THINC 2026 - News
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!