Grant: Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Genetics

The seventh annual RiboWest conference will be held this year on July 18 and 19 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. The RiboWest conference meets the objectives of the Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant program of the Institute of Genetics, and, in particular, falls under the mandate of the Institute of Genetics in that its topics are genetics and basic biochemistry, of human and model organisms , related to health and disease. The organizers of the RiboWest conference are committed to gender and sex-based analysis in health research, and we strongly encourage all participants to integrate gender and sex into their research when appropriate.