September 24 – 28, 2023

Chéribourg hotel, Quebec, Canada

RNA vs pathogens: biology, medicine and technology

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Sessions:

Viral RNA
Immunology and host response
Bacteria and other infectious agents
RNA therapeutics
Machine learning, AI, and computational biology
RNA visualization
Ribosomes and mRNA translation
RNA modifications and non-coding RNAs
RNA binding proteins
RNA evolution
Eukaryotic RNA maturation and decay

Sessions’ Chairs:

Viral RNA
         Aaron Schmidt, Ragon institute of Mass General, MIT and Harvard, USA
Immunology and host response
         Gaya Amarasinghe, Washington University, USA
Bacteria and other infectious agents
         Seth Childers, University of Pittsburgh
RNA therapeutics
         Ryan Flynn, Harvard University, USA
Machine learning, AI, and computational biology
         Yoseph Barash, University of Pennsylvania, USA
RNA visualization
         Éric Lécuyer, Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montéral (IRCM), Canada
Ribosomes and mRNA translation
          Haribabu Arthanari, Harvard Medical School, USA
RNA modifications and non-coding RNAs
        Richard Gregory, Harvard Medical School, USA
RNA binding proteins
         Jinwei Zhang, National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA
RNA evolution
         Irene Chen, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Eukaryotic RNA maturation and decay
         Olivia Rissland, University of Colorado, USA

Keynote:

Roy Parker, University of Colorado Boulder, USA

After dinner speakers:

Éric Westhof, CNRS, France
Gabriel Lander, Scripps Research, USA

Students’ choice:

Maria Carmo-Fonseca, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Hanah Margalit, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Featured speakers:

Britt A. Glaunsinger, UC Berkeley, USA
Selena Sagan, McGill University, Canada
Karin Musier-Forsyth, The Ohio State University, USA
Sebla Kutluay, Washington University, USA
Barbara Papadopoulou, Université Laval, Canada
Juan Alfonzo, The Ohio State University, USA
Amanda Hargrove, Duke University, USA
Jesse Gray, Head of Discovery at Ascidian Therapeutics, USA
Mano Manoharan, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, USA
Debora Marks, Harvard Medical School, USA
Olivia Corradin, MIT, USA
Blake Sweeney, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
Christine Mayr, Sloan Kettering Institute, USA
Sabine Schneider, LMU Munich, Germany
Fei Chen, Harvard University, USA
Nahum Sonenberg, McGill University, Canada
Hani Zaher, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Stirling Churchman, Harvard Medical School, USA
Ryan Flynn, Harvard University, USA
Amanda Whipple, Harvard University, USA
Valerie de Crecy-Lagard, University of Florida, USA
Nadya Dimitrova, Yale University, USA
Kristen Lynch, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Markus Hafner, NIH, USA
Alan Davidson, University of Toronto, Canada
Sergey Melnikov, Newcastle University Medical School, UK
Narry Kim, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
Hagen Tilgner, Weill Cornell Medicine, USA
Athma Pai, UMass Chan Medical School, USA
Susan Shao, Harvard Medical School, USA
Daniel Larson, NIH/CCR, USA
Nicole Martinez, Stanford University, USA

September 18 – 22, 2022

Manoir des Sables hôtel, Quebec, Canada

The next revolution in RNA based medicine and technologies

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Topics:

New outlooks on ribozyme biology
Bacterial RNA
Non-coding RNA
RNA condensates
RNA processing
Function and mechanism of RNA modification
Re-writing the transcriptome in health and disease
RNA delivery technologies
RNA viruses and pandemics
RNA-based therapeutics
Ribosome diversity
Translation
RNA localization and trafficking
RNA binding proteins
RNA networks
RNA detection technologies
Computational RNA biology
Alternative RNA splicing

Keynote:

Rhiju Das, Stanford University, USA

After dinner Speaker:

