The 24^th annual meeting of the RNA Society took place from June 11^th to 16^th in the beautiful city of Krakow, Poland. It was a scientifically very stimulating conference with great talks on virtually all aspects of RNA biology. I am very happy that our abstract on how Drosophila Sister-of-Sex-lethal antagonizes Sex-lethal auto-regulatory feedback to reinforce a male-specific gene expression pattern was selected for a talk.

The conference also was the perfect opportunity to catch up with colleagues many of which have become close friends over the years – the RNA society truly has become my scientific family!