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Schedule At A Glance

Wednesday, 7th September
15:00-18:00 Registration, Poster Set Up
Thursday, 8th September
08:00-09:00
Registration, Poster Set Up  (Please note that The Royal Library opens at 08:00)
09:00-09:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks
      Gunther Hartmann, MD, PhD, Universitätsklinikum Bonn
09:15-10:30 Session 1: Hot Topics: Short Talks Selected from Abstracts
      Chair: Gunther Hartmann, MD, PhD, Universitätsklinikum Bonn
10:30-11:00 Refreshment Break
11:00-12:30 Session 2: Nucleic Acid Chemistry
      Chair: Jesper Wengel, PhD, University of Southern Denmark, Odense
12:30-14:00 Lunch with Attended Poster Session from 13:15-14:00
14:00-14:30 Keynote Session: Oligonucleotide Therapeutics reviewed in memory of Alan Gewirtz
      Keynote Speaker: Fritz Eckstein, PhD, Max-Planck-Institute for Experimental Medicine, Göttingen
 14:30-16:00  Session 3: RNA Biology: New Frontiers
      Chair: Mark Kay, MD, PhD, Stanford University
 16:00-16:30  Refreshment Break
 16:30-18:00  Session 4:  Delivery of Nucleic Acids
       Chair: Jean-Jacques Toulmé, PhD, INSERM, University of Bordeaux, Paris
 18:00-19:30  Welcome Reception with Attended Posters
 19:30  Meet the Experts

Friday, 9th September
08:00 Registration Opens  (Please note that The Royal Library opens at 08:00)
08.30-10:00 Session 5: Immunobiology of Nucleic Acids
      Chair: Art Krieg, MD, Atlas Venture
10:00-10:30 Refreshment Break
10:30-12:00 Session 6: Targeting Coding RNA
      Chair: David Corey, PhD, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
12:00-13:30 Lunch with Attended Poster Session from 12:45-13:30
13:30-15:00 Session 7: Targeting microRNA
      Chair: Markus Stoffel, MD, PhD, ETH Zurich
15:00- 15:30 Refreshment Break
15:30-17:00 Session 8: Targeting Liver and Tumors
      Chair: Henrik Ørum, PhD, Santaris Pharma a/s
17:00-19:15 Exhibitor Reception at the Børsen
20:30-22:30 OTS Board of Directors Meeting

Saturday, 10th September
08:00 Registration Opens  (Please note that The Royal Library opens at 08:00)
08:15-09:45 Session 9: Targeting Infection
      Chair: John Rossi, PhD, City of Hope, Duarte, CA
09:45-11:15
Session 10: Targeting the Central Nervous System sponsored by International Society for Neurochemistry
      Chair:  Hermona Soreq, PhD, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
11:15-11:45 Refreshment Break
11:45-13:15 Session 11: Targeting Genetic Diseases
      Chair: Dieter Gruenert, PhD, University of California, San Francisco
13:15
Closing Session
  End of Conference