{"title":"The Journey","authors":"D. Rosenthal, S. Moore","doi":"10.4324/9781351169882-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351169882-2","url":null,"abstract":"Twenty years of the journal RNA, 20 years of RNA research— the journal has witnessed and facilitated an explosive growth of the RNA field, a relatively young field in many ways. Having studied alternative splicing for more than 20 years, it is a great time for me to pause and reflect on what we have learned and still need to learn on this particular topic. There was heightened excitement when the first issue of RNA was making its way to Sue Berget’s laboratory at Baylor College of Medicine where I was conducting part of my postdoctoral research. Only, the excitement was not caused by the anticipated arrival of the journal, although the arrival of this new journal was indeed discussed repeatedly in the laboratory, but by another bigger than usual cleanup of a radioactive material spill in our room specifically reserved for generating and using in vitro RNA splicing substrates. Sue’s was one of the hardcore laboratories that used biochemical means to study the mechanism of splicing, which drewme to her laboratory. When I was a graduate student studying splicing in plants, I was always envious of people who conducted in vitro biochemical splicing analysis, as it was not feasible to use such an approach in plant systems due to the difficulty of preparing splicing-competent nuclear extracts from plant cells. In Sue’s laboratory, a standing order of the radioisotope P-UTP guaranteed that one vial of 1mCi of P-UTP was delivered to the laboratory every week, which could result in 20 in vitro transcribed RNA substrates. As such, radioactive RNA substrates were generated almost every day, which unavoidably led to the occasional bigger than usual decontamination buzz. Another buzzing activity that usually involved the whole laboratory, students, postdoctoral fellows, and technicians alike, occurred on the nuclear extract making days, which happened approximately once a month. On those days, 100 L (sometimes twice as much) worth of HeLa cell pellets would arrive at our laboratory from a company in Minnesota. Everybody worked hard as a team on those days for a whole day following Sue while she was shouting out orders. At the end of the day, wewould have 100mL of pure nuclear extracts at 10–15 mg/mL, which, if tested splicing-competent, would last us a couple of months. Those were some of my most vividly memorable good old days in Sue’s laboratory. When the first issue of RNA did arrive, we pored over the articles. Being in a splicing laboratory, we obviously read very carefully the article from Paula Grabowski’s laboratory that used in vitro splicing analysis to reveal a role of exon enhancers in promoting U2AF binding at the polypyrimidine tract. Looking back, this article represents the state of the approach at the time for mechanistic studies of splicing. The core questions asked by the investigators in the splicing field were what and how the sequence elements located on pre-mRNA and RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) that act in trans regulate splicing. To answ","PeriodicalId":211110,"journal":{"name":"The Psychology of Retirement","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130909487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The New Retirement","authors":"D. Rosenthal, S. Moore","doi":"10.4324/9781351169882-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351169882-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":211110,"journal":{"name":"The Psychology of Retirement","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128955389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Re-shaping Identity in Retirement","authors":"D. Rosenthal, S. Moore","doi":"10.4324/9781351169882-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351169882-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":211110,"journal":{"name":"The Psychology of Retirement","volume":"536 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130295115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Financial Security or Financial Stress?","authors":"D. Rosenthal, S. Moore","doi":"10.4324/9781351169882-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351169882-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":211110,"journal":{"name":"The Psychology of Retirement","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115746658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making the Most of Retirement","authors":"D. Rosenthal, S. Moore","doi":"10.4324/9781351169882-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351169882-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":211110,"journal":{"name":"The Psychology of Retirement","volume":"40 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130640711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Retirement, Health and Wellbeing","authors":"D. Rosenthal, S. Moore","doi":"10.4324/9781351169882-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351169882-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":211110,"journal":{"name":"The Psychology of Retirement","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115726033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Renegotiating Social Relationships","authors":"D. Rosenthal, S. Moore","doi":"10.4324/9781351169882-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351169882-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":211110,"journal":{"name":"The Psychology of Retirement","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129226298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}