DASGUPTA LABORATORY

Recreating the lost RNA World of primordial life

 Illuminating the hidden RNA World of modern life

 ESTD. JANUARY, 2024 

AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME

The DasGupta lab studies RNA from multiple perspectives. We are interested in understanding RNA structure, function, and evolution, and how they influence each other. We want to know how RNA molecules behave in the test tube and inside cells. We are curious about how RNA may have laid the foundations for the origins of life ~4 billion years ago and how RNA regulates various cellular processes in life today. 


If you like pondering deep questions about life's origins, the foundations of biological catalysis, and Darwinian evolution - we want you. 

If you want to develop novel technologies to understand RNA biology at an unprecedented level of detail - we want you too.