Elise White
@elisew00.bsky.social
Biophysics PhD student in the Woodson Lab @ Johns Hopkins | NIH F31 Fellow | On a mission to learn the Hfq-RNA tango, and decode how tertiary structure motifs choreograph ribozyme folding.
🧬Join us today for the next Nucleic Acid CASP webinar! 🧬 #rna #casprnasig
@jiricernyjc.bsky.social will show us how DNATCOv5.0 can be used to analyze and validate nucleic acid structures.
Zoom: tinyurl.com/4j263z9d
Mailing list: tinyurl.com/57dhy8et
Schedule: tinyurl.com/rna-sig-sche...
@jiricernyjc.bsky.social will show us how DNATCOv5.0 can be used to analyze and validate nucleic acid structures.
Zoom: tinyurl.com/4j263z9d
Mailing list: tinyurl.com/57dhy8et
Schedule: tinyurl.com/rna-sig-sche...
September 17, 2026 at 11:20 AM
🧬Join us today for the next Nucleic Acid CASP webinar! 🧬 #rna #casprnasig
@jiricernyjc.bsky.social will show us how DNATCOv5.0 can be used to analyze and validate nucleic acid structures.
Zoom: tinyurl.com/4j263z9d
Mailing list: tinyurl.com/57dhy8et
Schedule: tinyurl.com/rna-sig-sche...
@jiricernyjc.bsky.social will show us how DNATCOv5.0 can be used to analyze and validate nucleic acid structures.
Zoom: tinyurl.com/4j263z9d
Mailing list: tinyurl.com/57dhy8et
Schedule: tinyurl.com/rna-sig-sche...
Reposted by Elise White
RNA structure prediction lags behind proteins for lack of data. RNASSTR, our new dataset, offers millions of RNA sequence-secondary structure pairs, split structurally to avoid train/test leakage.
📄 doi.org/10.1261/rna....
📰 innovativegenomics.org/news/ai-mode...
📄 doi.org/10.1261/rna....
📰 innovativegenomics.org/news/ai-mode...
doi.org
September 5, 2026 at 12:04 AM
RNA structure prediction lags behind proteins for lack of data. RNASSTR, our new dataset, offers millions of RNA sequence-secondary structure pairs, split structurally to avoid train/test leakage.
📄 doi.org/10.1261/rna....
📰 innovativegenomics.org/news/ai-mode...
📄 doi.org/10.1261/rna....
📰 innovativegenomics.org/news/ai-mode...
Reposted by Elise White
Finally, 3D #cryoEM structure of a nucleotide polymerizing #RNA that copies #RNA to #RNA: tC19z, evolved at @mrclmb.ac.uk 15 y ago! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @szokoli.bsky.social Jason Hingey, Dan Haack, Vivian Wu Nick Spellmon @navtejtoor.bsky.social @hhmijanelia.bsky.social
August 17, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Finally, 3D #cryoEM structure of a nucleotide polymerizing #RNA that copies #RNA to #RNA: tC19z, evolved at @mrclmb.ac.uk 15 y ago! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @szokoli.bsky.social Jason Hingey, Dan Haack, Vivian Wu Nick Spellmon @navtejtoor.bsky.social @hhmijanelia.bsky.social
Reposted by Elise White
New from @woodsonlab.bsky.social @tjiandarzacq.bsky.social and @nilswalterlab.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Exchange dynamics and kinetic control of gene regulation complexes - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
Recent evidence reveals how gene expression complexes form transient assemblies that continually exchange their subunits under kinetic control. This Perspective proposes that these dynamics form the b...
www.nature.com
July 31, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Benasque RNA 2026 was easily the best meeting I’ve ever been to. Grateful for the connections I made & the collaborations that were started. Going home was bittersweet. 🧬⛰️
July 21, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Benasque RNA 2026 was easily the best meeting I’ve ever been to. Grateful for the connections I made & the collaborations that were started. Going home was bittersweet. 🧬⛰️
Super excited to be in Benasque for the 2026 Computational Approaches to RNA Structure and Function Workshop! Benasque is the most beautiful place I have ever seen 😍🧬
July 6, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Super excited to be in Benasque for the 2026 Computational Approaches to RNA Structure and Function Workshop! Benasque is the most beautiful place I have ever seen 😍🧬
Congrats, Sarah!! Very well-deserved 👏👏
Congratulations to historian Richard Kagan, neuroscientist Ulrich Mueller, political scientist Vesla Weaver, and biophysicist Sarah Woodson on being elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. hub.jhu.edu/2026/04/30/a...
Four from Johns Hopkins elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Richard Kagan, Ulrich Mueller, Vesla Weaver, and Sarah Woodson among 252 individuals recognized for excellence in their fields
hub.jhu.edu
April 30, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Congrats, Sarah!! Very well-deserved 👏👏
Excited to share our new paper! This was a fun project, and I’m grateful to all who made it possible! 🧬😊
Our new paper is out! Using 19F NMR, we show that Hfq rewires the conformational dynamics of a model sRNA in a site-specific manner. Uridines at the rim undergo faster exchange (~100 μs) than those in the proximal pore (~300 μs). Congrats Elise! 🎉🎉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
19F NMR Strategy for Probing Site-specific RNA Dynamics in Large RNA-protein Complexes: Application to the Hfq RNA Chaperone
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is uniquely suited to probing motions on the microsecond to millisecond timescales that underlie RNA rec…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 22, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Excited to share our new paper! This was a fun project, and I’m grateful to all who made it possible! 🧬😊
Reposted by Elise White
🎉 We’re excited to officially kick off the ERC Synergy project, snoOPERA, with Anthony Henras, Brigitte Pertschy, and Roland Beckmann! 🎉 Bringing together labs across 3 European countries and the US, we aim to uncover hidden functions of snoRNPs in ribosome assembly. Go team! tinyurl.com/2e5r57b5
Congratulations to Anthony Henras, winner of the ERC Synergy 2025 grant!
