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Breve Historia del Club Argentino de ARN

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Nuestro Club Argentino del RNA (CAA) nació hacia 2002 en formato de reuniones periódicas de intercambio de un grupo de laboratorios de Buenos Aires que trabajaban en temas relacionados al RNA. Con la motivación especial de jóvenes investigadores arrancó lo que se llamó inicialmente Club de RNA de Buenos Aires integrando laboratorios de la FIL, IFIBYNE, INEBI, IIB-UNSAM y otras instituciones de la región del AMBA. Estas reuniones continuaron con especial participación de estudiantes de doctorado y post-doctorado, generando un intercambio horizontal de ideas fundamental para el éxito de estas reuniones y que constituyó la filosofía esencial de nuestro club.

Así como ocurre con muchas formas de vida, nuestro club atravesó un período de diapausa (afortunadamente escapamos a la apoptosis!). Pero, la metamorfosis inexorablemente progresó y por suerte nuestro Club emergió renovado en 2016, incorporando grupos de otras ciudades como Rosario (IBR), Santa Fé (IAL) y La Plata (IBBM-UNLP) entre otras.  En el año 2018 se llevó a cabo un Workshop local con la participación de cerca de 200 científicos de Argentina y Uruguay, estrechando nuestros vínculos mutuos con el país vecino. Así reforzados y gracias a la participación de nuevos miembros, el club se extendió a nivel nacional de forma que el Club Argentino del ARN fue oficialmente fundado en 2019

Nuestra red incluye laboratorios que abarcan diversos temas del procesamiento del ARN mensajero así como distintas facetas del ARN no codificante. En nuestras reuniones están además representados un ecléctico repertorio de organismos combinando todo tipo de técnicas de biología celular y molecular. El apoyo de la RNA society, que comenzó en 2016 ha sido crucial para mantener en marcha nuestro club aún en expansión

La pandemia de 2020 impuso un cambio profundo en nuestra actividades diarias y aún más profundo en la logística de las reuniones científicas. Con el objetivo de mantener nuestro intercambio en estos tiempos difíciles, iniciamos un programa de seminarios virtuales, que nos brindó la oportunidad de incluir investigadores invitados del exterior renovado el entusiasmo de la comunidad local del RNA. Tenemos grandes expectativas en que nuestro nuevo formato, compartido con el Club del RNA del Uruguay, siga nutriendo nuestro trabajo en ARN tan intensamente como años anteriores. Estaremos, por supuesto esperando poder encontrarnos una vez más cara a cara con estudiantes y colegas no solo en encuentros nacionales sino también con alcance internacional.

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Club Argentino del ARN- A brief history

 

Our current Argentinean RNA Club (Club Argentino del ARN- “CAA”) was born long time ago, as an embryonic form that little by little has mutated into its actual conformation. Around 2002, a bunch of laboratories working in topics related to the RNA field in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area started to gather periodically to share and exchange ideas, information and progress of their own projects. Few years later, and mostly motorized by young investigators that were setting up their independent labs, we proudly launched the Buenos Aires RNA Club (“Club de RNA de Buenos Aires”), which congregated RNA labs from FIL, IFIBYNE, INGEBI, IIB-UNSAM and other research institutions from Buenos Aires and surroundings.

Since that time, we have met either monthly or seasonally and in most sessions, PhD students and post-docs have been encouraged to present their ongoing work. From our perspective, presentations by students and young investigators as well as a horizontal exchange of ideas were key to the success of our gatherings, and this philosophy keeps being the essence of our RNA Club nowadays. In addition, by time to time we have the fortune to hear speakers from abroad. The “elders” will remember talks by Lynne Maquat, Joan Steitz, Josh Dubnau, Craig Smibert, James Dalberg, which fully packed the auditorium. In more recent years, Javier Caceres, Tito Baralle, Sebastian Kadener, Luisa Cochella, Martin Crespi and many others were invited to give seminars in our Club while visiting Buenos Aires for some other reason.

As it happens with many life forms, the club entered a sort of diapause (fortunately we escaped apoptosis!) with reduced activity for a while. However, metamorphosis inexorably progressed, and luckily the Buenos Aires RNA Club emerged renovated in 2016, to gather not only the founder members but also to include labs from other Argentinean cities including Rosario (IBR), Santa Fé (IAL), La Plata (IBBM-UNLP), among others. Of course, the support by the RNA Society, which started in 2016 has been crucial to keep our still expanding club at work.  

Our network includes laboratories focused in a great variety of subjects, from pre-mRNA processing (splicing and poly-adenylation) to translation and mRNA stability, RNA virus, circRNAs, non-coding RNAs (both short and long), RNA-membraneless organelles and so on. Adding to this wide assortment of molecular processes and regulatory mechanisms, an eclectic repertoire of model organisms ranging from bacteria and lower eukaryotes to plants, animals, and even viruses are present, combining imaging and molecular biology approaches. All these ingredients melt in a spicy pot that greatly renovate and inspire our research projects, giving rise also to several fruitful collaborations.

