Schedule of meetings and seminars of interest
Upcoming Meetings and seminars of interest
Date: October 4, 2012
Time: 12:30pm
Room: D'Ambra Auditorium, Life Sciences Research Building, University at Albany
Speaker: Cynthia Clark
Affiliation: President, ibiliti
Title: An Entrepreneurs View: Successfully Translating Life Science Research into Commercial Products
Date: October 12, 2012
Time: 3pm
Room: D'Ambra Auditorium, Life Sciences Research Building, University at Albany
Speaker: Thomas Gingeras
Affiliation: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Title: Important Lessons From Complex Genomes
Date: October 19, 2012
Time: 3pm
Room: D'Ambra Auditorium, Life Sciences Research Building, University at Albany
Speaker: Jacquin Niles
Affiliation: MIT
Title: A Versatile Engineered Platform For Directly Controlling Cellular RNA Functions
Date: November 5, 2012
Time: 4pm
Room: CMS collaboratory, Wadsworth Center
Speaker: Mary Bayfield
Affiliation: York University
Title: RNA chaperone activity of La and La-related proteins
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Previous Meetings and seminars of interest
Date: September 21, 2012
Time: 3pm
Room: D'Ambra Auditorium, Life Sciences Research Building, University at Albany
Speaker: Pan Li
Affiliation: University at Albany
Title: Unravel RNA Structures By Force, One Molecule At A Time
Date: September 6, 2012
Time: 10:30am
Room: LS 1143, Life Sciences Research Building, University at Albany
Speaker: Paul Hatala
Affiliation: ModeRNA Therapeutics, Inc.
Title: Development of Aptamer Therapeutics
Date: June 25, 2012
Time: 12:00pm
Room: LS 1143, Life Sciences Research Building, University at Albany
Speaker: Gil Amitai
Affiliation: Weizmann Institute
Title: CRISPR, and RNA-guided acquired immune system in bacteria
Date: May 23, 2012 (Double Header)
Time: 10:00am
Room: D'Ambra auditorium
Speaker: Douglas Conklin
Affiliation: University at Albany
Title: Functional genomic studies of breast cancer
Speaker: Gary P. Schroth
Affiliation: Illumina
Title: Revealing the transcriptome using next-generation sequencing
Date: May 9, 2012
Time: 11:00am
Room: D'Ambra auditorium
Speaker: Kathleen McDonough
Affiliation: Wadsworth Center
Title: Big role for small RNAs in Yersinia Pestis
Date: April 16, 2012
Time: 12:00pm
Room: CMS collaboratory
Speaker: Eric Masse
Affiliation: Universite de Sherbrooke
Title: Regulating mRNA translation and decay with small RNAs in E. coli
Date: April 13, 2012
Time: 3:00pm
Room: D'Ambra auditorium
Speaker: Shi-Jie Chen
Affiliation: University of Missouri
Title: Physics-based modeling of RNA folding (joint Biological Sciences-Physics-RNA Institute-HVRC seminar)
Date: February 28, 2012
Time: 02:00pm
Room: D'Ambra auditorium, SUNY Albany
Speaker: Michelle Arnold
Affiliation: NIAID, NIH
Title: Cells Lose Their Inhibitions: Subversion of the Innate Immune Response by RNA Viruses
Date: February 23, 2012
Time: 02:00pm
Room: D'Ambra auditorium, SUNY Albany
Speaker: Elizabeth Tran
Affiliation: Purdue University
Title: Exploring the Roles of RNA Helicases in Transcriptional Fidelity
Date: February 20, 2012
Time: 02:00pm
Room: D'Ambra auditorium, SUNY Albany
Speaker: Rebecca Tirabassi
Affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: Big Viruses, Small RNAs: Coregulation of target genes by human cytomegalovirus miRNAs
Date: February 16, 2012
