The Messenger - The NCCR RNA & Disease Newsletter

Editorial
Frédéric Allain (Read here)
Interview Volker Thiel
"Do what your curiosity in science drives you into. And just do it." (Read here)
Research Highlights
Clogging the Ribosome to go Viral (Read here) / JAZF1 tips the balance in metabolic stress responses (Read here)
Lab Exchange Experience
When COVID19 hit New York City – A research stay experience of a different kind (Read here)
Events
Computational RNA Biology Summer Schoo (Read here) / Digital Reputation Building in Science Seminar and Workshop (Read here) / 2nd bench2biz Workshop (Read here)
Announcements
People, events, jobs, support grants and more (pdf only, click image on the left)

Editorial
Oliver Mühlemann (Read here)
Interview Michael N. Hall
"For a very long time, people did not even understand what we were saying, let alone accept or dismiss it." (Read here)
Research Highlights
Keeping RNA helicases in check (Read here) / Towards a treatment of Erythropoietic protoporphyria (Read here)
Events
5^th NCCR RNA & Disease Retreat (Read here) / 1^st bench2biz Workshop (Read here) / 21^st Swiss RNA Workshop (Read here)
Announcements
People, events, jobs, support grants and more (pdf only, click image on the left)

Editorial
Norbert Polacek (Read here)
Interview Joan A. Steitz
"Do not give up and stick to it, even if public opinion is against you." (Read here)
Research Highlights
Post-transcriptional functions of a developmental regulator (Read here) / Translating time (Read here)
Predoc Program RNA & Disease Switzerland
A Unique Opportunity in Switzerland (Read here)
Public outreach
Molecool - Cosmos RNA (Read here) / Scientifica Zurich Science Days (Read here)
3rd NCCR RNA & Disease Summer School
RNA Regulation in Health and Disease (Read here)
Announcements 
People, events, jobs, support grants and more (pdf only, click image on the left)

Message from the director's desk
Oliver Mühlemann (Read here)
Interview Matthias Hentze
"The field as such was not looking for such types of RNA-binding proteins." (Read here)
Meeting Reports
Austrian Swiss RNA Meeting (Read here)/ Swiss RNA Workshop 2019 (Read here)
Research highlights
Still conFUSed? (Read here) / Turbocharger for the cell machinery (Read here)
Announcements 
People, events, jobs, support grants and more (pdf only, click image on the left)

Editorial
Ana Claudia Marques
Success stories of three NCCR RNA & Disease professors 
Passion and diligence: A silver bullet to reach the top?
Is unconscious bias piercing the pipe?
How does implicit bias hinder career progression?
Lessons learned from the pioneers of the “Pregnancy and Maternity leave compensation” scheme 
Bridging parental leave in an academic environment
STEMM Equality Congress 2018 
International exchange of strategies – Lessons learned
Role models and mentoring 
Inspiration by role models    
Research highlights
Too much Stress and Pressure/ Ribosomal proteins taking over / If it’s complex, it’s possibly quadruplex
Announcements 
People, events, jobs, support grants and more

Editorial
David Gatfield
Retrospect Phase 1
Propelling Swiss RNA Research forward
Interview with the co-directors
"There are plenty of interesting stories ... We just need to tell them"
Research highlights
Disrupting Telomerase / miRNAs are not just "on" or "off" / RNA impact maps
Announcements
People, events, jobs, support grants and more

Editorial
Ramesh Pillai
Interview with Chuan He
"There is no room for a zoo of modifications on mRNA"
Research highlights
Cleaving with preferences / How to undo splicing deficits / TRICK and TREAT
Technology platforms
High-Throughput Crystallization Platform / Structural Mass Spectrometry Platform
NCCR Retreat
Fostering the Network Spirit
Announcements
People, events, support grants and more 

Editorial
Norbert Polacek
Interview with Juan Valcárcel
"RNA should in a way be an icon of our culture."
Research highlights
It matters how we (or RNA) are born / Sending a second messenger
2nd NCCR RNA & Disease summer school
RNA & RNP architecture: from structure to function to disease
Public outreachSpreading scientific knowledge and passion
Bridging ideasCSM lab retreat
Announcements People, events, support grants and more

Message from the director’s desk
Oliver Mühlemann
Interview with Thomas R. Cech
"For them, it was a weird organism doing a weird thing"
Research highlights
Protein polymerization preventing pathological aggregation / CLIR sight on protein–RNA interactions
Stefanie Jonas
New NCCR RNA & Disease Junior PI
Announcements
People, events, support grants and more

Editorial
Frédéric Allain
Junior principal investigators of the NCCR RNA & Disease
Fostering the new generation of Swiss RNA researchers
Research highlights
A noncanonical way out of pluripotency / Identifying the drivers amongst the passengers
Unconscious bias
Detecting and mitigating bias
Announcements
People, events, support grants and more

Editorial
Oliver Mühlemann
Interview with Jonathan Hall
Exciting developments in the field of oligonucleotide drugs
Research highlights
Stop does not always mean stop / A protein as a “lock keeper”
Mobility grant
A great opportunity to build international connections
Announcements
People, events, support grants and more

Editorial
Thomas A. Cooper
Interview with Prof. Daniel Schümperli
"The field has kept on providing surprises and interesting things that nobody ever believed possible." 
Research highlights
Major role for minor spliceosome / Expanding the genome editing toolkit 
Equal opportunities
New support schemes for young scientists with family care duties
Announcements
People, events, support grants and more

Editorial
Witold Filipowicz
First Annual RNA & Disease Retreat
Where NCCR scientists inspire each other
Met in Kandersteg: Robert J. Schneider
The deeper we dig, the more surprises we find
Research highlights
Pioneering work from NCCR laboratories
Announcements
People, events, support grants and more

Editorial
Oliver Mühlemann
Technology platforms
Where expertise meets researcher's needs
Portraits
Welcome to associate members of the NCCR RNA & Disease
Looking back
50 years ago / 100 years ago
Announcements
People, events, support grants and more