RNA Society eBallot 2009? Cast your vote NOW!

T he RNA Society wants your vote! The RNA Society 2009 election for President-elect and Board of Directors is being conducted online again this year. You can vote from the comfort of your computer from any internet connections. The polls are OPEN from: May 1st --thru-- MAY 22nd, 2009. Why wait? Cast your vote NOW!

RNA Society Spring Newsletter

W e are pleased to share the Spring 2009 RNA Society Newsletter. In this issue, we hear from our new president Reinhard Luhrmann, introduce the new RNA & SOCIETY lecture with keynote speaker Keith Yamamoto, announce the date for RNA2011 in Japan, and hear what the junior scientist have planned for RNA2009. All this and a review of our committees for those wishing to volunteer for the RNA Society.

Registration for RNA2009 is now open!!

T he 14th annual meeting of the RNA Society will take place on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison, WI from May 26th-31th, 2009. This year the meeting will open on Tuesday evening (May 26th) with presentations by our two Keynote Speakers: Dr. Shiv Grewal (National Cancer Institute, NIH) "RNAi-mediated Epigenetic Control of the Genome" and Dr. Robert Darnell (Rockefeller University) "Genome-wide RNA-Protein Maps". The deadline for submission of abstracts and registration is Monday, February 23, 2009.

The RNA Society/Scaringe Young Scientist Award

W e wish to bring to your attention The RNA Society/Scaringe Young Scientist Award. This Award was established to recognize the achievement of younger scientists engaged in RNA research and to encourage them to pursue a career in the field of RNA. The award is open to all junior scientists (graduate students or postdoctoral fellows) from all regions of the world who have made a significant contribution to the broad area of RNA. The award is not restricted to authors who have published in the RNA Journal. The prize will recognize one outstanding graduate student and one postdoctoral fellow based on their research accomplishments to date, a 1000-word essay describing their scientific contributions to RNA research, and a 500-word abstract for a review in their field of RNA research. Additional information about the judging criteria and the award can be found on the first page of the 2009 application form.

3-D RNA Modeling Workshop
June 19, 2009
Clark Center, Stanford University
Organizers : Dr. Russ Altman

Alternative Splicing - Special Interest Group Meeting at ISMB2009 "Deciphering the splicing code: the role of protein-RNA interactions"
June 27-28, 2009
Stockholm, Sweden
Organizers : Eduardo Eyras, Dirk Holste, Frederik Allain, Rickard Sandberg, Graziano Pesole

8th International Conference on Ribosome Synthesis
August 26-30, 2009
Regensburg, Germany
Organizers : Prof. Dr. Herbert Tschochner & Prof. Dr. Gernot Längst

7th International Retroviral NC Symposium
September 14-16, 2009
University of Minnesota, MN
Organizers : Louis M. Mansky, Karin Musier-Forsyth, & Robert J. Gorelick

Messenger RNA 3 prime ends & gene expression
September, 16-20, 2009
Oxford, United Kingdom
Organizers : Nicholas Proudfoot and James Manley

RNA-protein interactions in development and cancer
October 1st-3rd, 2009
Baeza, Spain
Organizers : Jernej Ule (LMB- Cambridge), Luis Otavio Penalva (UTHSCSA-San Antonio), Fatima Gebauer (CRG-Barcelona)

Symposium on RNA Biology
October 16-17, 2009
Research Triangle Park, NC
Organizers : Traci Hall and Rebecca Alexander

The RNA Society was formed in 1993 to facilitate sharing and dissemination of experimental results and emerging concepts in ribonucleic acid research. The Society encompasses RNA research in the broadest sense: from the ribosome to the spliceosome, from RNA viruses to catalytic RNAs. It is a multidisciplinary society, representing molecular, evolutionary and structural biology, biochemistry, biomedical sciences, chemistry, genetics, and virology as they relate to questions of the structure and function of RNA and of ribonucleoprotein assemblies.
Additional information about the history of the RNA Society can be found in the first issue of the Society Newsletter

The RNA journal is a publication of the RNA Society. It serves as an international forum for publishing original reports on RNA research in the broadest sense. It is a monthly journal which provides rapid publication of significant original research in all areas of RNA structure and function in eukaryotic, prokaryotic, and viral systems.
It covers a broad range of subjects in RNA research, including: structural analysis by biochemical or biophysical means; mRNA structure, function and biogenesis; alternative processing: cis-acting elements and trans-acting factors; ribosome structure and function; translational control; RNA catalysis; tRNA structure, function biogenesis and identity; RNA editing; rRNA structure, function and biogenesis; RNA transport and localization; regulatory RNAs; large and small RNP structure, function and biogenesis; viral RNA metabolism; RNA stability and turnover; in vitro evolution; and RNA chemistry.

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