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:
September 23, 2010
Place: Cannon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School
Time: 6:00 PM
Speakers:
Jarred Callura, James J. Collins Lab, Boston University, HHMI
Huili Guo, David Bartel Lab, Whitehead Institute, MIT, HHMI
Bozhi Tian, Charles M. Lieber Lab, Department of Chemistry, Harvard University
Sponsors: NEB, Abcam, Exiqon, Qiagen
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Previous meeting:
August 19, 2010
Place: Cannon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School
Time: 6:00 PM
Speakers:
Matthias Stadtfeld, Konrad Hochedlinger Lab, MGH Cancer Center, Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Austin Che, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT
Hao Zhu, George Q. Daley Lab, Harvard Medical School, HHMI
Sponsors: NEB, Abcam, Exiqon, Qiagen
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July 22, 2010
Place: Cannon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School
Time: 6:00 PM
Speakers:
Ye Grace Chen, David R. Liu Lab, Depeartment of Chemistry, Harvard, HHMI
Scott Valastyan, Robert Weinberg Lab, Whitehead Institute, MIT
Sihem Cheloufi, Gregory J. Hannon Lab, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, HHMI
Sponsors: NEB, Abcam, Exiqon, Qiagen
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NERD Club Annual Symposium on May 21, 2010
Place: New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA
Meeting Time: 1:00-5:00 PM (Bus picks up time: Vanderbilt hall of Harvard Medical School at 10:30 AM; in front of Whitehead Institute at 10:50 AM; bus leaves NEB at 5:00 PM)
Speakers:
session 1:
David Weinberg, David Bartel Lab, Whitehead Institute, MIT, HHMI
Curtis Huttenhower, School of Public Health, Harvard University
Brett Robb, RNA Biology, New England Biolabs
session 2:
Ronald Breaker, Molecular, Cellular and Development Biology, Yale University, HHMI
Sean Ryder, Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Umass Medical School
Sponsor: NEB (direction)
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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!!!