VOIGT LAB

RNA localization
in homeostasis and disease

Targeting of RNA transcripts to diverse subcellular localizations has been observed in many different organisms and was identified as a general regulatory mechanism that controls gene expression on a transcriptome-wide scale. It has important functions in development and tissue homeostasis and attracts increasing interest for its role in cancer progression and metastasis. Yet, the mechanisms and RNA sequence elements that target most transcripts to specific subcellular localizations remain obscure. Most likely because cis-acting elements greatly vary in length and can act synergistically, it has been challenging to identify them based on primary sequence alone.

We employ single-molecule imaging techniques in combination with 3D organoid model systems to unravel the molecular mechanisms that target individual RNA transcripts to diverse subcellular localizations, cell types and tissues.

News

October 24, 2022

Open PhD positions!

Contact us or apply via the Life Science Zurich Graduate School website:

https://www.lifescience-graduateschool.uzh.ch/en/application.html

Deadline December 1, 2022

September 2, 2022

SNSF PRIMA grant

Franka was awarded an SNSF professorial fellowship and will use it to fund her new lab at the Department of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich.