Chase Weidmann, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Cell Biology and Physiology
Washington University School of Medicine

“Defining the functional hubs in RNA-protein interaction networks”

Dr. Chase Weidmann

Faculty Host:  Dr. Ben Major

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Chase Weidmann, Ph.D. has contributed broadly to the field of RNA Biology during his career, studying mechanisms of codon bias during translation, post-transcriptional regulation of mRNAs by RNA-binding proteins, the folding of long non-coding RNAs, and how RNA-protein interaction networks contribute to the function and assembly of functional RNP particles. Chase developed a chemical probing strategy and next-gen sequencing technology, called RNP-MaP, that maps the location of and cooperation between multi-protein networks on RNAs in live cells. Going forward, Chase is interested in understanding how alterations in RNA-binding protein profiles, a cell’s “RBPome”, confer deleterious activities onto non-coding RNAs in human disease, especially in cancer. To further empower this work and his future lab, Chase is now generating and integrating protein mass spectrometry data into the “RBPome”.