Time: 02:00pm
Room: D'Ambra auditorium, SUNY Albany
Speaker: Cara Pager
Affiliation: Stanford University
Title: Hepatitis C Virus Subverts Cellular RNA Granules to Promote Viral Gene Expression
Date: February 13, 2012
Time: 02:00pm
Room: D'Ambra auditorium, SUNY Albany
Speaker: Shuo Gu
Affiliation: Stanford University
Title: From dsRNA to ssRNA: Unwinding the mystery of RISC maturation
Date: February 9, 2012
Time: 02:00pm
Room: D'Ambra auditorium, SUNY Albany
Speaker: Xantha Carp
Affiliation: Columbia University
Title: Modulation of microRNA pathways and the maintenance of developmental potential
during quiescence
Date: January 30, 2012
Time: 10:00am
Room: D'Ambra auditorium, SUNY Albany
Speaker: Jason Herschkowitz
Affiliation: Baylor College of Medicine
Title: Non-coding RNAs and the claudin-low subtype of breast cancer: the long and short of it
Date: January 19, 2012
Time: 10:00am
Room: D'Ambra auditorium, SUNY Albany
Speaker: Prashanth Rangan
Affiliation: Kimmel Center for Biology and Medicine, Skirball Institute, NYU
Title: RNA regulation in the germline
Date: January 17, 2012
Time: 10:00am
Room: D'Ambra auditorium, SUNY Albany
Speaker: Auinash Kalsotra
Affiliation: Baylor College of Medicine
Title: MicroRNA regulation of alternative splicing networks during heart development and disease
Date: December 12, 2011
Time: 09:00am
Room: D'Ambra auditorium, SUNY Albany
Speaker: Blanton Tolbert
Affiliation: Miami University
Title: Structural biophysics of protein-RNA complexes involved in viral replication
Date: December 13, 2011
Time: 04:00pm
Room: D'Ambra auditorium, SUNY Albany
Speaker: Jeffrey Chao
Affiliation: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Title: Studying posttranscriptional regulation with old and new tricks
Date: December 2, 2011
Time: 02:30pm
Room: Thompson Physical Laboratory 205, Williams College
Speaker: Koulosh Zarringhalam
Affiliation: Boston College
Title: Recent results on the thermodynamics and kinetics of RNA structure (Physics and Astronomy Colloqium)
Date: October 3, 2011
Time: 03:00pm
Room: D'Ambra auditorium, SUNY Albany
Speaker: Hanna Engelberg-Kulka
Affiliation: Hebrew University,
Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
Title: Programmed cell death, signaling and the multicellular behavior of the bacterial population
(Joint Biological Sciences/RNA Institute/HVRC seminar)
Date: August 3, 2011
Time: 04:00pm
Room: D'Ambra auditorium, SUNY Albany
Speaker: Kenji Ichiyanagi
Affiliation: Kyushu University, Japan
Title: Epigenetic regulation of retrotransposons in mouse germ cells by DNA methylation and small RNA (Joint Biological Sciences/RNA Institute/HVRC seminar)
Date: June 22, 2011
Time: 04:00pm
Room: CMS collaboratory
Speaker: Alexander Brodsky
Affiliation: Brown University
Title: Translating Translation: Regulation of Protein Synthesis by Hormones and Metastasis
Date: May 19, 2011
Time: 12:00pm
Room: CMS Collaboratory, Wadsworth Center
Speaker: Ann Palmenberg
Affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: Bioinformatics and Rhinoviruses: Implications for Virus Functions and Antiviral Therapies
Date: March 18, 2011
Time: 03:00pm
Room: D'Ambra auditorium, SUNY Albany
Speaker: Renée Schroeder
Affiliation: RNA Laboratory, University of Vienna, Austria
Title: Genomic aptamers that regulate their own transcription (Joint Biological Sciences/RNA Institute/HVRC seminar)
