Ana Boskovic
Group Leader
Boskovic Group
ORCID: 0000-0003-1258-4376
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Welcome to the EMBL RNA club, a community that unites RNA enthusiasts across the different EMBL sites in Europe. We are a diverse group of members, including group leaders, fellows, staff scientists and visiting scientists working on various facets of RNA research. Come join us in exploring the fascinating world of RNA and expanding the boundaries of scientific discovery together.
We are supported by the RNA Society and Lexogen
About us
At the EMBL RNA Club, we share a passion for everything that is RNA. The club is open to all individuals across the EMBL community who share a keen interest in the world of RNA. We are a diverse community of researchers spanning various career stages including pre-docs, post-docs, staff scientists, visiting scientists and group leaders. Currently, the club includes more than 50 members spread across the different EMBL sites who bring in diverse expertise including biochemistry, molecular biology, structural biology and computational biology. As our membership continues to grow we are actively striving to include as many researchers within EMBL working on different facets of RNA biology as possible to expand our network and knowledge base.
Organizing team
Eva Kowalinski
Group Leader and Co-chair of Infection Biology Transversal Theme
Kowalinski Group
ORCID: 0000-0002-9785-9027
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Matthias Hentze
Director, Co-Director of MMPU
Director
ORCID: 0000-0002-4023-7876
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Olivier Duss
Group Leader
Duss Group
olivier.duss [at] embl.de
ORCID: 0000-0003-0929-3471
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Venkatraman Ravi
Postdoctoral Fellow
Hentze Group
ORCID: 0000-0002-1409-682X
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Wojciech Galej
Group Leader
Galej Group
wgalej [at] embl.fr
ORCID: 0000-0001-8859-5229
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Sora Matsumoto
Predoctoral Fellow
Saka Group
ORCID: 0000-0002-0788-1213
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We organize monthly meetings and guest lectures to promote knowledge exchange and foster close engagement among members. To receive regular updates about our activities subscribe to our mailing list by reaching out to us at rna-club-admin@embl.de
Upcoming events
Meeting XVI- July 2025
Date and time: Monday 7 Jul 2025 ⋅ 3:00 – 5:00 pm (Central European Time – Berlin)
Program
Speaker 1: Josef Röhsner, PhD student, Laboratory of Andrea Pauli, Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna Biocenter, Austria.
Title: Deciphering regulation and functional conservation of dormant ribosomes
Speaker 2: Bernardo Papini Gabiatti, Post-doctoral fellow, Laboratory of Eva Kowalinski, EMBL-Grenoble, France
Title: A novel map of the Trypanosoma nuclear pore reveals unique nuclear mRNA export and protein trafficking pathways
Speaker 3: Om Rathore, Post-doctoral fellow, Laboratories of Andreas Kulozik and Matthias Hentze, Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (MMPU), Heidelberg, Germany
Title: m6A RNA modification unveils a novel dimension of nuclear RNA degradation regulated by the RNA exosome
Location (for HD): Main Bld.-2-Seminar Room 4-V207. After the meeting, there will be the opportunity to network with refreshments.
If you wish to join us online, please mail us at rna-club-admin@embl.de to receive the Zoom credentials.
Past events
Meeting XV- April 2025
Date and time: Monday 7 Apr 2025 ⋅ 3:00 – 5:00 pm (Central European Time – Berlin)
Program
Speaker 1: Varshni Rajagopal, Post-doctoral fellow, Oncode Accelerator project, Department of Molecular Biology, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Title: Riboregulation of protein-protein interactions in mitosis
Speaker 2: Flavio Santilli, Pre-doctoral fellow, Laboratory of Ana Boskovic, EMBL-Rome, Italy
Title: The role of 5′ tRNA Gly-GCC in Low Protein diet intergenerational epigenetic inheritance
Meeting XIV- February 2025
Date and time: Monday 24 Feb 2025 ⋅ 3:00 – 5:00 pm (Central European Time – Berlin)
Program
Speaker 1: Manouk Gerritsen, Pre-doctoral fellow, Laboratories of Andreas Kulozik & Matthias Hentze, Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (MMPU), Heidelberg University Hospital and EMBL-Heidelberg, Germany
Title: Mapping the interactome of the RBP PCBP1 in oxidative stress responses
Speaker 2: Alice Coomer, Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Laboratory of Lovorka Stojic, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London
Title: RSRC2 is a novel RNA-binding protein that safeguards mitotic fidelity by interacting with the lncRNA C1QTNF1-AS1
Speaker 3: Kavan Gor, Pre-doctoral fellow, Laboratory of Olivier Duss, EMBL-Heidelberg, Germany
Title: Functional characterization of dynamic nascent RNA folding ensembles in real-time
Meeting XIII- November 2024
Date and time: Monday 18 Nov 2024 ⋅ 4:00 – 5:00 pm (Central European Time – Berlin)
Program