The Buenos Aires RNA Club not only kept the above mentioned activities but also, on 2018, a local workshop with the participation of near 200 RNA scientists from Argentina and Uruguay took place (https://biologiadelarn2018.wixsite.com/arn2018). This reinforced our links with the Uruguayan RNA community, and close contacts between the two neighbor countries were built. With all these strengths and new members, the club extended nationwide and the “Club Argentino del ARN” was officially founded on 2019.

The 2020 pandemic has imposed a deep change in our daily activities and even more on the logistic of all scientific meetings. Based on this, and to maintain our exchange and motivation even during these difficult times, we have initiated an “RNA home delivery” program based on webinars. The advantage of this is that it gives us the opportunity to easily include invited speakers from abroad, and this has renovated the enthusiasm on the local RNA community. This 2020 special program of the Argentinean Club is being shared with the Uruguayan Club, potentiating our skills. It is being a quite different year in an all of a sudden different world, but nevertheless with great expectations. We hope this new format will keep nurturing our work on RNA Cellular and Molecular Biology as intensely as in previous years. So far, our first webinar gathered 98 attendees, mostly from Argentina and Uruguay, as well as from other countries including France, Spain, USA and Canada.And of course, we will keep looking forward to get together again in a face-to-face format, with students and colleagues, not only at national meetings but also at international ones.

 

Anabella Srebrow and Graciela Lidia Boccaccio

Club Argentino del ARN- A brief history

 

Our current Argentinean RNA Club (Club Argentino del ARN- “CAA”) was born long time ago, as an embryonic form that little by little has mutated into its actual conformation. Around 2002, a bunch of laboratories working in topics related to the RNA field in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area started to gather periodically to share and exchange ideas, information and progress of their own projects. Few years later, and mostly motorized by young investigators that were setting up their independent labs, we proudly launched the Buenos Aires RNA Club (“Club de RNA de Buenos Aires”), which congregated RNA labs from FIL, IFIBYNE, INGEBI, IIB-UNSAM and other research institutions from Buenos Aires and surroundings.

Since that time, we have met either monthly or seasonally and in most sessions, PhD students and post-docs have been encouraged to present their ongoing work. From our perspective, presentations by students and young investigators as well as a horizontal exchange of ideas were key to the success of our gatherings, and this philosophy keeps being the essence of our RNA Club nowadays. In addition, by time to time we have the fortune to hear speakers from abroad. The “elders” will remember talks by Lynne Maquat, Joan Steitz, Josh Dubnau, Craig Smibert, James Dalberg, which fully packed the auditorium. In more recent years, Javier Caceres, Tito Baralle, Sebastian Kadener, Luisa Cochella, Martin Crespi and many others were invited to give seminars in our Club while visiting Buenos Aires for some other reason.

As it happens with many life forms, the club entered a sort of diapause (fortunately we escaped apoptosis!) with reduced activity for a while. However, metamorphosis inexorably progressed, and luckily the Buenos Aires RNA Club emerged renovated in 2016, to gather not only the founder members but also to include labs from other Argentinean cities including Rosario (IBR), Santa Fé (IAL), La Plata (IBBM-UNLP), among others. Of course, the support by the RNA Society, which started in 2016 has been crucial to keep our still expanding club at work.  

Our network includes laboratories focused in a great variety of subjects, from pre-mRNA processing (splicing and poly-adenylation) to translation and mRNA stability, RNA virus, circRNAs, non-coding RNAs (both short and long), RNA-membraneless organelles and so on. Adding to this wide assortment of molecular processes and regulatory mechanisms, an eclectic repertoire of model organisms ranging from bacteria and lower eukaryotes to plants, animals, and even viruses are present, combining imaging and molecular biology approaches. All these ingredients melt in a spicy pot that greatly renovate and inspire our research projects, giving rise also to several fruitful collaborations.

The Buenos Aires RNA Club not only kept the above mentioned activities but also, on 2018, a local workshop with the participation of near 200 RNA scientists from Argentina and Uruguay took place (https://biologiadelarn2018.wixsite.com/arn2018). This reinforced our links with the Uruguayan RNA community, and close contacts between the two neighbor countries were built. With all these strengths and new members, the club extended nationwide and the “Club Argentino del ARN” was officially founded on 2019.

The 2020 pandemic has imposed a deep change in our daily activities and even more on the logistic of all scientific meetings. Based on this, and to maintain our exchange and motivation even during these difficult times, we have initiated an “RNA home delivery” program based on webinars. The advantage of this is that it gives us the opportunity to easily include invited speakers from abroad, and this has renovated the enthusiasm on the local RNA community. This 2020 special program of the Argentinean Club is being shared with the Uruguayan Club, potentiating our skills. It is being a quite different year in an all of a sudden different world, but nevertheless with great expectations. We hope this new format will keep nurturing our work on RNA Cellular and Molecular Biology as intensely as in previous years. So far, our first webinar gathered 98 attendees, mostly from Argentina and Uruguay, as well as from other countries including France, Spain, USA and Canada.And of course, we will keep looking forward to get together again in a face-to-face format, with students and colleagues, not only at national meetings but also at international ones.

 

Anabella Srebrow and Graciela Lidia Boccaccio

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