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Due to the uncertain circumstance resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, international travel restrictions and the need for physical distancing, Aptamers 2021 will be held virtually at its usual time of the year in spring.

Meeting focus: Therapeutic, diagnostic, analytical and basic research applications of aptamers

Provisional meeting format: The meeting will run over two days. Each day will consist of invited presentations by senior scientists, and submitted short presentations by emerging researchers and students. There will also be an opportunity to present posters digitally, including flash-talks by poster presenters.

• Day 1: 14th April 2021, 1400h BST (to be coordinated by Dr Maureen McKeague, McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
• Day 2: 15th April 2021, 0800h BST (to be coordinated by Dr Sarah Shigdar, Deakin University,  Melbourne, Australia)

Invitation to submit an abstract: We invite emerging aptamer researchers and students to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations. We particularly encourage final year doctoral students and early/mid career postdoctoral researchers/junior group leaders to submit oral abstracts, as we believe this virtual event will provide their research an excellent exposure, critical analysis by attending senior researchers and new career opportunities.

Our accompanying antisense and therapeutic nucleic acids meeting, Oligo 2021 (Oxford) Virtual, will be held on 20-21 April 2021.

We hope very much that you can join us.