Welcome to
San Diego
for RNA 2025!

The RNA Society is pleased to invite you to its 30th Annual International Conference which will be an in-person meeting at the Town & Country Hotel in San Diego, California, beginning May 27 until June 1, 2025.

Keynote Talks
The program includes four keynote lectures to be given by:

Ling-Ling Chen, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences3, China
Matt Disney, The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology, USA
Tracy Johnson, Cecilia and Keith Terasaki Endowed Chair in the Life Sciences, University of California–Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
Erin Schuman, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany

Special Guests
The Society welcomes and looks forward to celebrating two Lifetime Achievement in Science recipients in San Diego:

Jennifer Doudna (UC Berkeley and the Innovative Genomics Institute, 2020 Nobel Laureate and 2024 RNA Society Lifetime Achievement in Science Award winner) – Dr. Doudna was unable to attend RNA 2024 in Edinburgh to receive her award and is scheduled to attend RNA 2025 and present her award lecture during the meeting in San Diego!

The 2025 RNA Society Lifetime Achievement in Science Award recipient – Winner to be announced in early 2025 will present their award lecture at RNA 2025 during the closing Awards Ceremony. Stay tuned for the announcement of this year’s winner!

Additional program information will be posted as it becomes available.  Please email RNA 2025 Registration with questions about abstract submissions, sponsorship opportunities or registration. The RNA Society looks forward to celebrating three decades of outstanding science and collaboration!

Chairs
Ebbe Anderson, Aarhus University, Denmark
Jeff Chao, FMI, Switzerland
Daniel Dominguez, University of North Carolina, USA
Katie Eichhorn, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Sebastian Falk, University of Vienna, Austria
Amanda Garner, University of Michigan, USA
Maria Hondele, BioZentrum Basel, Switzerland
Suzanne Lee, Western Washington University, USA
Dorothy Lerit, Emory University, USA
Nicole Martinez, Stanford University, USA
Sezen Meydan, Vanderbilt University, USA
Derek Morton, University of Southern California, URM, USA
Emily Osterweil, Harvard University, USA
Lena Steckelberg, Columbia University, USA
Xiao Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Yongbo Wang, Fudan University, China