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 […]
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 […]
Dr. Christine Roden recently started her research group in the Department Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine at the University of Montréal, where she studies RNA viruses. She is originally from the United States where she earned her bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Pittsburgh and her PhD in Genetics from Yale University. Her PhD […]
Dr. Dmitry Kretov, Oncology Division, CHU de Québec – Université Laval Research Center Dr. Dmitry Kretov has recently become a Group Leader in the Oncology division at the CHU de Québec – Université Laval Research Center, where he established his lab in January 2025. His research focuses on understanding the role of RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) […]
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, […]
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 […]
In our research highlight, researchers at Laval University describe a long non-coding RNA that controls rRNA transcription and ribosome biogenesis with links to cancer
RNA Canada ARN congratulates Dr. Benoit Chabot on his recent spotlight by the RNA Society!
In our research highlight, researchers at McMaster describe a non-coding RNA modifying enzyme that functions as a toxin
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