Tentative Schedule

Tuesday 11 June
11:00 – 19:00 Registration
15:00 – 18:00 Opening plenary session and keynote address
18:30 – 23:00 Beer garden and grill dinner

Wednesday 12 June
07:30 – 18:30 Registration
08:30 – 12:30 Plenary session
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break
12.30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 16:30 Concurrent sessions x 3
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 – 18:30 Workshops x 3
18:30 – 20:00 Dinner
18:30 – 20:00 Meetings Committee dinner/meeting
19:30 – 20:30 Junior Scientists social
20:00 – 22:30 Poster session
21:30 – 23:30 Beer garden

Thursday 13 June
08:00 – 13:00 Registration
08:30 – 12:30 Plenary session
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break
12:30 – Takeaway Lunch
12:30 – 20:00 Free afternoon – optional hikes and other activities will be offered
16:00 – 20:00 Happy hour in the beer garden
– 20:00 Dinner on own
20:00 – 22:30 Plenary session and keynote address

Friday 14 June
08:00 – 18:30 Registration
08:30 – 12:30 Plenary session
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break
12.30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 16:30 Concurrent sessions x 3
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 – 18:30 Workshops x 3
18:30 – 20:00 Dinner
18:30 – 20:00 Board of Directors dinner/meeting
20:00 – 22:30 Poster session
21:30 – 23:30 Beer garden

Saturday 15 June
08:00 – 18:30 Registration
08:30 – 12:30 Plenary session
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
12:30 – 14:00 Mentor/Mentee luncheon
14:00 – 17:00 Poster session
18:00 – 24:00 Apero/Banquet/Awards/Dance

Sunday 16 June
Conference concludes

Session Topics

  • 3′ end processing
  • Bioinformatics
  • Emerging & High-throughput Techniques for RNA
  • Interconnections Between Gene Expression Processes
  • Mechanisms of RNA interference
  • Non-coding and Regulatory RNAs
  • Riboregulation in Development
  • Ribosomes and Translation
  • RNA and Epigenetics
  • RNA Catalysis and Riboswitches
  • RNA chemistry
  • RNA Editing and Modification
  • RNA structure and folding
  • RNA system biology
  • RNA Transport and Localization
  • RNA Turnover
  • RNA-Protein Interactions
  • RNAs in Diseases
  • RNP Structure, Function and Biosynthesis
  • Small RNAs
  • Splicing Mechanisms
  • Splicing Regulation
  • Therapeutic RNAs
  • Translational Regulation
  • tRNA, snRNA, snoRNA, rRNA
  • Viral RNAs

Workshop Topics

“RNA chemistry and application”
organizers:
Prof. Ronald Micura (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Prof. Mark Helm (University of Mainz, Germany)
“RNA in pharmaceutical research: Tool, Target, Therapy”
organizers:
Dr. Nicole Meisner-Kober (Novartis, Switzerland)
Dr. David Morrissey (Cambridge, MA)
“Tutorial on prediction of RNA secondary structure”
organizer:
Prof. Alain Laederach (UNC, USA)
(view presentations here)
“Career Development Skills in Science”
organizers:
The RNA Society Junior Scientists
“The Non-coding transcriptome”
organizers: Constance Ciaudo (ETH Zurich) and Claus Azzalin (ETH Zurich)
“The evolving landscape of scientific publishing and how best to evaluate scientific output”
organizers: Boyana Konforti (Cell Press) and Arianne Heinrichs (Nature Structural & Molecular Biology)

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