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Upcoming meetings:


November 17, 2011

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

Igor Ulitsky,                 David Bartel Lab, Whitehead Institute, MIT, HHMI
Chen-Yu Zhang ,        School of Life Science, Nanjing University, China 
Jeremy Wilusz,            Phillip A Sharp Lab, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT
 

Sponsors: Qiagen

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October 26, 2011

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

Sebastian Marquardt,     Steve Buratowski Lab, Harvard Medical School
Michael W. Pfaffl ,             FML-Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Germany 
Rachel Fearns,                 Microbiology Department, Boston University School of Medicine
 

Sponsors: Qiagen

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July 27, 2011

New England RNA Data (NERD) Club Summer Special Talk

Place: Cannon room, Building C, Harvard Medical School
Time: 3:00-4:00 PM 
Speaker:

Caroline Dean,                   John Innes Center, UK


Sponsors: NEB, Abcam, Qiagen

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June 3, 2011

New England RNA Data (NERD) Club 2011 Annual Symposium

Place: New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA
Time: 10:00-5:00 PM
Speakers:

David Bartel,                   Whitehead Institute, MIT, HHMI
Mitchell Guttman ,          Broad Institute, MIT 
Larry McReynolds,        RNA Biology, NEB 
Rachel Meyers,               Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 


Sponsors: NEB, Abcam, Qiagen

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Past meetings:

 

April 25, 2011

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

Anthony KL Leung,      School of Public Health, John Hopkins University& Sharp Lab, MIT
Galina Gabriely ,             Anna Krichevsky Lab, Brigham and Women's Hospital, HMS 
Salil Lachke,                   Richard Maas Lab, Brigham and Women's Hospital, HMS
 

Sponsors: NEB, Abcam, Qiagen

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March 17, 2011

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

Johan Skog,      Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
Lei Sun,               Harvey Lodish Lab, Whitehead Institute, MIT 
Zeev Waks,         Pam Silver Lab, Department of Systems Biology,
Harvard Medical School

Sponsors: NEB, Abcam, Qiagen

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February 17, 2011

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

Patryk Moskwa,        Dipanjan Chowdhury Lab, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Tai Montgomery,      Gary Ruvkun Lab, Massachusetts General Hospital 
Feilong Meng,            Frederick Alt Lab, Harvard Medical School, HHMI

Sponsors: NEB, Abcam, Qiagen

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November 18, 2010

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

Brandi N. Davis,        Akiko Hata Lab, Tufts Medical Center
Ingolf Bach,                Program of Gene Function&Expression, Umass Medical School 
Mario Halic,                 Danesh Moazed Lab, Harvard Medical School, HHMI

 

Sponsors: NEB, Abcam, Exiqon, Qiagen

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October 21, 2010

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

Paul Choi,                      Xiaoliang Sunny Xie Lab, Department of Chemistry, Harvard University
Joseph Tcherkezian,  John Flanagan Lab, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School 
Avirup Bose,                  Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA

Sponsors: NEB, Abcam, Exiqon, Qiagen

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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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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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April 22, 2010

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

 John Wu,                Xiaowei Zhuang Lab, Depeartment of Chemistry, Harvard, HHMI
Huangming Xie,   Harvey Lodish Lab, Whitehead Institute, MIT
Shenghua Duan,           Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University

Sponsors: NEB, Abcam, Exiqon, Qiagen

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March 18, 2010

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

 Alex Shalek,         Hongkun Park lab, Depeartment of Chemistry and Chemical  Biology, Harvard
Sergei Koralov,   Klaus Rajewsky lab, Immune Disease Institute, Harvard Medical School
Shanta Dhar,       Stephen J. Lippard lab, Department of Chemistry, MIT

Sponsors: NEB, Abcam, Exiqon, Qiagen

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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: NEB, Abcam, Exiqon, Qiagen

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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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October 22, 2009

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

 Pradip Majumder,  Merck Research Lab at Boston
Chis Hammell,        Victor Ambros lab, Umass Medical School
Ashish Lal,              Judy Lieberman Lab, Harvard Medical School 

Sponsors: Exiqon, Qiagen
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June 10th, 2009
• Place: Cannon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School
• Time: 6:00PM
• Speakers: 

Pavel ivanov, Anderson Lab, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Neil Kubica, Blenis Lab, HMS
Pavel Ivanov, Anderson Lab, Brigham & Women's Hospital 
• Sponsors: MERCK, Qiagen, Miltenyi Biotech and the Department of Cell Biology Harvard Medical School

May 5th, 2009
• Place: Le Meridien Cambridge
• Time: 5:30PM
• Speakers: 
Olivia Rissland, Bartel Lab, Whitehead (MIT) 
Debbie Consiglio, Qiagen

• Sponsors: Qiagen, MERCK, Miltenyi Biotech and the Department of Cell Biology Harvard Medical School

April 8th, 2009
• Place: Cannon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School
• Time: 6:00PM
• Speakers: 
Salil Lachke, Maas Lab, Brigham & Women's Hospital 

Can Cenik, Roth Lab, HMS 

Rangapriya Sundararajan, Freudenreich Lab, Tufts University 

• Sponsors: MERCK, Qiagen, Miltenyi Biotech and the Department of Cell Biology Harvard Medical School