Melissa Moore, Moderna Therapeutics Inc., USA

EDI talk:

Shobha Vasudevan, Harvard University, USA

Featured Speakers:

David Tollervey, University of Edinburgh, UK
Phil Bevilacqua, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Gene Yeo, UCSD, USA
Andrej Luptak, University of California, USA
Jeannie Lee, Harvard University, USA
Yuanchao Xue, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Silvi Rouskin, Harvard Medical School, USA
Karim Mekhail, University of Toronto, Canada
Jun Lu, Yale School of Medicine, USA
Ru-Juan Liu, Shanghai Tech University, China
Eliezer Calo, MIT, USA
Stacy Horner, Duke University Medical Center, USA
Homa Ghalei, Emory University School of Medicine, USA
Yuri Motorin, Université de Lorraine, France
Yue Wan, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
Jérôme Cavaillé, Université Paul Sabatier, France
Éric Lécuyer, Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal, Canada
Shobha Vasudevan, Harvard University, USA

September 20 – 23

Transcriptomics and cancer biology

Featuring RNA-Strasbourg Community

Program

Flavor of the year:

Transcriptomics and cancer biology

Topics:

Eukaryotic non-coding RNA
Bacterial non-coding RNA
RNA processing
Ribosome and translation regulation
RNA degradation
Transcription and 3’ end formation
Epigenetics and RNA modifications
Single cell analysis
RNA-seq, system biology and networks
Transcriptomics
RNA as biomarkers and drug targets
Alternative Splicing and regulation of splicing
RNA databases, prediction and detection.

Keynote:

Jody Puglisi, Stanford University, USA
Tom Cech, University of Colorado Boulder, USA

Students’ choice:

Sarah Woodson, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Featured Speakers:

Saba Valadkhan, Columbia University, USA
Rory Johnson, University of Bern, Switzerland
Elena Rivas, Harvard University, USA
Seth Darst, The Rockefeller University, USA
Anita Hopper, The Ohio State University, USA
Kevin Weeks, University of North Carolina, USA
Jennifer Kugel, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Karissa Sanbonmatsu, Columbia University, USA
Irmtraud Meyer, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany
Katrin Karbstein, The Scripps Research Institute, USA
Michelle Hastings, Rosalind Franklin University,USA
Danny Nedialkova, Max Planck Institute of Biocheministry, Germany
Christopher Lee Holley, Duke University of Medicine, USA
Kamena Kostova, Carnegie Institution for Science, USA
Ailong Ke, Cornell University, USA
Beate Schwer, Weill Cornell Medical College, USA
Laurence Maréchal-Drouard, Centre national de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France
Dominique Gagliardi, Centre national de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France
Sébastien Pfeffer, Centre national de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France
David Lalaouna, Centre national de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France

The RiboClub 2021 features RNA-Stras community

September 23-25, 2020

RNA Biology and Technology – The Current Pandemic and Beyond

in Association with the Gairdner Foundation, CSMB, CIHR Institute of Infection and Immunity and the RNA Collaborative

Program

Topics:

Computational and experimental analysis of RNA viruses’ structure and function
RNA virus life cycles
Transcriptomics of the host and virus
Non-coding RNA tailored drug designs
Toolbox for RNA detection and therapy
Impact of RNA modifications on structure and function
Hijacking translation: The COVID style
Vaccines and Innate Immune Response
RNA based vaccine delivery, developments and challenges

Featured Speakers:

