RTI Seminar Series
Join the RNA Therapeutics Institute (RTI) Seminar Series at UMass Chan Medical School.
The RTI Seminar Series provides students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff with the opportunity to engage directly with leading researchers and experts presenting a wide range of topics across the field of RNA science and therapeutics.
The 2026-2027 Seminar Series will be offered in both in-person and virtual formats. Most seminars are accessible via Zoom.
Seminar Details
Day: Tuesdays
Time: 10:00 - 11:00 AM
Location: AS4-2072 or Zoom (unless otherwise noted)
Format: Most seminars are hybrid, some will be held virtualy only.
Most seminars are recorded for later viewing by the UMass Chan community. If you would like access please reach out to us.
Please note: The RTI Seminar Series is intended for the UMass Chan Medical School faculty, trainees, staff, and students only.
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Jingyi Fei , PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of ChicagoSeptember 22, 2026
AS4-2072 & via Zoom
Title: TBD
Hosted by Wenwen Fang -
Alex de Marco , PhD
Director of the Simons Electron Microscopy Center, New York Structural Biology CenterOctober 13, 2026
Title: "Increasing throughput in cryoEM"
AS4-2072 & via Zoom
Hosted by Niko Grigorieff -
Philip Kranzusch , PhD
Professor of Microbiology, Harvard Medical SchoolOctober 27, 2026
Title: "Evolution of antiviral immunity"
AS4-2072 & via Zoom
Hosted by Erik Sontheimer -
Justin Kinney , PhD
Professor and Chair Simons Center for Quantitative Biology Cold Spring Harbor LaboratoryDecember 8, 2026
AS4-2072 & via Zoom
Title: "Massively parallel reporter assays, sequence-function relationships, and splice-modifying drugs"
Hosted by Leo Schärfen -
Karen Adelman , PhD
Edward S. Harkness Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical SchoolJanuary 22, 2027
AS4-2072 & via Zoom
Title: TBD
Hosted by Athma Pai -
Lin Guo , PhD
Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Jefferson UniversityFebruary 23, 2027
AS4-2072 & via Zoom
Title: TBD
Hosted by Fen-Biao Gao -
Matthew D. Simon , PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale UniversityMarch 2, 2027
AS4-2072 & via Zoom
Title: TBD
Hosted by Athma Pai -
Torben Heick Jensen , PhD
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics RNA Biology and Innovation, Aarhus UniversityMarch 23, 2027
AS4-2072 & via Zoom
Title: TBD
Hosted by Phil Zamore -
Jinwei Zhang , PhD
Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, NIDDK National Institutes of HealthApril 6, 2027
AS4-2072 & via Zoom
Title: TBD
Hosted by Li Li