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2025 SFBBM (Société Française de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire) Annual Congress, June 19th and 20th
More info here: https://sfbbm-2025.sciencesconf.org
Program here: https://sfbbm-2025.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/ProgrammeSFBBM2025_Paris_VFF_1.pdf
The conference is fully funded by the SFBBM for its members. So if you haven’t yet updated your registration, now is the time to do so before we meet at the conference. Follow the link: https://sfbbm.assoconnect.com/collect/description/197753-j-cotisations-sfbbm-2022 You can join personally (as an individual) or through laboratory funding (as a legal entity).
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Speaker: Juan Pablo Tosar
Affiliation: Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay Title: “Uptake and Recognition of Naked Extracellular RNA” Date: Tuesday, June 10th, 2025 Time: 12:00 PM Location: Salle Favard, Institut de Biologie de l’École Normale Supérieure (IBENS)
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Call for abstracts for the upcoming 12th Bordeaux RNA Club is now open! June 17th (starting at 14:00) and June 18th (ending at 17:00)
This meeting will take place on June 17th (starting at 14:00) and June 18th (ending at 17:00) at the Amphitheater of the Bordeaux Biologie Santé building and will include talks from selected abstracts and a poster session. The Bordeaux RNA Club became a classic in Bordeaux’s scientific agenda, now after a long break is coming back featuring invited speakers presenting cutting-edge research across various areas of RNA biology, broadly ranging from RNA structure, processing, regulation and function to RNA in disease and therapy. It’s a fantastic opportunity for Master’s students, Ph.D. candidates, Postdocs, and Researchers at any stage of their careers to network and share their work just before the start of summer and the festival Bordeaux Fête le Vin. Registration is easy and free, but spots are limited! Don’t miss out and submit your abstract by May 20th.
More information and registration here : https://arna.cnrs.fr/RNAclub_registration.html
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ÉCOLE THÉMATIQUE - Petits ARN Régulateurs (MicroARN, SiARN, PiARN). Biogenèse, Mécanismes, Fonctions Biologiques, Détection Et Annotation Fonctionnelle. 16-20 OCT. 2023 SÈTE (FRANCE)
Les petits ARN régulateurs (miARN, siARN et piARN) ont attiré beaucoup d’attention au cours de la dernière vingtaine d’années. L’utilisation des siARN pour la répression expérimentale de gènes par interférence à ARN, l’apparente faible spécificité des miARN (chacun semble réprimer des centaines de gènes-cibles, ce qui impliquerait que les miARN participent collectivement au contrôle de tous les processus physiologiques chez les Animaux), et les nombreux rôles régulateurs proposés pour les piARN, expliquent probablement le grand intérêt que leur porte la communauté scientifique.
Inévitablement, parmi le déluge de publications consacrées à ces petits ARN, certaines sont en contradiction avec d’autres sans le mentionner ; il devient difficile, pour le non-spécialiste, de se faire une idée réelle de l’état d’un domaine auxquels sont consacrés plusieurs dizaines d’articles scientifiques chaque jour. La conjonction des difficultés sémantiques, et du volume de publications existantes sur le sujet, créent une véritable barrière d’entrée dans ce domaine scientifique, qu’il nous semble important d’abaisser en proposant aux participants une vision claire et synthétique de l’état de l’art sur le sujet. Le but de cette école thématique du CNRS est de faire le point sur les connaissances établies, de mentionner les controverses actuelles, de donner tous les éléments objectifs sur les controverses passées, de lever les ambiguïtés de nomenclature et de vocabulaire, de façon à donner aux participants les connaissances leur permettant de comprendre la littérature du domaine.
Comme toutes les écoles thématiques du CNRS, InteRNAt propose une formation de haut niveau, à destination de la communauté scientifique (chercheurs statutaires, post-doctorants, …). Elle est ouverte prioritairement aux agents du CNRS, mais s’adresse également, dans la limite des places disponibles, aux agents des autres organismes, étudiants, entreprises privées, … À la différence d’un congrès classique, les conférences données dans le cadre d’une école thématique constituent un ensemble cohérent, progressif, un véritable enseignement qui doit être suivi dans son intégralité par les participants. Outre les conférences, des ateliers impliqueront une certaine interactivité avec les participants, et, à la marge, d’échanges plus informels favorisés par le format en résidence.
Si le nombre de pré-inscrits dépasse l’effectif maximal (actuellement fixé à 40 personnes), les comités scientifique et d’organisation sélectionneront, parmi les pré-inscrits, les personnes qui pourront s’inscrire définitivement.
Les pré-inscriptions sont ouvertes du 30 mars 2023 au 28 juillet 2023 (extension de la période de pré-inscription de 15 jours par rapport à la date initialement annoncée).
Please visit the webpage: https://internat23.sciencesconf.org
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Club Drosoph’île de France Tuesday, May 6th 2025 at 17h30 IBPS-Dev2A
Who killed my embryos? When and how are auto-immune piRNA clusters determined? Nai DUCOS (Carré-Teysset’s Lab, IBPS)
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EMBO workshop - The epitranscriptome - Date: 28 to 30 Oct 2025
Please visit the webpage: https://www.embl.org/about/info/course-and-conference-office/events/etc25-01/?utm_source=EMBL+courses+and+conferences&utm_campaign=81c764ebc9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025ETC25-01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0-a921cbc820-70369973
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VIP/DIF : 23 Juin 2025 -IJM - Amphi Buffon - 5th Joint meeting of Paris Area - Drosophila & Nematodes Communities
Please visit the webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/vipdif/accueil
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Better than Nature: Improving mRNAs and Cofactors for their Modification, Andrea Rentmeister le 30 Avril à 11h dans la salle des actes de la faculté de pharmacie (4 avenue de l’observatoire, 75005)
Alkylation is an important strategy to modulate the chemical and biological properties of nucleic acids. Selective post-synthetic methylation or alkylation is therefore highly sought after and can be achieved by enzymes, owing to their regio- and chemoselectivity. Prenyltransferases (PTases) rely on dimethylallyl diphosphate (DMAPP) as cofactor for the transfer of C5 units, whereas methyltransferases (MTases) utilize S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM or AdoMet) as cofactor for C1 transfer. In this talk, I will present innovative AdoMet analogues for the modification, labelling and photocaging of nucleic acids, addressing both their advantages and limitations, as well as synthetic chemistry alternatives. Additionally, I will discuss the creation of a chimeric AdoMet-DMAPP cofactor that exhibits high reactivity, favoring prenylation over methylation in MTase-catalyzed reactions. These findings show that the AdoMet scaffold can function as efficient prenyl donor. Cofactor engineering readily converts many MTases into efficient prenyl-transfer enzymes similar to natural PTases
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The next RNA Collaborative Seminar will be held virtually on Wednesday, March 12th at 10 am ET (Eastern, US/Canada), hosted by the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) and Shanghai RNA Club
Please see below for more details and the Zoom webinar registration link
Hosted by: Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) and Shanghai RNA Club Zoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_w3-WB0BRQdGW8KJrwnk4dA
“Insights into the role of RNA in bacterial immunity and phage replication” Jens Hör, PhD Group Leader, Helmholtz Institute for RNA based Infection Research, Junior Professor, University of Würzburg
“Nascent RNA at the crossroad of transcription and replication” Jie Ren, PhD Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Hong Kong RNA Club: Hybrid Seminar on 27 Mar 2025 - Prof. Sung Chul Kwon from The University of Hong Kong
Title: Cytosolic CRISPR RNAs for efficient application of RNA-targeting CRISPR-Cas systems Date: 27th March 2025 (Thursday) Time: HKT 16:30-17:30 Venue: City University of Hong Kong, Yeung Kin Man Acad Building (AC1), B5-311 Registration required: https://cityu.zoom.us/meeting/register/1KhvO7xMR7-rED0ERbFkow#/registration
If you choose “In-person” in the registration link above, you will receive the QR code to access City University of Hong Kong in your email one day before the seminar. For more information, please kindly visit http://kitkwok.com/hk-rna-club
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FEBS Workshop 2025 – Conservation and diversity of gene regulatory mechanisms across eukaryotes - 16–20 June 2025 │ Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain
Please visit the webpage: htttps://generegulatorymechanisms2025.febsevents.org
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6th Annual Scientific Meeting of GDR RNA - June 26-27, 2025 in Paris RNA as a tool and a target for medicinal chemistry and chemical biology
The meeting will start at noon on June 26 and end by 4 pm on June 27.
