Thanks to everyone who participated in Monday’s RNA Canada ARN 2026 Annual General Meeting! It was wonderful to see so many friendly faces from our community gathered together; your support is what drives RNA Canada ARN forward! Election Results During the meeting, we elected five new members of our Board of Directors: Ontario Representative: Julie […]
Dear members of RNA Canada ARN, Please find attached the latest issue of the RNA Canada ARN newsletters, in English and French. In this issue: A letter from the President including thank you’s to our volunteers The RNA Canada ARN 2026 Annual General Meeting is January 12th! Building Canada’s first RNA Ecosystem Map RNA Canada […]
Dr. Evan Mercier joined the Department of Microbiology and Infectious diseases at Université de Sherbrooke in September 2022. His research group is focused on mechanisms of antibiotic resistance in bacteria, in particular, how expression of bacterial multidrug efflux pumps (MEPs) contributes to resistance and emergence of resistance. Understanding how and when mRNAs encoding MEPs are […]
RNA researchers from Canada and all over the world recently convened in Orford, QC for the 2025 RiboClub conference (September 21st to 25th, 2025). RiboClub reconvened after a one-year hiatus to accommodate the national RNA Canada ARN conference in Ottawa in 2024, and this year’s theme was “The Next Generation of RNA Innovation from Agriculture […]
The Nomination Committee of RNA Canada ARN has extended the nomination deadline for positions on the Board of Directors to December 8th. The Nomination Committee of RNA Canada ARN is seeking qualified candidates for election to its Board of Directors. Five seats on the Board of Directors will be elected at the Annual General Meeting […]
RNA Canada ARN, in partnership with Moderna, is thrilled to announce the winners of the 2025 RNA Canada ARN Moderna Awards. Each awardee received a cash prize and a commemorative plaque that was presented at the Gala Awards dinner of the RNA Canada ARN: RiboClub conference (Sept. 20-24th, Cheribourg, QC). RNA Canada ARN’s Moderna […]
Dr. Natoya Peart did her undergraduate degree at Yale University where she majored in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics. She followed that up with a doctorate in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the MD Anderson UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in the lab of Dr. Eric Wagner, where she characterized the 3′ end formation […]
About CASTL The Canadian Alliance for Skills and Training in Life Sciences (CASTL) is a national non-profit organization and Canada’s biomanufacturing training partner, dedicated to developing skilled talent to drive the country’s thriving biomanufacturing sector. With state-of-the-art, GMP-simulated facilities from coast to coast (in Charlottetown, PE; Montreal QC, and Vancouver, BC), CASTL delivers hands-on, […]
Originally from Ottawa, Dr. Choquet did her undergraduate degree in the department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine at the Université de Montréal and her Ph.D. in Human Genetics in the labs of Bernard Brais and Claudia Kleinman at McGill University. Her main project, which focused on a disorder caused by mutations in subunits of RNA […]
RNA Canada ARN is thrilled to share two RNA-themed escape games, created in collaboration with students at the University of Toronto at Scarborough, as part of their coursework with Dr. Aarthi Ashok. Undergraduate students in Dr. Ashok’s fourth-year Pathobiology of Human Disease course were asked to create online “escape game” type puzzles under the theme […]