Venue information

The Biochemical Society Focused Meeting 'Biogenesis and turnover of small RNAs' will take place at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, UK.

The Royal Society of Edinburgh
22-26 George Street
Edinburgh
EH2 2PQ
 

With streets steeped in history and a thriving cultural scene, the City of Edinburgh offers the perfect balance between all things traditional and contemporary.

The UNESCO World Heritage Site at the heart of the city combines the medieval Old Town, the Georgian New Town and award winning modern architecture. Explore Edinburgh at your leisure and you'll see views that make for perfect picture postcards.

The Lothian region consists of East Lothian, Midlothian and West Lothian where you can discover tales of Scotland's past. Stately homes, dramatic castles and medieval chapels all provide a sense of Scotland's impressive history.

For more information please visit:

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Local City Guide

Visit East Lothian

Travelling to the venue

By air: The flight from London takes around an hour and there are over 40 flights from London airports every day. Regular services arrive in Edinburgh from other major UK cities and there are frequent scheduled flights from 40 European airports, including Amsterdam, Paris, Frankfurt and Zurich. Continental Airlines offers a daily direct service from New York's Newark airport, while Delta Airlines offer a daily direct flight between Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and Edinburgh. Further transatlantic flights arrive at Glasgow International Airport, which is one hours drive away.

Edinburgh International Airport is 8 miles (12km) west of the city centre.

The Airlink operates a frequent bus service (every 10 minutes at peak times) between Edinburgh Airport and the city centre, with designated stops en route. Taxi's are also widely available at the airport and cost around £15 to the city center.

More information can be found on the Edinburgh International Airport website.

Car hire is available at the airport . The airport is a 20-30 minute car drive from the city centre.

By train: Waverley Station is a five minute walk from the Royal Society. Edinburgh is easy to reach by train, the Great North Eastern Railway (GNER) is just under 5 hours between Edinburgh (Waverley) and London (Kings Cross).
 

ScotRail operate an overnight service, the Caledonian Sleeper, between London (Euston) and Edinburgh 6 nights a week.

Edinburgh train station has good rail links to other major cities too. York, Newcastle, Inverness and Aberdeen are all about 2 hours away by train, and Glasgow is just 50 minutes away. 

The following companies can provide more information:

Linking Edinburgh and London - GNER, contact number +44 (0) 8457 48 49 50

Linking Edinburgh to other towns and cities in England: Virgin, contact number +44 (0) 8457 22 23 33

Travelling to and from Edinburgh to all around Scotland: First Scotrail, contact number +44 (0) 8457 48 49 50

For all your rail travel requirements: Traveline, contact number +44 (0) 8706 08 26 08

By car: Because Edinburgh is located at the heart of the Scotish motorway network, it can be surprisingly quick and easy to get there by car.

To help plan your journey you might find The AA Route Planner and the RAC Route Planner useful.

If you are arriving by car please note that parking near The Royal Society is limited to meter parking only which can prove costly. The nearest car parks are at the St James centre; Leith Street or Castle Terrace, where there are 24 hour car parks. Please allow 10-15 minutes after parking to get to the venue.

By bus: Bus services to and from Edinburgh arrive/depart from St Andrew Square which is a five minute walk away. If you are on a budget then buses are a great travel option. There are regular coach services to Edinburgh from all major UK cities.

The following companies can provide more information:

Linking Edinburgh to England: National Express, contact number +44 (0) 8705 80 80 80

Linking Edinburgh to England and to cities across Scotland: Mega Bus, contact number +44 (0) 1738 639 095

Linking Edinburgh to towns and cities across Scotland: Scottish Citylink, contact number +44 (0) 8705 50 50 50

Or

Stagecoach, contact number +44 (0) 8706 08 26 08

By taxi: Taxis can be found at designated taxi ranks in the city or you can simply hail taxis as they pass by. Some taxis are adapted to carry wheelchairs.

Registration fees and forms

Earlybird registration deadline: 14 December 2012.

Registration is now closed. If you would like to attend this conference please contact theConference Office. 

Non residential registration fees (no accommodation)
Full/Early Career Researcher Member: £135
Non Member: £225
Student Member: £85

Registration includes lunches, refreshments and the conference dinner on 16 January 2013. Registration does not include accommodation.

Note: Full/Early Career Researcher Members and Student Members must be members of the Biochemical Society.
 
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Members of the New Zealand Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology are eligible to register at member rates. Please ensure you enter your membership number during registration. For details please see International Associate Membership.

Payment of fees

All payments must be made prior to the meeting. Please note that invoices for registration fees will not be issued.

Credit card/Debit card
(Preferred method of payment, and the only acceptable form of payment for online registration).

The following credit/debit cards will be accepted:
Mastercard, American Express and Visa.

