The RNA Society
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Official account of the RNA Society; on a mission for an RNA emoji; often enjoys base-pairing; always a fan of U. Bluesky: @rnasociety.bsky.social
Joined June 2015
We are pleased to announce registration for RNA 2025 - the 30th Annual Meeting of the RNA Society - is now open! . This year’s meeting will be held at the beautiful Town and Country Resort & Convention Center in sunny San Diego, California, USA from May
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We just took a DNA test, turns out we’re 100% RNA so the test didn’t work. 🤷🏽♀️.
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Massive congratulations to RNA Society members Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna!!!!.
BREAKING NEWS: .The 2020 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing.”
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Happy RNA Day! Hi to all RNA enthusiasts on this international day of celebration for our favourite type of molecule.
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Happy best day of the year aka #RNADay!!!!! May your RNAs always be not degraded (except when you want them to be)! 🎉🎊🎉.
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Unexpected upside of the polar vortex? If you're ethanol precipitating your RNA in Chicago right now, you don't need the -20 freezer. just leave your tubes outside instead! 🤣🥶❄️.
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Please join us in congratulating Dr. Katalin Karikó @kkariko & Dr. Drew Weissman @WeissmanLab on being awarded the @NobelPrize for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 #RNA #NobelPrize.
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman – awarded the 2023 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine – discovered that base-modified mRNA can be used to block activation of inflammatory reactions and increase protein production when mRNA is delivered to cells.
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Massive congratulations to Joan Steitz for winning the Lasker lifetime achievement award!!
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Please join us in beautiful Boulder, Colorado for #RNA2022! May 31-June 5, with keynotes Joan Steitz @SteitzLab @YaleRNA & Venki Ramakrishnan @MRC_LMB! Oral abstracts due March 4th & poster abstracts due March 18th. Register today!
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We're excited to announce registration for RNA 2024-the 29th Annual Meeting of the RNA Society-is now open! . This year’s meeting will be held at the Edinburgh International Convention Center in Edinburgh, Scotland from May 28-June 2, 2024! . #RNA24
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The people have spoken: the first annual #RNADay will be Aug 1, 2018!! Get your basepairs ready!
Should AUG 1st be RNADay?.
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Happy #WomenInScienceDay!! Here's to all the awesome women RNA scientists who continue to illuminate the coolest biomolecule!!.
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Fantastic opening session of the @RNASociety Annual Meeting with wonderful keynote talks from Joan Steitz @SteitzLab @YaleRNA & Venki Ramakrishnan @MRC_LMB! So great to see everyone in person again & looking forward to an exciting week of #RNA science! #RNA22
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So many fantastic posters tonight at @RNASociety #RNA22! A big thank you to everyone for sharing your exciting research with our #RNA community!
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Welcome to the 28th Annual Meeting of the @RNASociety in beautiful Singapore! . Just a friendly reminder that the official hashtag is #RNA23 thanks!
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🕷️👻🎃.
One of my grad students created a Halloween spider from an RNA sequence we are working on. It is pretty good, boo my friends! :D
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Congratulations Dr. Anna Marie Pyle @pylelab @YaleRNA @HHMINEWS, winner of the 2022 @RNASociety Lifetime Service Award! Dr. Pyle is recognized for outstanding contributions in serving the RNA Society over the last two decades, most recently in 2019-20 as RNA Society President!🎉
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Please spread the word! We are so excited about the #RNA2021 Inclusive Initiative! Free registration if you meet 2 of these criteria: .-1st time participant.-Not in N Am or western Europe.-Come from an underrepresented group.-In an academic environment without outside funding.
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Congratulations to Adrian Krainer from @CSHL, who has been awarded our 2019 Lifetime Achievement award!!!!! 🍾🎉👏🏿.
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Congratulations to Dr. Jernej Ule from and Dr. Igor Ulitsky (@IgorUlitsky)--winners of our Mid and Early-Career Awards!! Read more here:
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Please join us in offering our warmest congratulations to the winners of the 2023 @RNASociety Awards recognizing the scientific, educational, mentoring and leadership achievements of our members!
