The topics are:
· Aging
· Apoptosis
· Biomarkers
· Biomedicine
· Biophysics
· Cancer
· Cell Biology
· Cell Death
· Clinical Laboratory Sciences
· Clinical Laboratory Sciences
· Cytoskeleton and Motility
· Developmental Biology
· DNA biology
· Drug development
· Ecology
· Endocrinology
· Environmental Biology
· Epigenetics
· Evolution
· Exosomes
· Genetics
· Genomics
· Immunology
· Metabolism
· Microbiology
· Microbiome
· Microscopy
· Neurobiology
· Parasitology
· Plant Biology
· Protein biology
· Protein translation
· Reactive Oxygen Species
· Regeneration
· Reproduction
· RNA biology
· Stem Cells
· Synthetic Biology
· Systems Biology and Bioinformatics
· Virology
· Zoology
The sessions are:
- Mitochondrial Genetics and Genomics
- RNA modifications in evolution and disease
- Epigenetics in evolution and disease
- Cancer Genomics
- Protein-DNA interactions
- Systems Biology in Multicellular Organisms
- Genome stability & DNA repair
- Big data in health and disease – challenges and opportunities
- System biology of stem cell behaviour
- In vitro, in vivo, and in silico protein evolution – convergence, complementation, and divergence (in memory of Dan Tawfik)
- Fundamental and Applicative Immunology
- Cellular phase separation: Biophysical principles and experiments
- Multiscale and Multimodal Microscopy methods in biology
- At the interface of chemistry and biology
- Cellular shapes and migration from theory to physiology
- Multimolecular complexes and their dynamics
- Mass Spectrometry: New Technologies and Their Applications
- Protein folding and disorder in the post AlphaFold era
- From cell mechanics to tissue morphogenesis
- Advances in chemical biology to uncover how to flip the (redox) switch in cells
- Exploring biology through chemistry and computation
- Diabetes and the metabolic syndrome – the redox point of view
- A new RNA world
- Innate and adaptive immune regulation in health and disease
- Precision immunity and personalized medicine
- Cancer: Therapeutic and Diagnostics
- Cancer Metastasis and Microenvironment
- New diagnostic tools for the early detection of cancer
- Musculoskeletal development and disease
- Viral immunity
- Study, Development and Rational Use of Immunopharmacological Agents
- Cancer and Immunity: from complexity to solutions
- Cancer Immunotherapies
- Immunity and cell death: crosstalk in health and disease
- Origins and dynamics of the immune system
- Stem cells on the initiation, progression, and treatment of cancer
- Combined cancer therapy
- Parasitology and tropical medicine (Biology of parasitism)
- SARS-CoV-2 Virology
- Microbiome in Health and Disease
- Molecular Mechanisms in the microbial world
- Host pathogen interactions
- New Horizons in Virology
- Bacteriophages and their implications
- Microbial communication and multicellularity
- Principles of microbial growth
- What is so special about plant specialized metabolites?
- Adaptation to a changing environment: from molecules to organisms
- Population level responses to Climate Change
- Biological interactions and behaviour in the Anthropocene
- From Mechanistic strategies of acclimation to changes in biogeochemical cycling
- Keeping time in a changing world
- Animal Sociality: collective behaviour, decision making and the transfer of information
- Frontiers in plant molecular genetics
- Mechanisms of Cell Fate Specification
- Multilevel research from cells to organism: decoding cytoskeleton mechanobiology
- Pluripotent stem cells: biology and applications
- Latest advances in extracellular vesicles: from bench to bedside
- Quantitative approaches to development
- New Challenges in Cell Death Biology
- Organelle structure and function
- Protein homeostasis in health and disease
- Stem cell-based models of development and regeneration
- Variations on a theme: non-canonical translation
- From Stem-cells to Germ-cells and back
- Proteolysis – pivot point in cellular regulation
- Biosensors and theranostic systems
- Environment and Microenvironment Effects on Endocrine Development and Function
- Structural biology at the forefront of novel drug development
- Adult stem cells and regenerative medicine
- Synthetic Biology – Artificial cells, artificial organelles, biomedicine
- Clinical Medicine in the Genomic Era
- Gene and Cell Therapies
- Study, Development and Rational Use of Immunopharmacological Agents
- Stem cell based emerging technologies
- Advances in heart failure related research
- Fertility Along the Phylogenetic Tree
- Research innovations and updates in Atherosclerosis and related diseases
- Molecular systems neuroscience
- The neural basis of social communication
- Neurobiology of Natural Behavoirs
- Neurological and Immunological trajectories: Parallels and meeting points
- Frontiers in Developmental Neuroscience
Student organized sessions:
- From the lab to the plate – BioConvergence for food development
Organized by students - Mechanism of Healthy Aging
Organized by students - Protein translation in health and disease
Organized by students
- From mutation to evolution
Organized by students - Tissue Repair in the Animal Kingdom
Organized by students - Biophysics of plants
Organized by students
- Molecular tools in wildlife conservation research
Organized by students - New Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering Applications
Organized by students - Biological control and plasticity from molecular circuits to human populations
Organized by students
Soft skills sessions:
- Soft skills – communicating your research to the general public
- Soft skills – imposter syndrome
- Soft skills – transitioning from experimental to computational biology
- Soft skills – The challenges and joys of science and parenthood: how to combine both successfully
- Soft skills – going to a postdoc abroad (From PhD to a Postdoc: Wiser Science Abroad)
Other morning sessions:
- MD / PhD sessions (2 session)
- Pitching in: scientists, education and the biology in between
- Advanced computational methodologies
- Emerging technologies and dual-use research concerns
- Advanced single molecule methods for life sciences