Yukio Kawahara (Osaka University); Steven Goodman (Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, USA); Parker Nichols (Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado at Denver, Colorado, USA); Xinggou Liang (Ocean University of China, Nucleic Acids Chemistry and Biotechnology Laboratory, Qingdao, China); Jeffrey Krall (Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado at Denver, Colorado, USA); Joon-Hwa Lee (Department of Chemistry and RINS, Gyeongsang National University, Gyeongnam, Korea); Taisuke Nakahama (Department of RNA Biology and Neuroscience, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan); Jacki Heraud-Farlow(St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research, Victoria, Australia); Vinod Subramani (Department of Precision Medicine, Institute for Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Therapeutics, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea)