Scientific Committee
The RNA 2026 Scientific Committee is composed of researchers from around the world. Scientific Committee members are tasked with abstract selection and crafting the scientific sessions of the meeting, in association with the organizing committee. Members of the Scientific Committee also have the opportunity to chair scientific sessions. This year’s meeting will feature “junior” and “senior” chairs for each session, who will provide a brief scientific overview, keep speakers on time, manage questions, and oversee the overall operation of each session. By having junior and senior chairs, we hope to provide an additional opportunity to develop mentor-mentee relationships in our community.
| Name | Affiliation | Website |
| Brenda Bass | University of Utah | Visit Site |
| Kristopher Brannan | Houston Methodist Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine | Visit Site |
| Neva Caliskan | University of Regensburg | Visit Site |
| Benoit Chabot | Université de Sherbrooke | Visit Site |
| Malik Chaker-Margot | Université de Montréal | Visit Site |
| Karine Choquet | Université de Sherbrooke | Visit Site |
| Amy Cooke | Haverford College | Visit Site |
| Ramana Davuluri | Stony Brook University | Visit Site |
| Paul Donlin-Asp | University of Edinburgh | Visit Site |
| Florian Erhard | University of Regensburg | Visit Site |
| Imed Gallouzi | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) | Visit Site |
| David Garcia | University of Oregon | Visit Site |
| Rachel Green | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Visit Site |
| Junjie Guo | Yale University | Visit Site |
| Markus Hafner | NIAMS/NIH | Visit Site |
| Amanda Hargrove | University of Toronto | Visit Site |
| Michelle Hastings | University of Michigan | Visit Site |
| Cassandra Hayne | University of Chicago | Visit Site |
| Housheng Hansen He | Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto | Visit Site |
| Tetsuro Hirose | The University of Osaka | Visit Site |
| Maria Hondele | Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland | Visit Site |
| Samer Hussein | Université Laval | Visit Site |
| Miki Imanishi | Kyoto University | Visit Site |
| Eric Jan | UBC | Visit Site |
| Cornelia Kilchert | Justus-Liebig-University Giessen | Visit Site |
| Kristin Koutmou | University of Michigan | Visit Site |
| Dmitry Kretov | Université Laval | Visit Site |
| Emil Kristoffersen | Aarhus University | Visit Site |
| Markus Landthaler | Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine | Visit Site |
| Sebastian Leidel | University of Bern | Visit Site |
| Chien-Ling Lin | Academia Sinica | Visit Site |
| Anne McBride | Bowdoin College | Visit Site |
| Stephanie Moon | University of Michigan | Visit Site |
| Yunsun Nam | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | Visit Site |
| Adam Norris | University of California, Riverside | Visit Site |
| Marlene Oeffinger | Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM) | Visit Site |
| Carla Oliveira | University of Sao Paulo | Visit Site |
| Natoya Peart | University of Waterloo | Visit Site |
| Sébastien Pfeffer | CNRS / Université de Strasbourg | Visit Site |
| Thomas Preiss | Australian National University | Visit Site |
| Dorota Raczynska | Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland | Visit Site |
| Xavier Roca | Nanyang Technological University | Visit Site |
| Alicia Rogers | University of Texas at Arlington | Visit Site |
| Arneet Saltzman | University of Toronto | Visit Site |
| Aldema Sas-Chen | Tel Aviv University | Visit Site |
| Anna-Lena Steckelberg | Columbia University | Visit Site |
| Yukihide Tomari | The University of Tokyo | Visit Site |
| Eric Van Nostrand | Baylor College of Medicine | Visit Site |
| Stepanka Vanacova | Masaryk University | Visit Site |
| Franka Voigt | University of Zurich | Visit Site |
| Nils Walter | University of Michigan | Visit Site |
| Ledong Wan | Stony Brook University | Visit Site |
| Chase Weidmann | University of Michigan Medical School | Visit Site |
| Steven West | University of Exeter | Visit Site |
| Vihandha Wickramasinghe | Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research | Visit Site |
| Jessica Willi | University of Lethbridge | Visit Site |
| Jilin Zhang | City University of Hong Kong | Visit Site |