Please join us in offering our warmest congratulations to the winners of the 2023 The RNA Society Awards recognizing the scientific, educational, mentoring and leadership achievements of our members!

Honored and humbled to receive this recognition from The RNA Society congrats to all the other recipients from our supportive and inclusive #RNA community 🎉 a big thank you to all my mentors, collaborators, colleagues, and friends that made our work possible 🧬 📝

Exciting #URochesterResearch from the labs of Yi-Tao Yu and Paul Boutz in the University of Rochester Center for RNA Biology. Their teams discovered a unique way to suppress nonsense mutations, which lead to a wide range of genetic disorders. Via Molecular Cell urmc.info/O6

Woooh Conner from the Kieft Lab 🥳

New pre-print out of Dragony Fu’s lab!

#NIH is seeking input on challenges affecting retention in the postdoctoral trainee community. Better understanding of these challenges will help NIH support competitiveness & innovation within biomedical research & its workforce. RFI deadline is 4/14: bit.ly/3E8fRGz

Is there a company that does DNA Plasmid Design Consulting? I’ve learned so many things (through mistakes that I would have had no idea knowing they were mistakes 🙃) and I think I’d be REALLY good at that job.

📢First preprint from our lab now out! 🥳 We show how the human tRNA-modifying enzyme TRMT1 is recognized & cleaved by the SARS-CoV-2 main protease. Congrats to Angel D'Oliviera who led this work and collaborators Yingkai Zhang & Lucie Etienne! 🧵... biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Following up on this after some additional testing - we feel certain that these Sigma GTP stocks have RNase contamination (1/7)

Was recently looking into a postdoc entrepreneurship type fellowship and they wanted my transcripts…. 1) I think I’ve proved my worth and 2) I’ll be honest, I don’t know how to get them 😂

2´-phosphates installed by RNA repair are detectable by nanopore sequencing on mRNA & tRNA ligation targets, causing translocation stalls as the phosphate passes through the #nanopore motor protein bit.ly/41Ns7qf

Super excited to share the news about our beloved Professor Marlene Belfort on being awarded the 2023 RNA Society Lifetime Achievement in Science Award! Cherry on top moment here on #InternationalWomensDay2023

I’m so proud to have worked with my fellow postdoc association executive council members to fight for this! It feels amazing to know that our postdocs will have this benefit!

How lucky I am to have such an incredible team who believed in making this happen. We began with an anonymous survey seeking support from our PD community, we followed with a research-backed proposal sent to CU Anschutz Leadership. Today it was made official!!

Check out this work driven by the awesome Rishi Nageshan. Entangled telomeres? Expose them to the cytoplasm asap to resolve those entanglements…

Official last day as an academic postdoc! Bittersweet for sure, but excited to be removed for the lab bench. I’ve spent 11 years pipetting and I’m ready for a change.

Exciting news! I've accepted a job offer at Rockefeller University The Bonilla lab is opening this fall and is hiring at all levels! Interested in exploring RNA structure-function using #cryoEM, biophysics, computational tools, etc? Interested in viral RNAs? Join us in beautiful NYC!