Registration Fee 
The registration fee differs in Members or Non-Members of the RNA Society of Japan.

■Membership fee applies to the regular or student members of the RNA Society of Japan who have paid the annual membership fee for the year 2021. If you are not a member of the society and would like to participate in this meeting, please join this time.  

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■Registration is completed after payment of the registration fee.
  Please note that if payment cannot be confirmed by the following payment dates, your registration will be canceled. 
【Payment due on July 20, 2021, 12:00 JST】

■Please note that there will be no cancellation or refund of the registration fee once it has been paid.

 ★The Certification and Receipt★
 After confirming the payment of the registration fee, the certification and receipt will be sent to your registered email address in about two weeks.　
  *Please note that this does not apply immediately before or during the meeting. We will send you a copy as soon as possible.
   <Inquiry about the certificate and receipt : send email to  rna2020@jtb.com   JTB Sendai Branch>

Oral presentation

-Presentation Language : English

-Slides or movies: English

-Presentation Time : Approx. 15 to 20 minutes.  
-Distribution style : LIVE streaming & Video-on-demand.
*More details will be informed to whom his/her abstract is accepted.  

Poster presentation

-Presentation Language : Either Japanese or English
-Poster Language : English
-Poster Format : Either PDF or Video data (MP4 format) with audio

Invited Speaker

Details will be announced individually by email.

Paper size

A4 paper size (210 mm x 297 mm)  * Right to left writing 

Font

Times New Roman

Font size

Title : 14 points （Bol, First letter-Caps）
Authors’ name and Affiliations : 11points
Text: 12points

Margin

Top and bottom margins of 40mm and right and left margins of 35mm.

Authors /Affiliations

・Please put a circle “○” in front of the presenter’s name.
・Please put the corresponding numbers in superscript on the right side of authors’ name and
     on the left side of the affiliation.

Keyword

List three keywords and use 11points Times New Roman.

File name

Name of the file should include the presenter’s name (Given Name, Family Name), for example, “Akio Kanai.pdf”.

■The program committee will peer-review the submitted abstracts.
■Abstracts accepted will be announced to your registered email address by program committee in mid.June.    
■If many people apply for oral presentations, we may ask you to switch to making a poster presentation after careful examination. 
■If your poster presentation abstract is outstanding, we may recommend an oral presentation at the strong request of the program committee members.
■We accept all entries for the poster presentation. 

🎖Best Presentation Award

　The best presentation award will be given to undergraduate and graduate students for outstanding presentations. 

• Excellent presentations, which are within 10% of the total number of presentations made by undergraduate and graduate students, will be selected by the program committee as excellence awards. Of these, max. two of the most highly-evaluated presentations will be awarded as the “Aoba Prize” which is the highest prize, and as an extra prize, the RNA society of Japan will support travel expenses when making a presentation at overseas meetings until the next annual meeting.
• Award winners will be posted on the website after the meeting.
• The Aoba Award winners will make presentations at the annual meeting of the next fiscal year, including the progress of the research during the year, and receive the awards.  Also make a contribution to the newsletter about the experiences and presentations of research at overseas meetings.
• All presentations (oral and poster) by undergraduate and graduate students have a chance to win!!!
  We look forward to the exciting presentations of young researchers who forge the future of Japan’s RNA research.