Scientific Committee

The RNA 2026 Scientific Committee is composed of researchers from around the world. Scientific Committee members are tasked with abstract selection and crafting the scientific sessions of the meeting, in association with the organizing committee. Members of the Scientific Committee also have the opportunity to chair scientific sessions. This year’s meeting will feature “junior” and “senior” chairs for each session, who will provide a brief scientific overview, keep speakers on time, manage questions, and oversee the overall operation of each session. By having junior and senior chairs, we hope to provide an additional opportunity to develop mentor-mentee relationships in our community.

Name Affiliation Website
Manny Ares University of California Santa Cruz Visit Site
Brenda Bass University of Utah Visit Site
Kristopher Brannan Houston Methodist University Visit Site
Benoit Chabot Université de Sherbrooke Visit Site
Amy Cooke Haverford College Visit Site
Ramana Davuluri Stony Brook University Visit Site
Florian Erhard University of Regensburg Visit Site
Rachel Green Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, HHMI Visit Site
Junjie Guo Yale University School of Medicine Visit Site
Markus Hafner National Institutes of Health Visit Site
Amanda Hargrove Centre for Medicinal Chemistry, University of Toronto Visit Site
Michelle Hastings Center for RNA Biomedicine, University of Michigan Medical School Visit Site
Cassandra Hayne University of Chicago Visit Site
Tetsuro Hirose Osaka University Visit Site
Maria Hondele Biozentrum, University of Basel Visit Site
Samer Hussein Universite Laval Visit Site
Cornelia Kilchert Justus-Liebig-University Giessen Visit Site
Markus Landthaler Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine Visit Site
Sebastian Leidel University of Bern Visit Site
Chien-Ling Lin Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica Visit Site
Anne Mcbride Bowdoin College Visit Site
Stephanie Moon Center for RNA Biomedicine, University of Michigan Medical School Visit Site
Yunsun Nam University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Visit Site
Adam Norris University of California, Riverside Visit Site
Eric Van Nostrand Baylor College of Medicine Visit Site
Sebastien Pfeffer Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Université de Strasbourg Visit Site
Thomas Preiss Australian National University Visit Site
Alicia Rogers University of Texas at Arlington Visit Site
Aldema Sas-Chen Tel Aviv University Visit Site
Arneet Saltzman University of Toronto Visit Site
Anna-Lena Steckelberg Columbia University Visit Site
Štěpánka Vaňáčová CEITEC, Masaryk University Visit Site
Franka Voigt University of Zurich Visit Site
Chase Weidmann Center for RNA Biomedicine,
University of Michigan Medical School
Visit Site
Steve West The Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter Visit Site
Vihandha (Vi) Wickramasinghe Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, University of Melbourne Visit Site
Jessica Willi University of Lethbridge Visit Site