Twenty years of RNA: reflections from the RNP world
- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3280, USA
- Corresponding author: matera{at}unc.edu
This extract was created in the absence of an abstract.
As a product of the Boulder and New Haven RNA enclaves, I joined the RNA community at Case Western Reserve in 1994 as a newly-minted Assistant Professor. The very next year, Tim Nilsen and the RNA Society launched the journal that you now hold in your hands … err, computer. After a dozen years or so, I moved to Chapel Hill. And I watched as a strong community of RNA biologists formed here at UNC, almost organically, without any sort of institutional directive or center. How did that happen? I think it is because RNA has become so incredibly interesting and central to studies of organismal biology that, as an institution of higher learning, you simply ignore this stuff at your own peril. But if you are reading this piece, then you are most likely already part of the choir, so I will stop preaching.
One could certainly argue that …
