Woodson Lab
@woodsonlab.bsky.social
RNA detectives on a mission to catch RNA in the act of folding & uncover how proteins helped. Run by graduate students / postdocs. Dr. Sarah Woodson’s Lab at Johns Hopkins University.
This bunch of RNA lovers knows how to unwind! Enjoying A-U-tumn and apple picking 🍎🍏
October 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This bunch of RNA lovers knows how to unwind! Enjoying A-U-tumn and apple picking 🍎🍏
Congratulations to Elise White @elisew00.bsky.social on winning a poster prize at the Regulating with RNA in Bacteria and Archaea meeting in Strasbourg! 🎉🎉
September 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Congratulations to Elise White @elisew00.bsky.social on winning a poster prize at the Regulating with RNA in Bacteria and Archaea meeting in Strasbourg! 🎉🎉
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 12:36 AM
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...
We had a great time at the #StandUpForScience rally in DC!
March 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
We had a great time at the #StandUpForScience rally in DC!
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!