Celebrating excellence in life sciences
Meeting of the EMBO communities
25 October – 1 November 2024 | Heidelberg, Germany
About the meeting
From 25 October to 1 November, 400 members of the EMBO communities and EMBO grantees will meet in Heidelberg, Germany, at the occasion of the 60th anniversary of EMBO. They will present and discuss their latest research findings, engage and network among each other. 120 newly elected EMBO Members and Associate Members will meet for the first time. Participation is possible for EMBO Members, EMBC Delegates, EMBO Young Investigators, Installation Grantees, Global Investigators, EMBO Fellows and by invitation only.
Other events to mark the birthday
From EMBO to ERC
Speakers
Keynote speakers
Francesco Cassata
Professor of Contemporary History, University of Genoa, IT
Katalin Karikó
EMBO Member
Senior Vice President at BioNTech, DE and Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, US
Maria Leptin
EMBO Member
President of European Research Council, BE
Ottoline Leyser
EMBO Member
Chief Executive of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), UK
EMBO Members, Young Investigators, Installation Grantees and Global Investigators speaking
Asaph Aharoni – Weizmann Institute of Science, IL | Ariel Amir – Weizmann Institute of Science, IL | Gad Asher – Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, IL | Amirhoushang Bahrami – Bilkent University, TR | Baskar Bakthavachalu – Indian Institute of Technology IIT, IN | Ana Banito – Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), DE | Pavel Baranov – University College, IE | Wendy S. Barclay – Imperial College, UK | Allison J. Bardin – Institut Curie, FR | Elias Barriga – Technische Universität Dresden, DE | Oded Béjà – Technion, IL | Pedro Beltrao – ETH Zurich, CH | Uri Ben-David – Tel Aviv University, IL | Dominique Bergmann – Stanford University, US | Ramray Bhat – Indian Institute of Science, IN | Shruti Bhatt – National University of Singapore, SG | Oliver Billker – Umeå University, SE | Valérie Borde – Institut Curie, FR | Joshua M. Brickman – Copenhagen University, DK | Silvia Bulgheresi – University of Vienna, AT | Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu – Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, DE | Debojyoti Chakraborty – CSIR – Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, IN | Hsu-Wen Chao – Taipei Medical University, TW | Maciej Cieśla – The International Institute of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines Polish Academy of Sciences, PL | Miguel L. Concha – Universidad de Chile, CL | Ana Luisa Correia – Champalimaud Foundation, PT | László Csanády – Semmelweis University, HU | Debasis Das – Indian Institute of Science, IN | George Davey Smith – University of Bristol, UK | Christos Delidakis – IMBB – FORTH, GR | Ádám Dénes – Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, HU | Omaya Dudin – ISREC, CH | Guillaume Duménil – Institut Pasteur, FR | Myrielle Dupont-Rouzeyrol – Institut Pasteur de Nouvelle-Calédonie, NC | Julien Duxin – University of Copenhagen, DK | Arnaud Echard – Institut Pasteur, FR | Alejo Efeyan – Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO), ES | Atakan Ekiz – Institute of Technology, TR | Johan Elf – Uppsala University, SE | Yaniv Elkouby – Hebrew University, IL | Ben Engel – Biozentrum, University of Basel, CH | Aurélie Ernst – Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), DE | Sandeep Eswarappa – Indian Institute of Science, IN | Christian Fankhauser – Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, CH | Michaela Fenckova – University of South Bohemia, CZ | Vilaiwan Fernandes – University College London, UK | Elif Nur Firat-Karalar – Koc University, TR | Rebecca C. Fitzgerald – MRC Cancer Unit, UK | Uri Frank – National University of Ireland, IE | Marco Fumasoni – Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, PT | Ilana Gabanyi – Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, PT | René Geurts – Wageningen University, NL | Angela Giangrande – Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC), FR | Sebastian Glatt – Jagiellonian University, PL | Nick Goldman – European Bioinformatics Institute, UK | Monica Gotta – Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, CH | Nir S. Gov – Weizmann Institute of Science, IL | Ita Gruic-Sovulj – University of Zagreb, HR | Ilona C. Grunwald Kadow – University of Bonn, DE | Marc Güell – Universitat Pompeu Fabra, ES | Olivier Hamant – École Normale Supérieure, FR | Ricardo Henriques – Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, PT | Lena Ho – Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, SG | Oliver Hobert – Columbia University, US | Susan P. Holmes – Stanford University, US | Erika L.F. Holzbaur – University of Pennsylvania, US | Martin Howard – John Innes Centre, UK | Yen Ping Hsueh – Academia Sinica, TW | Juha T. Huiskonen – University of Helsinki, FI | Neha Jain – Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), IN | Stephen Knox Jones Jr – Vilnius University, LT | Luca Jovine – Department of Biosciences and Nutrition & Center for Biosciences, Karolinska Institutet, SE | Marko Kaksonen – University of Geneva, CH | Siddhesh Kamat – Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, IN | Kinga Kamieniarz-Gdula – Adam Mickiewicz University, PL | Dennis Kappei – National University of Singapore, SG | Serkan Kır – Koc University, TR | Adam Kłosin – Nencki Institute, PL | Gou Young Koh – Institute for Basic Science, KR | Lumír Krejči – Masaryk University, CZ | Chuan Ku – Academia Sinica, TW | Christina Kyrousi – The University Mental Health Research Institute, GR | Madeline