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9th Annual
Michael Smith Distinguished Research Lecture
Presenting
Dr. Tom Cech
Distinguished Professor, Univ. of Colorado Boulder
Director, Univ. of Colorado BioFrontiers Institute
From the RNA World to the RNP World: Ribozymes, Telomerase, and lncRNAs
RNA (Ribonucleic Acid), once considered the poor relative of the famous double-helical DNA, is now known to have a myriad of essential biological functions. Dr. Cech will tell the story of the discovery of the first catalytic RNA, or ribozyme, and subsequent work that revealed the structures and mechanisms of these remarkable molecules. He will then describe recent work on the structure and function of telomerase, the RNA-protein complex that has key roles in ageing and in cancer. Finally, he will show one example of a protein that binds to numerous long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) in the human cell nucleus to regulate gene expression.
Monday, September 16 at 4:00pm
Life Sciences Centre
Lecture Theatre #2
2350 Health Sciences Mall
Sponsored by the Michael Smith Laboratories and the
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
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