Full details at our conference website Non-coding RNA and Epigenetics Conferences

January 17 - 22, 2012 Epigenomics
Keystone Symposium. This meeting will highlight recent advances in the application of genomics techniques to the study of epigenetics.

January 20 - 22, 2012 RNA-UK 2012
RNA-UK is a biannual meeting that focuses on the increasingly important functions of RNA. The meeting will focus on current research on RNA processing, RNA-mediated gene regulation, RNA localisation, RNA stability/decay, RNA function and RNA structure.

February 7 - 12, 2012 Gene Silencing by Small RNAs
Keystone Symposium. The impact of small non-coding RNAs has profoundly touched the fields of development and cell biology, functional genomics, human disease and drug therapy. This mode of gene regulation is not restricted to eukaryotes; bacteria utilize small RNAs, notably those made from CRISPR loci that silence the expression of bacteriophages, transposons and plasmids.

March 25 - 27, 2012 microRNA 2012: International Symposium
Covers various cover themes on microRNA research.

March 27 - 29, 2012 RNAi 2012
The 7th Annual Oxford RNAi Conference, RNAi2012, will address most aspects of biology and application of RNA interference, and welcomes proposals on endogenous and exogenous roles of small RNAs in gene regulation, health and disease.

March 31 - April 5, 2012 Non-Coding RNAs
Keystone Symposium. The goal of the Keystone Symposia meeting on Non-Coding RNAs is to highlight the similarities and differences in various model systems to better understand the role of long ncRNAs in the regulation of genomes.

April 21 - 27, 2012 Analysis of small non-coding RNAs
EMBO Practical Course. Analysis of small non-coding RNAs: From massively parallel sequencing to in-situ hybridization, from discovery to validation.

May 1 - 2, 2012 RNAi, MicroRNAs 2012
International conference at the cutting edge of the life-science industry.

June 11 - 16, 2012 Antiviral RNAi: From Molecular Biology Towards Applications
ESF-EMBO Symposium. RNAi-based strategies have been used to engineer plants that resist a large variety of viruses, and administration of antiviral small RNAs has been demonstrated to be highly efficient in inhibiting viral infections in mammals, and a number of clinical trials are currently ongoing to assess the safety and efficacy of this therapeutic strategy.

July 9 - 10, 2012 Epigenomics 2012
International conference at the cutting edge of the life-science industry.

September 16 - 19, 2012 The reciprocal interactions of signalling pathways and non-coding RNA
EMBO Workshop.

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October 2 - 7, 2011 Synthetic Biology of Antibiotic Production
Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain Further information
The European Science Foundation (ESF) in partnership with EMBO is organising this conference on Synthetic Biology of Antibiotic Production. This conference will focus on the advancement of synthetic biology, especially its application in the field of antibiotic production in filamentous fungi and actinomycete bacteria, including the implementation and modification of complex biosynthesis pathway modules in existing and new production hosts. Antibiotics production is regulated by complex networks and involves intricate multi-step biosynthetic machineries, as well as major reorganization of primary metabolic fluxes to redirect cellular metabolic resources towards their biosynthesis. The urgent need for new antibiotics caused by the accelerating emergence of multi-drug resistant pathogens worldwide has led to a strong interest in the research community for decidedly novel approaches, collectively referred to as Synthetic Biology. Given the exquisitely modular nature of antibiotics biosynthesis in microorganisms and the advanced state of knowledge on it, the biotechnological manipulation of antibiotic production can be envisaged as one of the most promising first concrete industrial application domain of synthetic biology concepts. For this potential to be realized, it is critical to bring together the highly interdisciplinary community that has recently started investigating various aspects of the synthetic biology of antibiotic production. This community includes people from such diverse disciplines as metagenomics, combinatorial biochemistry, mathematical and computational modelling, cell engineering, molecular cell biology and biotechnology, and many more, both from academia and the biotechnology industry. The aim of this conference is to facilitate the indispensable mutual communication between researchers from these disciplines in a setting that stimulates the intense exchange of both fundamental knowledge and technical advancement. At the same time, it is a major opportunity to evoke broader awareness and interest in synthetic biology concepts in the microbiology community, which would not be reached by general synthetic biology conferences.
Suggested reading: | Emerging Trends in Antibacterial Discovery: Answering the Call to Arms

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A list of ASBMB conferences for 2011 relevant to microbiology and molecular biology. Details of conferences organized by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

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A list of Keystone conferences for 2011 relevant to microbiology and molecular biology. Details of conferences organized by Keystone.

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A list of Select Biosciences conferences for 2011 relevant to microbiology and molecular biology. Details of conferences organized by Select Biosciences.

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A list of EMBO conferences for 2011 relevant to microbiology and molecular biology. Details of conferences organized by the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

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