CONFERENCE: 2010 Rustbelt RNA Meeting to be held October 22-23, 2010 in Cleveland OH

2010锈带RNA会议（RRM）将于2010年10月22日至23日在俄亥俄州克利夫兰的皇冠广场城市中心举行。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的结构、功能和加工领域正在快速发展，除了在转录和翻译中明显突出的作用外，RNA已被证明与许多重要的生物现象密切相关，如致癌和发展。与此同时，用于研究RNA的方法也变得越来越多样化，从合成化学和物理化学到生物化学、遗传学和生物物理方法，一直到计算方法。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新技术，从而促进个人实验室的发展。年代的目标。会议的规模和组织已被证明是研究小组之间积极讨论的良好环境，包括主要研究人员之间，主要研究人员和学员之间，以及学员之间。这样的互动在大型全国性会议上更为困难。由于RRM的成功和普及，这次会议包括来自印第安纳州、密歇根州、宾夕法尼亚州、印第安纳州、伊利诺伊州、肯塔基州和其他邻近州的研究小组。RRM更广泛的影响体现在实习生和初级教师的发展上。RRM强烈强调学员的参与。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。除了提供与首席研究员和其他学员互动的机会外，RRM还提供了在教育和支持氛围中展示研究的宝贵经验。重要的是，学员占绝大多数（约90%）的海报和口头报告。这样的演讲给受训者灌输信心，并激励听众中的受训者在未来口头展示他们的成果。为了进一步鼓励讲者，我们会为表现出色的学员颁发奖项。RRM的较小尺寸也有利于实习海报发布者，因为主要研究人员对他们的关注更多。最后，RRM是初级研究人员展示其新兴研究项目的绝佳论坛。

The 2010 Rustbelt RNA Meeting (RRM) will be held October 22-23, 2010 at the Crown Plaza City Center in Cleveland, 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 has been shown to be intimately involved in many important biological phenomena such as carcinogenesis and development beyond its obvious prominent role in transcription and translation. At the same time the methods used to study RNA are becoming more and more diverse ranging from synthetic and physical chemistry over biochemistry, genetics, and biophysical approaches all the way to computational methods. 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 size and organization of the meeting has proven to be an excellent environment for active discussions between research groups, including those between principal investigators, principal investigators and trainees, as well as between trainees themselves. Such interactions are more difficult at larger national meetings. Due to the success and popularity of the RRM, this meeting includes research groups from Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and other adjoining states.The broader impact of the RRM is in trainee and junior faculty development. The RRM strongly emphasizes trainee participation. The RRM features graduate and undergraduate student participation, from institutions ranging from large research-intensive universities to small, primarily undergraduate colleges. In addition to offering opportunities for interactions with Principal Investigators and other trainees, the RRM provides invaluable experience presenting research in an educational and supportive atmosphere. Importantly, trainees account for the vast majority (~ 90%) of both poster and oral presentations. Such presentations instill confidence in the trainees and inspire trainees in the audience to present their results orally in the future. To encourage the speakers further, prizes are awarded for outstanding trainee presentations. The smaller size of the RRM also benefits trainee poster presenters because of the greater attention paid to them by principal investigators. Finally, the RRM is an excellent forum for junior investigators to showcase their emerging research programs.