NCCR RNA & Disease Seminar Series
Upcoming Seminars
May 2021: Rachel Green - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
"TBA"
17.05.2021, 16:30, University of Bern (if the Covid-19 measures allow for an on-site seminar)
18.05.2021, 16:00, ETH Zurich (if the Covid-19 measures allow for an on-site seminar)
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
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