You are cordially invited to participate in the eighth meeting on Regulatory & Non-Coding RNAs to be held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The opening session will begin at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, April 7th and the meeting will end on Saturday, April 11th, following a morning session ending at noon.
Victor Ambros, UMass Chan Medical School
Elena Conti, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Invited Speakers:
Yanjie Chao, Shanghai Institute of Immunity and Infection
Nadya Dimitrova, Yale University
Matthias Hentze, EMBL
Eric Lai, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Donal O’Carroll, University of Edinburgh
Elena Piskounova, Harvard Medical School
Kathrin Plath, UCLA
Erik Sontheimer, UMass Chan Medical School
Igor Ulitsky, Weizmann Institute of Science
Joanna Vidigal, NIH/NCI
Jörg Vogel, Helmoltz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research
Yue Wan, A*STAR
Unpublished material must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers. The status (talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.
Financial Aid: Please apply in writing via email to Jessica Palma if you require financial support; preference will be given to those submitting abstracts.
Social Media: The designated hashtag for this meeting is #cshlregRNA. Note that you must obtain permission from an individual presenter before live-tweeting or discussing his/her talk, poster, or research results on social media. Click the Policies tab above to see our full
Confidentiality & Reporting Policy.
This conference may be supported in part by: TBA
In-Person Fees
Academic/Media Private Room/Private Bath Package: $TBA (Subject to availability.)
Academic/Media Private Room/Shared Bath Package: $TBA
Academic Shared Room Package: $TBA
Academic/Media No-Housing Package: $TBA
Student Package*: $TBA
Student No-Housing Package: $TBA
Corporate Private Room/Private Bath Package: $TBA
Corporate No-Housing Package: $TBA
*Student Housing is default double occupancy. Please enquire about availability and fees to upgrade to private room.
Room packages close 2 weeks before the meeting start date
Rules for Virtual Participation: Virtual participation will include access to the oral sessions via Zoom, access to the digital poster sessions and access to the Slack discussion channel, and the Leading Strand video archive.
Presenters: Individuals submitting abstracts and facing financial barriers should firstly request financial aid (see above). Permission to present your talk or poster virtually will be given only in exceptional circumstances and on a case-by-case basis. If you think you are eligible for an exemption from the requirement to present in person, please provide a justification in writing via email to Jessica Palma.
Non-presenting participants: We plan to broaden access to the conference by allowing certain categories of non-presenting participants to attend virtually at reduced fees. Categories include:
1. Individuals from low & middle income countries;
2. Individuals from non-LMIC countries in Asia, Australasia, Africa or South America;
3. Individuals from US & Canadian minority serving institutions;
4. Individuals with a demonstrable financial barrier;
5. Individuals with family obligations or other special circumstances.
For categories 4 & 5 above, please provide a justification via email to
Jessica Palma.
Virtual Fees:
Academic Virtual Package: $TBA
Grad Student Virtual Package: $TBA
Corporate Virtual Package: $TBA
Late Fee (Registrations submitted after 5:00 p.m. ET on April 2, 2026)
Late Academic Virtual Package: $TBA
Late Student Virtual Package: $TBA
Late Corporate Virtual Package: $TBA