CSB Cutting Lecture Series: Brenda Bass, PhD, Friday, March 22, 12:30 pm, Munzer!
The Department of Chemical and Systems Biology Presents
Cutting Lecture Series
Brenda L. Bass, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor &
Jon M. Huntsman Presidential Chair
Department of Biochemistry
University of Utah
Friday, March 22, 2024
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM (Pacific Time)
Munzer Auditorium
Talk Title: “Divergent Roles of Helicases in Antiviral Defense”
Abstract: Viruses were once thought to be the sole source of long double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), but the Bass laboratory has identified numerous long, cellular dsRNAs that naturally exist in animals. dsRNA-binding proteins enable cells to distinguish the good from the bad, but how they do this is not completely understood. Our current studies are focused on how conserved helicases distinguish self versus non-self dsRNA, and how these functions have diverged in vertebrates and invertebrates.