DEADLINE EXTENSION - July 31st🚨‼️ don’t miss out on your final chance to sign up to attend #TREnD2026

The deadline to register for TREnD is quickly approaching! Don’t forget to sign up and submit your poster abstracts before the deadline on July 24th! RNArt is also running again this year, submit your masterpiece before the deadline to have your art featured in-person at TREnD this year! 🎨

Good news!! The deadline to submit an abstract for an oral talk at #TREnD2026 has been EXTENDED to Friday July 10th. Don’t miss your chance to share your work 🚨

DON’T MISS OUT🚨! The deadline to submit an abstract for an oral talk at #TREnD2026 is THIS FRIDAY (July 3rd)

We are proud to be a part of the @rnacanada.ca network again, and welcome RNA researchers from across Canada in our second iteration of TREnD & Friends 2026. Our virtual day programming on August 20th will feature speakers from our friends across the country and the world!

Have you registered for TREnD2026?!?! TREnD is an action packed international RNA symposium organized BY trainees FOR trainees! Join us online on August 20th online & August 21st online and in person for some good RNA vibes 😎🧬 (pretend that’s not a DNA emoji)

Dr. Benoit Chabot from the Université de Sherbrooke is discussing “CRISPR/dCas13Rx-Based Identification and Correction of Splicing Defects in Leukodystrophies” on September 2nd in the Donnelly Centre Red Room!

Excited to hear from patients, advocates, and clinicians about RNA-related diseases at our @rnacanada.bsky.social patient advocacy panel. These conversations are so important to connect researchers, families, and clinicians. Thanks for sharing your stories! @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025

RNA-based Disease Advocacy Panel: RNA as Cause and Cure, moderated by TREnD organizers Rasangi Tenakoon and Sharanja Premachandran #TREnD2025

Happening now! #TREnD2025

TREnD@trendrna.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us for a special RNA Canada-sponsored Patient Advocacy Panel taking place in Toronto on Friday, July 11th at 5:30-7:00 PM (ET) at the SickKids Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning.

Our secret message #TREnD2025 🕵️🥳

And for our final trainee talk of the day, we'll hear for Carina Lyons of Ji-Young Yoon's lab at Sick Kids/U of Toronto. She's talking about her work on how phosphorylation regulates the ALS associated protein TDP-43. @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025

Now we'll hear from Tyler Henderson from Sabine Cordes' lab at LTRI/U of Toronto. He's telling us about his PhD work on the role of the trafficking protein/non-canonical RBP Tubby in RNA transport. @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025

Our last trainee talk of the day is underway by Carina Lyons! #TREnD2025

Our penultimate trainee talk is presented by Tyler Henderson from University of Toronto! #TREnD2025

Next up: Jack Li from the Blencowe and Taipale labs at U of Toronto talks about his work on using dCasRx-RBM25 to control endogenous splicing events. ✂️ @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025

Next up we have Jack Daiyang Li telling us about his research! #TREnD2025

Next we'll hear from Cian Ward from Pat O'Donaghue's lab at Western University about tRNA anticodon variants to read through ALS-causative PTCs. 🛑🏁 @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025

Thanks Cian Ward for sharing your science with us! #TREnD2025

After a fantastic mentor/mentee lunch and an action-packed poster session, we're back with another round of trainee talks! Up next is Qingyu Shi from @haissi-cui.bsky.social lab at the University of Toronto. She's sharing her work on a rare disease variant of SSRM2. @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025

Have you voted for your favourite RNArt yet? Don’t forget to do so before the end of the current talk session! #TREnD2025

Qingyu Shi, from @haissi-cui.bsky.social lab at University of Toronto, presented the first talk of the second trainee session! #TREnD2025

Brittney Remnant (TREnD organizer) is moderating our second trainee talk session starting now! #TREnD2025

Our final trainee talk of this session is by Nuo Xu from the lab of Dr. Shreejoy Tripathy at the University of Toronto. Nuo is telling us about using long read RNA sequencing to identify splice variants in cortical neurons. @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025

Thank you Samuel Nyandwi (TREnD Organizer) for moderating the first talk session! #TREnD2025

Nuo Xu from University of Toronto will present our last talk of the first trainee session today! #TREnD2025

Now we'll shift gears to lncRNAs! We're hearing from Eric Wang about a topical RNA therapy targeting a lncRNA to treat diabetic retinopathy. Eric is in the lab of Dr. Subrata Chakrabarti's lab at Western University. @trendrna.bsky.social #TrEnD2025 👁️🧬

Now we'll hear from Tanya Prashar from Dr. Kathy Hudak's lab at York University about the outcomes of rRNA damage on ribosome stability! @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025

Now we'll hear from Ryan Goldbach from Thomas Duchaine's lab at McGill about his work on mRNA decapping (or not!) in C. elegans. 🪱🧢 @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025

Our next speaker is Dr. Victoria Garcia Castiglioni from our lab! She's talking about her work as a Curie fellow, looking at the interplay between Argonautes and Orsay virus in C. elegans! @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025🪱🐙