National Center of Competence
in Research, RNA & Disease

RNA Biology Lecture Series

The aim of these lectures 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 2018: ETH Zurich)

Thursdays, 14:45-16:30, ETH Hönggerberg, HCI H 8.1

Course Catalogue ETH Zurich

  • 20.09.2018 Stefanie Jonas
    Transcription & RNP assembly
  • 27.09.2018 & 04.10.2018 Frédéric Allain 
    Splicing, alternative splicing & RNA editing
  • 11.10.2018 Michael Hall
    Signal transduction & RNA
  • 18.10.2018 & 25.10.2018 Norbert Polacek 
    Ribozymes & translation regulation
  • 01.11.2018 Ulrike Kutay
    RNP biogenesis & nuclear export I
  • 08.11.2018 Ivo Zemp
    RNP biogenesis & nuclear export II
  • 15.11.2018 & 22.11.2018 Nenad Ban 
    The ribosome structure & translation
  • 29.11.2018 & 06.12.2018 Oliver Mühlemann 
    mRNA turnover & Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay
  • 13.12.2018 David Gatfield
    Rhythmic transcriptome and proteome
  • 20.12.2018 Rory Johnson 
    Long noncoding RNAs in cancer

The information provided here is not binding and subject to change.

Lecture Series II: Non-coding RNAs: Biology & Therapeutics (Autumn Semester 2018: University of Bern)

Thursdays, 16:15-18:00, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Bern, Freiestrasse 3, room EG 16

Course Catalogue University of Bern

    • 20.09.2018 Jun Liu 
      Micro RNA biogenesis & function
    • 27.09.2018 & 04.10.2018 Markus Stoffel 
      Micro RNA function in metabolism
    • 11.10.2018 Mihaela Zavolan
      Micro RNAs: computational approaches
    • 18.10.2018 Marc Bühler
      Small RNAs in eukaryotic genome regulation
    • 25.10.2018 Martin Jinek
      CRISPR-Cas genome editing
    • 01.11.2018 & 08.11.2018 Jonathan Hall
      Nucleic acid-based drugs
    • 15.11.2018 & 22.11.2018 Mariusz Nowacki
      Epigenetic programming of genome remodelling in ciliates
    • 29.11.2018 Joachim Lingner 
      Telomerase and telomeres
    • 06.12.2018 Ramesh Pillai
      piRNA biogenesis & function
    • 13.12.2018 & 20.12.2018 André Schneider
      Mitochondrial tRNA import

    The information provided here is not binding and subject to change.