Past Event
Tuesday, September 5, 2017, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
MicroRNAs: A Citizen Science Lecture
7555 Draper Avenue, San Diego, 92037
Cost: Free
In the early days of exploring the human genome, scientists thought only the 2% of the genome that coded for proteins had any use. The rest was termed junk DNA. We have since discovered that the remaining 98% performs regulatory functions that are critical for development and health. One type of regulatory element encodes tiny pieces of RNA that control thousands of proteins. Join Julia Nussbacher from UCSD to learn what high throughput sequencing and computational biology can tell us about these tiny molecules.