Lynne Maquat, University of Rochester, USA
Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco, UTMB, USA
Phillip Sharp, MIT, USA
David H. Mathews, University of Rochester, USA
Matthew Disney, The Scripps Research Institute, USA
Peter Unrau, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Yingfu Li, McMaster University, Canada
Matthew Frieman, University of Maryland at Baltimore, USA
Jon Dinman, University of Maryland at Baltimore, USA
Stanley Perlman, University of Iowa, USA
Amanda Hargrove, Duke University, USA
Amy S. Gladfelter, University of North Carolina, USA
Silvia Rouskin, Whitehead Institute, USA
Benjamin tenOever, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
Sara Cherry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA
Sasha Gorbalenya, Leiden University, Netherlands
Anastasia Khvorova, University of Massachusetts, USA
Tao Pan, University of Chicago, USA
Stacy Horner, Duke University, USA
Cara Pager, State University of New York, USA
Bruno Canard, LAFMB, France
Volker Lohmann, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Wei-Shau Hu, NIH/NCI, USA
Florian Krammer, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
Alyson Kelvin, Dalhousie University, Canada
Pieter Cullis, University of British Columbia, Canada
Darryl Falzarano, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Jeffery S. Kieft, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, USA
Karen Mossman, McMaster University, Canada
Marceline Côté, University of Ottawa, Canada
Carrie Bourassa, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Riboclub 20th anniversary and

Canada Gairdner International symposium

September 22-27, 2019 at the Hôtel Chéribourg

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Topics:

Special session on Computational RNA Biology
RNA Silencing
RNA editing, modification and transcriptomics
Bacterial RNA
Non-coding RNA
Ribosome structure and function
Spliceosome structure and function
RNA decay and surveillance
RNA and Immunity
Alternative splicing mechanism and regulation of splicing
RNA granules and droplets
RNA evolution, aptamer and catalytic RNA

Featured Speakers:

Joan Steitz, Yale University, USA
Katherine Borden, Université de Montréal, Canada
Allan Jacobson, University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA
Michael McManus, University of California, USA
Lin He,  University of California, USA
Olivia Rissland, University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA
Lydia Contreras, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Anton Petrov, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, UK
Marat Yusupov, Université de Strasbourg, France
Jamie Williamson, The Scripps Research Institute, USA
Lynne Maquat, University of Rochester Medical Center, USA
Karla Kirkegaard, Stanford University, USA
Mark Ashe, The University of Manchester, UK
Graciela L. Boccaccio, Instituto Leloir, Argentina
Ross Buchan, University of Arizona, USA
David Mathews, University of Rochester Medical Center, USA
Phillip Sharp, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Hans-Joachim Wieden, University of Lethbridge, Canada
Stephen Rader, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
Adrian Krainer, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA
Erik Sontheimer, UMASS Medical School, USA
Andrew Fire, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Victor Ambros, UMASS Medical School, USA
Tsutomu Suzuki, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Wendy Gilbert, Yale School of Medicine, USA
Pierre Close, University of Liège, Belgium
Chuan He, University of Chicago
Sandra Wolin, NIH – National Cancer Institute, USA
Uttiya Basu, Columbia University, USA
Witold Filipowicz, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland
David Bartel, Whitehead Institute – MIT, USA
Sherif Abou Elela, Université de Sherbrooke. Canada
Lingling Chen, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, China
Kathy Collins, UC Berkeley, USA
Claus M. Azzalin, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Jorgen Kjems, Aarhus University, Denmark
Howard Chang, Stanford University, USA
Joachim Frank, Columbia University, USA
Andrei Korostelev, UMASS Medical School, USA
Rui Zhao, University of Colorado, USA
Dan Larson, NIH – National Cancer Institute, USA
Doug Black, UCLA, USA
Manny Ares, UC Santa Cruz, USA
Benoit Chabot, Université de Sherbrooke. Canada
Ben Blencowe, University of Toronto, Canada
Kristen Lynch, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Karla Neugebauer, Yale University, USA
Susan Gottesman, NIH – National Cancer Institute, USA
Jörg Vogel, IMIB – Würzburg University, Germany
Eric Masse, Université de Sherbrooke
Lori Passmore, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
Torben Heick Jensen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Jianjun Chen, City of Hope, USA
Roy Parker, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Larry Gold, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Jack Szostak, Harvard University, USA
Adrian R. Ferré-D’Amaré, National Institutes of Health, USA
Alan Lambowitz, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Michelle Meyer, Boston College, USA
Yann Ponty, CNRS-École Polytechnique-Inria Saclay, France
Yoseph Barash, University of Pennsylvania, USA

September 24-27, 2018 at the Hôtel Chéribourg

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Flavour of the year

RNomics: Big data, analysis and mechanism of action.

