We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on RNA Biology which will be held in Suzhou, China, located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. The conference will begin at 7:00pm on the evening of Monday November 16, and will conclude in the evening after banquet on Thursday, and depart on Friday, November 20, 2026.

The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in RNA Biology. Many talks will be selected from the openly submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.

Major Topics:

1. Small noncoding RNAs

2. Long noncoding and circular RNAs

3. RNA processing

4. RNA surveillance and translation

5. RNA in condensates

6. RNA and RNP structures

7. New technologies in RNA biology

8. RNA in disease and therapeutics

Keynote Speaker:

Chuan He, The University of Chicago

Invited Speakers:

Javier Caceres, The University of Edinburgh

Piero Carninci, Human Technopole

Fei Chen, Fudan University

Jun-An Chen, Academia Sinica

Ling-Ling Chen, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, CAS

Xuemei Chen, Peking University

Yiliang Ding, John Innes Centre

Shintaro Iwasaki, RIKEN

Adrian Krainer, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Chun Kit Kwok, City University of Hong Kong

Ramesh Pillai, University of Geneva

Clemens Plaschka, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP)

Xavier Roca, Nanyang Technological University

Hirohide Saito, The University of Tokyo and Kyoto University

Maurice Swanson, University of Florida

Yukihide Tomari, The University of Tokyo

Jernej Ule, King's College London

Yi Xing, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Chaolin Zhang, Columbia University

Rui Zhang, Sun Yat-Sen University

Suyang Zhang, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Sika Zheng, University of California, Riverside

And more...

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials. The abstracts must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers. Status (fellow's talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers. 

Fellowship: 
We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. A certain number of presentations by graduate students and postdocs in this conference will be selected as fellowship (USD $100-$500) awards. For more details, please visit  Stipends

We look forward to seeing you at Suzhou in November, 2026.