May 27, 2015
Samwel received the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award. Congrats Samwel!

March 20, 2015
Diana and Samwel presented posters at the 2nd Annual Symposium on RNA Science held by The RNA Institute, University at Albany.

March 18, 2015
Samwel received the Binghamton University Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Teaching. Congrats Samwel!

January 13, 2015
Eriks delivered an invited talk Sequence-Selective Recognition of Double-Stranded RNA Using Cationic Peptide Nucleic Acids at the IUPAC 10th International Symposium on Bio-Organic Chemistry in Pune, India.

August 1, 2014
Funding Success: Our group has received an NSF research award (CHE 1406433, $414,637 for three years) to continue the project on triple helical recognition of double-stranded RNA by peptide nucleic acids.
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June 19, 2014
Eriks delivered an invited talk Sequence-Selective Recognition of Double-Stranded RNA Using Triple Helix Forming Peptide Nucleic Acids at the Nucleic Acid Research & Development Conference in San Diego.

May 9, 2014
Paper published: In collaboration with colleagues from Thermo Fisher and Vanderbilt University our group has published a paper Amides are excellent mimics of phosphate internucleoside linkages and are well tolerated in short interfering RNAs in Nucleic Acids Research. The paper reports an intriguing finding that amide-modified siRNAs may be more active than the native ones. Congrats Daniel and Selvam!
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April 1, 2014
Funding Success: Our group has received an NIH award (R01 GM071461, ~$1,5 million for four years) to continue research on the recently discovered biological activity of amide-modified RNA.
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January 7, 2014
Paper published: In collaboration with colleagues from Thermo Fisher and University of Rochester our group has published a paper Synthesis, biophysical studies and RNA interference activity of RNA having three consecutive amide linkages in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. Congrats Paul!
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November 13-15, 2013
Eriks delivered a plenary talk on molecular recognition of double-stranded RNA using chemically modified PNA at the 40th International Symposium of Nucleic Acid Chemistry (ISNAC2013) at Kanagawa University in Yokohama, Japan.
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October 8, 2013
Paper published: Thomas and Artem have published a paper Improvement of sequence selectivity in triple helical recognition of RNA by phenylalanine-derived PNA in Artificial DNA, PNA & XNA. Congrats Thomas and Artem!
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May 30, 2013
Paper published: In collaboration with Christof Grewer (Chemistry) and Dennis McGee (Biology) our group has published a paper Sequence Selective Recognition of Double-Stranded RNA at Physiologically Relevant Conditions Using PNA-Peptide Conjugates in ACS Chemical Biology. Congrats Toyosi, Thomas and Diana!
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November 4, 2012
Paper published: A research communication by Thomas and Pankaj was published in Angewandte Chemie and highlighted as a Very Important Paper (VIP). Congrats Thomas and Pankaj!
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