Topics:

Eukaryotic non-coding RNA
Bacterial non-coding RNA
RNA processing, splicing and maturation
Ribosome and translation regulation
RNA Degradation
Transcription and 3’ end formation
Epigenetics and RNA modifications
Single cell analysis
RNA-seq, system biology and networks

Keynote speaker:

Matthias Hentze, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

Gairdner event – after dinner speaker :

Davor Solter, 2018 Gairdner Award winner

Students’ choice:

Maria Barna, Stanford University, Stanford, USA

Featured Speakers:

Cari Vanderpool, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA
Maude Guillier, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris, France
Quaid Morris, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Manuel Irimia, CRG, Barcelona, Spain
Nuno Barbosa-Morais, iMM Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Davide Ruggero, UCSF, California, USA
Scott Blanchard, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA
Jin Billy Li, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Sander Granneman, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
Alan G. Hinnebusch, NIH, Bethesda, USA
Joel Belasco, New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA
Christine Clayton, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
Jack Keene, Duke University, Durham, USA
Joseph Wade, State University of New York, Albany, USA
Shona Murphy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Nicholas Conrad, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA
Lydia Sohn, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Hanah Margalit, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Eric Brown, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Uwe Ohler, BIMSB, Berlin, Germany
Jernej Ule, The Francis Crick Institute & UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK
René Ketting, Institute of Molecular Biology gGmbH, Mainz, Germany
Samuel Marguerat, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, London, UK

September 25-28, 2017 at the Hôtel Chéribourg

In partnership with

Swiss National Center of Competence in RNA & Disease

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Flavour of the year

RNPs: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Insights into RNA-protein complex assembly and function in health and disease.

Keynote speakers:

• Peter Sarnow, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
• Jack Szostak, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

Featured Speakers:

• Norbert Polacek, University of Bern, Bern, Swiss
• Juan Mata, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
• Martine Collart, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Swiss
• Melissa Moore, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA
• Helge Grosshans, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Swiss
• Martin Jinek, University of Zurich, Zurich, Swiss
• Constance Ciaudo, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Swiss
• Catherine Dargemont, Paris Diderot University, Paris, France
• Omar Abdel-Wahab, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
• Gabriele Varani, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
• Juan Alfonzo, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
• Thomas Preiss, Australian National Univeristy, Acton, Australia
• Robert J Schneider, NYU School of Medicine, New York, USA
• Oliver Mühlemann, University of Berne, Berne, Swiss
• Georg Stoecklin, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
• Andrzej Dziembowski, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Warszawa, Poland
• Kristian Baker, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA
• Frédéric Allain, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Swiss
• Magdalini Polymenidou, University of Zurich, Zurich, Swiss
• Simon Alberti, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
• Ueli Schibler, University of Geneva, Geneva, Swiss

September 19-21, 2016 at the Hôtel Chéribourg

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Flavour of the year

RNA Biodiversity

 Keynote speaker:

• Adrian R. Ferré-D’Amaré, NIH, Bethesda, USA

 Featured Speakers:

