023, 16:30, University of Bern, DCBP UG113
28.11.2023, 16:00, ETH Zurich, HCI G3
October 2023: Joseph Puglisi - Stanford University, California, USA
"The molecular choreography of translation initiation"
23.10.2023, University of Bern, DCBP
24.10.2023, ETH Zurich
October 2023: Don Cleveland - University of California, San Diego, USA
"Development of “designer DNA drug therapy” for neurogenerative disease"
02.10.2023, University of Bern, DCBP
03.10.2023, University of Zurich, Irchel
Past Seminars 2022/2023
October 2022: Juli Feigon - University of California, Los Angeles, USA
"Structural biology of telomerase activity and interactions at telomeres"
3.10. 2022, University of Bern
4.10. 2022, ETH Zurich
October 2022: Archa Fox - The University of Western Australia, Perth Australia
"A journey into the nucleus: ‘Lnc-ing’ paraspeckles, lncRNA, RNA processing and phase separation"
10.10. 2022, University of Bern
11.10. 2022, University of Zurich
October 2022: Clemens Plaschka - Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna Austria
"How to recognise and package nuclear mRNA"
31.10. 2022, University of Bern
1.11. 2022, ETH Zurich
November 2022: Mary O’ Connell - Ceitec, Brno, Czech Republic
"Elucidating the role of the RNA editing enzyme ADAR1 in innate immunity"
14.11.2022, DCBP U113, University of Bern
15.11.2022, HCI G3, ETH Zurich
November 2022: Jeannie Lee - Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, USA
"Lessons Learned from Targeting RNA for Therapeutic Benefit"
28.11.2022, University of Bern
29.11.2022, ETH Zurich
December 2022: Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne - MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Charlestown, USA
"Disruption of RNA metabolism in neurodegenerative diseases and emerging therapeutic strategies"
5.12.2022,University of Bern
6.12.2022,University of Zurich
April 2023: Maria Carmo-Fonseca - Instituto de Medicina Molecular, University of Lisbon, Portugal
"Antisense transcription during cell fate commitment"
3.4.2023, University of Bern
4.4.2023, ETH Zurich
May 2023: Anna Marie Pyle - Yale University, New Haven, USA
Bern: "The innate immune receptor RIG-I couples protein folding with host- pathogen differentiation"
Zurich: "Visualizing and targeting the tertiary architecture of RNA retroelements: the Achilles’ heel of fungal pathogens"
8.5.2023, University of Bern
9.5.2023, ETH Zurich
May 2023: Claudia Höbartner - University of Würzburg, Germany
"RNA-catalyzed RNA modifications "
22.5.2023, University of Bern
23.5.2023, ETH Zurich
Past Seminars 2021/2022
November 2021: Anne Willis - University of Cambridge, UK
"Post translation control of gene expression in healthy and diseased states."
1.11. 2021, University of Bern
2.11. 2021, ETH Zurich
December 2021: Hervé Le Hir - Institute of Biology, ENS, Paris, France
"Extended role of the Exon Junction Complex in mRNA trafficking"
6.12.2021, University of Bern
7.12.2021, ETH Zurich
March 2022: Gisela Storz - National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
"RNA-mediated regulation within protein-coding sequences"
14.3. 2022, University of Bern
15.3. 2022, University of Zurich
May 2022: Geraldine Seydoux - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
“Regulation of RNA granule assembly by intrinsically-disordered proteins”
2.5. 2022, University of Bern
3.5. 2022, ETH Zurich
May 2022: John Mattick - School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, UNSW, Sydney, Australia
“RNA, the Epicentre of Genetic Information”
Website Mattick Lab
6.5. 2022, ETH Zurich
May 2022: Amy Pasquinelli - University of California, San Diego, USA
"Less Stress with MicroRNAs"
16.5. 2022, University of Bern
17.5. 2022, ETH Zurich
Past Seminars 2020/2021
January 2021: Roy Parker - University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
"Alterations in RNA physiology affecting tauopathies and viral infections"
25.01.2021, via Zoom
February 2021: Maria Barna - Stanford University, Stanford, USA
"Ribosomes in Gene Regulation: Controlling the diversity of proteins made in specific cells, tissues, and organisms"
22.02.2021, via Zoom
March 2021: Xiang-Dong Fu - University of California, San Diego, USA
"RNA Biology in the Core to Understand and Treat Neurodegenerative Diseases"
01.03.2021, via Zoom
May 2021: Rachel Green - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
"Ribosome collisions function as a sentinel for cellular distress"
