Conferences

Below is a list of a few of the research conferences that the Aptamer Stream student researchers have attended.

• Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) (February, Washington D.C.)

• Aptamers (March, Oxford, England)

• American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Annual Meeting (March, Boston, MA)

• UT Undergraduate Research Forum (April, Austin, TX)

• Posters on the Hill - CUR Conference (April, Washington DC)

• RNA and Oligonucleotide Therapeutics (April, Cold Spring Harbor, NY) - may not be appropriate for undergraduates

• Longhorn Research Poster Session (April, Austin TX)

• Aptamers in Bordeaux (June, Bordeaux, France) or Aptamers in Boulder, CO

• ALife Conference (July, US)

• The BioBricks Foundation Synthetic Biology 6.0 Conference (July, San Francisco, CA),

• BEACON Congress (August, East Lansing, MI)

• International Society on Aptamers (ISOAP) Conference (September, Oxford, England)

• UT Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium (October, Austin, TX)

• Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium (October, Rice University, Houston, TX)

• Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society (OTS) Annual Meeting (October, International)

• Aptamers in Medicine and Perspectives Workshop (October, Naples, Italy)

• Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) (November, US)

• American Chemical Society Meetings (various, US)

Conference attendees are encouraged to request a discounted educational registration fee, travel support from the conference, as well as travel support from CNS. Information on funding support may be found on the UT CNS website and the School of Undergraduate Studies Research or Conference Travel Scholarships.