Date: February 16, 2011
Time: 04:00pm
Room: CMS collaboratory, Wadsworth Center
Speaker: Graziano Vernizzi
Affiliation: Siena College
Title: Topological Classification of RNA Pseuodoknots
Date: December 6, 2010
Time: 04:00pm
Room: D'Ambra auditorium, SUNY Albany
Speaker: Markus Landthaler
Affiliation: Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch
Title: Using small RNA sequencing to decode post-transcriptional regulatory networks (Joint HVRC/RNA Institute seminar)
Program
Date: November 9, 2010
Time: 1:00pm
Room: Salon G/H, Albany Marriott
Speaker: Joel G. Belasco
Affiliation: NYU
Title: 5'-terminal control of bacterial RNA degradation
Date: November 9, 2010
Time: 01:40pm
Room: Salon G/H, Albany Marriott
Speaker: John D. Helmann
Affiliation: Cornell University
Title: A central role of sRNA in bacterial iron homeostasis
Date: November 9, 2010
Time: 02:40pm
Room: Salon G/H, Albany Marriott
Speaker: Joseph Wade
Affiliation: Wadsworth Center
Title: Pervasive transcription in Escherichia coli
Date: November 9, 2010
Time: 03:20pm
Room: Salon G/H, Albany Marriott
Speaker: Jonathan Livny
Affiliation: Broad Institute
Title: Fishing in the deep: using high throughput cDNA sequencing to identify and characterize regulatory RNAs in diverse bacteria
Date: November 5, 2010
Time: 10:00am
Room: D'Ambra auditorium, SUNY Albany
Speaker: Paul Vouros
Affiliation: Northeastern Univerity
Title: Analyzing DNA Adducts at the Trace Level; Challenges and Implications (RNA Institute seminar)
Date: November 5, 2010
Time: 11:00am
Room: D'Ambra auditorium, SUNY Albany
Speaker: Jack Henion
Affiliation: Advion Biosciences, Inc.
Title: Automated Liquid Extraction Surface Analysis (LESA) Combined with nESI-MS as a Novel Tool for Analyzing Surfaces (RNA Institute seminar)
Date: October 29, 2010
Time: 03:00pm
Room: D'Ambra auditorium, SUNY Albany
Speaker: Dieter Soll
Affiliation: Yale University
Title: The continuing evolution of the genetic code (RNA Institute seminar)
Date: October 14, 2010
Time: 4:00pm
Room: DAI auditorium, Wadsworth Center
Speaker: Sean Eddy
Affiliation: HHMI, Janelia Farm
Title: Exploiting Oxytricha Trifallax Nanochromosomes to Screen for Noncoding RNA Genes (Wadsworth seminar)
Dates: Oct 8 - 9, 2010
Keynote Speakers:
Lynne Maquat, Director, University of Rochester Center for RNA Biology
Larry Gold, University of Colorado at Boulder and SomaLogic, Inc.
Anna M. Pyle, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Yale University
The first annual RNA-UNY conference, hosted by the Hudson Valley RNA Club and
the Rochester RNA Cluster, will be held in the beautiful and rustic fall setting of
the Rensselaerville Institute
in Rensselaerville, New York. The conference will promote interdisciplinary
conversations between RNA researchers pursuing biochemical,
structural, computational, or systems approaches to enable
critical breakthroughs in RNA structure, RNA catalysis, RNA-
protein interactions, RNA interference, and RNA genomics.
Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows are especially
encouraged to attend.
Abstract deadline: July 31, 2010 (extended till August 18, 2010)
Early registration fees (till August 31, 2010)
$ 125 - $ 275 depending on circumstances.
Late registration fees (from September 1 till September 20, 2010)
$ 175 - $ 325 depending on circumstances.
