SEMINAR: �A Universal Code for RNA recognition by PUF proteins� and �RNA processing in human mitochondria�

Muhammad Fazril Razif is a PhD student based at WAIMR. In 2007, he graduated from Murdoch University with a Bachelor of Science (Biomedical Science/Molecular Biology) and Bachelor of Forensics. He subsequently pursued an Honours degree under the supervision of Prof. Luba Kalaydjieva, in which he graduated with first class honours. In 2009, Fazril joined Dr. Oliver Rackham’s lab where he is currently interested in the development of new biotechnology tools for the regulation of gene expression. His PhD is supported by a UWA SIRF scholarship.

Isabel was born in Mexico and obtained a Bachelor in Sciences, in Biology, at the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, in Paris, France in 2009. She started working at WAIMR during a Vacation Scholarship she was awarded at the Mitochondrial Medicine and Biology group in Aleksandra Filipovska’s laboratory. In 2010 she obtained a Scholarship for International Research Fees at UWA to do a PhD in the same laboratory, investigating how mitochondrial RNA processing contributes to the regulation of mitochondrial gene expression. The talk she will present is entitled RNA processing in human mitochondria and it is the introductory seminar of her PhD project.