A. Lancaster – MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK | Nick Lane – University College London, UK | Claudia Langenberg – Queen Mary, University of London, UK | Tuuli Lappalainen – Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, SE | James C. Liao – Academia Sinica, TW | James Lightfoot – MPI for Neurobiology of Behavior, DE | Sally Lowell – University of Edinburgh, UK | Leif Ludwig – Charité – Universitätsmedizin, DE | Hansong Ma – Birmgingham University, UK | Wenbo Ma – The Sainsbury Laboratory, UK | Ewelina Małecka – International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, PL | Sebastian Marquardt – Lund University, SE | Maria Dolores Martin-Bermudo – CABD: Andalusian Centre for Developmental Biology & CSIC – Universidad Pablo de Olavide, ES | Ivan Matić – Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, DE | Christian Mayer – Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, DE | Nicholas McGranahan – University College London, UK | Hind Medyouf – Georg-Speyer-Haus, DE | Zoltán Molnár – University of Oxford, UK | Andreas Moor – ETH Zurich, CH | Anna Moroni – Università degli Studi, IT | George Mosialos – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR | Christian Münch – Goethe University, DE | Nur Mustafaoglu – Sabanci University, TR | László G. Nagy – Biological Research Centre, HU | Yuki Nakamura – RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, JP | Danny Nedialkova – MPI für Biochemie, DE | Kathy K. Niakan – University of Cambridge, UK | Serena Nik-Zainal – MRC Cancer Unit, UK | Mats Nilsson – Science for Life Laboratory, SE | Dónal O’Carroll – University of Edinburgh, UK | Anna Obenauf – IMP, AT | Charlotte Odendall – King’s College, UK | Snezhana Oliferenko – King’s College, UK | Rui Oliveira – Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, PT | Elin Org – University of Tartu, EE | Marieke Oudelaar – Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, DE | Isabel M. Palacios – Queen Mary, University of London, UK | Philippe Pasero – CNRS Institute of Human Genetics, FR | Tommaso Patriarchi – University of Zurich, CH | Patrick Pausch – Vilnius University, LT | Nenad Pavin – University of Zagreb, HR | Aleksandra Pekowska – Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, PL | Aravind Penmatsa – Indian Institute of Science, IN | Arturas Petronis – Vilnius University, LT | Corné M.J. Pieterse – Utrecht University, NL | Benjamin Podbilewicz – Technion, IL | Hana Polášek-Sedláčková – Institute of Biophysics, CZ | Gabriele Procaccini – Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, IT | Markus Ralser – Institute of Biochemistry, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, DE | Cesar Ramirez-Sarmiento – Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, CL | Zihe Rao – Tsinghua University, CN | Jochen C. Rink – MPI für Multidisziplinäre Naturwissenschaften, DE | Kateřina Rohlenová – Institute of Biotechnology, CZ | Gergely Rona – Institute of Enzymology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, HU | Guadalupe Sabio – Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), ES | Hassan Salem – MPI for Biology Mutualisms Research Group, DE | Emmanuel Saliba – Heimholz Institute for RNA-based Infection Reserach (HIRI), DE | Yardena Samuels – Weizmann Institute of Science, IL | Mikhail M. Savitski – EMBL, Heidelberg, DE | Paola Scaffidi – European Institute of Oncology (IEO), IT | Einat Segev – Weizmann Institute of Science, IL | Elodie Segura – Institut Curie, FR | Halyna Shcherbata – Institute of Cell Biochemistry, Hannover Medical School, DE | Arun Shukla – Indian Institute of Technology, IN | Pontus Skoglund – Francis Crick Institute, UK | Mónica M. Sousa – Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saude (i3S), PT | Maria Grazia Spillantini – University of Cambridge, UK | Tanja Stadler – ETH Zurich, CH | Yonatan Stelzer – Weizmann Institute of Science, IL | Miriam Stoeber – University of Geneva, CH | Joanna Sulkowska – University of Warsaw, PL | Grzegorz Sumara – Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, PL | Hedvig Tamman – University of Tartu, EE | Meng How Tan – Nanyang Technological University, SG | Ulrich Technau – University of Vienna, AT | Giuseppe Testa – Human Technopole, IT | Shubha Tole – Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai | Aleksandra Trifunovic – University of Cologne, DE | Güneş Ünal – Bogazici University, TR | Leoš Shivaya Valášek – Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, CZ | Alessandro Vannini – Human Technopole, IT | Teva Vernoux – École Normale Supérieure, FR | Steven West – University of Exeter, UK | Jonathan R. Whitlock – Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU), NO | Joachim Wittbrodt – Centre for Organismal Studies (COS), DE | Yun Xia – Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, SG | Emre Yaksi – Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU), NO | Nieng Yan – Tsinghua University, CN | Zhenbiao Yang – Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, CN | Karina Yaniv – Weizmann Institute of Science, IL | Alpha S. Yap – The University of Queensland, AU | Leonie S. Young – Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, IE | Raz Zarivach – Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, IL | Peijun Zhang – University of Oxford, UK | Alena Ziková – Biology Centre Czech Academy of Science, CZ |
EMBO Fellows speaking or presenting posters
