2006 Rustbelt RNA Meeting being held October 20-21, 2006 in Sterling, Ohio

2006年锈带RNA会议（RRM）将于2006年10月20日至21日在俄亥俄州斯特林山的鹿溪州立公园度假村举行。RRM的智力目标是为中西部的RNA研究人员提供一个廉价、高水平、跨学科的会议。RNA结构/功能和加工领域正在快速发展，RNA加工已被证明是许多重要生物现象的关键步骤，如致癌和细胞发育。因此，研究小组需要一个论坛，在那里他们可以听到和讨论RNA研究各个领域的新结果和技术，这些结果和技术可以进一步促进单个实验室的目标。会议的形式包括口头报告和海报报告，会议主题以提交的摘要为基础。会议的规模和组织促进了各个职业水平的科学家之间的讨论。更广泛的影响：RRM强调学员的参与。RRM的特点是研究生和本科生的参与，从大型研究密集型大学到小型本科学院。在海报和口头报告中，学员占大多数（约90%）。RRM较小的规模允许更多的学员和成熟的科学家之间的互动，并为初级pi提供一个论坛来描述他们的新兴研究项目。

The 2006 Rustbelt RNA Meeting (RRM) will be held October 20-21, 2006 in the Lodge at Deer Creek State Park & Resort in Mt. Sterling, OH. The intellectual objective of the RRM is to provide an inexpensive, high caliber, interdisciplinary meeting for RNA researchers in the Midwest. The field of RNA structure/function and processing is growing at a rapid pace and RNA processing has proved to be a critical step in many important biological phenomena such as carcinogenesis and cellular development. Consequently, research groups need a forum where they can hear and discuss new results and techniques in all areas of RNA research that can result in furthering an individual lab's aims. The format of the meeting includes both oral and poster presentations, and the session themes are based upon the submitted abstracts. The size and organization of the meeting fosters discussion between scientists at all career levels. Broader Impact: The RRM emphasizes trainee participation. The RRM features graduate and undergraduate student participation, from institutions ranging from large research-intensive universities to small, primarily undergraduate colleges. Trainees account for the majority (~90%) of both poster and oral presentations. The smaller size of the RRM allows for more interaction between the trainees and the established scientists, and provides a forum for junior PIs to describe their emerging research programs.