XIXth Symposium on Chemistry of Nucleic Acid Components

June 8 - 13, 2025, Czech Republic
Český Krumlov

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ABOUT THE MEETING

Participants are cordially welcome to attend the 20th Symposium on Chemistry of Nucleic Acid Components. It is a traditional (since 1969) conference covering synthetic, bioorganic and medicinal chemistry, biochemistry, biophysics, chemical biology and nanotechnology of nucleobases, nucleosides, nucleotides and nucleic acids. The programme will consist of plenary lectures, "Emerging younger investigator" invited lectures, short oral presentations and a poster session.

Please stay tuned for further info about the new registration and deadlines later.

 

Michal Hocek

Organizing committee of the 20SCNAC

Organizers

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Michal Hocek

Invited Speakers

Shankar Balasubramanian

(Univ. of Cambridge, UK)

Cynthia Burrows

(The Univ. of Utah, USA)

 

Thomas Carell

    (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, DE)

Hanadi Sleiman

(McGill, CA)

Natalia Tretyakova

(Univ of Minnesota)

Naoki Sugimoto

(Konan FIBER)

Hiroshi Abe

(Nagoya University)

 

Christa E. Müller

(University of Bonn, DE)

 

Emerging Young Investigator invited speakers

Willem A. Velema

(Radboud Univ.)

 

Kerstin Gopfrich

(Heidelberg Univ.)

 

Michael J. Booth

(University College London)

 

Programme

TBA

Registration & deadlines

The application form will be available soon. The registration will be opened only to confirmed and accepted participants selected from the applicants. Due to the limited capacity of the venue, the registration will be restricted to ca. 150 regular participants. Please make sure you meet the deadlines for the application to be fully considered.

The conference fee will be all-inclusive: transport from Prague to the venue and back, accommodation in a 5* hotel (Hotel Růže or neighboring hotel Old Inn), all meals including conference dinner, coffee breaks, wine and refreshments during poster session, proceedings and access to the scientific sessions.

 

APPLICATION FORM

Preliminary Registration Fees

  Type of registration fee registration accommodation food total in EUR
  Standard fee double-room - early 270 460 260 990
  Standard fee single-room - early 270 760 260 1290
  Industry fee double-room - early 480 460 260 1200
  Industry fee single-room - early 480 760 260 1500
  Students fee double-room - early 170 360 260 790
  Accompanying persons - early 120 360 260 740

Late registration since April 1, 2025

  Type of registration fee registration accommodation food total in EUR
  Standard fee double-room 420 460 260 1140
  Standard fee single-room 420 760 260 1440
  Industry fee double-room 630 460 260 1350
  Industry fee single-room 630 760 260 1650
  Students fee double-room 320 360 260 940
  Accompanying persons 220 360 260 840

 

CANCELLATIONS AND REFUNDS

The registration fee will be refunded (with a deduction of 10 % to cover the handling costs) if participation in the Congress is cancelled in writing before 5 May 2025. No refund will be granted after this date.

 

Deadlines

February 20, 2025
Submission of abstracts applying for oral presentations

March 15, 2025
Notification of acceptance of oral presentations (those not selected will be further considered for poster presentation)

March 15, 2025
Submission of all other abstracts and applications for attendance without presentation

March 20, 2025
Notification of acceptance of poster presentations and notification of accepted participants (registration will open to accepted participants)

March 31, 2025
Early registration payment (open only for accepted participants)

Poster presenters and participants may still be accepted even after the deadline if capacity of the venue allows.

Proceedings

Book of abstracts will contain short abstracts of all presentations (1-2 pages for lectures, 1 page for posters). For preparation of abstracts, please follow the instructions and use the template.

Unlike in previous conferences of this series, the Book of abstracts is not intended as ISBN-containing proceedings and will not be excerpted to secondary sources (WoS, Scopus etc.). The publication of the abstract should not be taken as pre-publication of the results presented.

The organizers will select oral communications and poster presentations from submitted abstracts. Only upon acceptance of the presentation and participant, the registration will be opened to selected applicants. Please make sure to meet the deadlines to be fully considered. After the deadline of February 20, some poster presentations and/or participations without presentation still may be allowed (subject to availability of free capacity in the venue) but the organizers cannot guarantee it.

Contact

Please do not hesitate to contact us after you have exhausted all self-help options:

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Michal Hocek

for scientific matters

michal.hocek@uochb.cas.cz

Zuzana

Zuzana Boháčová

for organizational matters

org@scnac.com