Professor John Rinn at the University of Colorado Boulder has a long standing research interest in how human genes decide to turn on or off, or transcriptional regulation. Interestingly, some genes only turn on in very specific settings. For example, a single layer of cells in the brain. Raising the…

A Leslie Orgel professor at the University of Colorado, John Rinn teaches and mentors PhD students as well as studies human genome regulation. As part of this work, John Rinn co-authored the article “Interchromosomal interactions: A genomic love story of kissing chromosomes” with Philipp G. Maass and A. Rasim Barutcu. …

John Rinn, PhD, is an accomplished biochemist working in areas of RNA biology research. In 2017, Dr. John Rinn joined the BioFrontiers Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder as the Leslie Orgel Professor Professor of RNA Science. Over the course of his career, Dr. Rinn has authored numerous articles…

Former Harvard University professor John Rinn is a Leslie Orgel professor of RNA science at the University of Colorado (UC), Boulder. More specifically, John Rinn is a faculty member of the Interdisciplinary Quantitative (IQ) Biology PhD program offered through the institution’s BioFrontiers Institute. The IQ Biology PhD Certificate at UC…

As a HHMI early career scientist, John Rinn dedicates his research to RNA biology. Specifically, focusing on how long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) genes can play important biological roles as RNA molecules (rather than the more commonly studied protein based genes). John Rinn teaches courses at the University of Colorado Boulder…