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4 September 2025
RNA symposium speaker spotlight - Jessey Erath
Time to introduce another RNA Symposium speaker! Meet Jessey Erath, investigator at Brown University, who will present: “Rapid isolation of ribosomes and translational machinery for structural, functional, and clinical applications.”
Learn more about him:
Jessey is currently an investigator at the Brown RNA Center in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Brown University, Providence, RI, USA. His undergraduate training contains both computer engineering and biological sciences: BSc degrees from Michigan Technological University in Houghton, MI, USA, with research in the effects of synthetic materials on biofilm formation. Following his undergraduate studies, he worked in the industry sector, ensuring that biomedical devices (Serica Inc. acquired by Allergan) and pharmaceutical companies (Genzyme acquired by Sanofi) met microbiology and analytical chemistry quality control GLP/GMP standards. Afterwards, he earned an MSc in biology at New York University, NY, USA, studying scavenger receptors in Trypanosoma brucei. Subsequently, he earned his PhD in molecular microbiology and microbial pathogenesis from Washington University in Saint Louis, MO, USA, studying protein synthesis in the AT-rich organism Plasmodium falciparum in the laboratory of Sergej Djuranovic, PhD. He began his postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. Peng Yuan, where he studied the structure and function of membrane transporters and channels of P. falciparum, and continued his work on mRNA and rRNA surveillance in the laboratory of Dr. Slavica Pavlovic-Djuranovic. There, he developed a novel method for tag-free purification of ribosomes, enabling the discovery of ribosomal- and translation-associated proteins from various eukaryotic organisms. His current work focuses on further development of this novel method for clinical applications and, in conjunction with structural and biochemical approaches, to elucidate mechanisms of mRNA and rRNA surveillance, as well as ribosome switching, in P. falciparum.
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