Date Dec 9, 2015, 12:00 pm – 12:00 pm Location Thomas Laboratory, 003 Audience Free and open to the university community and the public Speakers David Bartel, Ph.D. Principal Investigator Whitehead Institute for Medical Research HHMI Investigator Professor of Biology, MIT Whitehead Institute for Medical Research Details Event Description We have been using molecular and computational approaches to find regulatory RNAs, identify the messages that they regulate, and then investigate molecular consequences of these regulatory interactions as well as their functions during development, oncogenesis, and other biological processes. This talk will describe our current understanding of microRNAs, the mechanisms by which they repress gene expression, a switch in the nature of translational control that occurs in early metazoan development, and how this switch influences the ultimate consequences of miRNA-mediated repression. Sponsor Alexei Korennykh, Department of Molecular Biology Event Category Butler Seminar Series