14.06. 2021, University of Bern & via Zoom
Past Seminars 2019/2020
September: Christine Mayr - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
"Regulation of protein functions by 3’UTRs"
23.9.2019, University of Bern
24.9.2019, ETH Zurich
October: Bryan Cullen - Duke University, Durham USA
"Viral epitranscriptomics"
07.10.2019, University of Bern
08.10.2019, ETH Zurich
October: David Bartel - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
"MicroRNAs"
14.10.2019, University of Bern
15.10.2019, ETH Zurich
October: Paul Anderson - Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
"Angiogenin, tRNA and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis"
21.10.2019, University of Bern
22.10.2019, ETH Zurich
November: Phil Bevilacqua -Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA
"Enhancement of Small Ribozyme Function By Biological Solution Conditions and Confinement"
18.11.2019, University of Bern
19.11.2019 ETH Zurich
February: Lori Passmore, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
"Mechanistic insights into the mRNA poly(A) tail machinery"
03.02.2020, University of Bern
04.02.2020, ETH Zurich
Past Seminars 2018/2019
October: Ling-Ling Chen - Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai, China
"Unconventional long noncoding RNAs"
01.10.2018 University of Bern
02.10.2018, ETH Zurich
November: Matthias Hentze - EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
"Hidden treasures of the RNA world"
12.11.2018 University of Bern
13.11.2018 ETH Zurich
December: Marina Rodnina - Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
"Ribosome dynamics during mRNA decoding and recoding"
03.12.2018 University of Bern
04.12.2018 ETH Zurich
March: Jennifer Doudna - University of California, Berkeley, USA
"CRISPR Systems: From Biology to Biotechnology"
04.03.2019, University of Bern
05.03.2019, ETH Zurich
March: Alexander Mankin - University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
"Something about the ribosomes and antibiotics"
18.03.2019, University of Bern
19.03.2019, ETH Zurich
May: Michaela Frye - German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
"RNA methylation in controlling gene expression during stem cell differentiation"
13.05.2019, University of Bern
14.05.2019, HCI G3, ETH Zurich
Past Seminars 2017/2018
October: Chuan He - Department of Chemistry and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago,Chicago, USA
"RNA methylation in gene expression regulation"
30.10.2017, University of Bern
31.10.2017, ETH Zurich
November: Mariano Garcia-Blanco - University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA
Invited by the PhD students of the RNA Biology PhD Program
"Flaviviral RNAs and host innate immunity: a love-hate relationship"
13.11.2017, University of Bern
14.11.2017, ETH Zurich
December: Bertrand Séraphin - Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Strasbourg, France
"Starting from the ends: from eukaryotic mRNA decay mechanisms to diseases"
04.12.2017, University of Bern
05.12.2017, ETH Zurich
February: Fátima Gebauer - Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain
“Role of RNA binding proteins in cancer progression“
26.02.2018, University of Bern
27.02.2018, ETH Zurich
April: Gene Yeo - Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, USA
“Understanding and engineering protein-RNA interactions for human therapeutics“
09.04.2018, University of Bern
12.04.2018, ETH Zurich
May: Michelle Hastings - Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, Chicago, USA
"RNA Therapeutics: Splice-switching Antisense Oligonucleotides for the Treatment of Neurological Disease"
07.05.2018, University of Bern
08.05.2018, ETH Zurich
May: Leemor Joshua-Tor - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, USA
“Mad about U: regulating the let7 pre-miRNA“
14.05.2018, University of Bern
15.05.2018, ETH Zurich
Past Seminars 2016/2017
September: Maurice Swanson - Dept. of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
"RNA-mediated Disease Mechanisms"
26.09.2016,University of Bern
27.09.2016,ETH Zurich
October: Jeffrey Kieft - Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado, Denver, USA
"Structured, dynamic viral RNAs and the ancient art of molecular warfare"
03.10.2016, University of Bern
04.10.2016, ETH Zurich
October: Sarah Woodson - Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
"Hfq chaperone keeps non-coding RNAs on the move"
24.10.2016, University of Bern
