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A thriving RNA community at Purdue. This account is for highlighting the outstanding RNA science and RNA Club events at Purdue University. This is not an official account of the institution.

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Junior RNA scientists @jrrnascientists.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨🚀 Save the date! Applications for two @rnasociety.bsky.social Junior Representative positions open October 16, 2026. Stay tuned for how to apply! #RNASociety #RNA
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Purdue RNA Club @purduernaclub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
First talk is by Addison Young from the @kylecottrell.bsky.social lab giving a presentation entitled “PACT dimerization requires C-terminal residues that are often experimentally altered.” Next up, Brakstin Hockley will discuss “Initiation of RNA Polymerase V during RNA-directed DNA methylation”.
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Purdue RNA Club @purduernaclub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The second meeting of the Purdue RNA Club is Friday, October 2, in ABE 061 at 3:30. Snacks are be sponsored by @rnasociety.bsky.social and Lexogen.
Banner displaying the RNA Society and Lexogen logos. Many thanks for their sponsorship!
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Purdue RNA Club @purduernaclub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rationally engineering a ribozyme to make a functional tool. New paper out of the @barbgolden.bsky.social lab at Purdue. bsky.app/profile/bioc...
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Purdue RNA Club @purduernaclub.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Welcome back RNA Club! @kylecottrell.bsky.social provided opening remarks and introduction at our first session of the year.
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RNA Society @rnasociety.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Open Senior Editor Position at the @rnajournal.bsky.social!
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Purdue RNA Club @purduernaclub.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Purdue RNA Club returns on Friday, September 11 at 3:30 in ABE061! Digambar Waiker from @kasinskilab.bsky.social and Feng Wang will present their research. Hope to see you there! Thanks to @rnasociety.bsky.social and @lexogen for sponsering!
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Purdue RNA Club @purduernaclub.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It's a new year and the Purdue RNA Club is back! Mark your calendars as we will be meeting September 11, October 2, 2026, November 6 and December 4, all 3:30-4:30 in ABE B061.
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Purdue RNA Club @purduernaclub.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Today is the day! Our first Purdue RNA Club Symposium. Thanks to support from @rnasociety.bsky.social and #Lexogen.
The symposium program. Posters, lunch, trainee talks and keynote from Craig Pikaard.
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Purdue RNA Club @purduernaclub.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Nice story from Purdue RNA Club's Jason Hanna's lab! @hannalab.bsky.social www.bio.purdue.edu/news/article...
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Purdue Researchers Identify New Pathway for Treating Aggressive Vascular Cancer
New research identifies how the loss of small molecules that help control gene activity- called microRNAs- can trigger tumor growth, and how an existing drug may help restore their function.
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Purdue RNA Club @purduernaclub.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Congratulations to the superhero microRNA's and @kasinskilab.bsky.social ! www.purdue.edu/newsroom/202...
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Small segments of RNA halt cancer in multiple ways
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Like tiny superheroes, small, naturally occurring segments of RNA can block multiple molecular paths that cancer cells use to grow and spread, a substantial advantage over even…
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Junior RNA scientists @jrrnascientists.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Junior RNA Scientists, today Feb 25th at 4PM ET is the RNA Collaborative Seminar Series hosted by Alberta RNA & UNSW RNA Institutes! Join us to hear about emerging RNA research. Sign up for zoom registration here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Purdue RNA Club @purduernaclub.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Congratulations to Addison Young from the @kylecottrell.bsky.social lab on winning the 2025 RNA Journal Prize. rnajournal.cshlp.org/content/32/3...
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2025 Recipients of the RNA Journal Prize
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Purdue RNA Club @purduernaclub.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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RNA Society @rnasociety.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The RNA Society is welcoming submissions of original infographics about any and all things RNA! Scan the QR for details!
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Dr. Suzanne R Lee @suzannerleephd.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
@rnasociety.bsky.social now offers an "undergraduate" category for membership! rnasociety.memberclicks.net/membership #RNA@PUI
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Purdue RNA Club @purduernaclub.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Breaking news! We are an @rnasociety.bsky.social RNA Salon!
