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RTI Seminar Series

Join the Seminar Series, organized by the RNA Therapeutics Institute at UMass Chan Medical School

This seminar series offers students, postdocs, and faculty the opportunity to interact directly with speakers discussing a diverse array of topics within the RNA world.

The 2025/2026 seminar series will be held both virtually and in-person.There will always be an option to view the seminar via Zoom. All seminars are held on Tuesdays at 10:00 - 11:00am in AS4-2072 or via Zoom (*unless where noted). Some seminars will be virtual only.

Most seminars are recorded. Please contact us if you would like a link to view the seminar. Seminars are held for internal UMass Chan faculty, trainees and staff only. Thank you for your understanding.

Eriks Rozners , PhD

Professor, Chemistry, Binghamton University

September 2, 2025
AS4-2072 & via Zoom
"Amide-Modified RNA: Using Protein Backbone to Modulate Function of RNA"
Hosted by Anastasia Khvorova
Ian MacRae , PhD

Professor, The Scripps Research Institute, Integrative Computational and Structural Biology

*September 11, 2025 - 11:00am
”Decoding Argonaute: Structural Insights into Human Ago2 Catalysis"

AS4-2072 & via Zoom
Hosted by Phil Zamore
Riccardo Panella , PhD

CSO and Scientific Founder, Resalis Therapeutics

*September 15, 2025 - 2:00pm
"miR-22 Inhibition as a Therapeutic Approach to Rewire Metabolism and Treat Obesity"

AS4-2072 & via Zoom
Hosted by Craig Mello
Rene Ketting , PhD

Professor, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz (JGU), The Institute of Molecular Biology, Mainz (IMB)

*September 22, 2025 - 10:00am
"piRNAs and Histone mRNAs Share Unexpected Common Machinery"

AS4-2072 & via Zoom
Hosted by Craig Mello
Qiaobing Xu , PhD

Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University

October 7, 2025
AS4-2072 & via Zoom
Hosted by Jon Watts
Alex de Marco , PhD

Head, Imaging and Technology Development Lab, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute

October 14, 2025
AS4-2072 & via Zoom
Hosted by Niko Grigorieff
Xuebing Wu , PhD

Assistant Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine and in Systems Biology), Columbia University

October 28, 2025
Virtual Seminar
Hosted by Wenwen Fang
Ophir Shalem , PhD

Associate Professor of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

December 2, 2025
AS4-2072 & via Zoom
Hosted by Fen-Biao Gao
Gen-Sheng Feng , PhD

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Molecular Biology, UC San Diego

December 9, 2025
Virtual
Hosted by Wen Xue
Da Yang , MD, PhD

Professor, Department of Computational & Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh

January 13, 2026
Virtual
Hosted by Guocai Zhong
Phillip Kranzusch , PhD

Professor of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School

January 27, 2026
AS4-2072 & via Zoom
Hosted by Erik Sontheimer
Katalin Susztak , MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine (Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension), Perelman School of Medicine, UPenn

*April 1, 2026 - 10:00am
AS4-2072 & via Zoom
Hosted by Ken Yamada
Simon Bekker-Jensen , PhD

Professor of Cellular Stress Responses, University of Copenhagen

April 28, 2026
Virtual
Hosted by Andrei Korostelev
Juan Valcárcel , PhD

Group Leader, Centre for Genomic Regulation

June 2, 2026
AS4-2072 & via Zoom
Hosted by Athma Pai