25.10.2016, ETH Zurich
November: Pascale Romby - Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IBMC, Strasbourg, France
"Multiple regulatory RNAs in Staphylococcus aureus coordinate stress responses and metabolism adaptation to virulence gene expression"
14.11.2016, University of Bern
15.11.2016, ETH Zurich
February: Irene Bozzoni - Department of Biology and Biotechnology Charles Darwin, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
"RNA-mediated regulatory circuitries in normal and pathological muscle function"
20.02.2017, University of Bern
21.02.2017, ETH Zurich
March: Brenda Bass - Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
"ADARs, Dicer, and the dsRNAome"
27.03.2017, University of Bern
28.03.2017, ETH Zurich
April: Tom Cech - Department of Chemistry &Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Bern:"The RNP World: Telomerase and Cancer"
Zurich & Lausanne:"Long Noncoding RNAs and Epigenetic Gene Silencing"
03.04.2017, University of Bern
04.04.2017, ETH Zurich
05.04.2017, EPF Lausanne
April: Christopher Burge - Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
"The impact of RNA sequence and structural context on protein binding"
24.04.2017, University of Bern
25.04.2017, ETH Zurich
May: Juan Valcarcel - Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain
"Networks of alternative splicing regulation in cancer"
08.05.2017, University of Bern
09.05.2017, ETH Zurich
May: Stuart Wilson - University of Sheffield, UK
Invited by the PhD students of the RNA Biology PhD Program
"Nuclear retention and export mechanisms for RNA in humans"
15.05.2017, University of Bern
16.05.2017, ETH Zurich
Past Seminars 2015/2016
October: Renée Schroeder - Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Vienna, Austria
"Natural RNA-polymerase aptamers that control transcription"
26.10.2015, University of Bern
27.10.2015, ETH Zurich
November: Melissa Moore - University of Massachusetts Medical School and HHMI, Worcester, USA
"Spliceosome and mRNP Structure Function and Dynamics"
16.11.2015, University of Bern
17.11.2015, ETH Zurich
December: Jernej Ule - Department of Molecular Neuroscience, University College London, UK
Bern: "Regulation of gene expression by retrotransposon-derived RNA elements"
Zurich: "Understanding the secondary structure of full-length mRNAs"
30.11.2015, University of Bern
1.12.2015, ETH Zurich
February: Rachel Green - Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and HHMI, Baltimore, USA
"Connections between ribosome function and mRNA stability revealed by biochemistry and ribosome profiling"
22.02.2016, University of Bern
23.02.2016, ETH Zurich
March: Kiyoshi Nagai - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
"Architecture and evolution of the spliceosome"
14.03.2016, University of Bern
15.03.2016, ETH Zurich
April: Muthiah Manoharan - Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, USA
"RNAi Therapeutics: From Base-Pairs to Bedside utilizing Chemistry"
18.04.2016, University of Bern
19.04.2016, ETH Zurich
Website Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
May: Karla Neugebauer - Yale University, New Haven, USA
"Cross-regulation between transcription and pre-mRNA splicing in vivo"
30.05.2016, University of Bern
31.05.2016, ETH Zurich
Past Seminars 2014/2015
September: Adrian R. Ferré-D'Amaré - NIH, Bethesda, USA
"Ribosome-free tRNA-mRNA recognition: regulation of gene expression by the T-box riboswitch"
15.09.2014, University of Bern
16.09.2014, ETH Zurich
November: Joan A. Steitz - Yale University and HHMI, New Haven, USA
"Noncoding RNAs; with a viral twist"
03.11.2014, University of Bern
04.11.2014, ETH Zurich
December: V. Narry Kim - Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
"Regulation of MicroRNA Biogenesis"
15.12.2014, University of Bern
16.12.2014, ETH Zurich
February: Javier Caceres - MRC Human Genetics Unit & University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
"MicroRNA biogenesis and function"
23.02.2015, University of Bern
24.02.2015, ETH Zurich,
April: Allan S. Jacobson - University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA
"Genetic nonsense: from bench to bedside"
27.04.2015, University of Bern
28.04.2015, ETH Zurich,
May: Ronald Micura - Institute of Organic Chemistry, CMBI, Universities of Innsbruck, Austria
"RNA chemistry - From ribozymes to riboswitches to novel RNA modifications"
18.05.2015, University of Bern
19.05.2015, ETH Zurich