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 Faculty for Health and Medical Sciences 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..

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Two PhD or Postdoc positions in computational off-target analysis of siRNA and small peptides

We have two positions each as either a three-year PhD or a three-year postdoc available in the Gorodkin lab. The projects concern safety when siRNAs and small peptides are applied as pesticides in plants and the aim is to develop the computational tools and analyses that will contribute to an environmental risk assessment framework for new bio-based plant protection products (PPPs). To get more information or to apply for the position, please visit the official job posting. Application deadline is December 1st 2024.

News

CRISPR/Cas9 efficiency explored: bin­ding energies and PAM context

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30 May 2022. Researchers from RTH and Aarhus University describe the energy-based binding mechanisms of CRISPR/Cas9-gRNAs and use an energy model to assess the cleavage efficiency of Cas9-gRNAs. The model is further applied to describe the DNA "sliding" of Cas9 competing for overlapping PAMs. Read the article here or see the news flash on CRISPR medicine news.

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Events


Seminar: Revolutionizing Cancer Treatment: The Power of RNA Science

2024-10-24: By Hideshi Ishii from the University of Osaka, Japan. The talk will take place at 11:00 in Stalden, building 1-09, Ridebanevej 6, 1. sal

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Recent resources


Bacillus subtilis PrsA RNAseq data

Data Resource

RNA-seq dataset for a study of the impact of PrsA over-expression on the Bacillus subtilis transcriptome

CRISPRroots

Software

Post editing on and off-target assess­ment with RNAseq data

CRISPRon

Webserver and Software

CRISPR-Cas9 gRNA efficiency prediction webserver based on data integration and deep learning

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.

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Recent publications


Patent data-driven analysis of literature associations with changing innovation trends

Geissler AS, Gorodkin J, Seemann SE* Front Res Metr Anal. 2024 Aug 1;9:1432673. eCollection 2024
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Clusters of mammalian conserved RNA structures in UTRs associate with RBP binding sites

Gadekar VP, Munk AW, Miladi M, Junge A, Backofen R, Seemann SE*, et al. NAR Genom Bioinform. 2024 Aug 9;6(3):lqae089. eCollection 2024 Sep
[ PubMed | Paper ]