If you wish to pay by cheque, bank draft or bank transfer please contact the Conference Office.

Confirmation email

At the final stage of the online registration process, all registered delegates will be directed to a confirmation page and receive a separate email to confirm registration details. This confirmation should be checked carefully to ensure that all requirements are correct. In particular, the spelling of names and affiliations should be checked, as this information will be used to create badges.

Confirmation emails also act as a receipt. Please bring a copy of the email with you to the meeting.

If you have not received a confirmation email two weeks before the meeting, please contact the Conference Office.

Registering at the meeting

Please bring your confirmation email to present at the registration desk at the meeting. Badges will be issued upon registering and, for security reasons, must be worn for the duration of the meeting.

Student bursaries

The maximum bursary available for a Focused Meeting or Annual Symposium is £200 in the UK and £300 overseas. The maximum grant available for one day Hot Topic Events is £100 in the UK and £150 overseas.
 

For an Independent Meeting sponsored by the Society the maximum bursary available is £100.

• Students can apply for a Student Bursary if they are a member of the Society by the closing date for poster abstract submission for the particular event they wish to attend.
• If you apply for a Student Bursary  to attend a meeting you must submit a poster abstract for presentation at the meeting.
• Students may only apply for one Student Bursary in any year.

How to apply:
The online registration form for the meeting should be completed along with the Student Bursary Application Form.
 
Subject to approval, applicants will receive a bank transfer of the appropriate amount of funds after the meeting. Payment of funds will be initiated within 10 working days after the last day of the meeting. Please note that overseas payments might take longer to reach the recipient's account. 

The maximum amount for travel expenses that will be reimbursed will be at the level of the current Young Persons Railcard fare. If the application does not use up the full amount of the Bursary, the balance cannot be transferred to another meeting. Please note that you may apply for a bursary at the Registration Desk, or up to four weeks after the meeting.
 

Poster abstract submission

Abstract submission deadline: EXTENDED 12 November 2012.

Abstract submission is now closed, if you would like to submit an abstract please contact the conference office: conferences@biochemistry.org. 

Abstract Submission Guidelines
The maximum number of words allowed in your abstract body is 230. Please note that author details will be added on the final page of the submission process (do not add your author list or affiliation details to either of the fields on this page). The preferred method for submission is to type your abstract straight into the online submission form, or alternatively paste the text from a word-processed document. The ‘Full title’ should be presented sentence case (not in Title Case or BLOCK CAPITALS), that is only the first letter of the title or appropriate terms such as abbreviations or proper nouns should be upper case. Please do not include tables, figures or references in the abstract as these will be removed before your abstract is published.
 

Has my abstract been accepted?
After submitting your abstract you should receive a submission number which will identify your abstract. If you have not received a submission number, then please contact the Conference Office.

Approximately 2 weeks after the abstract submission deadline has passed, you will receive an email informing you whether your poster has been accepted or not and informing you of your poster number and session time.

All poster abstracts will be available to view online two weeks prior to the meeting.

Poster Board size: 0.9m wide x 1.2m high (portrait).

Velcro to mount your poster will be provided at the meeting.
 

The Biochemical Society is working with the new open access poster repository, F1000 Posters, to host online the posters from this event.  Authors will be asked if they wish to deposit a PDF of there poster presentation(s) from this meeting during the abstract submission process.

Faculty of 1000 is expanding its award-winning post-publication literature evaluation service by including evaluations of posters from across the major life science and medical conferences. The Faculty of ~10,000 world-renowned experts will be regularly reviewing new posters deposited in F1000 Posters for selection and evaluation in F1000. The selection of poster PDFs for evaluation will bring the attention of a much wider audience than can be achieved by attending a single conference.  

Accommodation

The George Hotel
Contact: Jacqui Shields
19-21 George Street
Edinburgh
EH2 2PB
0131 225 1251
Jacqui.Shields@principal-hayley.com
www.thegeorgehotel.co.uk
Rates: SD pp inc B/F - £110

Apex Waterloo Place Hotel
Contact: Kim Kjaerside
23-27 Waterloo Place
Edinburgh
EH1 3BH
0131 523 1819
edinburgh.reservations@apexhotels.co.uk
www.apexhotels.co.uk
Rates: SD pp inc B/F - £105

Hotel Indigo
Contact: Craig Small
51-59 York Place
Edinburgh
EH1 3JD
0131 557 3334
salesmanager@hiedinburgh.co.uk
www.hiedinburgh.co.uk
Rates: SD pp inc B/F - £99

Old Waverley Hotel
Contact:Caroline MacIntosh
43 Princes street
Edinburgh
EH2 2BY
0844 445 7380
reservations@oldwaverley.co.uk
www.oldwaverley.co.uk
Rates: SD pp inc B/F - £89

