Evenings with RNA
The objective of Evenings with RNA is to foster a collaborative environment for students, post-docs and faculty to share their research with the ever-expanding RNA community of Colorado. Hosted by the Colorado RNA Club in collaboration with the RNA Bioscience Initiative at CU Anschutz, this event takes place at 3pm on the 3rd Tuesday of each month, September through May; event location varies.
Organizers
Logan McCoy (CU Boulder)
logan.mccoy@colorado.edu
Evenings with RNA events are currently being hosted in hybrid format with both in-person and Zoom options.
Schedule
| Date | Presenters | Lab | Institution | Title |
| September 20, 2022 | Allison Porman Swain | Johnson Lab | CU Anschutz | Mechanisms of the m6A RNA modification in lncRNA HOTAIR and Candida albicans |
| Maddie Sherlock | Kieft Lab | CU Anschutz | Structure and mechanism of translation reinitiation by viral RNAs | |
| Scott Horowitz | Horowitz Lab | University of Denver | Chaperoning proteins with RNA | |
| Christopher Phiel | Phiel Lab | CU Denver | Embryonic stem cell pluripotency and mRNA | |
| October 18, 2022 | Tai Montgomery | Montgomery Lab | Colorado State University | The making of a microRNA |
| Grant Lo | Taliaferro Lab | CU Anschutz | Uncovering the localization of ASPM RNA to the centrosome | |
| Ariel Lucas Eraso | Taatjes Lab | CU Boulder | Vitro-seq: a new method to study transcription | |
| Anthony Khong | Parker Lab | CU Boulder | Stress granules promote chemoresistance by triggering cellular quiescence | |
| February 21, 2023 | Andres Ramos | University College London | Molecular basis of non-canonical m6A regulation | |
| Roy Parker | CU-Boulder | RNP granules in human disease | ||
| March 21, 2023 | Savannah Spradlin | Bately Lab | CU-Boulder | Structural basis of promiscuous small-molecule binding by a bacterial riboswitch |
| Laura White | RBI Fellow | CU-Anschutz | Direct detection of RNA repair with nanopore sequencing | |
| Alex Whiteley | CU-Boulder | When worlds collide: mRNA features encode protein fate | ||
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| Date | Presenters | Lab | Institution | Title |
| September 21, 2021 | Ted Ewachiw | Bradley Olwin | CU Boulder | TBD |
| Huy Vo | Brian Munsky | Colorado State University | Maximizing information in single-cell experiments under measurement uncertainties | |
| Ning Zhao | Tim Stasevich | Colorado State University | Imaging the life cycle of proteins in situ in real time | |
| October 19, 2021 | Steve Bonilla | Jeff Kieft | CU Anschutz | A viral RNA uses conformational changes of a dynamic tRNA-like structure to hijack cellular machinery |
| Meghan Lybecker | Meghan Lybecker | UCCS | c-di-GMP regulates the activity of an RNA chaperone in the Lyme disease spirochete | |
| Kathryn Walters | Neelanjan Mukherjee | CU Anschutz | MSI2 potentiates the AngII-stimulation response and human steroidogenesis | |
| November 16, 2021 | Cormac Lucas | Tem Morrison | CU Anschutz | Lymph node interactions with chikungunya virus |
| James Burke | Roy Parker | CU Boulder | Cytoplasmic RNA decay regulates nuclear host/viral mRNA biogenesis during pathogenic viral infections | |
| Samuel Hunter | Robin Dowell | CU Boulder | RNA and aneuploidy: How trisomy 21 affects RNA dosage | |
| December 21, 2021 | Devin Wahl | Healthspan Biology Lab | Colorado State University | TBD |
| Michael Cortazar Osorio | Sujatha Jagannathan | CU Anschutz | Saturation genome editing as a tool to understand the rules of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay | |
| Frank Lee | Scott Alper | National Jewish Health | RNA binding proteins that regulate Alternative Splicing of MyD88, a Critical Adaptor Protein in Innate Immunity | |
| January 18, 2022 | Meg Filbin | Meg Filbin | MSU Denver | Ribosome regulation by small disordered proteins |
| Joe Giovinazzo | Rui Zhao | CU Anschutz | How does a small molecule modulate 5' splice site recognition? | |
| Hossein Shenasa | David Bentley | CU Anschutz | Expanding the window of opportunity model for co-transcrtiptional splicing | |
| February 15, 2022 | Raeann Goering | Matthew Taliaferro | CU Anschutz | Mechanisms of RNA localization transcend cell morphology |
