RNA Collaborative Seminar Series

Information and Upcoming Seminars

The RNA Collaborative is a grassroots effort led by several of the RNA research centers worldwide to provide an online seminar series during and beyond the institutional shut-down caused by COVID-19. The goal of the program is to promote and disseminate emerging RNA research and to establish and strengthen connections within the international RNA scientific community. Scientists are welcome to present all RNA-related research spanning from foundational discoveries to potential therapeutic applications. Host centers can choose to present in a number of formats, including but not limited to: seminars co-hosted between two institutions that entail one 60-minute event (each institute presents a 30-minute seminar), four poster sessions with introductory lightning talks, or a combination of talks and poster sessions. All seminars are slotted for one hour.

Seminars are held virtually on the second Wednesday of each month, at either 10:00 am ET (2:00 pm GMT) or 4:00 pm ET (8:00 pm GMT). Additional seminar dates will be added to accommodate increased membership. Each seminar will remain an hour long, but will be hosted by two member centers, each with 1-2 speakers. Seminars are recorded and made freely available for viewing on the RNA Collaborative YouTube Channel.  Seminars are open for viewing by all interested researchers, but prior registration is required to access the streaming content.

Current RNA Collaborative participating centers include: African Life Science RNA Salon,  Alberta RNA Research and Training Institute (ARRTI), The Bay Area RNA Club (BARC), The Brown RNA Center (BRC), Cambridge RNA Club, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Groupe de Recherche RNA, Galway RNA Research Cluster, Harvard Medical School Initiative for RNA Medicine, Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research, Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB), Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), MD Anderson Center for RNA Interference and Non-Coding RNAs, NCI RNA Biology Initiative, NUS-CSI Singapore RNA Biology Center, Penn Institute for RNA Innovation, RiboClub Sherbrooke, RNA MaxiGroup, University of Wisconsin-Madison, RNA Research Centre in Poznan, Shanghai RNA Club,   The RNA Institute, University At Albany, UCSC Center for Molecular Biology of RNA, UMass Chan Medical School, RNA Therapeutics Institute, University of Michigan Center for RNA Biomedicine, University of North Carolina RNA Research Group, Ohio State University Center for RNA Biology, Regensburg Center for Biochemistry (RCB), University of Rochester Center for RNA Biology, University of Science & Technology of China (USTC) RNA Institute, UNSW RNA Institute, Yale Center for RNA Science and Medicine, and Zhejiang University (ZJU) Center for RNA Medicine

We invite institutions with RNA research programs to join the RNA Collaborative and present within this exciting on-line seminar series.  All below are free and open to the public.  For more information on having your center join the RNA Collaborative, please contact Stacey O’Neil [email protected].

Upcoming Seminars