The Destinies and Destinations of RNAs

The third biennial FASEB Summer Research Conference, “Intracellular RNA Sorting, Transport, and Localization,” was held June 6–11 in Snowmass, Colorado. Topics included the biological functions of localized RNAs, the nature of nuclear–cytoplasmic RNA transport, the role of signaling pathways in RNA localization, the nature of cis-acting localization elements within RNAs, the proteins that bind these elements, and the cellular mechanisms that achieve cytoplasmic transport and anchoring of RNAs to specific domains within cells.