The purpose of the New England RNA Data (NERD) club is to allow dissemination of recent developments in RNA biology and to facilitate interactions between academic and industry laboratories in the field. Topics will cover all aspects of RNA biology including, but not limited to: mechanisms of RNAi, microRNA biogenesis/action, high-throughput siRNA screening, RNA transcription, RNA splicing/export, RNA trafficking and mRNA translational control. The club meets once a month and each session consists of three 20 minute talks (with ~10 minutes for discussion) by faculties, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and/or industry scientists.  

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Next meeting:

February 18, 2010

Place: Cannon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School
Time: 6:00 PM
Speakers:

 Larray McReynolds, New England BioLabs, Ipswich, MA 
Debora Marks,            Department of Systems Biology, Havard Medical School
Kirsten Hagstrom,     Program in Molecular Medicine and Cell Dynamics, Umass Medical School

Sponsors: Abcam, Exiqon, Qiagen

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Previous meeting:

January 21, 2010

Place: Cannon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School
Time: 6:00 PM
Speakers:

 Barry A Morgan,        GlaxoSmithKline, Waltham, MA 
Rui Zhou,                     Norbert Perrimon lab, Havard Medical School, HHMI
Natalia E. Broude,     Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University

Sponsors: Abcam, Exiqon, Qiagen

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November 19, 2009

Place: Cannon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School
Time: 6:00 PM
Speakers:

 Taiping Chen,                       Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR) 
Jason P. Schrum,                Jack Szostak lab, Havard Medical School, MGH, HHMI
Ines Anna Drinnenberg,     David Bartel Lab, Whitehead  Institute, MIT, HHMI

Sponsors: Exiqon, Qiagen

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Congratulations to Jack Szostak at Harvard

for winning 2009 Nobel Prize of Medicine!!!

Congratulations to Tom Steitz at Yale

for winning 2009 Nobel Prize of Chemistry!!!