Date: October 7, 2010
Time: 4:00pm
Room: DAI auditorium, Wadsworth Center
Speaker: Rob Knight
Affiliation: University of Colorado at Boulder
Title: Biogeography of the Human Microbiome (Wadsworth seminar)
Date: September 22, 2010
Time: 4:00pm
Room: CMS collaboratory, Wadsworth Center
Speaker: Sheila Lutz
Affiliation: Heidelberg University
Title: TREX-2 couples transcription and mRNA export at the nuclear pore
Date: July 21, 2010
Time: 4:00pm
Room: CMS collaboratory, Wadsworth Center
Speaker: Gang Liu
Affiliation: Albany Medical College
Title: Localization of mRNAs encoding actin polymerization nucleators and directional cell migration
Date: May 19, 2010
Time: 4:00pm
Room: CMS collaboratory, Wadsworth Center
Speaker: Jack M. Sullivan
Affiliation: Ira G. Ross Eye Institute, University at Buffalo
Title: Relieving bottlenecks in RNA drug discovery
Note: A 15 minute update on IRNAST after the seminar
by Paul Agris
Date: April 29, 2010
Time: 4:00pm
Room: DAI auditorium, Wadsworth Center
Speaker: Tom Tullius
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry,
Boston University
Title: The role of DNA shape in the workings of the human genome (Wadsworth seminar)
Date: April 15, 2010
Time: 4:00pm
Room: CMS Collaboratory, Wadsworth Center, 150 New Scotland Ave
Speaker: Anke van den Berg
Affiliation: University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen
Title: AGO-2 Immunoprecipitation to Identify Human miRNA Targets in B Cell Lymphoma (Wadsworth seminar)
Date: March 17, 2010
Time: 4:00pm
Room: CMS collaboratory, Wadsworth Center, 150 New Scotland Ave
Speaker: Steve Hanes
Affiliation: Division of Infectious Diseases, Wadsworth Center
Title: Ess1, the CTD Code, and Other Stories
Date: February 17, 2010
Time: 4:00pm
Room: CMS collaboratory, Wadsworth Center, 150 New Scotland Ave
Speaker: Angel E. García
Affiliation: Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, RPI
Title: Atomistic simulations of the folding/unfolding equilibrium of the UUCG RNA tetraloop
Date: January 20, 2010 (Postdoc Double Header)
Time: 4:00pm
Room: CMS collaboratory, Wadsworth Center, 150 New Scotland Ave
Speaker: Patrick Maxwell
Affiliation: Joan Curcio lab, Wadsworth Center
Title: Mobility and Age: Do Retrotransposons Influence Aging?
Speaker: Josh Martin
Affiliation: Alain Laederach lab, Wadsworth Center
Title: RNA secondary structure changes from single nucleotide polymorphisms
Date: December 4, 2009
Time: 3:00pm
Room: D'Ambra auditorium
Speaker: Ailong Ke
Affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University
Title: Mechanism of ligand-sensing and multimerization in RNA
Date: November 18, 2009
Time: 4:00pm
Room: TBA, College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering
Speaker: Joseph Wade
Affiliation: Wadsworth Center
Title: Antisense transcription in E. coli: new tricks for an old dog
Date: October 15, 2009
Time: 4:00pm
Room: DAI auditorium, Wadsworth Center, 120 New Scotland Ave
Speaker: Michael Brenowitz
Affiliation: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Title: Finding roads most traveled during RNA folding (Wadsworth seminar)
Date: October 5, 2009
Time: 4:00pm
Room: SUNY East campus, Gen*NY*Sis Center Auditorium
Speaker: Karen Adelman
Affiliation: NIEHS
Title: Stress-responsive genes are poised for activation
Date: September 16, 2009
Time: 4:00pm
Room: CMS collaboratory, Wadsworth Center, 150 New Scotland Ave
Speaker: Ben Szaro
Affiliation: SUNY Albany
Title: The regulation of neurofilament RNAs during axon outgrowth in development and regeneration
Date: July 16, 2009
Time: 10:00am
Room: DAI auditorium, Wadsworth Center, 120 New Scotland Ave
Speaker: Yi-Tao Yu
Affiliation: University of Rochester Medical Center
Title: Spliceosomal snRNA modification and pre-mRNA splicing (Wadsworth seminar)
Date: July 15, 2009
Time: 4:30pm
