The RNA Transcript, May 18, 2020

Featured Article

Maria G. Castro, Ph.D. , and  Deepak Nagrath, Ph.D. , both members of our Center for RNA Biomedicine, are the 2020 Forbes Scholars at the Forbes Institute for Cancer Discovery  at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center. Congrats Maria and Deepak! 

Seminars and Events

May 19, 3:00 p.m., Virtual (password: 759932) Harvard Medical School Initiative for RNA Medicine "Regulation of gene expression in the brain by imprinted non-coding RNAs" Amanda Whipple, Ph.D ., Molecular & Cellular Biology,Harvard University

May 20, 4:00–5:00 EST RNA Collaborative Seminar Series Hosted by  The RNA Institute, University At Albany " Regulatory paradigms controlling a core stress response " Morgan Sammons, Ph.D. " Simulating RNA folding pathways in 3D using sparse experimental constraints " Alan A. Chen, Ph.D. Moderator:  Marlene Belfort, Ph.D.

May 26–31, 2020 The RNA Society 25th Annual Meeting ONLINE

May 29, 2020, 9:00–noon Beyond Amyloid Research Symposium Michigan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center 

Publications

Check out our Members' publication page! We are now pulling information about our members' publications through Altmetric. Five queries are available: "RNA," "Transcriptome," "Translation,"Molecule" and "CRISPR." Please make sure to have at least one of these key words in your title or abstract. Here are some highlights for April:

Structural basis for transcriptional start site control of HIV-1 RNA fate Brown JD, Kharytonchyk S, Chaudry I, Iyer AS, Carter H, Becker G, Desai Y, Glang L, Choi SH, Singh K, Lopresti MW, Orellana M, Rodriguez T, Oboh U, Hijji J, Ghinger FG ,  Stewart K, Francis D, Edwards B, Chen P, Case DA, Telesnitsky A, Summers MF Science.  2020, Apr 24;368(6489):413-417. doi: 10.1126/science.aaz7959. Next-generation RNA Sequencing–based Biomarker Characterization of Chromophobe Renal Cell Carcinoma and Related Oncocytic Neoplasms Stephanie L. Skala, Xiaoming Wang, Yuping Zhang, Rahul Mannan, Lisha Wan g , Sathiya P. Narayanan, Pankaj Vats, Fengyun Su, Jin Chen, Xuhong Cao, Javed Siddiqui, Pedram Argani, Marcin P. Cieślik, Thomas J. Giordano, Arul M. Chinnaiyan, Saravana M. Dhanasekaran, Rohit Mehra, European Urology, 2020, Apr 13; DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2020.03.003 Wnt Signaling Drives Prostate Cancer Bone Metastatic Tropism and Invasion Yugang Wang, Udit Singhal, Yuanyuan Qiao, Tadas Kasputis, Jae-Seung Chung, Huiru Zhao, Farah Chammaa, Jacob A.Belardo, Therese M.Roth, Hao Zhang, Alexander B. Zaslavsky, Ganesh S.Palapattu, Kenneth J.Pienta, Arul M.Chinnaiy an, Russell S. Taichman, Frank C. Cackowski, Todd M.Morgan, Translational Oncology, 2020, Apr, Vol 13, Issue 4, doi.org/10.1016/j.tranon.2020.100747 SMAUG: Analyzing single-molecule tracks with nonparametric Bayesian statistics Joshua D.Karslake, Eric D.Donarski, Sarah A.Shelby, Lucas M.Demey, Victor J.DiRita, Sarah L.Veatch, Julie S.Biteen, Methods, 2020, Apr 2, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymeth.2020.03.00 8

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Featured Scientists

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