This workshop is a sequel to the international symposium ASOBIOTICS 2024, which took place in Würzburg last year (download the meeting report here). 

This year’s workshop - organized by Jörg Vogel, Redmond Smyth and Joanna Trylska - will be hosted by the NetRNA consortium and take place at the Institute of Molecular Biology of Plants, CNRS, Strasbourg (Léon Hirth conference room). 

There will be no registration fee, but we ask participants to register (registration will be possible shortly), primarily for planning reasons, as there will be coffee and a standing sandwich lunch. We will have a few pre-arranged lectures including a special session on siderophore-based ASO delivery. 

If you want to give a short oral presentation or present a poster on RNA target selection and ASO design, evaluation of ASO chemistry, delivery technologies and bacterial uptake mechanisms, and applications to model microbes, microbial consortia and phages, please send an informal email with your abstract to christian.froeschel(at)helmholtz-hiri.de. We will discuss your abstract in the organizing committee and try to accommodate it in the program. 

Regarding logistics, we will start at 9 a.m. and finish by 2:30 p.m. to allow for enough time to transition to the Strasbourg Congress Center where the Microbes & RNA 2025 conference starts at 4 p.m. on that Monday.