News Archive

University saw 50 percent decrease in COVID-19 cases
The spring semester was an undeniably challenging one, but there is a major success that all Great Danes played a part in.

Next Generation RNA Researcher
Update - We are happy to report that Cristina won a 4th Award in the Computational Biology and Bioinformatics division at the largest Global High School STEM competition, Regeneron ISEF 2021.
Congratulations from everyone at The RNA Institute!

The 7th Cohort of RNA Fellows has Scientific Depth and Diversity
12 doctoral students from UAlbany and SUNY Poly have been named 2021-22 RNA fellows — the seventh such cohort in the institute’s young history.

HVRC RNA Salon May 18, 2021 Recording available
Recording now available! Watch the last HVRC RNA Salon of the academic year! Speakers are Tristen Head (RNA Fellow, SUNY POLY) and Joerg Vogel (Director of HIRI and IMIB)

Ragan Lab publication on RNA degradation
Ragan Lab publishes story about RNA degradation in Current Biology
Introducing the 7th cohort of RNA Fellows
The RNA Institute hosted a lunch to introduce the new 2021-2022 cohort of RNA Fellows.

RNA Institute hosts seminar by Dr. Peter Kharchenko
Join us May 6th @9:00AM EST for seminar by Dr. Peter Kharchenko, Harvard Medical School. The title of his talk is "Comparative analysis of clinical single cell dataset collections"

New Blood Analyzer Tells Human from Animal Samples on the Spot
Scientific American (Research led by Igor Lednev and Ewelina Mistek-Morabito, Department of Chemistry)