• Dan Larson, NIH, Bethesda, USA
• Jonathan D. Dinman, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
• John L. Woolford, Jr., Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
• Alexander Mankin, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA
• David Bentley, University of Colorado, Denver, USA
• Beate Schwer, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA
• Elissa Lei, NIH, Bethesda, USA
• Ben Luisi, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
• Gisela Storz, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, USA
• Jingyi Fei, The University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
• Eric Masse, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada
• Jean-Louis Mergny, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
• Sean A. McKenna, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
• Jean-Pierre Perreault, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada
• Denis LJ Lafontaine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Charleroi, Belgium
• Jean E Schaffer, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA
• Michelle Scott, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada
• David Engelke, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz, USA
• Andrey Krasilnikov, PennState, University Park, USA
• Brenton Graveley, UConn Health, Farmington, USA
• Arthur Günzl, UConn Health, Farmington, USA
• Stephen Rader, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, Canada
• Tony Russell, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada
• Andrea Barta, Universität Wien, Wien, Austria

September 21-23, 2015 at the Hôtel Chéribourg

In partnership with Institut Génétique Moléculaire Montpellier

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Flavour of the year

New frontiers in RNA biology and human diseases

Keynote speakers:

• Adrian Krainer, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA

 Featured Speakers:

• Eric Westhof, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Strasbourg, France
• Witold Filipowicz, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
• Martine Simonelig, Institute of Human Genetics, Montpellier, France
• Bertrand Seraphin, IGBMC, Illkirch, France
• Bryan R. Cullen, Duke University, Durham, USA
• Robert Feil, IGMM, Montpellier, France
• Michael Kiebler, LMU, Munich, Germany
• Edouard Bertrand, IGMM, Montpellier, France
• Howard Lipshitz, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
• Nahum Sonenberg, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
• Jeffrey Kieft, University of Colorado, Aurora, USA
• Rachel Green, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Baltimore, USA
• Nicholas Ingolia, University of California, Berkeley, USA
• Alain Jacquier, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
• Gene Yeo, UC San Diego, La Jolla, USA
• Jeffrey Pleiss, Cornell University, New York, USA
• Benjamin J. Blencowe, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
• Benoit Chabot, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada
• Karla Neugebauer, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, USA
• Jamal Tazi, IGMM, Montpellier, France
• Thomas Cooper, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA
• Mariano Garcia Blanco, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA
• Wenqian Hu, Mayo Clinic, Minnesota, USA
• Utz Fischer, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
• Charles Thornton, University of Rochester, Rochester, USA

Featured presentation

• Paul McKellips, One Health Research, Washington D.C., USA

September 22-24, 2014 at the Hôtel Chéribourg

In partnership with The Yale RNA Center

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Flavour of the year

The ever-expanding diversity of RNA functions

Keynote speakers:

• Alan Lambowitz, The University of Texas, Austin, USA
• Christina Smolke, Stanford University, Stanford, USA

 Featured Speakers:

• Ron Breaker, Yale University, New Haven, USA
• Eduardo Groisman, Yale University, New Haven, USA
• Haifan Lin, Yale University, New Haven, USA
• Matt Simon, Yale University, New Haven, USA
• Philip C. Bevilacqua, Penn State University, State College, USA
• Peter Baumann, Stowers Institute, Kansas City, USA
• Julian Chen, Arizona State University, Phoenix, USA
• Susan Baserga, Yale University, New Haven, USA
• Maria Barna, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, USA
• Antonio Giraldez, Yale University, New Haven, USA
• Wendy Gilbert, MIT, Cambridge, USA
• Joan Steitz, Yale University, New Haven, USA
• Jens Lykke-Andersen, UC San Diego, San Diego, USA
• Ian Eperon, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
• Hervé Le Hir, IBENS, Paris, France
• Sandra Wolin, Yale University, New Haven, USA
• Michael G. Rosenfeld, UC San Diego, San Diego, USA
• Javier Martinez, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria
• John Rinn, Harvard University and Medical School, Cambridge, USA
• Nikolaus Rajewsky, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
• Shu-ou Shan, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA

Featured presentation

• Brian Nosek, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

September 23-25, 2013 at the Hôtel Chéribourg

In partnership with The grant-in-aid for non-coding RNAs and the RNA Society of Japan

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Flavour of the year

Deducing RNA functions from high-throughput data

Keynote speakers:

• John Mattick, Garvan Institute, Australia
• Harry Noller, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

 Featured Speakers:

• Christian Spahn, Humboldt Universitat, Berlin, Germany
• Adrian R. Ferré-D’Amaré, National Institutes of Health, Maryland, USA
• Shinichi Nakagawa, RIKEN, Hirosawa, Japan
• Mikiko Siomi, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
• Roy Parker, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
• Toshifumi Inada, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
• Fabrizio d’Adda di Fagagna, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy
• André Verdel, Institut Albert Bonniot, Grenoble, France
• Feng Zhang, McGovern Institute MIT, Cambridge, USA
• Danesh Moazed, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
• Hiroaki Suga, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
• Tsutomu Suzuki, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
• Doug Black, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
• Matthew Levy, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA
• Piero Carninci, RIKEN CLST, Yokohama, Japan
• Stefan Stamm, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA

Featured presentation

• Alan Bernstein, president of CIFAR

September 24-26, 2012 at the Hôtel Chéribourg

In partnership with the UMASS Medical School

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Flavour of the year

New frontiers of RNA biology, diagnostics and therapeutics

Keynote speakers:

• Larry GOLD , Somalogic Inc., University of Colorado, USA
• Wade C. WINKLER, University of Maryland College Park, USA

 Featured Speakers:

• Victor AMBROS, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA
• Bill THEURKAUF, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA
• Andrei KOROSTELEV, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA
• Georgios SKINIOTIS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
• Jeanne LAWRENCE, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA
• Craig MELLO, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA
• Maurice SWANSON, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
• Ellen WELCH, PTC Therapeutics Inc., South Plainfield, USA
• Matt DISNEY, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, USA
• Gary BASSELL, Emory University, Atlanta, USA
• James MANLEY, Columbia University, New-York, USA
• Eric LAI, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, New-York, USA
• Allan JACOBSON, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA
• Mike KILEDJIAN, Rutgers University, Piscataway, USA
• Jeff COLLER, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA
• Melissa MOORE, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA
• Kristen LYNCH, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

Featured presentation

• Joseph GALL, Carnegie Institute of Science, USA

September 19-21, 2011 at the Hôtel Chéribourg

In partnership with Canadian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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Flavour of the year

Studying RNA one molecule at a time

Keynote speakers:

• Gary Ruvkun , The Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
• Jennifer A. Doudna, University of California, Berkeley, USA

 Featured Speakers:

• James E. Dahlberg, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
• Paul Fox, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, USA
• Martin Dutertre, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon, France
• David Wassarman, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
• Andrew White, York University, Toronto, Canada
• Biao Ding, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
• Andrés Aguilera, CABIMER, Sevilla, Spain
• David Zappulla, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
• Frédéric Allain, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Zürich, Switzerland
• Robert Batey, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
• Domenico Libri, Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, Paris, France
• Françoise Stutz, Université de Genève, Switzerland
• Jody Puglisi, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
• David Rueda, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA
• Robert Singer, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, USA
• David Grünwald, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Topic of the year

• Peter Moore, Yale University, USA

September 20-22, 2010 at the Hôtel Chéribourg

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Flavour of the year

Long non-coding RNA

Keynote speakers:

• Marvin Wickens, University of Wisconsin, USA
• Jörg Vogel, Max Planck Institute, Germany

 Featured Speakers:

• Gordon Carmichael, University of Connecticut, USA
• Shinichi Nakagawa, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Japan
• Archa Fox, Western Australian Institute for Medical Research, Australia
• Tetsuro Hirose, Functional RNomics Team, Biomedicinal Information Research Center, Tokyo
• Chandrasekhar Kanduri, Uppsala University, Sweden
• Linda Penn, Ontario cancer Institute, Canada
• Jürg Bähler, University College London, UK
• Andrew Chess, Harvard Medical School, USA

