Leveraging long reads to understand RNA processing in neuronal development

Dr. Pedro Miura is an Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences at the UConn School of Medicine in Farmington, CT.

Dr. Miura received his PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Ottawa (Canada) in 2010 and completed postdoctoral training at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center with Dr. Eric Lai. Prior to joining UConn in 2022, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Dr. Miura’s research focuses on the regulation and function of circular RNAs (circRNAs) and alternative 3′ UTR transcripts. His lab currently employs long-read RNA sequencing to investigate RNA processing, with a particular interest in how the selection of alternative protein-coding exons is coordinated with alternative 3′ end formation in neurons.