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Congratulations to the winners of the Inaugural RNA Society Baking Competition in honor of #RNADay: Magdalena Madej and Sowndarya Muthukumar; Azra Lari; Gretchen Edwalds-Gilbert's lab; and Amanda Charlesworth! 🤤😍👏🏾
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We’re so delighted to announce that @lapassmore is the inaugural winner of the Elisa Izaurralde award!! Congratulations!!!!!.
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Thanks very much to our fantastic RNA 2024 organizers, hosts, @RNASociety leadership & staff, session chairs, speakers, poster presenters & participants for an amazing #RNA24 in Edinburgh! . Hope you all had a wonderful time, safe travels & see you in San Diego for #RNA25!
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The @RNASociety is pleased to invite you to its 28th Annual International Conference, which will be an in-person meeting at Suntec Convention & Exhibition Centre @SuntecSingapor in Singapore from May 30 - June 4, 2023!. Hope to see you at #RNA2023!. info:
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We stand with all members of our community and all communities working toward justice. Read our full statement on recent racist and xenophobic events:
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Checks out.
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It's official, RNA tribe. #RNA2020 will be moving online. We're still figuring out the details of what this looks like, but we can't wait to hear all about your discoveries!.
If you’ve checked your email from @RNASociety you’ll know that we have made the decision to cancel #RNA2020 in person meeting but that we will have an online platform to present. We will also be issuing full refunds. #COVID19.
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It’s the best day of the year. HAPPY #RNADay!!! May your day be full of Us, stem loops, and as many RNA puns as possible!
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Excited to announce registration for the 28th Annual Meeting of the @RNASociety is now open! This year’s meeting will be in-person @SuntecSingapor Convention & Exhibition Center from May 30-June 4. Register today & see you in beautiful Singapore!. #RNA23.
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Congratulations to all the winners of our annual RNA Society awards!!!!
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RNA Society 2020 Election Results! For 2021-2022, Maria Carmo-Fonseca will be our new President. David Bartel, Kristin Patrick, and Alain Laederach (@alaederach) have been elected to our Board of Directors. Congratulations, all!!.
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Thanks so much to everyone for attending #RNA22 & for sharing your exciting #RNA research with our @RNASociety community! Hope you had a wonderful time & safe travels!
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Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Awards of the RNA Society!. Over the next weeks, we will share short descriptions of each of their accomplishments. You can meet our winners and learn of their outstanding work at the RNA Society Meeting in Edinburgh this May.
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A huge thank you to our host & @RNASociety Annual Meeting organizer Roy Parker @HHMINEWS @CUBIOCHEM1 and @NobelPrize laureate Venki Ramakrishnan @MRC_LMB for a wonderful keynote talk! #RNA22
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Thanks very much to our fantastic RNA 2023 organizers, hosts, @RNASociety leadership & staff, session chairs, speakers, poster presenters & participants for an amazing #RNA23 in Singapore! . Hope you all had a wonderful time, safe travels & see you in Edinburgh for #RNA24!
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Delighted to announce inaugural RNA-themed Baking Competition in celebration of RNA Day (Aug 1st)! Details of how to submit your RNA-themed confections (photos of) in @RNASociety member email inboxes 🎂 🍰 🧁.
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Congratulations to Lynne Maquat and @SteitzLab Joan Steitz, two long-time RNA Society members, winners of 2021 Warren Alpert Prize for reshaping our understanding of the myriad of roles RNA plays in cell function and disease. 🎉.
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The video problems are fixed for #RNA2020! Thank you for your patience!! We're also extending the meeting until midnight on June 1 so you can get 6 full days of RNA!.
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We are delighted to announce our next @RNASociety Member Spotlight! . Dr. Michaela Müller-McNicoll @mixmue is a Professor at the Institute for Cell Biology & Neuroscience, Goethe-University Frankfurt/Mainz & a Director of the RNA Society! .
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Happy new year!! Here’s to a 2018 full of undegraded RNA!!.
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We're halfway through July, which means that the third annual #RNADay (Aug 1) is RAPIDLY approaching. Who's ready to celebrate the magnificence that is RNA!!!.
