Thorsten Stafforst

Company: University of Tuebingen

Job title: Professor

Bio:

Thorsten is professor of Nucleic Acid Biochemistry at the Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry at the University of Tuebingen. He studied chemistry in Göttingen and expanded to chemical biology and bio-engineering during his postdoc in Zürich. In 2011, he started his independent lab in Tübingen, supported by an ERC Consolidator Grant. Since 2016, he is permanent professor in Tübingen supported by a Heisenberg-Professur (DFG). His lab focusses  mainly on site-directed RNA editing strategies and their exploitation in life sciences and medicine.

Seminars:

RNA Editing: Engineering editases, guideRNAs, and ASOs for application in Life Sciences and Medicine 11:50 am

• Engineering editing systems (concept and properties of SNAP-ADARs) • Harnessing endogenous ADARs with chemically stabilized ASOs • Harnessing endogenous ADARs with encodable guideRNAsRead more

day: Day One