Four keynote speakers will present overviews takling this year's focus:
- Reinhard Lührmann (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany)
- Mary O'Connell (Masarykova University, Czech Republic)
- Witold Filipowicz (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland)
- Anne Ephrussi (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany)