Next meeting of the New England RNA Data (NERD) club

The next meeting of the New England RNA Data (NERD) club will take place in Cannon Room at Harvard Medical School on Wednesday, October 26, 2011.
http://www.newenglandrna.org/resources/NERD_October_2011.pdf

Our speakers will be:

1. Sebastian Marquardt, Steve Buratowski Lab, Harvard Medical School
   "Differential RNA Processing of Long Noncoding Transcript Species in Budding Yeast"
2. Michael W. Pfaffl, Physiology Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, Germany
   "MIQE Challenges and Solutions - Reliable microRNA Expression Profiling and Biomarker Development"
3. Rachel Fearns, Microbiology Department, Boston University School of Medicine
   "Initiating Replication on A Linear RNA Genome: Non-templated Initiation by the Respiratory Syncytial Virus Polymerase"

We will have beverages starting at 5:30PM and talks from 6:00-7:30PM in Cannon Room, 1st floor in Building C of HMS quadrangle.
Following the talks, we will convene outside the Cannon Room for a reception from 7:30-8:30pm.
This meeting is sponsored by *Qiagen*
For more detailed information, visit our website http://www.newenglandrna.org