Topic of the year: Communicating science to a fickle public

• Paul Myers, University of Minnesota, Morris

September 21-24, 2009 at the Hôtel Chéribourg

The 10th Anniversary 2009 RiboClub in partnership with the 50th Anniversary of the Gairdner Foundation

Photos      Program      Poster

September 22-24, 2008 at the Hôtel Chéribourg

Photos      Poster

Flavour of the year

Tiny RNAs: big players of the RNA world

Keynote speakers:

• Susan Gottesman, Center for Cancer Research
• Reinhard Lührmann, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry

 Featured Speakers:

• Narry Kim, Seoul National University
• Erik Sontheimer, Northwestern University
• Haruhiko Siomi, Institute for Genome Research, University of Tokushima
• Haifan Lin, Duke University Medical Center
• Dinshaw Patel, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
• Gyorgy Hutvagner, University of Dundee
• Martin Simard, Centre de recherche de L’Hôtel-Dieu de Québec – Université Laval

Topic of the year: Women in science

• Karla M. Neugebauer, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden

September 24-26, 2007 at the Hôtel Chéribourg

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Flavour of the year

RNA on the move

Keynote speakers:

• Jack W. Szostak, Harvard Medical School (HHMI)
• Gideon Dreyfuss, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (HHMI)

 Featured Speakers:

• Robert Singer, Yeshiva University
• Edouard Bertrand, Institut de Génétique moléculaire de Montpellier
• Joel Richter, University of Massachusetts
• Marie-Louise Hammarskjold, University of Virginia
• Howard Lipshitz, University of Toronto
• Pascal Chartrand, Université de Montréal

Editor of the year

• Boyana Konforti, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

September 25-27, 2006 at the Hôtel Chéribourg

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Flavour of the year

New Insights into mRNA degradation

Keynote speakers:

• Robert B. Darnell, The Rockefeller University
• Jef D. Boeke, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

 Featured Speakers:

• Ann-Bin Shyu, University of Texas-Houston Medical School
• Ambro van Hoof, University of Texas Health Sciences Center
• Wendy M. Olivas, University of Missouri
• David Shapiro, University of Illinois
• Harmen Bussemaker, Columbia University
• Charles Cole, Dartmouth Medical School

Editor of the year

• Dorit Zuk, Molecular Cell

September 26-27, 2005 at the Hôtel Chéribourg

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Featured Speakers:

• Alan Weiner, University of Washington
• Ronald R. Breaker, Yale University
• Benoit Chabot, Université de Sherbrooke
• Xiang-Dong Fu, UCSD
• Benjamin J. Blencowe, University of Toronto
• Tom Cooper, Baylor College of Medicine
• Philip J Mason, Washington University School of Medicine
• Christopher Burge, M.I.T
• Susan Baserga, Yale University
• Martin Bisaillon, Université de Sherbrooke
• Rick Collins, University of Toronto
• Christopher Lee, UCLA

September 20-21, 2004 at the Hôtel Chéribourg

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 Featured Speakers:

• David P. Bartel, Whitehead Institute
• Kazunari Taira, University of Tokyo
• Nahum Sonenberg, McGill University
• Allen Nicholson, Temple University
• Michael Zuker, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Xinhua Ji, NIH
• David Engelke, University of Michigan
• Simpson Joseph, UCSD
• Dipankar Sen, Simon Fraser University
• Brendan Bell, Université de Sherbrooke
• Timothy Hughes, University of Toronto
• Eric Massé, Université de Sherbrooke
• Sergei Chteinberg, Université de Montréal

September 22-23, 2003 at the Hôtel Chéribourg

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 Keynote speakers:

• Sandra L. Wolin, Yale University
• Brenda L. Bass, University of Utah

September 16-17, 2002 at the Hôtel Chéribourg

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 Keynote speakers:

• Joachim Frank, Wadsworth Center, NY
• Lynne E. Maquat, University of Rochester, NY