XX IRT Scientific Programme

More than 37 reasons to attend

37 invited and contributed talks are planned and we anticipate more than 300 posters.
Afternoon poster sessions are on Monday Aug 6 and Tuesday Aug 7

Themes

Nucleosides (medicinal chemistry/mechanisms)
Oligonucleotides (medicinal chemistry/mechanisms)
Structure/Macromolecular Recognition
Biochemistry/Chemical and System Biology/Evolution
Supramolecular/Functional Nucleic Acids
Probes, Methods and Nucleoside/Nucleotide Reagents

Plenary Speakers

Jack Szostak – Boston
Imbach-Towsend Award Lecture
(Supported by Idenix Pharmaceuticals)
John A. Montgomery Award Lecture
(Supported by the Center for Drug Design, University of Minnesota)

Invited Speakers

Serge Beaucage – Bethesda	Emily Leproust – Santa Clara
Frank Bennett – Carlsbad	Muthiah Manoharan – Cambridge
Tom Brown – Southampton	Chris McGuigan – Wales
Cynthia Burrows – Utah	Dinshaw Patel – New York
David Corey – Texas	Enrique Pedroso – Barcelona
Martin Egli – Nashville	Oliver Seitz – Berlin
Carlos González – Madrid	Hanadi Sleiman – Montréal
Matthias Götte – Montréal	Michael Sofia – Princeton
Michal Hocek – Prague	David Standring – Cambridge
Eric Kool – Stanford	Peter Strazewski – Lyon

Imbach-Townsend Award, and Montgomery Award

The Imbach-Townsend award is supported by Idenix Pharmaceuticals and the Montgomery award is supported by the Center for Drug Design, University of Minnesota. The awardees will be selected by the two corresponding award committees of IS3NA and will be celebrated in a special ceremony on the occasion of the Roundtable.

Symposium Schedule

The programme will include 3 plenary/award lectures (PL) of 45 min, 20 invited lectures (IL) of 35 min, and 13 short oral presentations (OP) of 20 min. The posters will be accessible throughout the conference. On Sunday, 5th August, registration will open at 17:00 and will
be followed by a welcome reception.

	Mon 6 Aug	Tue 7 Aug	Wed 8 Aug	Thu 9 Aug
Start	08:30	08:30	08:30	08:30
First morning session	Intro	IL7	IL13	PL3
	PL1	OP4	OP9	OP10
	IL1	IL8	IL14	IL16
	IL2		IL15
Refreshments	10:40	10:05	10:40	10:15
Second morning session	IL3	IL9	PL2	IL17
	OP1	OP5	IS3NA report	OP11
	OP2	OP6	XX IRT 2014	OP12
Lunch	12:35	12:00	12:30	12:10
First afternoon session	IL4	IL10	Social programme	IL18
	OP3	OP7		IL19

Refreshments	14:50	15:00		14:50
Second afternoon session	IL5	IL11		OP13
	IL6	OP8		OP14
		IL12		IL20
Poster session	16:30	16:35
Close	19:30	19:30		17:10
18:30			Drinks reception
19:15			Conference Banquet

Poster Awards

Thanks to generous support from Alios BioPharma, Current Protocols (John Wiley) and Nucleic Acids Research (Oxford University Press), several poster cash prizes will be awarded. The awardees will be selected by the Posters and Travel Awards Committee of IS3NA.