Hi! I’m a biochemistry PhD candidate at CUNY seeking a European-based postdoc position. I want to apply my structural bio skills (protein purification, NMR, MS, xtallography) to Origin of Life research. If you know of anything, please DM or email me: [email protected]

Latest work from the Jagannathan Lab led by our recent PhD🎓Divya Divya Kolakada! Peptidyl-tRNA hydrolysis rate influences the efficiency of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The Chemi-Northern method uses a biotinylated probe (1) to detect purified RNA (2) that has been separated on a gel (3) and blotted to a membrane (4) using chemiluminescence (5) to visualize and quantitate the RNA’s size and abundance (6) bit.ly/49ufK5q

Tyrosine-accepting tRNA-like structures are found in two viral families, representing two distinct types in this RNA class that share many features but use distinct structures to mimic the anticodon bit.ly/3uC0W5U

Recent lab retreat in State College, PA... joint lab meeting with the BevilacquaLab Lab, getting ice cream at PSU Berkey Creamery...and checking out the Penn State campus. Also lots of team building, good convos, and other misc. science.

Interested in doing a postdoc in Seattle? Join us May 7 for Seattle DROP, a virtual biomedical postdoc recruitment event. The first 250 US registrants enjoy lunch via delivery voucher!  Underrepresented candidates are esp encouraged to attend. Register: bit.ly/seattledrop

Team headed by Olivia Rissland & Jeffrey Kieft University of Colorado Anschutz determined the ribosome cryo-EM structure from the important pathogen Giardia lamblia @BeAScientist Jeffrey Kieft cell.com/structure/full…

So excited for you Lauren! Can’t wait to watch the Hagler lab grow.

We're getting ready to see you at #RNA2024! Stop by to hear about the latest changes to Rfam rfam.org Rfam and how we can help you with your RNA research. #RNA24 #ncRNA @EMBL-EBI

Know an outstanding early-career RNA researcher with an independent research program? Nominate them (self-nominate!) to be considered for the Blumenthal Endowed Lectureship in RNA Biology! forms.gle/4rDhdfvpyTuvUY… Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics MCDB at CU Boulder💉😷🧬 The RNA Society Jr RNA Scientists

In 2018 our lab began an outreach program with a local middle school, inspired in large part by HittingerLab Wild YEAST Program. We thought we could further engage the students in the process of identifying yeast species and also learn something about S. cerevisiae diversity 1/n

🧑‍🔬Are you thinking of doing a PostDoc? We would LOVE to “CU” here!🎉 Come to PEAKS, our Postdoc Recruitment event taking place April 7-8, 2025! 🧪 Present your Thesis work 🧑‍🏫 Meet our Faculty 🏫 Campus Tours 🤝 Networking Opportunities 💬  Engage with the CU Anschutz Community

Paper alert! First high-res endogenously (blended) purified C elegans Ribosome SPA structure is out RNA Thanks PNCC for all the (once again!) outstanding support! rnajournal.cshlp.org/content/early/…

Interested in grad school in Chemistry & Biochemistry? Check out our virtual open house! UC Santa Cruz Shaun McKinnie @partchlab Rubin Lab Glenn Millhauser sarahloerch

Pleased to share our new article "Direct testing of natural twister ribozymes from over a thousand organisms reveals a broad tolerance for structural imperfections" out in Nucleic Acids Res academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

Our latest work is out in nature today! Using smFRET, we directly visualized recruitment of the eIF4F complex to the 5' cap of eukaryotic mRNAs and formation of an activated mRNA. Our findings reveal new and surprising roles for each eIF4F component. 1/3 nature.com/articles/s4158…

1. Hi #RNA friends, just in time for the holidays I am excited to share the latest pre-print from my group. We solved the structure of a mysterious viral RNA that resists degradation by host nucleases. A short 🧵 & link below – please also check out the full video! #lovevirology