The Point Hotel
Contact: Valerie Mentiplay
34 Bread Street
Edinburgh
EH3 9AF
T: 0131 221 5555
reservations@pointhoteledinburgh.co.uk
www.pointhoteledinburgh.co.uk
Rates: SD pp inc B/F - £69

Fraser Suites
Contact: Sharon Stuart
12-26 St Giles Street
Edinburgh
EH1 1PT
0131 221 7200
sales.edinburgh@fraserhospitality.com
www.fraserhospitality.com
Rates: SD PP inc B/F - £119

Biochemical Society Transactions Poster Prize

A Biochemical Society Transactions Poster Prize was awarded to Geok Chin Tan (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) for the poster entitled "Canonical microRNAs and their isomiRs have different target genes".

Refreshments

At the meeting
Lunch and refreshments will be provided for all attendees and will be included in the registration fee.

Dietary requirements

Should you have any special dietary requirements, please indicate this on the registration form. Alternatively, please inform the Conference Office as changes to the menu cannot be made at the meeting.

Disabled access

Disabled access is available. If you require assistance during the meeting please contact the Conference Office.

Sponsors and trade exhibition

The following companies will be sponsoring the meeting:

Biochemical Society Transactions
Portland Press Ltd

Exiqon

Thermo Fisher Scientific 

Toray 

Please feel free to view our sponsorship and trade exhibition opportunities at this meeting.

If you are interested in sponsoring or exhibiting at the meeting please contact the Conference Office.

 

Refunds

Cancellations will be accepted in writing until 1 January 2013, and a refund (less £15 administration charge) will be issued.

After this date, neither full nor partial refunds can be given. Please note that refunds of less than £15 cannot be issued. 

Official letters of invitation

Official letters of invitation, which are intended to assist with administrative arrangements in certain countries will only be issued when the individual has completed the following criteria:

1) Submitted an abstract which has been approved by the meeting scientific organizer for inclusion into the relevant meeting

2) Sent a letter from the head of their academic department on University headed paper saying why they need to attend the meeting in relation to their research

3) Registered and paid for the meeting
Such letters do not imply commitment of financial or other support by the organizers

Tweeting and Blogging

With increasing frequency, conference attendees at scientific conferences are using Twitter or blogs to share and highlight interesting information discussed at conferences, and also to network with each other. The Biochemical Society has created the following policy with regards to the use of networking sites at Biochemical Society conferences.

The Biochemical Society’s Twitter and blogging policy

Harden Conferences and Hot Topic Events
Proceedings and abstracts of Harden Conferences and Hot Topic Events are unpublished, in order to promote the exchange of novel information and ideas.  Delegates are asked to respect the closed nature of the conferences, and not to report information discussed via Twitter, Facebook, blogs and similar social networks.

Focused Meetings, Workshops and Annual Symposia

The Biochemical Society encourages the discussion of its conferences via Twitter, Facebook and similar social networks.  In order to promote discussion and the exchange of information, delegates who wish to tweet are asked to use the Biochemical Society hashtag:

#biochemsoc

Speakers will be made aware of this policy, and have the right to ask delegates not to disseminate their research via the Internet. If a Speaker makes this request, delegates are asked not to discuss the relevant work in this way. Delegates are respectfully asked to refrain from communicating using mobile devices whilst lectures are in progress.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

Biogenesis and turnover of small RNAs has been approved for the purposes of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) by the Society of Biology.  Participants can claim 54 credits for attending. These points are valid if attendees are registered on the Society of Biology CPD scheme.  Approval signifies that the Society of Biology recognizes the Biogenesis and turnover of small RNAs event is of merit to the development needs of participants. Attendees can request a CPD certificate for this conference whilst completing the post event feedback questionnaire, which will be sent by email to all attendees shortly after the event.

Contact Us

If you require any further information, please contact:

The Conference Office
The Biochemical Society
Charles Darwin House
12 Roger Street
London WC1N 2JU

UK

Email: conferences@biochemistry.org

Telephone (Conference Office): +44 (0)207 685 2450
Telephone (Main reception): +44 (0)207 685 2400
Fax: +44 (0)207 685 2467

 

Disclaimer

The information on this website is regularly updated. Although at the time of publication the information contained on this web site is believed to be correct, neither the Speakers, Organizers nor the Biochemical Society assume any responsibility for any errors or omissions herein contained.

Delegates who plan on attending meetings are advised to check the website has not been amended, and if in doubt, contact the Conference Office to confirm meeting start and finish dates before booking transport and accommodation.

In addition, delegates who have not received confirmation of their registration should contact the Conference Office to confirm their attendance before making arrangements to attend.