Argonaute conference #Argonaute2025 in Prague – researchers, clinicians & patient families coming together. Honored to co-organize this fantastic, inspiring meeting with amazing colleagues @svobodalab.bsky.social, @farmgirlphd.bsky.social & @curiousdina.bsky.social
Congrats to my better half @legionella.bsky.social and his lab and collaborators on this cool discovery! TLDR, they've identified and re-animated a bacteriophage of Legionella pneumophila, a bacteria long thought to not be susceptible to phage attack. Check it out! 🦠
A Twitter conversation from 2019 in search of the elusive Legionella phages.
Sorry for the late reply @superbug-slayer.bsky.social @roblavigne.bsky.social. Here's a Legionella phage & it likely shaped the emergence of Legionnaires' in the first place! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (cryoEM w/ @smlea.bsky.social @justindeme.bsky.social). #phage #legionella #legionnaires
Me too! What an amazing group of people and outstanding science! Great talking with you at your poster! 🐙
Conference season part II: one of my favourites, the Argonaute conference #Argonaute2025. As always with some specials: Ago playing cards ♠️♥️♣️♦️ & Ago gin (a favourite since the first meeting). Such fun to have co-organized this @svobodalab.bsky.social ❗️, @farmgirlphd.bsky.social & Gunter Meister.
Kicking off our third day of #argonautes2025 with a talk by Nobel Prize winner and all around amazing person, scientist, and mentor, Victor Ambros! 🐙
@svobodalab.bsky.social kicks off #argonautes2025! Welcome everyone to our "family meeting"! Looking forward to some great science over the next few days!🐙
And a BIG Thanks to @svobodalab.bsky.social @curiousdina.bsky.social and Gunter Meister for organizing the meeting! 🐙
Excited for the start of #argonautes2025 tomorrow! This year we're in Prague, @imgprague.bsky.social. Looking forward to sharing science and community with Argonaute aficionados and Argonaute Syndromes Alliance families! 🐙
Q: What can we do as researchers to help?
A: Invite patients and advocates to your labs, to your conferences, to be part of your funding proposals, and contribute to ethics approvals! Include us as partners! With our lived experiences, we are experts, too!
RNA-based Disease Advocacy Panel: RNA as Cause and Cure, moderated by TREnD organizers Rasangi Tenakoon and Sharanja Premachandran #TREnD2025
Excited to hear from patients, advocates, and clinicians about RNA-related diseases at our @rnacanada.bsky.social patient advocacy panel. These conversations are so important to connect researchers, families, and clinicians. Thanks for sharing your stories! @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025
And for our final trainee talk of the day, we'll hear for Carina Lyons of Ji-Young Yoon's lab at Sick Kids/U of Toronto. She's talking about her work on how phosphorylation regulates the ALS associated protein TDP-43. @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025
Now we'll hear from Tyler Henderson from Sabine Cordes' lab at LTRI/U of Toronto. He's telling us about his PhD work on the role of the trafficking protein/non-canonical RBP Tubby in RNA transport. @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025
Next up: Jack Li from the Blencowe and Taipale labs at U of Toronto talks about his work on using dCasRx-RBM25 to control endogenous splicing events. ✂️ @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025
Next we'll hear from Cian Ward from Pat O'Donaghue's lab at Western University about tRNA anticodon variants to read through ALS-causative PTCs. 🛑🏁 @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025
After a fantastic mentor/mentee lunch and an action-packed poster session, we're back with another round of trainee talks! Up next is Qingyu Shi from @haissi-cui.bsky.social lab at the University of Toronto. She's sharing her work on a rare disease variant of SSRM2. @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025
Our final trainee talk of this session is by Nuo Xu from the lab of Dr. Shreejoy Tripathy at the University of Toronto. Nuo is telling us about using long read RNA sequencing to identify splice variants in cortical neurons. @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025
Now we'll shift gears to lncRNAs! We're hearing from Eric Wang about a topical RNA therapy targeting a lncRNA to treat diabetic retinopathy. Eric is in the lab of Dr. Subrata Chakrabarti's lab at Western University. @trendrna.bsky.social #TrEnD2025 👁️🧬
Great talk by Victoria G Castiglioni from @farmgirlphd.bsky.social lab! Thanks for sharing your science with us! #TREnD2025 📈
Now we'll hear from Tanya Prashar from Dr. Kathy Hudak's lab at York University about the outcomes of rRNA damage on ribosome stability! @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025
Now we'll hear from Ryan Goldbach from Thomas Duchaine's lab at McGill about his work on mRNA decapping (or not!) in C. elegans. 🪱🧢 @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025
Our next speaker is Dr. Victoria Garcia Castiglioni from our lab! She's talking about her work as a Curie fellow, looking at the interplay between Argonautes and Orsay virus in C. elegans! @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025🪱🐙
Kicking off our trainee talks is Ayeisha Desjardins, a graduate student in the Palazzo @ribonucleicacids.bsky.social lab, telling us about the interplay between RanBP2 and RISC in regulating cytokine RNAs!
Student representatives from @rnacanada.bsky.social tell us about the organization's goals and efforts, and invite all trainees to become members! @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025
Fantastic talk about his lab's extensive efforts to characterize thousands of RNA Binding proteins by Gene Yeo @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025! RNAs are not naked! (And great intro slides!)
#TREnD2025 @trendrna.bsky.social day 2 starting now, with organizer @farnazmansouri.bsky.social introducing our Keynote speaker, Dr. gene Yeo! Ready for a great day of RNA biology in Toronto!
#TREnD2025 virtual day is here!! First talk starting now! 🥳
Are you a fancier of Argonaute proteins? Small RNAs of various flavors? Gene regulation? Join us later this summer in Prague for the Argonautes conference! Great science, great people, great venue, and a chance to talk with patient families from the Argonaute Syndromes foundation. 🐙
Hello out there! Are you looking for a friendly community to share your RNA research and hear about some cool RNA biology? Register for @trendrna.bsky.social on July 10-11 now! Oral abstract deadline is May 30th! Co sponsored by @rnacanada.bsky.social!