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Purdue RNA Club @purduernaclub.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Come to ABE B061 tomorrow at 3:30 to see talks from Wenying Liao from Feng Wang's lab and Sharjeel Anjum from @kasinskilab.bsky.social!
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HHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Calling all rising juniors & seniors: Interested in biological or biomedical research? Applications for our ’26 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Program are now open! Nine weeks, hands-on research, & mentorship from some of the nation’s top scientists — learn more: bit.ly/CechFellows
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Purdue RNA Club @purduernaclub.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
RNA Club is Today!
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Purdue RNA Club @purduernaclub.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Next up at Purdue's RNA Club, Addison Young from @kylecottrell.bsky.social 's lab and Zheng Zhang from Andy Tao's lab will present. See you 3:30 Friday November 14 in ABE B061!
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Junior RNA scientists @jrrnascientists.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Attention Junior RNA Scientists - The deadline to apply for RNA Junior Scientist Representative positions with the RNA Society @rnasociety.bsky.social is midnight tomorrow! We are so excited to review your applications and to recruit the next cohort of Jr RNA Scientists Representatives 🤩
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Junior RNA scientists @jrrnascientists.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Calling all Jr RNA Scientists: We are recruiting 2 new RNA Society Jr Sci Reps to lead existing and new initiatives for engaging junior members over the next two years! Details for submitting applications below. @rnasociety.bsky.social
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Purdue RNA Club @purduernaclub.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Errands for RNA! xkcd.com/3056/
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Purdue RNA Club @purduernaclub.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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Purdue RNA Club @purduernaclub.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Current Purdue RNA researcher @kylecottrell.bsky.social and former Purdue graduate student (Kasinski Lab) and RNA researcher Esteban Orellana together at the FASEB - RNA Processing in Cancer meeting.
Kyle Cottrell and Esteban Orellana.
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Purdue RNA Club @purduernaclub.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
RNA Club returns on Friday with Iman Mevaa from the @kasinskilab.bsky.social presenting a talk titled Targeted Delivery of Tumor-Suppressive miR-34a for Osteosarcoma Treatment. We will meet in ABE B061 at 3:30 on October 10.
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RNA Society @rnasociety.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
RNA journal Call for Papers on RNA-based Therapeutics, Diagnostics, and Disease!
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
When I was at NIH and shutdowns loomed, it was discovered that the administration was planning to shut down PubMed. The head of NCBI called the powers that be and pointed out that this would threaten patient safety Who knows what will happen now Just in case, remember Euruope-PMC (europepmc.org )
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Junior RNA scientists @jrrnascientists.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
🚨🚀 Save the date! Applications for two @RNASociety Junior Representative positions open October 16. Stay tuned for how to apply! #RNASociety #RNA
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hannalab.bsky.social @hannalab.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Proud to share a new paper in Developmental Cell! This project spans over a decade of work and it's been amazing to see it all come together. Huge cheers to Randy, @hatleylab.bsky.social and the rest of the team! www.cell.com/developmenta...
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Non-cell-autonomous tumor promotion in DICER1 cancer predisposition
Patients with DICER1 cancer predisposition typically harbor a germline heterozygous inactivating mutation in DICER1. Whether DICER1 mutant non-cancerous cells contribute to tumor promotion was previou...
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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
This preprint was accepted @rnajournal.bsky.social! It is now online ahead of print! @cancer-inst-purdue.bsky.social @purduernaclub.bsky.social rnajournal.cshlp.org/content/earl...
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ZYS-1 is not an ADAR1 inhibitor
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Purdue RNA Club @purduernaclub.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Great turnout for our first meeting of fall 2025! We got to learn about miRNAs, Drosha, phase separation, and IDRs from Bing Yang, a new assistant professor in Purdue Biology.
Bing Yang describing deleterious consequences of miRNA functionRNA Club audience
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Purdue RNA Club @purduernaclub.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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Purdue RNA Club @purduernaclub.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Next week's Biochemistry Seminar will be presented by @acorbe2.bsky.social!
On Tuesday, September 16, Anita Corbett will give the Biochemistry Seminar at 3:30 in WSLR 116. The title is: An Evolutionarily Conserved RNA Decay/Processing Machine is Required for Proper Neuronal Function.
