Date Name Research interests Host October 9, 2007 Guillaume Chanfreau UCLA RNAs III and RNA processing; nuclear RNA decay; non-coding RNAs http://www.chem.ucla.edu/dept/Faculty/chanfreau/ Dave Brow November 13, 2007 Kim Mowry Brown University Role of maternal RNAs and proteins in Xenopus development; mRNA localization http://www.brown.edu/Divisions/Medical_School/andera/profile.php?id=1100924813 Karen Wassarman December 11, 2007 Joshua Mendell Johns Hopkins Regulation and function of microRNAs http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/geneticmedicine/People/Faculty/mendell.html Phil Anderson January 22, 2008 Bob Landick UW Madison RNA polymerase; mechanism and control of transcription http://www.biochem.wisc.edu/faculty/landick/ February 5, 2008 Matthias Hentze EMBL- Heidelberg mRNA control in animal cells;; RNA processing http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/ExternalInfo/hentze/ Marv Wickens February 12, 2008 Tom Gingeras Affymetrix Research Laboratories Abundant transcription of the eukaryotic genome; microarrays http://www.affymetrix.com/index.affx Marv Wickens March 11, 2008 Kathy Collins University of Michigan Telomerase and other Ribonucleoproteins http://mcb.berkeley.edu/faculty/BMB/collinsk.html Karen Wassarman April 17, 2008 Jack Szostak Harvard Medical School HHMI pre-biotic evolution; RNA activities and structures http://genetics.mgh.harvard.edu/szostakweb/index.html Marv Wickens April 29, 2008  Mariano Garcia-Blanco Duke Univ. Alternative splicing and its control http://mgm.duke.edu/faculty/garcia/ Dave Brow May 8, 2008 Andrew Fire Stanford Mechanism and control of RNAi http://firelab.stanford.edu/ Phil Anderson

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