RNA Biology Lecture Series
The aim of the RNA Biology Lecture Series is to provide a comprehensive educational offering in the field of RNA Biology for MSc and PhD students. The NCCR RNA & Disease offers the unique chance to have lectures taught by leading experts in the field from five Swiss research institutions covering a wide range of aspects of RNA biology.
The lectures take place in the autumn semester and will alternate each year between the University of Bern and ETH Zurich.
Lecture Series I: Transcription & Processing & Translation (Autumn Semester 2025: University of Bern)
Thursdays, 16:15-18:00, EG16, Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bern
Course Catalogue University of Bern
- 18.09.2025 Stefanie Jonas
Transcription - 25.09.2025 & 02.10.2025 Frédéric Allain
Splicing, alternative splicing & RNA editing - 09.10.2025 Marc-David Ruepp
minor intron splicing & liquid-liquid phase separation - 16.10.2025 Ulrike Kutay
RNP biogenesis & nuclear export - 23.10.2025 Raffaella Santoro
Long non-coding RNAs and chromatin regulation - 30.10.2025 & 06.11.2025 Oliver Mühlemann
Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay & mRNA turnover - 13.11.2024 Nenad Ban
The ribosome structure & translation - 20.11.2025 Ataman Sendoel
Translation control and disease - 27.11.2025 Volker Thiel
Coronavirus replication - 04.12.2025 Jeffrey Chao
RNA localization - 11.12.2025 & 18.12.2024 Norbert Polacek
Ribozymes & translation regulation
The information provided here is not binding and subject to change.
Lecture Series II: Non-coding RNAs: Biology & Therapeutics (Autumn Semester 2025: ETH Zurich)
Thursdays, 15:45-17:30, HCI J4, ETH Hönggerberg, Zurich
- 18.09.2025 Helge Grosshans
Micro RNA biogenesis & function - 25.09.2025 Magdalini Polymenidou
RNA and neurodegeneration - 02.10.2025 Mariusz Nowacki
Epigenetic programming of genome remodelling in ciliates (Vol. 1) - 09.10.2025 Markus Stoffel
Micro RNA function in metabolism - 16.10.2025 & 23.10.2025 Jonathan Hall
Nucleic acid-based drugs - 30.10.2025 Michael Hall
Signal transduction & RNA - 06.11.2025 Raphaëlle Luisier
AI for RNA biology - 13.11.2025 Jacob Corn
CRISPR-Cas genome editing - 20.11.2025 Mariusz Nowacki
Epigenetic programming of genome remodelling in ciliates (Vol. 2) - 27.11.2025 & 04.12.2025 Sebastian Leidel
tRNA biology - 11.12.2025 Ramesh Pillai
piRNA biogenesis & function - 18.12.2025 Mihaela Zavolan
RNA processing code
The information provided here is not binding and subject to change.