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Non-coding RNA World 2024: Exploring Mechanisms, Designing Medicines
Thank you for attending ncRNA 2024!
the chairs
Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to announce the upcoming conference, Non-coding RNA World 2024: Exploring Mechanisms, Designing Medicines (ncRNA 2024), which will be held from 07–09 October 2024.
Following our successful conference ncRNA 2021, we now propose meeting you in the beautiful city of Basel, Switzerland.
The field of RNA continues on its meteoric ascent, with non-coding RNAs in the vanguard. The field continues to grow, with new transcripts discovered wherever one looks in molecular biology, physiology, disease, and across the tree of life. Discoveries are propelled, in part, by dramatically advancing technologies that can now sequence full-length single RNA molecules at single-cell and sub-cellular resolutions. The sequencing of many thousands of species’ genomes will further drive evolutionary and informatic efforts to map, catalog, and model ncRNAs. And, of course, our power to manipulate and engineer RNAs using synthetic oligonucleotides and genome-editing technologies opens breathtaking vistas for medicine and biotechnology, as recognized by the 2023 Nobel Prize won by Karikó and Weissman.
ncRNA 2024 will bring together the international ncRNA community to share and explore the latest advances in our field. The conference will cover a broad range of topics, from basic biology to medical and technological applications. The sessions will take molecular biology through the topics of disease mechanisms, therapies, technologies, and bioinformatic approaches. Each session will be anchored by leading international speakers. We are also committed to showcasing the work of early-stage researchers, and the majority of the oral presentations will be selected from submitted abstracts. Crucially, the program will provide plenty of opportunities to casually network and mingle via poster sessions and refreshment breaks.
We look forward to welcoming you to Basel in October 2024. The city, with its picturesque autumnal scenery, coupled with its renowned cultural and scientific institutions, will create an inspiring atmosphere for our conference.
Ana Eulalio and Rory Johnson
ncRNA 2024 Chairs
Conference Secretariat
Ms. Mina Marjanović
Sponsoring Opportunities
For information regarding sponsorship and exhibition opportunities, please contact us.
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Important Dates
- Abstract submission deadlineJun 11, 2024
- Abstract acceptance notificationJul 09, 2024
- Registration end dateOct 02, 2024
- Early bird registration deadlineJul 15, 2024
- Regular registration deadlineOct 02, 2024
Meet Our Speakers
Prof. Dr. Mauro Giacca
School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine and Sciences, King’s College, London, UK;
Mauro Giacca is Head of the School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine and Sciences, and Professor of Cardiovascular Sciences at the Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, King’s College London. He served as the Director-General of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) until 2019.
He is the President of the European Section of the International Society for Heart Research (ISHR) and serves on the scientific boards of numerous academic international institutions. Prof. Giacca is also a founder of Forcefield Therapeutics and Heqet Therapeutics, two recent startups that develop cardiovascular biologics, and the co-founder of Purespring Therapeutics, which operates in the field of AAV gene therapy of the kidney. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the United Kingdom.
Prof. Giacca is an expert in the generation of viral vectors for cardiovascular applications and the development of novel biologics for cardiac repair and regeneration in patients with myocardial infarction and heart failure. He has published over 400 papers in international journals, in addition to several reviews and chapters in books and university textbooks.
Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology (Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science), Chinese Academy of Sciences, China;
Prof. Ling-Ling Chen is a Principal Investigator at the CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science and the Associate Director of the Center’s State Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology. She has received numerous honors and awards, including the HHMI International Research Scholar in 2017 and the Young Investigator Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2018. Her lab’s long-term goal is to discover new regulatory RNA species and study their biogenesis and mechanisms of action in mammalian cells. They are particularly interested in identifying new RNA species in mammalian genomes by taking advantage of genome-wide approaches and computational analyses, exploring their biogenesis and new modes of gene regulation by lncRNAs and circular RNAs with molecular/cell biological and biochemical approaches, understanding the regulatory roles of particular ncRNAs in nuclear architecture and function through genome editing and cell biology, and investigating the function of evolutionary long noncoding RNAs by using human embryonic stem cells as models to gain insights into their regulatory roles in human diseases.
Poster Session A
Posters: A1 – A18
Monday, 7 October 2024 | 12:30–14:30, 16:00–16:45
Posters should be set up on Monday morning and must be removed by 19:00 on the same day.
Poster Session B
Posters: B1 – B17
Tuesday, 8 October 2024 | 12:30–14:30, 16:00–16:45
Posters should be set up on Tuesday morning and must be removed by 19:00 on the same day.
Each presenter will be provided with a vertical poster board. Note that the maximum poster size is limited to A0:
– 4 x 120 cm / 33 x 47 in (width x height)
– in vertical orientation (portrait)
Please print your poster prior to the conference.
The session for each poster, along with the poster numbers, titles, and presenting author, can be found below. Please contact us if the poster presenter's name is incorrect in this list (last updated on 3 October 2024).
By clicking on the icon below, you can view and download the list of posters.
Tuesday, 08 October 2024, 7:00 pm CET
Steinentorberg 20, 4051 Basel
60 CHF (per person)
We are pleased to invite you to join us at our Conference Dinner at Markthalle, a delightful indoor food market with stalls serving cuisines from around the world. It is conveniently located at the other end of Basel SBB station, and is a quick ten-minute walk from the event venue. We will depart for Markthalle as a group after the conference events on Tuesday.
Hungry for Variety? How About an All-You-Can-Eat Dinner?
Flexibility will be the mainstay of our event there, as you will be able to select meals from any of the stalls and cuisines on offer, along with drinks of your choice from the HausBAR. A casual dinner with friends new and old under the twinkling Markthalle dome is sure to make it an evening to remember.
Reserve your Seat Now
The dinner is for an additional fee of 60 CHF, which can be added to your registration during the registration process. Simply select the dinner as a registration extra while you fill out your registration page.
You are welcome to bring any accompanying persons by booking their seats. Please note that registrations onsite will not be possible.
"Under the unique historic dome of the Markthalle Basel, a large food market with 25 restaurants and 6 bars has been pulsating for 10 years. Public and private events, as well as numerous markets, complement and enchant the place anew every day."
Monday, 07 October 2024, 7:00–8:30 pm CET
Meeting point: Tinguely Fountain by the Theater Basel, Klostergasse 7, 4051 Basel
Free for completed registrations
Basel Tourismus is offering attendees of ncRNA 2024 a guided tour of the city’s Spalenberg district (Old Town) on Monday evening, after the conference events on the first day. We will depart on the 15-minute walk to the meeting spot as a group on Monday evening.
Those with completed registrations are automatically eligible for the tour for free, compliments of MDPI.
Join us on this journey back in time
This traditional tour will offer our guests a close-up view of Spalenberg, where you will be guided through a nighttime encounter with Basel’s atmospheric alleyways and squares. The evening excursion will bring you up close to Basel’s nostalgic architecture, to reveal what has shaped the city and given it its unique character.
Reserve your Spot Now
If you are interested in joining the tour, please notify our organizational inbox at ncrna2024@mdpi.com once you have completed your registration. The tour groups have limited capacity, and will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis.
