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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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Britt Adamson , PhD

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

    January 14, 2025

    “Mapping the cellular determinants of genome editing in human cells”  

    Hosted by Erik Sontheimer

  • Jared Rutter

    Jared Rutter , PhD

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

    January 28, 2025

    "Metabolic signaling and cellular decisions: An unexpected role for RNA?"

    Hosted by Phil Zamore

  • Amy Buck

    Amy Buck , PhD

    Professor of RNA & Infection Biology, The University of Edinburgh

    February 4, 2025
    "Extracellular RNA: forms & functions in host-pathogen systems”

    Hosted by Angela Messmer-Blust & Athma Pai

  • Jacek Jemielity

    Jacek Jemielity , PhD

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

    February 25, 2025

    "Chemical modifications of mRNA for therapeutic applications"

    Hosted by Li Li

  • Steve L. Bonilla

    Steve L. Bonilla , PhD

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

    March 4, 2025
    "Visualizing Dynamic RNA 3D Structural Ensembles that Regulate Viral Replication: Quantitative RNA Structural Virology"

    Hosted by RTI Trainees

  • Matthew Taliaferro

    Matthew Taliaferro , PhD

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

    March 11, 2025

    "Understanding the regulatory language of RNA localization"

    Hosted by Athma Pai

  • Masad Damha

    Masad Damha , PhD, FCIC

    Distinguished James McGill Professor, McGill University

    March 25, 2025

    "Applying the chemist’s toolbox to the synthesis and development of RNA therapeutics"

    Hosted by Jon Watts

  • Maria Carmo-Fonseca

    Maria Carmo-Fonseca , PhD

    Professor of Molecular Cell Biology and Onco-biology at the University of Lisbon Medical School

    April 1, 2025

    "RNA splicing in cardiomyopathy: from mechanism to therapy"

    Hosted by Athma Pai

  • Susan Ackerman

    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

    Rachel Green , PhD

    Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University

    April 29, 2025

    Hosted by Andrei Korostelev

  • Junjie Guo

    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

    Sven Klump , PhD

    Researcher, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry

    May 13, 2025

    Hosted by Niko Grigorieff

  • Gen-Sheng Feng

    Gen-Sheng Feng , PhD

    Professor of Pathology & Biology, University of California, San Diego

    *June 4, 2025

    "Oncogenes and Tumor Suppressors, from Definitive to Paradoxical"

    Hosted by Wen Xue