Episode 8 of the ASEF Podcast has professors Jernej Murn and Boštjan Kobe discuss RNA research and compare the possibilities of such research in Slovenia, the USA, and Australia.

Boštjan Kobe is a Professor of Structural Biology at the University of Queensland. Prior to joining the University of Queensland, he was a postdoctoral researcher at St. Vincent’s Institute in Melbourne, Australia, where he also started his laboratory at the end of 1997. Prof. Kobe completed his Ph.D. degree at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, USA. He was the President of the Society of Crystallographers in Australia and New Zealand (2012-2014). He is the Editor of Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology and PLoS One. His laboratory focuses on applying structural biology approaches to understanding infection and immunity.

Jernej Murn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of California, Riverside. Before joining UC Riverside as faculty in 2017, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital. He trained with Yang Shi in epigenetics and RNA biology. Prof. Murn completed his Ph.D. in molecular biology that he shared between the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and the CEA Laboratory for Functional Genomics in France.

Episode 8 of the ASEF Podcast is available to stream via https://rebrand.ly/ASEFPodcastEp8.

This project is supported by the U.S. Embassy in Ljubljana.

V osmi epizodi ASEF podkasta sta profesorja Jernej Murn in Boštjan Kobe diskutirala o raziskovanju RNA in primerjala raziskovalne možnosti le tega v Sloveniji, ZDA in Avstraliji.

Boštjan Kobe je profesor strukturne biologije na univerzi v Queenslandu v Avstraliji. Pred prihodom na univerzi je bil raziskovalec na Inštitutu sv. Vincenta v Melbournu, kjer je leta 1997 ustvaril svoj laboratorij. Svoj doktorat je naredil v Southwestern medicinskem centru Univerze v Teksasu v Dallasu, ZDA. Od leta 2012 do leta 2014 je bil predsednik društva kristalografov Avstralije in Nove Zelandije. Njegov laboratorij se osredotoča na uporabo pristopov strukturne biologije za razumevanje okužb in imunosti.

Jernej Murn je profesor asistent na Oddelku za biokemijo na Univerzi Kalifornija v mestu Riverside, ZDA. Preden se je leta 2017 kot profesor pridružil UC Riverside, je bil raziskovalec na Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital. Na področju epigenetike in biologije RNA se je usposabljal pri Yang Shiju. Doktoriral je iz molekularne biologij. Doktorat pa deli med Univerzo v Ljubljani, in CEA Laboratorijem za funkcionalno genomiko v Franciji.

8. epizoda ASEF podkasta je na voljo za poslušanje preko naslednje povezave https://rebrand.ly/ASEFPodcastEp8.

Projekt podpira Veleposlaništvo ZDA v Ljubljani.