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Sean Ryder @seanryderphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Amazon Rankings: #1 New Release in Biotechnology (#3 overall) #2 New Release in Medical Research (#25 overall) #3 New Release in Genetics (#10 overall) I have been assured by the publisher that it will be available in the first week of October. Thank you all for pre-ordering! everydayrna.com
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Everyday RNA
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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Co-discoverer of reverse transcriptase at 32, Nobel Prize at 37, played a key role at the 1975 Asilomar comference.
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David Baltimore, Nobel-Winning Molecular Biologist, Dies at 87
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Purdue RNA Club @purduernaclub.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
On Friday September 12, Bing Yang, a new assistant professor in Biological Sciences will give a talk entitled “An intrinsically disordered region of drosha selectively promotes miRNA biogenesis, independent of tissue-specific Microprocessor condensates.” Location: ABE B061.
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Rachael Kretsch @rachael-kretsch.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
We have restarted our global Nucleic Acid Strcuture webinar series to bring the expiremental and computational communities together to discuss new developments in the field. Join us this Thursday for the next webinar. Sign up to our mailing list here: groups.google.com/g/casp-rna-sig
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RNA Society Journal @rnajournal.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
PACT suppresses PKR activation, thus preventing activation of the integrated stress response, NF-κB, and cell death. Dimerization and double-stranded #RNA binding by PACT is required for this function. @kylecottrell.bsky.social @cancer-inst-purdue.bsky.social bit.ly/4oC3Vm7
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Purdue RNA Club @purduernaclub.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
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Kyle Cottrell on X: "Great turnout for our first RNA Club of the fall! Excellent talks from Shreyas Iyer @AndreaKasinski lab @PurdueBiolSci and Subhransu Sahoo @kazemianlab @PurdueBiochem @PUCancerInst. https://t.co/Yno71YHTzw" / X
Great turnout for our first RNA Club of the fall! Excellent talks from Shreyas Iyer @AndreaKasinski lab @PurdueBiolSci and Subhransu Sahoo @kazemianlab @PurdueBiochem @PUCancerInst. https://t.co/Yno71YHTzw
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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Our second preprint is out today! Post thread to come later.
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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
This manuscript was accepted @rnajournal.bsky.social and is online ahead of publication now! Congratulations to first author Addison Young and all the co-authors (for several this is their first publication). @cancer-inst-purdue.bsky.social 1/2 rnajournal.cshlp.org/content/earl...
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PACT suppresses PKR activation through dsRNA binding and dimerization, and is a therapeutic target for triple-negative breast cancer
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Purdue Institute for Cancer Research @cancer-inst-purdue.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
PICR Deputy Director Andrea Kasinski has earned an $800K Translational Grant from the The V Foundation for Cancer Research to advance her innovative miRNA-based treatments closer to the clinic. #Cancer #CancerResearch #Oncology #VictoryOverCancer
Portrait of Purdue Institute for Cancer Research Deputy Director Andrea Kasinski
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Purdue RNA Club @purduernaclub.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Welcome to the bsky account for the Purdue RNA Club! Our meeting dates for Fall 2025 are September 12, October 10, November 14, and December 5.
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Barb Golden @barbgolden.bsky.social · 02/09/2023
Excellent kickoff poster session for the brand new RNA Club at Purdue.
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Purdue Institute for Cancer Research @cancer-inst-purdue.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Representing Purdue's growing strength in #RNA science, researchers, including Purdue Institute for Cancer Research investigator Kyle Cottrell, Barbara Golden and lab members, are in San Diego at #rna2025!
Pictured (from left): Isabelle Juhler, Addison Young, Rui (Gary) Gan, Barbara Golden, Pallavi Joshi, Kyle Cottrell, Cassandra Smoak
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hannalab.bsky.social @hannalab.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
New paper online! Congrats to first author Ant Murphy, PhD and the rest of the team on this great work. Special thanks to #DOD Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) funding support. #EHE #RareCancer #HammerDownCancer febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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The YAP1::TFE3 fusion protein drives endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EndMT) plasticity, resulting in the loss of endothelial characteristics and gain of mesenchymal-like properties, including ...
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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The Cottrell Lab (minus the undergrads) is on our way to RNA25!
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