Room: D'Ambra auditorium, Life Sciences Research Building, SUNY main campus
Speaker: Tom Eickbush
Affiliation: University of Rochester
Title: Non-LTR retrotransposons: using the chromosomal target site to prime reverse transcription
Date: June 24, 2009
Time: 4:00pm
Room: CMS collaboratory, Wadsworth Center, 150 New Scotland Ave
Speaker: Jörg Vogel
Affiliation: The Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany
Title: How small RNAs recognise multiple mRNAs to rewire gene expression
Date: June 17, 2009
Time: 4:00pm
Room: CMS collaboratory, Wadsworth Center, 150 New Scotland Ave
Speaker: Alexander Mankin
Affiliation: Professor,
Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Department of Medicinal Chemistry & Pharmacognosy, University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: Control of gene expression by nascent peptide-ribosome interactions (Wadsworth DTM DIvision seminar)
Date: June 3, 2009
Time: 4:00pm
Room: CMS collaboratory, Wadsworth Center, 150 New Scotland Ave
Speaker: Paul Agris
Affiliation: Professor of Biological Sciences and of Chemistry,
Director of IRNAST, University at Albany and Professor of Biochemistry, North Carolina State University
Title: An Informal Discussion on the Importance of Being Modified, and of being IRNAST
Date: May 13, 2009
Time: 4:00pm
Room: CMS collaboratory, Wadsworth Center, 150 New Scotland Ave
Speaker: Edward Arnold
Affiliation: Rutgers University
Title: HIV-1 RT/DNA Complexes (Joint Molecular Machines / HVRC seminar)
Date: April 10, 2009
Time: 2:00pm
Room: DAI auditorium, David Axelrod Institute, Wadsworth Center
Speaker: John Moran
Affiliation: HHMI / University of Michigan
Title: Studies of a Human Transposable Element (Wadsworth seminar)
Date: April 6, 2009
Time: 1:30pm
Room: DAI auditorium, David Axelrod Institute, Wadsworth Center
Speaker: Dan Fabris
Affiliation: University of Maryland Baltimore County
Title: High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry for Investigating the Structure-Function
Relationships in Retroviral Protein-Nucleic Acid Assemblies
Date: March 11, 2009
Time: 4:00pm
Room: CMS collaboratory, Wadsworth Center, 150 New Scotland Ave
Speaker: Thomas Begley
Affiliation: Gen*NY*sis Center, University at Albany
Title: Optimizing stress signaling via wobble base tRNA modifications
Date: February 18, 2009
Time: 4:00pm
Room: D'Ambra Auditorium, Life Sciences Research Building, SUNY Uptown campus
Speaker: Marlene Belfort
Affiliation: Wadsworth Center
Title: Stressed out group II introns on the move
Date: January 21, 2009
Time: 4:00pm
Room: SUNY East campus, Gen*NY*Sis Center Auditorium
Speaker: Magnus Bergkvist
Affiliation: University at Albany, Center for Environmental Sciences & Technology Management
Title: BioNanotechnology: Bioinspired Nanofabrication & Device Integration
Date: December 17, 2008
Time: 4:00pm
Room: Fischbach Room, Folsom Library, RPI
Speaker: Maurille Fournier
Affiliation: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Title: Strong RNA modification machinery is required for healthy ribosomes
Date: November 12, 2008
Time: 4:00pm
Room: DAI auditorium, David Axelrod Institute, Wadsworth Center
Speaker: Kevin Weeks
Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title: High-Throughput Analysis of the HIV-1 RNA genome (Wadsworth seminar)
Date: October 15, 2008
Time: 4:30pm
Room: Fischbach Room, Folsom Library, RPI
Speaker: Daniel Aalberts
Affiliation: Department of Physics, Williams College
Title: Asymmetry in Pseudoknots: Observation and Theory
Date: September 17, 2008
Time: 4:30pm
Room: D'Ambra auditorium, Life Sciences Research Building, SUNY Albany main campus
Speaker: David Mathews
Affiliation: University of Rochester Medical Center
Title: Improving RNA structure prediction
July - August: Summer Break, HVRC steering committee meeting held on July 17, 2008, meeting minutes are available here as a pdf file.
