Special Seminar: From viral RNA domains to stress granules - biological discovery and therapeutic potential
Join us for a special Tenure-track professorship and CERC candidate seminar hosted by the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology and the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Adrian Ferré-D'Amaré, PhD
Senior Investigator and Chief, Laboratory of Nucleic Acids, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health
Talk title: “From viral RNA domains to stress granules: biological discovery and therapeutic potential”
Where and when
Thursday, September 18, 2025
12 - 1 pm
In person, Donnelly Centre, Red Room
No registration required, all are welcome.
Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research
160 College St, Toronto, ON M5S 3E1
About the speaker: Dr. Adrian Ferré-D'Amaré
Dr. Adrian Ferré-D'Amaré carried out undergraduate studies in Chemistry and Marine Biology at the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, in Mexico. He obtained his Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics from The Rockefeller University working under Prof. Stephen Burley and was a post-doctoral fellow at Yale University in the laboratory of Prof. Jennifer Doudna.
He was a Member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and an Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Since 2011, he has been Senior Investigator and head of the Laboratory of Nucleic Acids at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health, where his group employs structural and biochemical tools to analyze the many functions of RNA in viruses, bacteria and eukaryotic cells.
