We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia Strategic Summit: Decoding RNA for Biomedicine and Biotechnology will be held in Suzhou, CHINA, located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. 

Around 30 scientists from all over the world will be invited to discuss current development and challenges in RNA structure, RNA biology, RNA drug discovery, and RNA biotechnology. The Strategic Summit is planned to last for two full days. We wish to encourage discussions and exchange of ideas between fields and to promote new scientific collaborations. More importantly, we wish to discuss the possibility of launching an international collaborative project, ‘The Structural Genomics for RNA (tentative title)’ to break through the bottleneck in RNA research. 

Invited Speakers:

Hashim Al-Hashimi, Columbia University

Frédéric Allain, Institute of Biochemistry, ETH

Lingling Chen, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, CAS

Rhiju Das, Stanford University

Xianyang Fang, Institute of Biophysics, CAS

Juli Feigon, University of California, Los Angeles

Ulrich Keyser, Cambridge University

Adrian Krainer, Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory

David Lilley, University of Dundee

Ning Jia, Southern University of Science and Technology

Dinshaw Patel, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Felix Ritort, University of Barcelona

Elena Rivas, Harvard University

David Rueda, Oxford University

Hang Shi, Tsinghua University

Zhaoming Su, Sichuan University

Yue Wan, Genome Insitute of Singapore

Eric Westhof, Universite de Strasbourg

Sarah Woodson, John Hopkin University

Rui-ming Xu, Institute of Biophysic, CAS

Yi Xue, Tsinghua University

Yuanchao Xue, Institute of Biophysics, CAS

Xuerui Yang, Tsinghua University

Hui Yang, Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science (CEMCS), CAS

Chaolin Zhang, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

We look forward to seeing you at Suzhou in September 2023.