Parmi les 66 projets sélectionnés par le Conseil européen de la recherche, Anthony Henras et l’équipe EukaRiBio (MCD-CBI) sont lauréat d’un des 13 projets du
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April 8, 2026 at 10:20 PM
🎉 We’re excited to officially kick off the ERC Synergy project, snoOPERA, with Anthony Henras, Brigitte Pertschy, and Roland Beckmann! 🎉 Bringing together labs across 3 European countries and the US, we aim to uncover hidden functions of snoRNPs in ribosome assembly. Go team! tinyurl.com/2e5r57b5
Breathtaking views at Catoctin Mt yesterday ☀️🙌 Love this hike!
April 5, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Breathtaking views at Catoctin Mt yesterday ☀️🙌 Love this hike!
Beautiful day to hike Billy Goat Trail Section A! So worth the drive 😊☀️
March 14, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Beautiful day to hike Billy Goat Trail Section A! So worth the drive 😊☀️
Reposted by Elise White
Our recent #singlemolecule study on RNase J decay is out! Congrats, Yuan! 🎉🎉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Metastable Folding of Bacillus subtilis glmS Ribozyme Modulates Turnover by RNase J1
Rapid turnover of glmS mRNA in Bacillus subtilis by 5′–3′ exoribonuclease RNase J is essential for feedback regulation of glucosamine-6-phosphate (Glc…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Our recent #singlemolecule study on RNase J decay is out! Congrats, Yuan! 🎉🎉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Elise White
The story of how multiple RBPs cooperate to repress translation is now out in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social by @marcopayr.bsky.social and in a great collaboration with @hennig-lab.bsky.social!
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
November 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The story of how multiple RBPs cooperate to repress translation is now out in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social by @marcopayr.bsky.social and in a great collaboration with @hennig-lab.bsky.social!
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
I had a blast with these apple-solutely brilliant scientists on Saturday!
This bunch of RNA lovers knows how to unwind! Enjoying A-U-tumn and apple picking 🍎🍏
October 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I had a blast with these apple-solutely brilliant scientists on Saturday!
I’m so honored and thankful to have won a poster prize! I learned a lot this week from this lovely community. Thanks to the organizers for putting on another excellent meeting.
September 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I’m so honored and thankful to have won a poster prize! I learned a lot this week from this lovely community. Thanks to the organizers for putting on another excellent meeting.
Strasbourg sights! Enjoying every moment of the 2025 Microbial RNA Meeting 😊🇫🇷
September 3, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Strasbourg sights! Enjoying every moment of the 2025 Microbial RNA Meeting 😊🇫🇷
Off to Strasbourg for the 2025 Regulating with RNA in Bacteria and Archaea Meeting! ✈️🇫🇷
August 31, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Off to Strasbourg for the 2025 Regulating with RNA in Bacteria and Archaea Meeting! ✈️🇫🇷
Congrats, Jorjethe and Yi-Lan! 👏👏
Our new paper is out in PNAS! We show that competition for binding to the Hfq matchmaker disfavors mismatched sRNA-mRNA combinations while allowing matched sRNA-mRNAs to form stable pairs. Kudos to Jorjethe Roca and Yi-Lan Chen for their fantastic work on this problem! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Competition for Hfq drives kinetic selection of mRNA targets by Escherichia coli small noncoding RNAs | PNAS
Small noncoding RNAs (sRNAs) regulate gene expression in Escherichia coli bacteria
in response to diverse stimuli in the environment and the host. ...
doi.org
July 19, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Congrats, Jorjethe and Yi-Lan! 👏👏
Reposted by Elise White
📢 Paper with @sattler-lab.bsky.social now published in @narjournal.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1093/nar/... We combine #NMR, #SAXS, and #MD to construct conformational ensembles, showing that A-to-I hyper-editing leads to significant structural dynamics. MD simulations by @piompons.bsky.social
Unique conformational dynamics and protein recognition of A-to-I hyper-edited dsRNA
Abstract. Adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) editing is a highly abundant modification of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) and plays an important role in posttranscr
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June 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
📢 Paper with @sattler-lab.bsky.social now published in @narjournal.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1093/nar/... We combine #NMR, #SAXS, and #MD to construct conformational ensembles, showing that A-to-I hyper-editing leads to significant structural dynamics. MD simulations by @piompons.bsky.social
JHU Biophysics at the #StandUpForScience rally in DC. Such a powerful event!
March 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
JHU Biophysics at the #StandUpForScience rally in DC. Such a powerful event!
Standing up for science with JHU Biophysics! #StandUpForScience @standupforscience.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Standing up for science with JHU Biophysics! #StandUpForScience @standupforscience.bsky.social
Reposted by Elise White
Congratulations to Wilson on your NAR #Breakthrough paper!
New #Breakthrough article from @Woodsonlab.bsky.social shows how the E.coli RNA DEAD-box helicase unfolds unstable RNAs to fuel ribosomal RNA remodeling and the search for the native, protein binding structure! #Ribosome #RNA #Helicase 👉 Full article: https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf104
February 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Congratulations to Wilson on your NAR #Breakthrough paper!
Another lovely snow day @ JHU!! Makes for a cozy morning break from experiments ☕️❄️
February 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Another lovely snow day @ JHU!! Makes for a cozy morning break from experiments ☕️❄️