| Nick Lammer | Deborah Wuttke | CU Boulder | Defining the extent and function of glucocorticoid receptor-RNA binding | |
| Linda van Dyk | Linda van Dyk | CU Anschutz | Shared functions of sequence divergent viral ncRNAs | |
| March 15, 2022 | Jiarui Song | Tom Cech | CU Boulder | Cryo-EM structure reveals G-quadruplex RNA-mediated PRC2 dimerization |
| Robert Williams | Erin Nishimura | Colorado State University | The C. elegans intestine transcription factor ELT-2 positively and negatively regulates target genes | |
| Ashleigh Keller | Horizon Discovery | Horizon Discovery | Development of a novel dCas9 fusion protein for robust CRISPRi-mediated transcriptional repression | |
| April 19, 2022 | Chrysa Latrick | Editas Medicine | Editas Medicine | An RNA detective story: elucidating the impact of RNA secondary structure on RNP behavior |
| Michael Smallegan | John Rinn | CU Boulder | The lncRNA Firre functions as a transcriptional activator | |
| Wayne Hemphill | Tom Cech | CU Boulder | Inter-polynucleotide transfer is intrinsic to PCR2 and supports an RNA-chromatin hand-off model | |
| May 17, 2022 | Neelanjan Mukherjee | Neelanjan Mukherjee | CU Anschutz | Translational research: Treating Multiple Myeloma with Omacetaxine |
| Giulia Corbet | Roy Parker | CU Boulder | dsRNA-induced condensation modulates PKR activation | |
| Luis Aguilera | Brian Munsky | Colorado State University | Using single-molecule fluorescence microscopy and computational modeling to understand gene expression |
| Date | Presenters | Lab | Institution | Title |
| September 15, 2020 | Tim-Michael Decker | Dylan Taatjes | CU Boulder | Targeted degradation of transcription elongation factor SPT5 using the dTAG system |
| Kelsey Nassar | Aik-Choon Tan | CU Anschutz | Transcriptomic analysis of mutant SF3B1 and its effects on mucosal melanoma oncogenesis | |
| O'Neil Wiggan | Neil Wiggan | Colorado State University | Real-time imaging of transcription and translation from an endogenous gene | |
| October 20, 2020 | Frank Lee | Scott Alper | National Jewish Health | Regulating MyD88 alternative splicing in mouse macrophages |
| Megan Cerny | Amanda Charlesworth | CU Denver | Differential expression of Oct paralogs during early development of Xenopus laevis | |
| Conner Langeberg | Jeffrey Kieft | CU Anschutz | A conserved class of hystidylatable viral tRNA mimics | |
| November 17, 2020 | Gongyi Zhang | Gongyi Zhang | National Jewish Health | RNA Polymerase II pausing regulation in higher eukaryotes |
| Traci Lyons | Traci Lyons | CU Anschutz | Insights into pregnancy-related breast cancer through RNA analysis | |
| Charlotte Cialek | Tim Stasevich | CSU | Visualizing dynamic tethering of Argonaute to single mRNA in live human cells | |
| December 15, 2020 | Matthew Taylor | Matthew Taylor | CU Anschutz | Reading the tea leaves of the human cardiovascular transcriptome |
| Parker Nichols | Beat Vogeli | CU Anschutz | A-Z junction formation in Alu RNAs: A role for the Z-RNA binding domain of ADAR1 | |
| Robert Batey | Robert Batey | CU Boulder | Riboswitches: Finding the hidden messages in the message | |
| January 19, 2021 | Evan Lester | Roy Parker | CU Boulder | Tau aggregates are RNA-protein assemblies that mislocalize multiple nuclear speckle components |
| Eugenia Olesnicky | Eugenia Olesnicky Killian | UCCS | Tissue specific roles for the splicing factor Caper in aging and development | |
| Rytis Prekeris | Rytis Prekeris | CU Anschutz | The role of mid-body assocoated RNA in regulating cell proliferation and differentiation | |
| February 16, 2021 | Ankita Arora | Matthew Taliaferro | CU Anschutz | Identifying RNA localization targets of TDP-43 using functional genomics |
| Sujatha Jagannathan | Sujatha Jagannathan | CU Anschutz | When cells' garbage disposal fails: Compromised RNA quality control in the human muscle disease FSHD | |
| Jennyfer M Mitchell | Jennyfer M Mitchell | CU Anschutz | alx3 is a key player during early patterning of neurocranial elements in zebrafish | |
| March 16, 2021 | Christian Much | John Rinn | CU Boulder | Spatiotemporal dynamics of gene regulation by the lncRNA Firre |
