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Confirmed Speakers<\/h1>\n

Keynote speakers:<\/strong>
\nTom Cech (HHMI, Univ of Colorado Boulder, USA)
\nVenki Ramakrishnan (MRC-LMB, Cambridge, UK)<\/p>\n

Session chairs:<\/strong>
\nJuan Alfonzo (Ohio State Univ, USA)
\nNenad Ban (ETH Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland)
\nKaren Beemon (Johns Hopkins Univ, USA)
\nJavier Caceres (MRC Edinburgh, UK)
\nSoo-Chen Cheng (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
\nElena Conti (MPI Biochemistry, Germany)
\nTom Cooper (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)
\nJennifer Doudna (HHMI, Univ of California Berkeley, USA)
\nBrenton Graveley (Univ of Connecticut, USA)
\nRalf-Peter Jansen (Univ T\u00fcbingen, Germany)
\nV. Narry Kim (Seoul National Univ, South Korea)
\nMichael Rosbash (HHMI, Brandeis Univ, USA)
\nDavid Rueda (Wayne State Univ, USA)
\nJoan Steitz (HHMI, Yale Univ, USA)
\nJernej Ule (MRC-LMB, Cambridge, UK)
\nEric Westhof (Univ Strasbourg, France)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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