RNA Canada ARN would like to send its warmest congratulations to Dr. Michelle Scott (U. de Sherbrooke) for having been named the RNA Society’s 2025 award winner for Excellence in Inclusive Leadership. Dr. Scott currently serves as the Chair of the Equity, Inclusion and Diversity committee for RNA Canada ARN. Under her leadership, the committee […]
Mark Belmonte Researcher Highlight Dr. Mark Belmonte is a principal investigator in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Manitoba. He completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. at the University of Calgary before doing his Ph.D. in Plant Science at the University of Manitoba. After postdoctoral training at UC Davis, he came back to […]
Dr. Jessica A. Willi, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge Dr. Willi is originally from Switzerland, where she earned her BSc, MSc and PhD at the University of Bern, working on the effect of RNA oxidation, RNA structure-function, and atomic mutagenesis. During her postdoc at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois and Stanford, California, […]
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Dear RNA Canada trainees, The RNA Canada Education Committee would like to have your feedback on its future Technical Workshop Series. These virtual workshops will be designed to equip RNA Canada members with the skills and knowledge necessary for cutting-edge RNA research by providing practical advice and troubleshooting for laboratory steps and hands-on tutorials for […]
An editorial describing The RNA Canada ARN 2024 conference, taking place this past Fall in Ottawa, has recently been published in the Innovation issue at Canadian Science Policy Centre. The editorial provides links to many features of the conference, including summaries of the various panels, a link to our article describing the history of RNA […]
Dear RNA Canada ARN members, We hope you’ve have a great start to the academic year and that you were able to join us for the amazing RNA Canada ARN 2024 conference. The RNA Canada ARN Education committee is starting a Monthly Topic Spotlight series. This month’s video seminar will be Monday, October 21st from 4 […]
RNA Canada ARN is so thrilled to congratulate Drs. Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun on winning the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, “for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation”! Their studies, using the tiny worm, C. elegans, highlight the serendipity of science and the importance of discovery-based or […]
The final day of RNA Canada ARN 2024 was a fitting end to a fantastic conference! The morning started with the last concurrent scientific sessions: the first was about Ribonucleoprotein granules and RNA in motion, with talks featuring tools for granule detection as well as talks about condensates and granules pertaining to antiviral pathways, splicing, […]
We are nearing the close of RNA Canada ARN 2024, and had a wonderful penultimate day! The morning began with an outstanding plenary session chaired by Dr. Marc Belmonte entitled: “RNA: A new frontier for agriculture”. The session featured a number of fantastic talks discussing the promise of how RNA can be used for pest […]