The RNA Transcript, May 18, 2020
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Ashley Kalinski, Ph.D., member of our Student & Postdoc Council and Research Fellow at the Giger Lab , Cell and Developmental Biology, becomes Assistant Professor at Ball State University, Department of Biology. The Kalinski lab will focus on the intersection between neuroscience and immunology after traumatic injur y.

Kalinski looks forward to fostering collaborations with the BSU Biology faculty, where she will also work with Douglas Roossien, a former U-M CDB postdoc who is now an Assistant Professor.

Congratulations Ashley, and best wishes for your new journey!

May 27


Meredith Purchal, Kristin Koutmou, Markos Koutmos, Structure and function of yeast pseudouridine synthase 7


May 29


Ian Hall, Huaqun Zhang, Amos Nissley, Kyrillos Abdallah, Sarah Keane, Molecular Mechanisms of Regulatory RNAs from Listeria monocytogenes


Michigan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center

June 3, 2020, 4:00–5:00 pm

Francois Bachand, Ph.D., Sherbrooke
Nutrient-dependent control of RNA polymerase II elongation rate regulates gene expression programs by alternative polyadenylation

Andrew McMillan, Ph.D., University of Alberta
Spliceosome Structure: Can the Blind Men Now Describe the Elephant?

Our members' publications are now available 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 from the last four weeks:
Significant association between host transcriptome‐derived HPV oncogene E6 * influence score and carcinogenic pathways, tumor size, and survival in head and neck cancer

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:  10.1016/j.eururo.2020.03.003
 
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