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RTI Seminar Series

Join the Seminar Series, organized by the RNA Therapeutics Institute at UMass Chan Medical School

This seminar series offers students, postdocs, and faculty the opportunity to interact directly with speakers discussing a diverse array of topics within the RNA world.

The 2024/2025 seminar series will be held both virtually and in-person.There will always be an option to view the seminar via Zoom. All seminars are held on Tuesdays at 10:00 - 11:00am in AS4-2072.

Please check back here for updates to the schedule and Zoom links. Zoom links will be available the day before the seminar.

Most seminars are recorded. Please contact us if you would like a link to view the seminar.

Pietro Fratta , MD, PhD

Professor of Neuroscience, University College London

September 24, 2024
“Cryptic splicing: from foe to friend in tackling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis”

Hosted by Fen-Biao Gao
John Chaput , PhD

Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, Irvine

October 29, 2024
"A nucleic acid approach to antibody therapeutics using base-modified TNA aptamers (threomers)"

Hosted by Li Li
Sabrina Berkamp , PhD

Postdoctoral researcher, European Molecular Biology Laboratories

December 3, 2024
“ Correlative Light, EDX and Electron Microscopy of the p62 Autophagy Cargo Receptor”

Hosted by Niko Grigorieff
Leah Sabin , PhD

Executive Director, Genetic Medicines, Regeneron

January 7, 2025

"Innovating around bottlenecks: Engineering approaches to enhance the efficacy, safety and durability of genetic medicines"

Hosted by Anastasia Khvorova
Britt Adamson , PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University

January 14, 2025

Hosted by Erik Sontheimer
Jared Rutter , PhD

Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry, Dee Glen and Ida Smith Endowed Chair for Cancer Research, University of Utah

January 28, 2025

Hosted by Phil Zamore
Amy Buck , PhD

Professor of RNA and Infection Biology, The University of Edinburgh

February 4, 2025

Hosted by Angela Messmer-Blust & Athma Pai
Jacek Jemielity , PhD

Professor and Group Leader of Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, Centre of New Technologies University of Warsaw, Poland

February 25, 2025

Hosted by Li Li
Steve L. Bonilla , PhD

Assistant Professor and Head of Lab Laboratory of RNA Structural Biology and Biophysics, The Rockefeller University

March 4, 2025

Hosted by RTI Trainees
Matthew Taliaferro , PhD

Assistant Professor, Keck Investigator, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, RNA Bioscience Initiative, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

March 11, 2025

Hosted by Athma Pai
Masad Damha , PhD, FCIC

Distinguished James McGill Professor, McGill University

March 25, 2025

Hosted by Jon Watts
Susan Ackerman , PhD

Investigator, HHMI, Stephen W. Kuffler Chair of Biology, Distinguished Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, UC San Diego

April 8, 2025

Hosted by Andrei Korostelev
Rachel Green , PhD

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University

April 29, 2025

Hosted by Andrei Korostelev
Junjie Guo , PhD

Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Co-Director of Graduate Studies, Interdepartmental Neuroscience PhD Program (INP), Yale University

May 6, 2025

Hosted by Wenwen Fang
Sven Klump , PhD

Researcher, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry

May 13, 2025

Hosted by Niko Grigorieff