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Congratulations to the new members of our Board of Directors: Anita Corbett @acorbe2, Jeff Kieft @JeffreyKieft, and Michaela Müller-McNicoll @mixmue!!! 🎉🎊🎉.
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I think we'd all agree there should be an #RNADay.
Happy #DNADay! Just noticed @NobelPrize Laureate @MITBiology @kochinstitute Phil Sharp on a plane with some @Marvel Avengers and wanted to give a shoutout to #RNA! @RNASociety can we start a petition for #RNADay next year?
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Beautiful. 😍💖💘.
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We are delighted to announce our next RNA Society Member Spotlight!. Dr. Purusharth I. Rajyaguru is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), in Bangalore, India. He is also an Associate Editor at
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Thank you so much to the organizers of #RNA2020 for finding a way to make the meeting online and free to RNA Society members!!.
It’s official #RNA2020 is online and free! It will be open to @RNASociety members and registration is open again for poster abstracts until April 27!
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👀 Don’t you dare claim Tom Cech, Protein World!. (Also, HBD!!! 🎂).
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Due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, #RNA2021 is going virtual! While details have yet to be finalized, there will be an expanded meeting program, greater opportunities for both oral and poster presentations, and extensive networking opportunities. Stay tuned for more info!.
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Congratulations to RNA Society member Dr. Melissa Moore!!!! 🎉🥳.
Congratulations to Dr. Melissa Moore, our #mRNA platform chief scientific officer, on being elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! @americanacad
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2022 @RNASociety Elisa Izaurralde Award for Innovation in Research, Teaching and Service:.Luisa Cochella, Johns Hopkins University, USA.#RNA22
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‘RNases are like speakers: they have to know when to stop.’ Wise, wise words from session chair Bobby Hogg. #RNA2018.
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We’re super excited to see you all today in Boulder! Quick note: the official hashtag of the @RNASociety Annual Meeting is #RNA22 & we look forward to seeing your tweets from the meeting!
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#RNADay is only 3 days away!! (Translation folks might say we're in the Kozak sequence now!). And remember that submissions for the Inaugural RNA-themed baking competition are due by midnight EDT on July 31st!.
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Congratulations Fátima Gebauer (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain) on being elected as President-Elect of the RNA Society! Fátima will serve as RNA Society President for the two-year term spanning 2025-2026. Congratulations also to Marina Chekulaeva (Berlin Institute for.
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There are so many reasons to attend #RNA2021!.-Amazing RNA science 😍.-4 amazing keynotes: Irene Bozzoni, Sarah Woodson, Jennifer Doudna, and Xiang-dong Fu!.
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We are here for every and all RNA vaccine puns.
they say don’t shoot the messenger but i say shoot it straight into my arm! excited for everyone to get this vax and for the world to end this chapter.
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Massive congratulations to Prof Gene Yeo (@yeo_lab) for winning the 2021 Elisa Izaurralde award! He is recognized for his contributions as an outstanding innovator, mentor and community-oriented science leader! 👏🏾🎉🎊
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"I study RNA" .-Likely requires defining RNA. -Probably means discussing DNA and proteins. -Boring. "Inquisitor of U".-Surprisingly personal and vaguely ominous. -Suggests billowing robes. -Also hints at pun potential.
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Happy holidays!!! May your days be filled with smiles, chocolate, and RNA!!. *Combine, if desired.
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A huge thank you to all of our amazing @RNASociety mentors for your sage advice at tonight's #RNA24 Mentoring Dinner!
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May the RNA be with you!!.
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Happy #RNADay! 🎉 Celebrate by submitting your nominations for the @RNASociety Awards today! . How are you celebrating #RNADay? Please share below!.
Applications for the 2023 @RNASociety Awards celebrating excellence in RNA research, service, mentorship & leadership will be available starting August 1! . Starting next week applications can be submitted on our website ( so please start thinking of what
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Black lives matter.
We stand with all members of our community and all communities working toward justice. Read our full statement on recent racist and xenophobic events:
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We have a new page on our website for ways in which scientists can help. We will keep updating information as we receive more guidance from public health officials. Thank you, all, for the steps you're already taking to combat COVID-19.
