Ancient RNA - Possibilities and Limitations

Marc Friedländer undertook his undergraduate studies in bioinformatics at the University Copenhagen under the supervision of Anders Krogh and his PhD in Berlin under the supervision of Nikolaus Rajewsky - developing the miRDeep algorithm. As a PI and tenured associate professor, he has established the Quantitative RNA Biology lab at SciLifeLab/Stockholm University. 

The group has recently developed agoTRIBE - the first method to experimentally map microRNA targets transcriptome-wide in single cells - and has discovered and profiled RNA fragments in historical and ancient animals, including the extinct Tasmanian tiger.