Editorial: Nar Awards 2014

For the ninth year running, NAR and Oxford Journals have provided sponsorship and awarded travel bursaries and prizes to students in recognition of their outstanding achievements. This year, sponsorship and prizes were given at 13 different meetings. A list of the awards is presented below. Our warm congratulations go to the prize winners. Travel Sponsorship IS3NA XXI: International Round Table on Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids (IRT2014) Poznan, Poland 24–28 August 2014 Poster Prizes CRISPR 2014 Berlin, Germany 14–16 May 2014 Alexander Hynes (Université Laval, Québec, Canada) Adaptation in CRISPR-Cas immunity is driven by defective phage 16th Symposium on Chemistry of Nucleic Acid Components Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic 08–13 June 2014 Dieter Buyst (Ghent University, Belgium) Towards DNA based esterases: uncovering Hoogsteen face regulation of the pKaH of a tethered imidazole functionality by NMR and molecular dynamics Non-coding RNA – From Basic Mechanisms to Cancer Heidelberg, Germany 22–25 June 2014 Debojyoti Chakraborty (Dresden University of Technology, Germany) Systematic dissection of long non-coding RNAs involved in the regulation of embryonic stem cell pluripotency 2014 FASEB “Machines on Genes” meeting Snowmass, CO, USA 22–27 June 2014 Erich Chapman (University of Colorado, CO, USA) Xrn1-resistant RNA structures: Wrenches in a machine.