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RNA Club

Monthly RNA community meet-up

Second Thursday of every month
4:00—6:00 pm

Sinsheimer Labs, Room 123

Sponsered by: RNA Center & Cytiva

Join via Zoom

January 8, 2026

Erica Hutchins – Hutchins Lab, UCSF, “Should I stay or should I go? How RNA regulation drives cell migration”

Sarah Loerch – Loerch Lab, UCSC
“Lost In Translation: Mapping localized translation activity in subcellular regions with 2D Template Matching”

February 12, 2026

Hannah Stephens – LUMICKS, “tbd”

Yekaterisna Shulgina – Cate Lab, UCB,
“tbd”

March 12, 2026

Marta Seczynska – Steinmetz Lab, Stanford, “TDB”

Dragony Fu – Fu Lab, Univ. of Rochester
“TDB”

April 9, 2026

Chloe Ghent – Fugimori Lab, UCSF, “TBD”

Carolyn Sangokoya – Sangokoya Lab, UCSF,
“TBD”

May 7, 2026

Suresh Garudadri – Ansel Lab, UCSF, “TBD”

Vanessa Jonsson – Jonsson Lab, UCSC
“TBD”

June 11, 2026

RNA Club

Monthly RNA community meet-up

Erica Hutchins – Hutchins Lab, UCSF, “Should I stay or should I go? How RNA regulation drives cell migration”

Sarah Loerch – Loerch Lab, UCSC
“Lost In Translation: Mapping localized translation activity in subcellular regions with 2D Template Matching”

Hannah Stephens – LUMICKS, “tbd”

Yekaterisna Shulgina – Cate Lab, UCB,
“tbd”

Marta Seczynska – Steinmetz Lab, Stanford, “TDB”

Dragony Fu – Fu Lab, Univ. of Rochester
“TDB”

Chloe Ghent – Fugimori Lab, UCSF, “TBD”

Carolyn Sangokoya – Sangokoya Lab, UCSF,
“TBD”

Suresh Garudadri – Ansel Lab, UCSF, “TBD”

Vanessa Jonsson – Jonsson Lab, UCSC
“TBD”

Yousuf Khan – Kahn Lab, Stanford,”TBD”

Joseph Lobel – Ingolia Lab, UCB,
“tbd”

Previous RNA Club Meetings

David Deamer – Deamer Lab, UCSC, “How did nucleic acids emerge on the early Earth?”

Eric Malekos – Carpenter Lab, UCSC
“Functional characterization of macrophages hidden proteome”

Olena Vaske – Vaske Lab, UCSC , “Translating RNA genomic approaches to the clinic”

Weifeng Lin – Kool Lab, Stanford U.,
“Unexpected transcriptome interactions of drugs with unknown targets”

Daniel Steele – Amycel, “Transcriptional regulation of host root recognition in Triphysaria versicolor“

Akshi Jasani – Grieder Lab, UCSC
“Using Nanopore cDNA sequencing to study yeast telomeric IncRNA and their role in telomere length regulation“

Gail Bai – Brooks Lab, UCSC , “Long-read sequencing approaches to elucidate the contribution of nucleosome positioning to transcription and RNA processing“

Dustin Niblett – Noller Lab, UCSC,
“Reading frame maintenance by a universally conserved nucleotide in 16S rRNA”

Drew Galls – Fire Lab, Stanford

Natalie Batalha – Batalha Lab, UCSC,

Hossein Amiri – Bustamante Lab, UCB

Matt Modena – Arribere Lab, UCSC

Jesse Leavitt – Lowe Lab, UCSC

Diana Escalona – Carpenter Lab, UCSC “Using genetic mouse models to determine GAPLINC’s role in regulating innate immunity”

Roselyn Grosely – Puglisi Lab, Stanford
“Delineating the mechanism of repeat-associated non-AUG translation initiation in C9 ALS”

News

New study discovers tiny target on RNA to short-circuit inflammation

Study offers guidance on state-of-the-art long-read RNA sequencing techniques

New blood test for noncoding RNA significantly improves cancer detection

Hallmark cancer gene regulates RNA ‘dark matter’

New study discovers cellular activity that hints recycling is in our DNA

Researchers produce first-ever toolkit for RNA sequencing analysis using a ‘pantranscriptome’

RNA Club

Monthly RNA community meet-up

Erica Hutchins – Hutchins Lab, UCSF, “Should I stay or should I go? How RNA regulation drives cell migration”

Sarah Loerch – Loerch Lab, UCSC“Lost In Translation: Mapping localized translation activity in subcellular regions with 2D Template Matching”

Hannah Stephens – LUMICKS, “tbd”

Yekaterisna Shulgina – Cate Lab, UCB, “tbd”

Marta Seczynska – Steinmetz Lab, Stanford, “TDB”

Dragony Fu – Fu Lab, Univ. of Rochester“TDB”

Chloe Ghent – Fugimori Lab, UCSF, “TBD”

Carolyn Sangokoya – Sangokoya Lab, UCSF, “TBD”

Suresh Garudadri – Ansel Lab, UCSF, “TBD”

Vanessa Jonsson – Jonsson Lab, UCSC“TBD”

Yousuf Khan – Kahn Lab, Stanford,”TBD”

Joseph Lobel – Ingolia Lab, UCB, “tbd”

Previous RNA Club Meetings

David Deamer – Deamer Lab, UCSC, “How did nucleic acids emerge on the early Earth?”

Eric Malekos – Carpenter Lab, UCSC“Functional characterization of macrophages hidden proteome”

Olena Vaske – Vaske Lab, UCSC , “Translating RNA genomic approaches to the clinic”

Weifeng Lin – Kool Lab, Stanford U., “Unexpected transcriptome interactions of drugs with unknown targets”

Daniel Steele – Amycel, “Transcriptional regulation of host root recognition in Triphysaria versicolor“

Akshi Jasani – Grieder Lab, UCSC“Using Nanopore cDNA sequencing to study yeast telomeric IncRNA and their role in telomere length regulation“

Gail Bai – Brooks Lab, UCSC , “Long-read sequencing approaches to elucidate the contribution of nucleosome positioning to transcription and RNA processing“

Dustin Niblett – Noller Lab, UCSC, “Reading frame maintenance by a universally conserved nucleotide in 16S rRNA”

Drew Galls – Fire Lab, Stanford

Natalie Batalha – Batalha Lab, UCSC,

Hossein Amiri – Bustamante Lab, UCB

Matt Modena – Arribere Lab, UCSC

Jesse Leavitt – Lowe Lab, UCSC

Diana Escalona – Carpenter Lab, UCSC “Using genetic mouse models to determine GAPLINC’s role in regulating innate immunity”

Roselyn Grosely – Puglisi Lab, Stanford“Delineating the mechanism of repeat-associated non-AUG translation initiation in C9 ALS”

News

New study discovers tiny target on RNA to short-circuit inflammation

Study offers guidance on state-of-the-art long-read RNA sequencing techniques

New blood test for noncoding RNA significantly improves cancer detection

Hallmark cancer gene regulates RNA ‘dark matter’

New study discovers cellular activity that hints recycling is in our DNA

Researchers produce first-ever toolkit for RNA sequencing analysis using a ‘pantranscriptome’

Sarah Loerch – Loerch Lab, UCSC
“Lost In Translation: Mapping localized translation activity in subcellular regions with 2D Template Matching”

Yekaterisna Shulgina – Cate Lab, UCB,
“tbd”

Dragony Fu – Fu Lab, Univ. of Rochester
“TDB”

Carolyn Sangokoya – Sangokoya Lab, UCSF,
“TBD”

Vanessa Jonsson – Jonsson Lab, UCSC
“TBD”

Joseph Lobel – Ingolia Lab, UCB,
“tbd”

Eric Malekos – Carpenter Lab, UCSC
“Functional characterization of macrophages hidden proteome”

Weifeng Lin – Kool Lab, Stanford U.,
“Unexpected transcriptome interactions of drugs with unknown targets”

Akshi Jasani – Grieder Lab, UCSC
“Using Nanopore cDNA sequencing to study yeast telomeric IncRNA and their role in telomere length regulation“

Dustin Niblett – Noller Lab, UCSC,
“Reading frame maintenance by a universally conserved nucleotide in 16S rRNA”

Roselyn Grosely – Puglisi Lab, Stanford
“Delineating the mechanism of repeat-associated non-AUG translation initiation in C9 ALS”