Grant: Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Genetics

The fifth annual RiboWest conference will be held this year on July 27 and 28 at UNBC in Prince George. This meeting brings together RNA scientists, primarily from western Canada and the northwestern United States, although it is open to anyone. The meeting features oral presentations over several sessions, poster sessions each afternoon, a keynote address by a prominent invited speaker, a perennially popular science careers session, and many opportunities for informal networking and scientific interaction. A distinguishing feature of this meeting, other than the focus on RNA, is the encouragement given to junior scientists to present their work in posters and even orally. The meeting serves an important function in building the RNA community in western Canada, as the instutions are so geographically isolated as to prevent much interaction in the normal course of work.