Schedule of meetings and seminars of interest

Upcoming Meetings and seminars of interest

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: March 17, 2010
Time: 4:00pm
Room: CMS collaboratory, Wadsworth Center, 150 New Scotland Ave
Speaker: Steve Hanes
Affiliation: Division of Genetics, Wadsworth Center
Title: TBA

Date: April 29, 2010
Time: 4:00pm
Room: DAI auditorium, Wadsworth Center
Speaker: Tom Tullius
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Boston University
Title: TBA

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: TBA


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Previous Meetings and seminars of interest

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: Renee 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