Center for non-coding RNA in Technology and Health

Center for non-coding RNA in Technology and Health (RTH)

The center aims at developing technologies, computational methods as well as experimental approaches for analysis of the mammalian genome for non-coding RNAs in relation to (inflammatory) diseases. The center will focus on developing these technologies to exploit them and the findings in relation to diabetes. The center consists of a number of national and international partners, with the core located at the LIFE science faculty of University of Copenhagen.

The people in the center cover a range of expertises including computational biology, RNA bioinformatics, molecular models in diabetes, RNA biology, animal models, functional genomics and high-throughput sequence analysis.

Jobs

Post doc in computational RNA systems biology

Center for non-coding RNA in Technology and Health (RTH) invites applications for a position as post doc in computational RNA systems biology for 2 years and 3 months from April 1st, 2012, or as soon as possible thereafter. The application deadline is February 23^rd, 2012.

SME grant from the Strategic Research Council

2011-01-21: The Center has received a supplementary grant of DKK 600 000 from the Strategic Research Council. The aim of this funding is to invite small and medium-sized enterprises to collaborate on a project entitled "Discovery of regulatory non-protein-coding RNA genes".

Seminar: The elementary Modules of RNA and how to detect them

2012-03-28: by Eric Westhof, Architecture et Réactivité de l’ARN, Université de Strasbourg, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS. At 14:00, University of Copenhagen. (Location to be announced.)

For previous events, see here.

Research outset

The human genome, made up of DNA, consists of three billion building blocks (nucleotides) where some regions (stretches) are complete genes. We all carry variants of the genes and some cause diseases. Here, the goal is to investigate the specific class of genes, the non-coding RNA genes, in relation to diabetes. The non-coding RNA (ncRNA) genes can be the missing components in diseases that previously have been overlooked.

Our research goal is to develop technologies for ncRNA analysis and to search for functional ncRNAs in relation to diabetes and other (inflammatory) diseases.