Rnaclubzurich

Welcome to the homepage of the RNA Club Zurich, which was founded to promote the interaction and collaboration of local research groups and individuals studying any aspect of RNA biology. The club is open to all interested researchers and students. On this page you will find a calendar highlighting upcoming events, news and announcements, such as synopses of recent papers published by our participating labs, special seminar announcements, conference alerts and any other bit of information that might be of interest to the community. Please visit our seminar page for details about our monthly work discussion meeting, or check out our non-work-related activities. If you would like to find out more about us and our research, please have a look at our members page or browse through the projects database. In the resources section, we provide links, protocols and other information that should be useful for RNA research. For any inquiries or suggestions regarding this homepage or the RNA Club in general, please see the contact page. You can subscribe to an RSS news feed, which will keep you updated about changes to the website. To subscribe just follow this link or copy and add it to your preferred RSS feed reader. Furthermore, if you have questions, requests or suggestions to the community, you can now simply enter a message in the shoutbox at the top of the page.

=Calendar / Upcoming Events=

 2009-01-08   RNA Club Meeting: Catherine Brun & Jochen Imig

=News & Announcements=

Seminar Announcement: Dr. Alain Jacquier, 26-MAY-2009, 12:30 AM
Posted: 19-MAY-2009  We are happy to announce that Dr. Alain Jacquier from the Institute Pasteur, Paris, France will hold a seminar on "Cryptic Transcription: The Dark Side of the Genomes" Guests are welcome! Location: University of Zurich, Irchel Campus, Lecture Hall Y35-F32 Google Maps link The seminar will be hosted by [mailto:bernhard.dichtl@molbio.unizh.ch Prof. Bernhard Dichtl]. Check out the flyer [[Media:JacquierSeminar.jpg‎‎|here]] or visit Dr. Jacquier's website for more information.

Conference Alert: RNA 2009, 26-May-2009, Madison, WI, USA
Posted: 02-FEB-2009  Please be advised that the 14th Annual Meeting of the RNA Society is taking place in Madison, WI, between the 26th and the 31st of May, 2009. Keynote speakers: Abstract submission deadline: 23-FEB-2009 Registration deadline: 27-APR-2009 For further information and registration, please visit the official homepage.
 * Dr. Shiv Grewal (National Cancer Institute, NIH): “RNAi-mediated Epigenetic Control of the Genome”
 * Dr. Robert Darnell (Rockefeller University): “Genome-wide RNA-Protein Maps”

= Archive =

Seminar Announcement: Prof. Jean-Paul Behr, 03-APR-2009, 9:00 AM
Posted: 02-DEC-2008  We are happy to announce that Prof. Jean-Paul Behr from the Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg in France will hold a seminar on "siRNA Delivery" Please note that the seminar will commence at 9 am NOT 10 am as was stated before, and it will replace the RNA Club Meeting (no other talks are scheduled for April's meeting). Guests are welcome! Location: ETH Hönggerberg Campus, Seminar Room HPK D3 Google Maps link The seminar will be hosted by [mailto:jonathan.hall@pharma.ethz.ch Prof. J. Hall].

Seminar Announcement: Prof. Renée Schroeder, 01-APR-2009, 17:15 AM
Posted: 26-JAN-2009  We are happy to announce that Prof. Renée Schroeder (Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna/Medical University of Vienna, Austria) will give a talk on "Human RNAs that regulate transcription" Guests are welcome! Location: UZH Irchel Campus, Seminar Room Y17 H05 Google Maps link For more information, please visit Prof. Renée Schroeder's website or contact [mailto:e.kowalska@pharma.uzh.ch Elzbieta Kowalska].

Seminar Announcement: Prof. Benoit Chabot, 30-MAR-2009, 14:00 AM
Posted: 25-MAR-2009  We are happy to announce that Prof. Benoit Chabot (Département de microbiologie et d'infectiologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada) will hold a seminar on "Cancer-specific alternative splicing" Guests are welcome! Location: ETH Hönggerberg Campus, Seminar Room HPK D3 Google Maps link For more information, please visit Prof. Chabot's website or contact [mailto:allain@mol.biol.ethz.ch Prof. Fred Allain].

Journal Alert: Cell Special Review Issue on RNA, 20-Feb-2009
Posted: 28-FEB-2009 

Please be aware that the latest Cell issue (Volume 136, Number 4, published 20th of February 2009) contains 19 review articles authored by top RNA researchers. See below for a table of content and links to the articles. http://download.cell.com/images/journalimages/0092-8674/S0092867409X00048_covhighres.jpg Table of Content

Conference Alert: Swiss RNA Workshop 2009, 30-JAN-2009, 9:15 AM - 6:15 PM, Bern
Posted: 28-JAN-2009  We would like to draw your attention to the upcoming Swiss RNA Workshop 2009 taking place this coming Friday, the 30th of January. Of course it is too late to register for a oral presentation or poster, but in case you would just like to attend the talks or poster sessions, you can download the program [[Media:SWRNA09_program2.pdf‎‎|here]]. For further information, please visit the homepage.

Seminar Announcement: Prof. Markus Stoffel, 19-NOV-2008, 17:15 AM
Posted: 18-NOV-2008  As part of the "Seminars on Drug Discovery and Development" series by the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (ETH Zurich) and the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology (University of Zurich), Prof. Markus Stoffel (Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich) will give a talk about "MicroRNAs: Function and therapeutic opportunities" Guests are welcome! Location: UZH Irchel Campus, Seminar Room Y17 H04 Google Maps link This seminar is hosted by [mailto:zeilhofer@pharma.uzh.ch Prof. H.U. Zeilhofer].

Seminar Announcement: Prof. Witold Filipowicz, 12-NOV-2008, 17:15 AM
Posted: 10-NOV-2008  Prof. Witold Filipowicz (Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel) will give a talk about the "Regulation of the microRNA-mediated repression in mammalian cells" Guests are welcome! Location: UZH Irchel Campus, Seminar Room Y23 G04 Google Maps link This seminar is hosted by [mailto:lukas.sommer@anatom.uzh.ch Prof. Lukas Sommer]. Click here for more information.

Seminar Announcement: Dr. Gunter Meister, 23-SEP-2008, 11:00 AM
Posted: 16-SEP-2008  Dr. Gunter Meister (Max Planck Insitute of Biochemistry, Munich) will give a talk about: "Importin 8 - a novel regulator of microRNA-guided gene silencing" Guests are welcome! Location: ETH Hönggerberg, HCI J4 Google Maps link This seminar is hosted by [mailto:andre.gerber@pharma.ethz.ch Dr. André Gerber]. Click [[Media:Invitation_Seminar_Meister_Flyer.pdf‎|here]] to see the flyer. 