March 4th, 2009
• Place: Cannon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School
• Time: 6:00PM
• Speakers:
Daehyun Baek, Bartel Lab, Whitehead 

Lidia Vasilieva, Buratowski Lab, HMS
• Sponsors: MERCK, Qiagen, Miltenyi Biotech and the Department of Cell Biology Harvard Medical School

November 19th, 2008 
• Place: Cannon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School
• Time: 6:00PM
• Speakers:
Mohamed Ghazy,  Moore Lab, Tufts University
Takbum Ohn, Anderson Lab, Brigham & Women's Hospital 
• Sponsors: MERCK, Qiagen, Miltenyi Biotech and the Department of Cell Biology Harvard Medical School

October 23rd, 2008
• Place: University of Massachusetts, Worcester, Biotech-II Building 3rd Floor Seminar Room 
• Time: 5:30PM
• Speakers:
James Carey, Hagstrm Lab, UMass Worcester
Christopher Hammell, Ambros Lab, UMass Worcester 
Brian Farley, Ryder Lab, UMass Worcester
• Sponsors: MERCK, Qiagen, the Department of Cell Biology Harvard Medical School

September 24th, 2008 
• Place: Cannon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School
• Time: 6:00PM
• Speakers:
Navtej Toor, Pyle Lab, Yale  
Natalie Farney, Silver Lab, HMS
• Sponsors: MERCK, Qiagen, the Department of Cell Biology Harvard Medical School 

August 20th, 2008 
• Place: Whitehead Institute, Whitehead Auditorium
• Time: 6:00PM
• Speakers:
Mo Motamedi, Moazed Lab, HMS
Nelson Lau, Kingston Lab, MGH 
David Shechner, Bartel Lab, Whitehead 
• Sponsors: MERCK, Qiagen, the Department of Cell Biology Harvard Medical School

June 12th, 2008 
• Place: Cannon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School
• Time: 6:00PM
• Speakers: 
Alena Shkumatava, Bartel Lab, Whitehead (MIT)
Erica Gerace, Moazed Lab, HMS
• Sponsors: MERCK, Qiagen, the Department of Cell Biology Harvard Medical School

May 21st, 2008 
• Place: Cannon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School
• Time: 6:00PM
• Speakers:
Julie Claycomb, Mello Lab, U Mass Worcester
Alex Palazzo, Rapoport Lab, HMS
Joseph De-Chung Shih, Hunter Lab, Harvard 
• Sponsors: MERCK, Qiagen, the Department of Cell Biology Harvard Medical School

April 17th, 2008 
• Place: Cannon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School
• Time: 6:00PM
• Speakers:
Eric Wang, Burge Lab, Whitehead (MIT)
Pedro Batista, Mello Lab, U Mass Worcester
Prakash Rao, Lodish Lab, Whitehead (MIT)
• Sponsors: MERCK, Qiagen, the Department of Cell Biology Harvard Medical School

March 20th, 2008 
• Place: Cannon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School
• Time: 6:00PM
• Speakers:
Graham Ruby, Bartel Lab, Whitehead (MIT)
Amanada Young, Sharp Lab, Whitehead (MIT)
Srinivas Viswanathan, Daley & Gregory Labs, HMS
• Sponsors: MERCK, Qiagen, the Department of Cell Biology Harvard Medical School

February 21st, 2008
• Place: Cannon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School
• Time: 6:00PM
• Speakers:
Suzanne Komili, Silver Lab, HMS
Bianca Heinrich, Deshler Lab, Boston University
Ian Swinburne, Silver Lab, HMS
• Sponsors: MERCK, Qiagen, the Department of Cell Biology Harvard Medical School

November 20th, 2007
• Place: Cannon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School
• Time: 6:00PM
• Speakers:
Caryn Navarro, Lehmann Lab, NYU
Ruthie Zearfoss, Ryder Lab, U Mass Worcester
William Abraham Pastor, Rao Lab, HMS
• Sponsors: MERCK, Qiagen, the Department of Cell Biology Harvard Medical School

October 30th, 2007
• Place: Cannon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School
• Time: 6:00PM
• Speakers:
Max Ma, Blenis Lab, HMS
Andrew Grimson, Bartel Lab, Whitehead (MIT)
Ming-Chung Kan, Richter Lab, UMass Worcester
• Sponsors: MERCK, Qiagen and the Department of Cell Biology Harvard Medical School

September 11th, 2007
• Place: Cannon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School
• Time: 5:30PM
• Speakers:
Chris Hammell, Ambrose Lab, Dartmouth Medical School
Natalie Gilks Farny, Silver Lab, HMS
Sebastian Kadener, Rosbash Lab, Brandeis University
• Sponsors: MERCK, Qiagen, Alnylam, the Department of Cell Biology Harvard Medical School

June 19th, 2007
• Place: Cannon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School
• Speakers:
Hong Cheng, Reed Lab, HMS
Changchun Xiao, Rajewsky Lab, HMS
Peter Boag, Blackwell Lab, HMS
• Sponsors: Alnylam, Novartis, Qiagen & The Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School

May 15th, 2007
• Place: Cannon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School
• Speakers:
Alex Palazzo, Rapoport Lab, HMS
Christine Mayr, Bartel Lab, Whitehead (MIT)
Erwei Song, Leiberman Lab, HMS
• Sponsors: Alnylam, Novartis, New England BioLabs