Building on the success of the previous meetings within this popular series* the 6th Nucleic Acids Conference will focus on understanding processes involving DNA and RNA at the molecular and chemical level, with a marked structural and mechanistic perspective. The meeting will provide a platform for researchers to discover and discuss the latest advances in the field of nucleic acids, DNA and RNA, with exciting opportunities to share and receive feedback on unpublished data. Discussion topics will include; DNA replication DNA repair DNA recombination RNA structure and function Translation and the ribosome Silencing CRISPR/Cas and genome editing Gene regulation and riboswitches RNA catalysis Scientific chairs: David Lilley (University of Dundee) and Wei Yang (National Institutes of Health) * This meeting is a continuation of the Zing Conferences Nucleic Acids series.