In partnership with:

Institut Génétique Moléculaire Montpellier

2015 RiboClub Annual Meeting Program

Keynote speaker for this year's event is:

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

Flavour of the year

New frontiers in RNA biology and human diseases

• 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

The RiboClub Society has set aside a limited amount of funds to support fellowships for students and postdoctoral fellows who otherwise would not be able to attend the meeting for financial reasons. If you wish to apply for a fellowship, please fill this pdf form, save it and send it as file attachment by email to [email protected] . The applications has to be submitted before June 1st and the results will be sent to applicants by mid June.

• Poster Guidelines:
  - Poster board dimensions: 3ft (1m) width x 3ft (1m) height
  - There are two ways to construct your poster:
      1- As a single sheet of paper
      2- By using multiple 8.5 by 11 pieces of paper as poster units
  - Your poster will have a heading consisting of (1) the poster title, (2) author(s), (3) affiliation(s), (4) city and (5) country.
  - Your poster can use text, graphs, and figures to describe your work.
  - Any necessary equipment for attaching the sheets to the board will be available near the poster location. Please use only the provided materials in order not to damage the panels and enable a smooth removal afterwards.
  


• Talk:
  The sessions chairs will select oral presentations from submitted abstracts list once submission period is done (after July 06) . You need to select a talk session that correspond to your presentation.
  Time assigned for the:
  - Invited talk is 20 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions
  - Selected talk is 12 minutes for presentation and 3 minutes for questions



• Either:
  By default, the presentation will be considered for a talk. The sessions chairs will select oral presentations from submitted abstracts after the registration deadline (July 06) . If your abstract is not selected, it will be considered for the poster session.
  Presentation duration:
  - Invited talk is 20 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions
  - Selected talk is 12 minutes for presentation and 3 minutes for questions