RNA Institute News

Post doctoral fellow Subodh Mishra has been awarded a fellowship from a foundation targeting Myotonic Dystrophy (DM) to support new RNA Institute research into how a natural dietary supplement can be used as a therapeutic to combat the disease.

Performed by talented undergrads, new work from the Halvorsen Lab highlights orthogonal control of DNA nanoswitches using light, ribonuclease and nucleic acids.

Nature magazine highlights new research from the Chen Lab showing how experimental data and predictive algorithms combine to reveal the essential way RNA folds as it is synthesized.

Dr. Alan Chen, Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University at Albany and RNA Institute Faculty member, has teamed up with researchers at Ohio State and Northwestern University to develop a new method to better understand cotranscriptional RNA folding. 

Researchers from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany have identified small molecules that could inhibit intein self-splicing from the protein PrP8 in the fungal pathogens Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii, emerging pathogens that can cause fungal meningitis in immunocompromised patients.

(January 2021) - Dr.  Subodh Mishra, a post-doctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Andrew Berglund, has been awarded a fellowship from the Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation UK to support his study titled Discovery of dietary natural compounds as potential therapeutics for DM.

Upcoming speakers include RNA Fellow, Shane Breznak from the Rangan Lab and Guest Speaker, Dr. Blanton Tolbert, Professor at Case Western Reserve University

Speakers: Amber Altrieth, RNA Fellow (Mentor: Mindy Larsen) and Markus Landthaler, Max-Delbruck-Centrum fur Molekulare Medizin (MDC)