RNA Salon #2

Session

Invited lecture

11 Dec 2025, 15:00

Great Lecture Hall (National Institute of Chemistry)

4. Cold RNA under tension: folding and misfolding in the age of condensates

Dr Marcus Jahnel (Excellence Cluster Physics of Life and the BIOTEC at TU Dresden, Germany)

11/12/2025, 15:00

Earth, 715 million years ago. The Cryogenian begins. Four ice ages, Sturtian, Marinoan, Gaskiers, and Baykonur, repeatedly freeze the planet for eons. Closed ice sheets cover oceans and continents. The cold is unbearable. Life is almost wiped out. Proteins that mitigate cold stress, particularly RNA chaperones of the cold shock family, are under extreme and prolonged evolutionary pressure....