The massive dissonance between the funding bodies & the chemicals & instrument companies keeps making financing your research really challenging. For example, see the price of 1 mCi 3H WIN35428 from PerkinElmer $3500 - 2015 $4200 - 2016 $5100 - 2018 $6200 - 2020 $6800 - 2021

Congratulations to all the winners of our annual RNA Society awards!!!!

Prices for radionuclides are astronomical! For 2022, the list prices have increased by 40-120% from 2021 and an as added gut punch, our academic discounts have gone down by 10%! Grant budgets haven't increased in years - wondering how we continue the science??🤔PerkinElmer

This NEW Molecular Microbiology Special Issue looks at "Regulating with RNA in #Microbes." 👥 Edited by: Kai Papenfort, Sarah A. Woodson, Ruth A. Schmitz, Wade C. Winkler. Get stuck in: ow.ly/xFeo50HKwPz Mol Micro Editors

Please join us in beautiful Boulder, Colorado for #RNA2022! May 31-June 5, with keynotes Joan Steitz Joan Steitz Lab @YaleRNA & Venki Ramakrishnan @MRC_LMB! Oral abstracts due March 4th & poster abstracts due March 18th. Register today! www2.rnasociety.org/conferences/rn…

New #singlemolecule #RNA #RBP paper alert!🚨 We examine the molecular mechanism for how so many different sRNAs could share the same RNA chaperone Hfq to allow bacteria to respond to a wide variety of stresses. Congrats Jorjethe!! 👏👏Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

The Woodson lab is honored to be recognized by this award named for the great nucleic acid biophysicist Nacho Tinoco!

Registration is now open for the 2023 GRC Gordon Research Conferences on RNA Nanotechnology! We have a fantastic line-up of speakers on RNA structure, imaging, diagnostics, nanostructures, exosomes and therapeutics. Submit your abstract now for a short talk or poster: grc.org/rna-nanotechno…

🚨🚨Join us for the 7th Meeting on Regulating with RNA in Bacteria & Archaea in St. Petersburg, FL, Sept 5-8! Topics include #smallnoncodingRNAs, #generegulation, #transcription, #bacterialpathogenesis, #evolution, #CRISPR and more. Register here: microbialrnameeting.com

Excited to share our new #singlemolecule #riboswitch paper! We study the co-transcriptional folding kinetics of the glmS ribozyme riboswitch and how it allows a rapid response to metabolite for mRNA turnover. Congrats Yuan! @NAR_Open academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

Happy holidays from our lab to yours! We had a blast participating in the biophysics department’s door decorating contest! ❄️❄️

Congratulations, Yumeng!! Check it out👇👇

Congrats Ewelina! Check out our new #singlemolecule story that shows how Hfq-sRNA complexes conduct a 1D scan of target mRNAs👇👇

Congrats Elise!! 👏👏

Congratulations to Dr. Yuan Lou for a fantastic thesis defense! 🎉🎉 She is an exceptional scientist and colleague, and we will miss her dearly. Best of luck at Genentech!

Congrats Daniel and Elise! Check out our new story about how the structure of the glmS ribozyme has evolved to avoid non-native tertiary contact interfaces 👇👇

New paper alert! We used optical tweezers to resolve heterogenous folding/unfolding pathways of repeat expanded huntingtin mRNA, revealing how hairpin slippage can seed inter-strand base pairing and promote aggregation. Congrats Brett O'Brien! 👏👏 nature.com/articles/s4146…

The Woodson Lab is migrating to Bluesky! Follow us here: bsky.app/profile/woodso…

Congratulations to Wilson on your NAR #Breakthrough paper!

Our new paper is out in PNAS! We show that competition for binding to the Hfq matchmaker disfavors mismatched sRNA-mRNA combinations while allowing matched sRNA-mRNAs to form stable pairs. Kudos to Jorjethe Roca and Yi-Lan Chen for their fantastic work! doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…