Speaker 1: Emma Kneuss, EIPOD4 interdisciplinary post-doctoral fellow, Laboratories of Edith Heard, James Hackett and Oliver Stegle, EMBL-Heidelberg and Rome
Title: Exploring the molecular mechanisms of X-linked gene silencing mediated by the non-coding RNA Xist during early mouse development
Speaker 2: Kyungmin Baeg, Post-doctoral fellow, Laboratory of Olivier Duss, EMBL-Heidelberg
Title: Tracking the initiation of paraspeckle assembly in real-time
Meeting XII- October 2024
Date and time: Monday 28 Oct 2024 ⋅ 4:00 – 5:00 pm (Central European Time – Berlin)
Program
Speaker 1: Jorge Trojanowski, EIPOD fellow, Laboratory of Kristina Haase and Sinem Saka, EMBL-Barcelona and Heidelberg
Title: Multiplex detection of nascent RNA in microvasculature on-chip by SPACE-FISH
Meeting XI- September 2024
Date and time: Monday 2 Sep 2024 ⋅ 4:00 – 5:00 pm (Central European Time – Berlin)
Program
Speaker 1: Zuzana Koskova, Doctoral fellow, Laboratory of Sara Cuylen-Häring, EMBL-Heidelberg, Germany
Title: Exploring the role of RNAs on mitotic chromosomes
Meeting X- July 2024
Date and time: Monday 29 July 2024 ⋅ 4:00 – 5:00 pm (Central European Time – Berlin)
Program
Speaker 1: Sharon Spizzichino, Post-doctoral fellow, Laboratory of Francesca Cutruzzola, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Title: Structural clues of SHMT riboregulation
Meeting IX- July 2024
Date and time: Monday 1 July 2024 ⋅ 4:00 – 5:00 pm (Central European Time – Berlin)
Program
Speaker: Yilong Zhou, Post-doctoral fellow, Laboratory of Asifa Akhtar, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany
Title: RNA damage compartmentalization by non-canonical DHX9 stress granules
Meeting VIII- May 2024
Date and time: Monday 27 May 2024 ⋅ 4:00 – 5:00 pm (Central European Time – Berlin)
Program
Speaker: Silvia Colucci, Post-doctoral fellow, Laboratory of Matthias Hentze, EMBL-Heidelberg, Germany
Title: Exploring the RNA-binding function of Transferrin Receptor 1
Meeting VII- May 2024
Date and time: Monday 6 May 2024 ⋅ 4:00 – 5:00 pm (Central European Time – Berlin)
Program
Speaker: Anastasiia Chaban, Doctoral fellow, Laboratory of Olivier Duss, EMBL-Heidelberg, Germany
Title: Real-time tracking of early ribosomal RNA transcription and processing
Meeting VI – March 2024
Date and time: Monday 25 Mar 2024 ⋅ 4:00 – 5:00 pm (CET – Berlin)
Program
Speaker 1: Hiroki Ono, Post-doctoral fellow, Laboratory of Hirohide Saito, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University, Japan
Title: Dissecting the heterogeneity of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells with microRNAs
Speaker 2: Michal Razew, Post-doctoral fellow, Laboratory of Wojtek Galej, EMBL-Grenoble, France
Title: Structural basis of the Integrator complex assembly and association with transcription factors
Meeting V – February 2024
Date and time: Monday 26 Feb 2024 ⋅ 4:00 – 5:00 pm (CET – Berlin)
Program
Speaker: Anne-Sophie Gribling-Burrer, Post-doctoral fellow, Laboratory of Redmond Smyth, Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI), Würzburg, Germany
Title: Understanding RNA structure and function in viruses by nanopore sequencing
Meeting IV – January 2024
Date and time: Monday 29 Jan 2024 ⋅ 4:00 – 5:00 pm (CET – Berlin)
Program
Speaker: Jiangfeng Zhao, Post-doctoral fellow, Laboratory of Wojtek Galej, EMBL-Grenoble
Title: Structure of the minor spliceosomal U11 snRNP
Meeting III – December 2023
Date and time: Monday 11 Dec 2023 ⋅ 4:00 – 5:00 pm (CET – Berlin)
Program
Speaker 1: Partho Sarothi Ray, Post-doctoral fellow, Labs of Andreas Kulozik and Matthias Hentze, Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (MMPU), Heidelberg University and EMBL-Heidelberg, Germany
Title: Systematic analyses of RNA-protein interactomes uncover therapeutically promising vulnerabilities in osteosarcoma
Speaker 2: Achim Keidel, Postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Elena Conti, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Title: Exploring RNA degradation: The cytoplasmic RNA exosome and its cofactors
Meeting II – November 2023
Date and time: Monday 27 Nov 2023 ⋅ 4:00 – 5:00 pm (CET – Berlin)
Program
Speaker: Cristina Pineiro Lopez, Scientific Officer, Koehler group at EMBL-Heidelberg.
Title: Does RNA have a role during homologous chromosome pairing in C elegans?
Meeting I – October 2023
Date and time: Monday 23 Oct 2023 ⋅ 4:00 – 5:00 pm (CET – Berlin)
Program
Speaker 1: Miha Modic, Sir Henry Wellcome Senior Fellow at The Francis Crick Institute/UCL & University of Cambridge and Visiting post-doctoral fellow in the Cuylen group at EMBL-Heidelberg.
Title: How RBP phosphorylation and multivalency rewire gene expression to safeguard cell fate transition and embryogenesis
Speaker 2 (Invited): Pascale Cossart, Professor at Institut Pasteur, Paris and Emeritus visiting scientist at EMBL-Heidelberg.
Title: RNA-mediated regulation in the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes: from virulence regulation to antibiotic resistance
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Contact us
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