Joint Seminars in Molecular Biology: "How RNA binding protein interactions drive post-transcriptional gene expression regulation"

Marko Jovanovic, Associate Professor, Columbia University, presents “How RNA binding protein interactions drive post-transcriptional gene expression regulation”.

Marko Jovanovic is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University. Marko earned his M.Sc. in Molecular Biology from the University of Vienna, Austria, in 2004; and his Ph.D. from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, in 2010. During his Ph.D. he worked in the labs of Dr. Michael Hengartner and Dr. Ruedi Aebersold to develop novel methods to identify miRNA target genes. For his postdoctoral research he joined Dr. Aviv Regev at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Cambridge, USA, where his work has focused on quantitative dissection of protein dynamics in immune cells. He started his research group at Columbia University in 2017. The Jovanovic lab’s overarching research goal is to understand the principles and mechanisms by which post-transcriptional regulation controls the dynamics of gene expression, and therefore affects processes like differentiation, stress response and pathogenesis. In order to do so, they focus on several aspects of the biology of gene expression regulation and of technology development.

Host: Chris Fraser (csfraser@ucdavis.edu)