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Marlene Oeffinger: CSSN Speaker

Marlene Oeffinger

Montreal

Position: Associate Professor

Organization: Institute de recherches clinique Montreal

The main work of my laboratory focuses on understanding the dynamic interactions and regulation along gene expression and RNA maturation pathways that lead to complex heterogeneity and functional, including malignant, plasticity. Using proteomic, RNomic, biochemical and computational approaches, we are elucidating dynamic changes, parallel pathways, direct interactions between complex components of DNA and RNA networks in S. cerevisiae, and human cells to determine links between regulation of gene expression pathways, DNA damage networks, and disease development. I have worked in the field of RNA maturation since 1999, and proteomics since 2003, and cell homeostasis and relation of RNA pathways in disease (e.g., ALS) since 2016.

Areas of Expertise:

+ RNA maturation, export and metabolism
+ mRNA and ribosomal RNA
+ proteomics

Language(s):

+ English
+ German


About Me

Sector: Academia (Post Secondary)

English proficiency: Read, Write, Speak

French proficiency: Read

Other Language(s): German

Title: Dr.

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Gender: Female

Demographic: European / White


Recent Publications

Title Year
Protocol for the purification and analysis of nuclear UFMylated proteins2025
Protein UFMylation regulates early events during ribosomal DNA-damage response2024
Senescent Macrophages Release Inflammatory Cytokines and RNA-Loaded Extracellular Vesicles to Circumvent Fibroblast Senescence2024
Differential affinity purification and mass spectrometry analysis of two nuclear pore complex isoforms in yeast S. cerevisiae2023
A special issue dedicated to the memory of Jonathan R. Warner (1936-2019), a pioneer of ribosome biology2023
Miniature RNAs are embedded in an exceptionally protein-rich mitoribosome via an elaborate assembly pathway2023
The Importance of Being RNA-est: considering RNA-mediated ribosome plasticity2023
Adaptive partitioning of a gene locus to the nuclear envelope in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is driven by polymer-polymer phase separation2023
The Diabetes-Related Gly482Ser Polymorphism Affects PGC1A Stability and Glucose Metabolism2022
Nuclear mRNA metabolism drives selective basket assembly on a subset of nuclear pore complexes in budding yeast2022
RbgA ensures the correct timing in the maturation of the 50S subunits functional sites2022
Identification and Characterization of the Interaction Between the Methyl-7-Guanosine Cap Maturation Enzyme RNMT and the Cap-Binding Protein eIF4E2022
Targeted Cross-Linking Mass Spectrometry on Single-Step Affinity Purified Molecular Complexes in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae2022
Single-Step Affinity Purification (ssAP) and Mass Spectrometry of Macromolecular Complexes in the Yeast S. cerevisiae2022
GFI1 tethers the NuRD complex to open and transcriptionally active chromatin in myeloid progenitors2021
The Gly482Ser Polymorphism Affects PGC-1α Stability in INS-1 β-Cells2021
Insights into synthesis and function of KsgA/Dim1-dependent rRNA modifications in archaea2020
Altered rRNA processing disrupts nuclear RNA homeostasis via competition for the poly(A)-binding protein Nab22020
Structural studies of the eIF4E–VPg complex reveal a direct competition for capped RNA: Implications for translation2019
Live-Cell Imaging of mRNP–NPC Interactions in Budding Yeast2019
Senescence-associated ribosome biogenesis defects contributes to cell cycle arrest through the Rb pathway2018
Nol12 is a multifunctional RNA binding protein at the nexus of RNA and DNA metabolism2017
High-throughput RNA structure probing reveals critical folding events during early 60S ribosome assembly in yeast2017
The RNA chaperone La promotes pre-tRNA maturation via indiscriminate binding of both native and misfolded targets2017
DDX54 regulates transcriptome dynamics during DNA damage response2017