On behalf of the organizing committee, we are delighted to welcome you to Caparica (Lisbon, Portugal), for the 1st International conference in Splicing, (SPLICING 2016, www.splicing2016.com).

The main aim of the conference is to give the opportunity to all of us working with splicing to present our latest results. The idea is a 3 day-conference to be held in September of 2016 in Caparica, Lisbon (Costa de Caparica) during days 12th, 13th, and 14th.

Some of the Key features of this conference are:
• Low cost, the fees of the congress are €200 for students €200 for accompanying persons and €450 for non-students. In this price it is included breakfast, lunch, dinner and coffee breaks. To have all the aforementioned items included in the congress fee, registration in the congress venue is mandatory.
• Low room cost per night, €100, single room or €80 double room. This price includes free access to indoor and outdoor pools, free access to SPA and Gym and the possibility of using the golf course.
• The most important companies dealing with splicing applications will attend the event.

Symposium Topics:
• RNA Splicing
• Protein Splicing
• DNA Splicing
• Alternative Splicing
• Splicing and disease
• Splicing and nanotechnology
• Autosplicing
• Espliceosome
• Computacional Biology of Splicing
• Translational Applications

Plenary speakers,
• Hermona Soreq
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
• Francisco Ernesto Barelle
International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Italy
• Thomas Cooper
Baylor College of Medicine, USA
• Benoit Chabot
Université de Sherbrooke, Canada

KeyNote Speakers
• Guillaume Hautbergue
The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
• Marcella Vacca
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy