Past RiboWest Conferences

RiboWest 2025 (19th Annual)

University of Lethbridge

Keynote Speakers:

Anita Hopper 

Ohio State University

Samie Jaffrey

Cornell University

Amy Si-Ying Lee 

Harvard Medical School

Invited Speakers:

François Bachand 

Université de Sherbrooke

Bowen Li 

University of Toronto

Artem Babaian 

University of Toronto

Ewan McRae 

Houston Methodist Research Institute

RiboWest 2024 (18th Annual)

Ottawa: Joint conference of RiboWest, TrEnD, and RiboClub to celebrate the Launch of RNA Canada ARN. Find the full list of 2024 speakers here.

RiboWest 2023 (17th Annual)

University of Northern British Columbia

Keynote Speakers:

Tracy Johnson 

University of California, Los Angeles

Karissa Sanbonmatsu

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Michel Levin

University of Saskatchewan

RiboWest 2022 (16th Annual)

University of British Columbia and Simon Frasier University

Keynote Speakers:

Kathleen Collins 

University of California, Berkeley

Wendy Gilbert

Yale University

Invited Speakers:

Benoit Chabot 

Université de Sherbrooke

RiboWest 2019 (15th Annual)

University of Manitoba

Keynote Speakers:

Susan Baserga

Yale University

Sherif Abou Elala 

Université de Sherbrooke

Rodolphe Barrangov 

North Carolina State University

Ren-Jang Lin 

Beckman Research Institute 

RiboWest 2018 (14th Annual) University of Lethbridge Keynote Speakers: Nahum Sonenberg McGill University Steven Jones Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre Invited Speakers: Martin Hirst University of British Columbia Michelle Scott Université de Sherbrooke Jennifer Kugel University of Colorado, Boulder	Image
RiboWest 2017 (13th Annual) University of British Columbia Keynote Speakers: Tim Stasevich Colorado State University Jean-Pierre Perreault Université de Sherbrooke	Image
RiboWest 2016 (12th Annual) University of Lethbridge Keynote Speakers: Adam Arkin University of California, Berkeley Paul Lasko McGill University Invited Speaker: Eric Massé Université de Sherbrooke	Image
RiboWest 2015 (11th Annual) University of Alberta, Edmonton Keynote Speakers: Ron Breaker Yale University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Roy Parker University of Colorado, Boulder and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Invited Speaker: Daniel Lafontaine Université de Sherbrooke	Image
RiboWest 2014 (10th Annual) University of Lethbridge Keynote Speaker: Joan Steitz Yale University Invited Speakers: Brenda Bass University of Utah François Bachand Université de Sherbrooke	Image
RiboWest 2013 University of Northern British Columbia Keynote Speaker: Jorg Vogel Institute for Molecular Infection Biology Invited Speaker: Michelle Scott Université de Sherbrooke	Image
RiboWest 2012 University of Lethbridge Keynote Speaker: Marina Rodnina Max-Planck Institute Invited Speakers: Raymund Wellinger Université de Sherbrooke Wolfgang Wintermeyer Max-Planck Institute	Image
RiboWest 2011 University of Northern British Columbia Keynote Speaker: Peter Sarnow Stanford University Invited Speaker: Benoit Chabot Université de Sherbrooke	Image
RiboWest 2010 University of Lethbridge Keynote Speaker: Reinhard Lührmann Max-Planck Institute	Image
RiboWest 2009 University of Northern British Columbia Keynote Speaker: Manny Ares Jr. University of California, Santa Cruz	Image
RiboWest 2008 University of Lethbridge Keynote Speaker: Rachel Green Johns Hopkins University
RiboWest 2007 University of Northern British Columbia Keynote Speaker: Adrian Ferré-d’Amaré Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
RiboWest 2006 University of Northern British Columbia Keynote Speaker: Barbara Panning University of California at San Francisco	Image
RiboWest 2005 University of Northern British Columbia Keynote Speaker: Olke Uhlenbeck Northwestern University	Image