Hybrid Monday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller community)
Monday, April 7, 2025
Steve Bonilla, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor and Head of the Laboratory of RNA Structural Biology and Biophysics, The Rockefeller University
Quantitative Dissection of Dynamic RNA 3D Structural Ensembles that Regulate Viral Replication
Recommended Readings:
Bonilla, Steve L., Alisha N. Jones, and Danny Incarnato. “Structural and biophysical dissection of RNA conformational ensembles.” Current Opinion in Structural Biology 88 (2024): 102908.
Bonilla, Steve L., and Jeffrey S. Kieft. “The promise of cryo-EM to explore RNA structural dynamics.” Journal of Molecular Biology 434.18 (2022): 167802.
Bonilla, Steve L., Quentin Vicens, and Jeffrey S. Kieft. “Cryo-EM reveals an entangled kinetic trap in the folding of a catalytic RNA.” Science Advances 8.34 (2022): eabq4144.
Bonilla, Steve L., et al. “A viral RNA hijacks host machinery using dynamic conformational changes of a tRNA-like structure.” Science 374.6570 (2021): 955-960.
Bonilla, Steve L., et al. “High-throughput dissection of the thermodynamic and conformational properties of a ubiquitous class of RNA tertiary contact motifs.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118.33 (2021): e2109085118.
