When:
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM CT
Where: Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, Baldwin Auditorium, 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Amelia Crowe
Group: Department of Microbiology-Immunology
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Title: Genes within genes: another level of regulation
Topic: We are interested in identifying and characterizing genes that were previously missed, particularly those encoding small RNAs and small proteins of less than 50 amino acids. Although they were overlooked, small RNAs and small proteins have important regulatory roles. Initially, we focused our searches on intergenic regions, but it is now becoming clear that these regulatory molecules also can be encoded in intragenic regions. I will discuss the roles of example genes-within-genes as well as the implications for interpreting mutations and gene evolution.
Speaker: Gisela Storz, PhD, Principal Investigator, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Host: M.-N. Frances Yap, Associate Professor, Dept. of Microbiology-Immunology