RNA Biology Course – Fall 2022

Schedule    

Monday, October 24: RNA as a regulatory biomolecule

09:00 – 09:15    Course overview (Neva Caliskan and Redmond Smyth)

09:15 – 10:10    RNA as a biomolecule (Claudia Höbartner)

10:20 – 11:15    Regulatory RNAs in bacteria (Jörg Vogel)

11:25 – 12:20    Regulatory RNAs in eukaryotes (Mathias Munschauer)

12:20 – 12:30    Day wrap-up (Redmond Smyth)

Tuesday, October 25: Life cycle of RNA in bacteria

09:00 – 09:05    Day overview (Neva Caliskan)

09:05 – 10:00    Transcription and termination in bacteria (Alexander Westermann)

10:10 – 11:05    RNA processing and decay in bacteria (Cynthia Sharma and Lydia Hadjeras)

11:15 – 12:10    Translation in bacteria (Neva Caliskan)

12:10 – 12:15    Day wrap-up (Neva Caliskan)

Afternoon Workshop

13:00 – 14:55    A short introduction to RNA-seq analysis (Florian Erhard)

Wednesday, October 26: Life cycle of RNA in eukaryotes

09:00 – 09:05    Day overview (Neva Caliskan)

09:05 – 10:00    Transcription and termination in eukaryotes (Lars Dölken)

10:10 – 11:05    RNA processing and decay in eukaryotes (Utz Fischer)

11:15 – 12:10    Translation in eukaryotes (Neva Caliskan)

12:10 – 12:15    Day wrap-up (Neva Caliskan)

Afternoon Workshop

13:00 – 14:30    A short introduction to protein bioinformatic tools (Milan Gerovac)

Thursday, October 27: Advanced methods in RNA biology

09:00 – 09:05    Day overview (Redmond Smyth) 

09:05 – 10:00    RNA-seq methods and workflows (Emmanuel Saliba)

10:10 – 11:05    RNA structure determination (Redmond Smyth)

11:15 – 12:10    RNA (seq) data analysis (Lars Barquist)

12:10 – 12:15    Day wrap-up (Redmond Smyth)

Friday, October 28: RNA engineering

09:00 – 09:05    Day overview (Redmond Smyth)

09:05 – 10:00    RNA synthetic biology (Chase Beisel)

10:10 – 11:05    CRISPR technologies (Chase Beisel)

11:15 – 12:10    RNA delivery, pharmacology, and pharmacokinetics (Tessa Lühmann)

12:10 – 12:20    Course wrap-up mentimeter session (Neva Caliskan and Redmond Smyth)

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