Date: June 18, 2008
Time: 4:00pm
Room: CMS collaboratory, 150 New Scotland Ave, Albany
Speaker: Alain Laederach
Affiliation: Wadsworth Center
Title: Elucidating the effects of human genetic variation on RNA structure using CAFA (Capillary Automated Footprinting Analysis)
Date: May 21, 2008
Time: 4:00pm
Room: D'Ambra Auditorium, Life Sciences Research Building, SUNY Uptown campus
Speaker: Li Niu
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, SUNY Albany
Title: One RNA aptamer sequence , two structures: a collaborating pair that inhibits glutamate receptors?
Date: April 14, 2008
Time: 4:00pm
Room: CMS collaboratory, 150 New Scotland Ave, Albany
Speaker: Renée Schroeder
Affiliation: RNA Laboratory, University of Vienna, Austria
Title: Understanding the Molecular Basis for Target RNA Recognition by Human RISC Enables the Design of Potent siRNAs
Date: March 19, 2008
Time: 4:00pm
Room: Massry Conference Room, Gen*NY*Sis Center for Excellence in Cancer Research
Speaker: Douglas Conklin
Affiliation: Department of Biomedical Sciences, SUNY Albany
Title: RNA Interference-Based Functional Genomics of Breast Cancer
Date: February 20, 2008
Time: 4:00pm
Room: Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary studies, RPI
Speaker: James Ferris
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, RPI
Title: The RNA World Scenario for the Origins of Life
Date: January 16, 2008
Time: 4:00pm
Room: CMS Collaboratory
Speaker: Paul Masters
Affiliation: Wadsworth Center
Title: Replication of Coronavirus Genomic RNA
Date: December 19, 2007
Time: 4:00pm
Room: CMS Collaboratory
Speaker: Ye Ding
Affiliation: Wadsworth Center
Title: Elucidating regulatory networks by non-coding RNAs
Date: November 7, 2007
Time: 4:00pm
Room: SUNY Albany, Life Sciences Building Auditorium
Speaker: Pan Li
Affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, SUNY Albany
Title: Breaking the kissing interaction, one molecule at a time
Date: October 17, 2007
Time: 4:30pm
Room: RPI Bruggeman conference room
Speaker: Michael Zuker
Affiliation: Department of Mathematical Sciences and Biology, RPI
Title: Structural RNAs from a mathematician's perspective: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Date: September 19, 2007
Time: 4:30pm
Room: CMS Collaboratory (2nd Floor)
Speaker: Joachim Frank
Affiliation: Wadsworth Center
Title: The Ribosome, A Molecule Built to Rock: Toward Mechanistic Understanding of Translocation
Date: August 15, 2007 (Double Header)
Time: 4:00pm
Room: SUNY main campus, Life Sciences Research Building auditorium
Speaker: Min-Ho Lee
Affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, SUNY Albany
Title: Translational Regulation in C. Elegans Germline Development, GLD-1 and Its mRNA Targets
Speaker: Hua Shi
Affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, SUNY Albany
Title: Towards Aptamer-Mediated Opsonization
Date: June 20, 2007
Time: 4:00pm
Room: CMS collaboratory (2nd Floor)
Speaker: Markus Landthaler
Affiliation: Rockefeller University
Title: Biochemistry of the Human RNAi Machinery
Date: May 16, 2007
Time: 4:30pm
Room: SUNY East campus, Gen*NY*Sis Center Auditorium
Speaker: Scott Tenenbaum
Affiliation: Department of Biomedical Sciences, SUNY Albany
Title: The mRNP code
Date: April 18, 2007 (HVRC Inaugural Seminar)
Time: 4:00pm
Room: CMS collaboratory (2nd Floor)
Speaker: Joan Curcio
Affiliation: Wadsworth Center
Title: RNA to the Rescue! The Role of Retrosequences in Restructuring Damaged Genomes