ClickGene PIs and ESRs attend Symposium on Chemistry of Nucleic Acid Components
Most of the ClickGene PIs and ESRs will be attending the 17th Symposium on Chemistry of Nucleic Acid Components (SCNAC) in Český Krumlov, Czech Republic, held in June of this year. Last year’s event attracted more than 150 participants from 21 countries. The programme consists of 10 plenary lectures, 4 "Emerging young investigator" invited lectures, ca. 40 short oral presentations and a poster session.
Supervisor Michal Hocek to chair the symposium
Michal Hocek, supervisor of two ESRs for ClickGene, is the chairman of the SCNAC symposium. Michal’s main research areas include the chemistry of nucleobases, nucleosides, nucleotides and nucleic acids and his ESRs are studying in the area of genome editing and gene knockout.
Invited speakers
The list of invited speakers includes Thomas Carell of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany. Thomas is, like Michal, the supervisor of two ESRs for the ClickGene project. Additionally, he is the lead of WP1 Materials for Genome Editing. Other speakers include Cynthia Burrows from the University of Utah, Kurt Vesterager Gothelf from the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center, Aarhus University and Andreas Marx from the University of Konstanz. The full list of plenary invited speakers is available on the SNAC website.
How to attend
The registration for the event is open and available on the SCNAC website. Due to limited capacity of the venue, the registration will be restricted to ca. 150 regular participants.