The number of seats will be limited and will be given on a first asked-first served basis so do not wait too long to register!
Permanent and non-permanent staff can apply for an oral or a poster communication. Students and post-docs will be eligible to the annual award for the best poster and the best oral communication during the scientific meeting.
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7th course on “Post-transcriptional gene regulation” - May 12-16 2025, Institut Curie
We are pleased to announce the 7th course on “Post-transcriptional gene regulation” organized by the training unit of Institut Curie. This course is dedicated to PhD students and post-docs
The aim of this course is to provide an overview of post transcriptional gene regulations at multiple levels, including (pre-)messenger RNA splicing, polyadenylation, modifications (epitranscriptome), localization, translation and degradation. In addition to lectures given by international experts in the field, the course will also rely on the active contribution of participants and on their interactions with speakers.
Please visit the course webpage: https://training.institut-curie.org/courses/post-transcriptional-gene-regulation-2025
The deadline for registration is March 17th.
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Groupe thématique “Long reads” du réseau MERIT
Le groupe thématique “Long reads” du réseau MERIT https://merit.cnrs.fr/ organisera son 1er webinaire le mardi 4 février de 14h à 16h.
Nous aurons 2 présentations suivi d’un temps d’échange : - “Epitranscriptomic with Nanopore” - Delphine Naquin - “ANNEXA: A comprehensive pipeline for extending genome annotations using Long-Read RNA Sequencing” - Nicolaï Hoffmann
Si vous êtes intéressés par ce webinaire et souhaitez rejoindre notre groupe de travail, vous pouvez vous inscrire à la liste de diffusion.
Pour cela il suffit d’envoyer un mail à sympa@services.cnrs.fr avec pour objet :
subscribe merit-gt-long-reads@services.cnrs.fr Prénom Nom
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RNA et Cancer - Monday 3rd, March 2025 2:00 pm - HOB VIRTUAL SEMINAR
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Séminaire du laboratoire de biologie du developpement (LBD)
12h à l’Auditorium C707, bât. C-7ème étage, 9 quai St Bernard, Paris Contact : estelle.hirsinger@sorbonne-universite.fr http://www.ibps.upmc.fr/fr/Recherche/umr-biologie-developpement
Le lundi 16 décembre
“Annotation of the snoRNome across eukaryotes and study of its capacity to regulate gene expression in cis” Michelle SCOTT, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Le mardi 17 décembre
“Investigating human selenoproteome regulation by selenocysteine tRNA using CRISPR-CAS9 virus-like particles” Laurent CHAVATTE, ENS-Lyon, Lyon
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RNA Collaborative Seminar will be held virtually on Wednesday, November 20th at 10 am ET (Eastern, US),
Hosted by: The RNA Institute, SUNY University at Albany
Zoom Webinar Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8s7zkvZBRqi24EARR8IZYA
“Empowering mass spectrometry for de novo unbiased sequencing of RNA modifications” Shenglong Zhang, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, The RNA Institute, SUNY University at Albany, Albany, NY, USA
“Elucidating the influence of RNA modifications and Magnesium ions on tRNAPhe conformational dynamics using Molecular Dynamics Simulations” Sweta Vangaveti, PhD Research Scientist, Advanced Computational Facility Manager, The RNA Institute, SUNY University at Albany, Albany, NY, USA
Moderator: Andy Berglund, PhD, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences; Director, The RNA Institute, SUNY University at Albany, Albany, NY, USA
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RNA Symposium “RNA, small or long but all champions!!!” in Paris, Jussieu, December 13th 2024</a>
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13th SifrARN conference in Lyon, November 18-20 2024
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RNA Modifications and Epitranscriptomics 2024, 14-15 November 2024 | Brussel
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RNA Binding Proteins: From Structure to Inhibitors, August 10 - 14, 2025 | Niagara Falls, New York