The meeting will comprise 3 keynote addresses and plenary lectures from outstanding invited speakers in Chemical Biology, covering topics such as protein and DNA origami, proteins engineering, biophysical aspects of cell trafficking, membrane biophysics etc. There will also be four sessions of poster presentations. Three hundred participants from Swiss universities, various research institutes in Switzerland and neighbouring countries are expected to attend.
List of speakers
Satellite meeting
A joint NCCR Chemical Biology/ LS2 satellite meeting is organised prior to the event for students and postdocs. The meeting will include selected short talks given by the young researchers in the presence of two of the plenary speakers. The meeting will be concluded with a Q&A session on Academic Careers, chaired by three chairmen (Prof. Hiroaki Suga, Prof. Evan Miller and Prof. Yamuna Krishnan) and early arriving plenary speakers. Master and PhD students are invited to apply for an oral presentation at this event on the Symposium website. Registration to the main Symposium event is compulsory for attending the Satellite event.
Travel grants
Junior scientists (PhD students, Postdocs) may apply for a Symposia Fee Waiver/ Travel Grant (up to CHF 300 .- cap) when submitting their abstract. The scientific organizers will select the recipients of this fellowship during the abstract review process and winners will be notified by e-mail.
List of speakers
- Jason Chin, Prof. of Chemistry & Chemical Biology at the University of Cambridge - Programme Leader at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC-LMB) - Head of the Centre for Chemical & Synthetic Biology (CCSB) - Cambridge, UK
- Pietro de Camilli, MD - Prof. of Neuroscience and Professor of Cell Biology, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Chair, Department of Neuroscience - Director, Kavli Institute for Neuroscience and Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair (CNNR), Yale University, USA
- Aranzazu del Campo, Prof in Materials Chemistry, Head of the Program Division "Dynamic Biomaterials", INM – Leibniz-Institut for new materials – Saarbrücken, Germany
- Hendrik Dietz, Professor for Biophysics, Physics Department, Technische Universität München, Germany
- Dennis Dougherty, Prof. of Chemistry, Caltech, USA
- Nikta Fakhri, Assistant Professor of Physics, MIT, USA
- Shiroh Futaki, Prof. of Chemistry, Division of Biochemistry, Biofunctional Design-Chemistry, Kyoto University, Japan
- Barbara Imperiali, Prof. of Chemistry & Prof. of Biology, MIT, Cambridge MA, USA
- Tarun Kapoor, Prof. in Chemical Biology, The Rockefeller University, USA
- Evan Miller, Ass. Prof. of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology, Berkeley University, USA
- Atul N. Parikh, Prof. in Biomedical engineering, UC Davies, USA
- Paul Wender, Prof. of Chemistry, Stanford University, USA
Satellite meeting
A joint NCCR Chemical Biology/ LS2 satellite meeting is organised prior to the event for students and postdocs. The meeting will include selected short talks given by the young researchers in the presence of two of the plenary speakers. The meeting will be concluded with a Q&A session on Academic Careers, chaired by three chairmen (Prof. Hiroaki Suga, Prof. Evan Miller and Prof. Yamuna Krishnan) and early arriving plenary speakers. Master and PhD students are invited to apply for an oral presentation at this event on the Symposium website. Registration to the main Symposium event is compulsory for attending the Satellite event.
Travel grants
Junior scientists (PhD students, Postdocs) may apply for a Symposia Fee Waiver/ Travel Grant (up to CHF 300 .- cap) when submitting their abstract. The scientific organizers will select the recipients of this fellowship during the abstract review process and winners will be notified by e-mail.