| Olve Peersen | Olve Peersen | CSU | Co-folding and membrane binding of poliovirus P3 polyprotein precursors | |
| David Bentley | David Bentley | CU Anschutz | Transcription speed: why it matters and how to control it | |
| April 20, 2021 | Alicia Cutler | Brad Olwin | CU Boulder | There and back again a stem cell self-renewal tale |
| Raeann Goering | Matthew Taliaferro | CU Anschutz | Mechanisms of RNA localization that transcend cell morphology | |
| Richard Davis | Richard Davis | CU Anschutz | Argonautes, small RNAs and programmed DNA elimination: A journey and saga | |
| May 18, 2021 | Jeff Mayfield | Amanda Charlesworth | CU Denver | TBD |
| Rachel Jones | Jeffrey Kieft | CU Anschutz | Repeating history: New sequences and tertiary interactions create the same important 3-D features in divergent flavivrus xrRNAs | |
| Hossein Shenasa | David Bentley | CU Anschutz | Molecular insights into splice site selection |
| Date | Presenters | Lab | Institution | Title |
| September 17, 2019 | Roman Iwasaki | Robert Batey | CU Boulder | A Cas13-based assay rapidly quantifies transcription and enables biosensing of small molecules |
| Craig Forester | Craig Forester | CU Anschutz | Dissecting specific translational activation in early hematopoiesis | |
| Christopher Phiel | Christopher Phiel | CU Denver | Stem cell pluripotency, metabolism, and m6A | |
| Michael Cortázar | Sujatha Jagannathan | CU Anschutz | Transcription elongation and termination: the sitting-duck torpedo model | |
| October 15, 2019 | Tom Santangelo | Colorado State University | Abundant and diverse RNA modifications supporting thermophily in the Archaea | |
| Rui Zhao | Rui Zhao | CU Anschutz | Cryo-EM structure of spliceosomal E complex and biochemical analyses reveal a unified mechanism for intron definition, exon definition, and back-splicing | |
| Yicheng Long | Tom Cech | CU Boulder | RNA-protein interactions regulate epigenetic silencing | |
| Stephanie Moon | Roy Parker | CU Boulder | Coupling of translational quality control and mRNA targeting to stress granules | |
| November 19, 2019 | Esther Braselmann | Esther Braselmann | CU Boulder | Illuminating RNA dynamics in mammalian cells with the Riboglow platform |
| Devin Tauber | Roy Parker | CU Boulder | Modulation of RNA condensation by the DEAD-box protein eIF4A | |
| Olivia Rissland | Olivia Rissland | CU Anschutz | Connections between translation and mRNA decay | |
| Allison Swain | Aaron Johnson | CU Anschutz | m6A RNA modifications regulate lncRNA HOTAIR in breast cancer | |
| December 10, 2019 | John Rohloff | Industry | Somalogic | Chemically-modified DNA aptamers |
| Brenna Dennison | Katherine Fantauzzo | CU Anschutz | Srsf3-mediated alternative RNA splicing downstream of PDGFRα signaling in the palatal mesenchyme | |
| Yuanyuan Xie | Edward Chuong | CU Boulder | Harnessing transposon-derived dsRNA to kill cancer cells | |
| Cecilia Levandowski | Dylan Taatjes | CU Boulder | How does ∆40p53 alter p53 function? | |
| January 21, 2020 | Joseph Cardiello | R Dowell & MA Allen | CU Boulder | Investigating the effects of Down syndrome on the induction of heat shock responsive gene mRNAs across a cellular population |
| Siddharth Shukla | Roy Parker | CU Boulder | ||
| Claire Gillette | Tania Reis | CU Anschutz | RNA-binding proteins and fat storage homeostasis: a tale of fat flies | |
| James Till | Andres Vazquez-Torres | CU Anschutz | Linking nitrosative stress-induced metabolic adaptations to aminoglycoside tolerance | |
| April 28, 2020 | Danielle Bilodeau | Olivia Rissland | CU Anschutz | Using long-read sequencing to validate RNA cleavage events in Giardia lamblia |
| Tom Evans | Tom Evans | CU Anschutz | Genetic surprises: novel Sm family ncRNAs control developmental recovery from starvation in C. elegans | |
| July 21, 2020 | Otto Kletzien | Robert Batey | CU Boulder | hnRNPU RGG is part of a larger RNA-binding domain |
| Kevin Hemphill | Industry | Horizon Discovery | Chemical synthesis of long RNA for CRISPR mediated gene activation (CRISPRa) |
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