RNA Club 2007 Academic year
| Meets every 2nd Thursday of the month. | 4:00 - 6:00 pm | @ rm 123 Sinsheimer Labs, UCSC |
January 11
Nikolai Ulyanov - UCSF Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry Modeling structures of telomerase RNA from various species.
Clint Spiegel - Noller Lab tRNA movements during ribosomal translocation.
February 8
Michael Robertson - Scott Lab The Structural Basis of Ribozyme-Catalyzed RNA Assembly.
Rhonda Perriman - Ares Lab Rearrangement of Competing U2 RNA Helices Promotes Multiple Steps in Splicing.
March 8
Aaron Cozen - Lowe Lab Running in Circles: RNA Oddities at 100 µCi.
David Staple - Noller Lab Structural and Thermodynamic Investigation of the HIV-1 Frameshift Inducing RNA.
April 12
Christine Mayr - Bartel Lab, Whitehead Institute/MIT Disrupting pairing between the let-7 miRNA and its target gene, Hmga2, enhances oncogenic transformation.
Roland Nagel - Ares Lab Identification of Factors that Regulate Muscle-Specific Alternative Splicing in the Mouse.
May 10
Sun Hur - Stroud Lab, UCSF tRNA flexibility is the Key to pseudouridylation of U38, 39 and 40 by TruA.
Sam Gu - Zahler Lab & Fire Lab, Stanford Chemical Probing of microRNAs in their Native Complexes.
Summer Break
September 13
Sergio Barberan - Zahler Lab Large-scale analysis of developmental regulation of alternative splicing in C. elegans.
Melissa Cline - Ares Lab Conserved splicing in neural differentiation.
October 11
Gabriel Roybal - Jurica Lab The Role of 3’ Splice Site Fidelity in Early Spliceosome Assembly.
Manny Ares - Ares Lab Intelligent Design of Regulated Alternative Splicing.
November 8
Pascal Egea - Stroud Lab, UCSF Protein Targeting by the Signal Recognition Particle: One RNA and Two GTPases.
Jason Underwood - Haussler Lab The HAR1 ncRNA: Searching for a Punchline.
December 13
Winter Break
Contact: MaryAnn Dassah @ x9-5127