Working groups
WG1: Regulatory function of the transcriptome
Leader :
Fabio Martelli (Italy)
Co-leader :
Thierry Pedrazzini (Switzerland)
Co-leader ECI :
Emma Robinson (The Netherlands)
WG1 aims to identify novel non-coding RNAs (ncRNA) and characterize their regulatory functions in cardiovascular pathophysiology, including their interactions with protein-coding transcripts. One aspect that will be addressed is the difference of ncRNA expression according to gender.
WG2: Best practices and experimental standards
Leader :
Louise Torp Dalgard (Denmark)
Co-leader :
Paivi Lakkisto (Finland)
Co-leader ECI :
David de Gonzalo Calvo (Spain)
WG2 will focus on the best practices for cardiovascular transcriptomic studies from the crucial issue of sample collection and processing, which directly impacts final results, to the main techniques used to study the transcriptome (qPCR, microarray and RNA sequencing) and the statistical analysis.
WG3: Development of cohort inventory
Leader :
Monika Stoll (Germany)
Co-leader :
Mehmet Birhan Yilmaz (Turkey)
Co-leader ECI :
Bence Ágg (Hungary)
The primary goal of WG3 is to create an inventory of cohorts from healthy individuals and CVD patients to provide awareness of the available cohorts that can be used in research, thus, facilitating collaborations.
WG4: Dissemination
Leader :
Emma Robinson (The Netherlands)
Co-leader :
Gabriela Kuster (Switzerland)
Co-leader ECI :
Ines Potočnjak (Croatia)
WG4 aims to promote internal and external communication, knowledge exchange and bring new members to the network. This WG will organize yearly CardioRNA network meetings and provide support for the different WGs to organize their meetings, workshops, STSMs and training schools.