THINC 2026 - News
Dr. Tom Cooper Receives Arthur L. Beaudet Award for Outstanding Mentorship Award
July 17, 2026 - Dr. Tom Cooper, THINC member and S. Donald Greenberg and R. Clarence and Irene H. Fulbright Professor in the Department of Pathology and Immunology, was honored with the Arthur L. Beaudet Outstanding Mentorship Award for his exceptional, lifelong mentorship of trainees and faculty at all academic ranks
Dr. Tony Mustoe publishes in Molecular cell
April 21, 2026 – Dr. Tony Mustoe, THINC faculty and assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular pharmacology, team member Dr. Irfana Saleem, and colleagues published their work describing a new technique called multi-site dimethyl sulfate (DMS)-mutational profiling (MaP) (msDMS-MaP). This enables simultaneous measurement of RNA secondary, tertiary, and quaternary structures via a single DMS chemical probing experiment. Read all about their approach and finding in Molecular Cell!
Dr. Furqan Fazal publishes protocol in nature protocols
April 2, 2024 – Dr. Furqan Fazal, THINC faculty and assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular pharmacology, and Dr. Surbhi Sharma published a protocol describing how to perform APEX sequencing to enable transcriptome-wide identification of subcellular RNA location. Learn all about this technique in Nature Protocols!
Dr. Eric Van Nostrand publishes review on Protein-RNA interactions
January 14, 2026 – Dr. Eric Van Nostrand, THINC faculty member and assistant professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, and team member Zhuoyi Song published a comprehensive review summarizing the state of the CLIP field, recent improvements and remaining challenges. Read about it in RNA!