Workshop
ASOBIOTICS 2025
Antibiotics and microbiome editors based on programmable targeting of RNA
Sept 1, 2025 – Strasbourg, France
ASOBIOTICS 2025 is an informal workshop open to everyone interested in the basic principles and diverse applications of RNA-targeting short antisense oligomers (ASOs) to modulate gene expression in bacteria. The Workshop takes place on September 1.
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This workshop is a sequel to the international symposium ASOBIOTICS 2024, which took place in Würzburg last year.
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, 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 asobiotics2025(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.
Preliminary program
9:00 – 9:15 Welcome Remarks by Jörg Vogel, Redmond Smyth & Joanna Trylska
9:15 – 10:45 Session 1 (Chair: Isabelle Schalk, University of Strasbourg, FR)
9:15 – 9:30 Introduction by session chair
9:30 – 9:55 Joanna Trylska, University of Warsaw, PL
9:55 – 10:20 Willem Velema, Radboud University, NL
10:20 – 10:35 Chandradhish (CD) Ghosh, University & Helmholtz Würzburg, DE
10:35 – 11.00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:20 Session 2 (Chair: t.b.a.)
11:00 – 11:25 Tetsushi Mori, Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology, JP
11:25 – 11:40 Davide Roncarati, University of Bologna, IT
11:40 – 11:55 Tais Franco de Carvalho, University of Würzburg, DE
11:55 – 12:20 Jörg Vogel, Helmholtz Würzburg, DE
12:20 – 13:20 Lunch break
13:20 – 14:15 Session 3 (Chair: Lars Barquist, University of Toronto, CA)
13:20 – 13:45 Redmond Smyth, CNRS Strasbourg, FR
13:45 – 14:00 Giorgia Danti, University of Würzburg, DE
14:00 – 14:15 Igor Resende, University of Porto, PT
14:15 – 14:30 Wrap up & farewell
14:30 End of workshop, transfer to Microbes & RNA conference
Confirmed session chairs and speakers
Lars Barquist, University of Toronto, California
Tais Franco de Carvalho, University of Würzburg, Germany
Giorgia Danti, University of Würzburg, Germany
Chandradhish (CD) Ghosh, Helmholtz Institute and University of Würzburg, Germany
Tetsushi Mori, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
Igor Resende, University of Porto, Portugal
Davide Roncarati, University of Bologna, Italy
Isabelle Schalk, University of Strasbourg, France
Redmond Smyth, CNRS Strasbourg, France
Joanna Trylska, University of Warsaw, Poland
Willem Velema, Radboud University, The Netherlands
Jörg Vogel, Helmholtz Institute and University of Würzburg, Germany