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 |
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| 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 |