Mohammad Afsar – Institut de génétique et de biologie moléculaire et cellulaire, Strasbourg, FR | Umberto Aiello – Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, US | Srinivas Allanki – The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK | Ángel Álvarez-Prado – University of Lausanne, Lausanne, CH | Maria Luz Annacondia Lopez – University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK | Lukas Anneser – Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, CH | Elad Arad – Columbia University, New York, US | Anais Bailles – Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, DE | Claudio Ballabio – The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK | Julia Batki – Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, DE | Cristian Beccaria – IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute – San Raffaele Hospital, Milano, IT | Antoni Beltran – Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, ES | Bente Benedict – Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, Copenhagen, DK | Dirk Benzinger – The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK | Udi Binshtok – Caltech, Pasadena, US | Jacob Bobonis – University of Vienna, Vienna, AT | Giulia Boezio – The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK | Shaunak Burse – University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK | Pedro Buzon Rodriguez – University of Zurich, Zurich, CH | Jesus Camara Almiron – University of Lausanne, Lausanne, CH | Lucia Cassella – Italian Institute of Technology, Naples, IT | Nagaraja Chappidi – Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, DE | Kasit Chatsirisupachai – EMBL Heidelberg, Heidelberg, DE | Tim Coorens – Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, US | Dariusz Czernecki – MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK | Ana Belen de Landeta – Kavli Institute of Systems Neuroscience. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, NO | André Dias – Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Bracelona, ES | Handan Melike Donertas – Leibniz Institute on Aging – Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI), Jena, DE | Anqi Dong – Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, BE | Mikołaj Dziurzyński – University of Florence, Florence, IT | Theresa Endres – Stanford University, Standford, US | Chee Kiang Ewe – Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, IL | Alvaro Fernandez – University of Zurich, Zurich, CH | Guadalupe Fernandez-Milmanda – VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent, BE | Helen Foster – Human Technopole, Milan, IT | Mélanie Foulon – University of Geneva, Geneva, CH | Alex Fratzl – IOB, Basel, CH | Joshua Frenster – Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, ES | Timothy Fuqua – University of Zurich, Zurich, CH | Alessandra Gentile – King’s College London, London, UK | Amir Giladi – Hubrecht Institute, UTRECHT, NL | Victor Girard – The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK | Camila Goldy – ENS de Lyon – RDP, Lyon, FR | Daniel González Acosta – University of Zürich, Zürich, CH | Yukihisa Goto – Department of Plant Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, CH | Amalie Grenov – Francis Crick Institute, London, UK | Ayelen Groisman – Institute of Physiology/University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, DE | Marta Gross – The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK | Andres Guillen Samander – Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, DE | Ella Hartenian – University Of Lausanne, Epalinges, CH | Alvaro Herrero Navarro – Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel, Basel, CH | Alexander Hooftman – EPFL, Lausanne, CH | Harry Horsnell – The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, AU | Marc-Antoine Jacques – University of Cambridge / EMBL-EBI, Cambridge, UK | Katarzyna Jonak – Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, PL | Joseph Mathew Kalappurakkal – Univeristy Of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK | Hanna Karvonen – Columbia University Medical Center, New York, US | Michaela Krafcikova – Utrecht University, Utrecht, NL | Andreas Küffner – Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, DE | Katrin Linda – VIB-KU Leuven, Leuven, BE | Hon-Wing Liu – DMF, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, CH | Chong Liu – EPFL, Lausanne, CH | Zhaowei Liu – Delft University of Technology, Delft, NL | Franziska Lorbeer – Institute for Molecular Pathology – Vienna, Vienna, AT | Madalena Madeira Reimão Pinto – Biozentrum Basel, Zürich, CH | Guy Mann – Max Planck institute for medical research, Heidelberg, DE | Vedrana Markovic – ENS de Lyon, Lyon, FR | Mathilde Mathieu – University of Turku, Turku, FI | Varsha Mathur – University of Vienna, Vienna, AT | Alexa McIntyre – University of Zurich, Zurich, CH | Ellen McMullen – University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, CZ | Zohar Meir – Gregor Mendel institute of molecular plant biology, Vienna, AT | Lucas Meirelles – EPFL, Lausanne, CH | Julia Meng – University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK | Sean Montgomery – CRG, Barcelona, ES | Juan Facundo Morici – Institut du Fer à Moulin, Paris, FR | Shannon Mostyn – Imperial College London, London, UK | Nicolas Nieto Moreno – University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK | Melvin Noe Gonzalez – University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK | Catarina Nunes – Imperial College London, London, UK | Gal Ofir – Max Planck Institute for Biology -Tuebingen, Tuebingen, DE | Gonçalo Oliveira – Prague Institute of Molecular Genetics, Prague, CZ | Tomas Pachano – IMP, Vienna, AT | Giulia Paci – UCL LMCB, London, UK | Umberto Palatini – The Rockefeller University, New York, US | Vasileios Papadogiannis – Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, ES | Nalle Pentinmikko – The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK | Alicia Pereira Calvo-Villamañán – Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, ES | Luigi Petrucco – Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Rovereto, IT | Deep Prakash – University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK | Prashant Rawat – ETH Zurich, ZURICH, CH | Virgínia Ribeiro de Andrade – Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, NL | Matteo Rossi – The Rockefeller University, New York City, US | Andrew Russell – Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, US | Luigi Russo – Italian Institute of Technology, Naples, IT | Hannah Rutledge – Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Munich, DE | Claudia Salat – University of Lausanne, Lausanne, CH | Hanna Salmonowicz – IMol Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, PL | Antonella Santoro – San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, Milan, IT | Nuno Santos – The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK | Koichi Sasaki – Imperial College London, London, UK | Guy Schleyer – Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute, Jena, DE | Claudia Schmidt – ETH Zürich, Zürich, CH | Alfredo Sciortino – CEA Grenoble, Grenoble, FR | Haran Shani-Narkiss – UCL, London, UK | William Shaw – Boston University, Boston, US | Valentina Sladky – Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, AT | Adria Sogues – VIB-VUB center for structural biology, Brussles, BE | Megan Sorensen – Institute of Microbial Cell Biology, Düsseldorf, DE | Christian Steinmetzger – Uppsala University, Uppsala, SE | Julian Swatler – IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Rozzano, Milan, IT | Giulio Valperga – Columbia University, New York, US | Sander Van der Verren – Francis Crick Institute, London, UK | Gregoire Vernaz – University of Basel, Basel, CH | Sören von Bülow – University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK | Kaivalya Walavalkar – University of Zurich, Zurich, CH | Philipp Walch – University of Lausanne, Epalinges, CH | David Wiener – University of Washington, Seattle, US | Katharina Woess – IRB Barcelona, Barcelona, ES | Duygu Yilmaz – University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK | Philipp Zuber – MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK |
Programme
17:00
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Registration
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18:00
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Welcome
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19:00
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Keynote lecture
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20:00
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Dinner
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09:00
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Presentations by the EMBO Fellows
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13:00
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Lunch
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14:00
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Promoting environmental sustainability and upholding research integrity in the lab
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15:00
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Presentations by the EMBO Fellows
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19:00
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Free evening
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09:00
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Presentations by the EMBO Fellows
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13:00
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Lunch
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14:00
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Presentations by the EMBO Fellows
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16:30
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Mentoring session
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18:30
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Dinner
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09:00
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Presentations by the EMBO Fellows
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12:00
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Lunch and poster session
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13:00
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EMBO Solutions training: Conflict management, Negotiation, Building psychological safety enviroment.
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18:00
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Feedback and Q&A
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19:00
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Free evening
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Operon - Large Auditorium
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Advanced Training Center (ATC) – Tschira auditorium
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09:00
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Welcome
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09:30
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Presentations by the new EMBO Members, Young Investigators, Global Investigators
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9:30
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Presentations by the new EMBO Members, Young Investigators, Global Investigators