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Calling all RNA loving bakers and artists! The 2024 RNA-themed Baking and Art Competition for RNA Day (Aug 1) is underway. Original RNA-themed confections and visual art celebrating all aspects of RNA or the RNA Society are welcome. Winning submissions will receive $100 and be
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We are delighted to announce our next RNA Society Member Spotlight!. Dr. Sandy Wolin @NCISandraWolin is the current president of the RNA Society. Outside of the RNA Society, she is chief and senior investigator of the RNA Biology Laboratory, Center for
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@RNASociety & RNA 2023 Meeting Organizers.are delighted to announce oral & poster presentations will be accessible to view on-line! #RNA23. Subscriptions are being accepted now & will remain available until July 6th!
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It is with great sadness that we share news of the passing on July 1st, 2022 of a dear friend of the @RNASociety & beloved colleague Dr. Christine Guthrie. We will remember Christine & her passion for RNA research & the importance she played in our scientific community.
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Congratulations to our illustrious @RNASociety President @NCISandraWolin on being elected to the National Academy of Sciences @theNASciences! 🎉.
We are thrilled to announce the election of 120 members and 24 international members to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continued achievements in original research. Congratulations to our new #NASmembers and welcome to the Academy!
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Maria Barna (@mbarnalab) and Ailong Ke are our 2019 Early- and Mid-career Award winners!!! Congratulations!!!! 🎊👏🏾🥳.
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We're funding 48 (!!) RNA Salons in 2018/9 with representation from Europe, North & South America, Asia and Australia! Thank you so much to @lexogen for the continued support of this initiative and thank you to all the RNA Enthusiasts organizing a Salon!! 👊🏿.
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We're delighted to announce the Elisa Izaurralde Award for Innovation in Research, Teaching, and Service! It's open to all members who are 5-15 years post-PhD with an independent research position. Learn more here:
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"Surround yourself with colleagues you trust and respect. but who will also challenge you to think deeper and do better science." Read more in our new Spotlight of Dr. Luisa Cochella (@LCochella)!
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The online #RNA22 Digital Content Library ( will be launched on June 7th from 8am-12pm Mountain Time with 4 hours of original live-streamed content not included in the in-person @RNASociety Annual Meeting in Boulder. This bonus material will include:
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We are delighted to announce our next RNA Society Member Spotlight!. Prof. Cassandra Hayne just opened her lab at the University of Chicago, and her work focuses on uncovering the structural and biochemical basis of disease-relevant RNA processing
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We're deeply saddened to announce the untimely passing of our friend and colleague Elisa Izaurralde, a cherished member of our Society, ditor of our journal, RNA, and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen. She will be greatly missed.
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Less than 2 weeks out from #RNA2019!! Who else is excited for ~the~ RNA fest of the year?!? 🥳.
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The organizers of #RNA2020 have done an amazing job to make this happen!! We're all so excited for the RNA fest in a few weeks!!!.
Amazing, we just had over 400 new people become @RNASociety members to participate in #RNA2020 online, this will likely make this the biggest meeting in history, remember to register at .before April 27th to access the meeting in May! @jrRNAscientists.
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We are delighted to announce our @RNASociety Member Spotlights for May 2022! . Dr. Oguzhan Begik: Dr. Aaron Hoskins:
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There are so many fabulous women in the RNA field!!! If you're looking to really celebrate #InternationalWomensDay in style, update or make a Wikipedia page for your favorite female RNA scientist! 😍.
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Delighted to announce the 2022 @RNASociety Lifetime Achievement in Science Award winner Dr. Gideon Dreyfuss @PennMedicine!. Join us at #RNA2022 to celebrate with Dr. Dreyfuss & hear about his scientific achievements!. Oral abstracts due Friday, March 4th!
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We are delighted to announce our next RNA Society Member Spotlight!. Dr. Jennifer Porat is a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Ryan Flynn’s lab at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard University. Her research focuses on glycoRNAs, a newly-discovered family of
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We are delighted to announce our next @RNASociety Member Spotlight!. Dr. Julie Claycomb @Claycomb_Lab, a “farmgirl” from the rural part of Pennsylvania who dared to pursue the academic path, was recently promoted to the rank of Professor within the
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