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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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Qiaobing Xu , PhD

    Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University

    October 7, 2025
    "Organ and cell selective delivery using synthetic lipid nanoparticle”

    AS4-2072 & via Zoom
    Hosted by Jon Watts

  • Rachel Green

    Rachel Green , PhD

    Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Investigator, HHMI

    *November 17th - 3:00pm
    ASC Auditorium

    Inaugural Yongliang Liao Distinguished Lecture
    “ZAK activation at the colliding ribosome"

    Hosted by Fen-Biao Gao & Andrei Korostelev

  • Ophir Shalem

    Ophir Shalem , PhD

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

    December 2, 2025
    “Pooled gene tagging and in situ sequencing for unbiased exploration and perturbation of subcellular proteome organization”

    AS4-2072 & via Zoom
    Hosted by Fen-Biao Gao

  • Gen-Sheng Feng

    Gen-Sheng Feng , PhD

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

    December 9, 2025
    Virtual
    Hosted by Wen Xue

  • Tianmin Fu

    Tianmin Fu , PhD

    Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, RNA Therapeutics Institute, UMass Chan Medical School

    January 6, 2026
    "Higher-order assemblies drive immune signaling"

    AS4-2072 & via Zoom
    Hosted by Fen-Biao Gao

  • Da Yang

    Da Yang , MD, PhD

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

    January 13, 2026
    Virtual
    Hosted by Guocai Zhong

  • Phillip Kranzusch

    Phillip Kranzusch , PhD

    Professor of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School

    January 27, 2026
    AS4-2072 & via Zoom
    Hosted by Erik Sontheimer

  • Xuebing Wu

    Xuebing Wu , PhD

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

    February 3, 2026
    Virtual
    Hosted by Wenwen Fang

  • Alex de Marco

    Alex de Marco , PhD

    Director of the Simons Electron Microscopy Center, New York Structural Biology Center

    February 24, 2026
    "Increasing throughput in cryoEM"

    AS4-2072 & via Zoom
    Hosted by Niko Grigorieff

  • Charles Allerson

    Charles Allerson , PhD

    CTO, Switch Therapeutics

    March 10, 2026
    Virtual
    Hosted by Julia Alterman

  • Katalin Susztak

    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

  • Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla

    Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla , MD, PhD

    Director of the Stem Cell Center; Director of the Institute of Epigenetics and Stem Cells; Director of Biomedicine at the Helmholtz Pioneer Campus; Professor for Stem Cell Biology

    April 7, 2026
    "Epigenetic mechanisms of cellular plasticity and reprogramming to totipotency"

    Virtual
    Hosted by Phil Zamore

  • Simon Bekker-Jensen

    Simon Bekker-Jensen , PhD

    Professor of Cellular Stress Responses, University of Copenhagen

    April 28, 2026
    Virtual
    Hosted by Andrei Korostelev

  • Juan Valcárcel

    Juan Valcárcel , PhD

    Group Leader, Centre for Genomic Regulation

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