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11:30
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Presentations by EMBO Installation Grantees
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12:30
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Lunch
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13:30
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Scientific publishing session / EMBO Press
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14:30
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Presentations by the new EMBO Members, Young Investigators, Global Investigators
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14:30
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Presentations by the new EMBO Members, Young Investigators, Global Investigators
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16:40
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EMBO Young Investigators feedback session
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17:10
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EMBO Young Investigators networking session
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17:40
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EMBO Fellows poster session
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19:40
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Dinner
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Operon - Large Auditorium
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Advanced Training Center (ATC) – Tschira auditorium
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09:00
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Presentations by the new EMBO Members, Young Investigators, Global Investigators
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09:00
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Presentations by the new EMBO Members, Young Investigators, Global Investigators
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12:15
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Lunch
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13:20
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Presentations by EMBO Installation Grantees
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13:20
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Presentations by the new EMBO Members, Young Investigators, Global Investigators
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14:20
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Presentations by the new EMBO Members, Young Investigators, Global Investigators
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15:00
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EMBO FORUM
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Katalin Kariko - Keynote
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Maria Leptin - Keynote
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Ottoline Leyser - Keynote
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Panel Discussion
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EMBO Lab Sustainability Award
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Operon - Large Auditorium
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Advanced Training Center (ATC) – Tschira auditorium
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09:00
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Francesco Cassata - Keynote
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09:45
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Presentations by the new EMBO Members, Young Investigators, Global Investigators
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9:45
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Presentations by the new EMBO Members, Young Investigators, Global Investigators
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12:45
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Lunch
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13:50
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Presentations by EMBO Installation Grantees
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13:50
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Presentations by the new EMBO Members, Young Investigators, Global Investigators
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14:50
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Presentations by the new EMBO Members, Young Investigators, Global Investigators
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19:00
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Dinner
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Operon - Large Auditorium
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Advanced Training Center (ATC) – Tschira auditorium
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09:00
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Presentations by the new EMBO Members, Young Investigators, Global Investigators
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09:00
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Presentations by the new EMBO Members, Young Investigators, Global Investigators
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13:30
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Lunch
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Departures
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Registration
Registration links were distributed to EMBO community members in advance. Should you have any questions or encounter any issues with the registration process, please reach out to the designated programme officers listed below.
Contact
Organizer
Fiona Watt
EMBO Director