Opening Remarks, Gisela Storz (National Institutes of Health, USA)

Keynote Presentation: Jörg Vogel (University of Würzburg, Germany)

Session: RNAs in Pathogenesis

Invited Speaker: Cynthia Sharma (University of Würzburg, Germany)

5 Short Talks Selected from Abstracts

Poolside Opening Reception

Session: CRISPR-CAS

Invited Speaker: Michael Terns (University of Georgia, USA)

3 Short Talks Selected from Abstracts

Coffee Break

Session: Regulatory RNA in Space and Time

Invited Speaker: Cari Vanderpool (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Invited Speaker: Orna Amster-Choder (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

4 Short Talks Selected from Abstracts

Lunch

Career Development Lunch

Session: Processing and Modification of RNAs

Invited Speaker: Ciaran Condon (Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology-CNRS, France)

5 Short Talks Selected from Abstracts

Lightning Talk Poster Talks (selected from abstracts)

Poster Session 1

Session: Regulation During RNA and Protein Synthesis

Invited Speaker: Frances Yap (Northwestern University, USA)

Invited Speaker: Alexander Mankin (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)

2 Short Talks Selected from Abstracts

Coffee Break

Session: Small RNAs: Discovery to Function

Invited Speaker: Lydia Contreras (University of Texas, USA)

Invited Speaker: Jocelyne DiRuggiero (Johns Hopkins University, USA)

3 Short Talks Selected from Abstracts

Lunch

Poster Session 2

Session: Signaling Nucleotides

Invited Speaker: Andreas Möglich (University of Bayreuth, Germany)

2 Short Talks Selected from Abstracts

Session: RNA-Binding Proteins

Invited Speaker: Shoshy Altuvia (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

Coffee Break

Session: RNA-Binding Proteins, continued

6 Short Talks Selected from Abstracts

Closing Comments