Dr. Artem Babaian, Gairdner Foundation speaker, University of Toronto.

Expertise: discovery and biodiversity of Earth’s RNA viruses and RNA elements using state-of-the-art computational approaches.

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Dr. Anita K. Hopper, Ohio State University

Expertise: yeast genetics and genomics, RNA-proteins complexes and RNA processing.

Dr. Amy Lee, Harvard Medical School

Expertise: cells response to environmental signals, mechanisms regulating specialized mRNA translation.

Dr. Samie Jaffrey, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University

Expertise: RNA regulatory mechanisms controlling gene expression, RNA modifications, epitranscriptomics, RNA structure, RNA-binding proteins.

Dr. Francois Bachand, Universite de Sherbrooke

Expertise: cell, gene expression and regulation, molecular genetics, functional and structural proteomics.

Dr. Ewan McRae, Houston Methodist Research Institute

Expertise: combining structural and molecular biology, engineer structured RNA elements for RNA therapeutics.

Dr. Bowen Li, University of Toronto

Expertise: combinatorial chemistry, high throughput platforms, AI-driven experimental designs and delivery systems for mRNA, circRNA, tRNA and CRISPR.