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The Joint FEBS/EMBO Lecture Course ‘Molecular mechanisms of ageing and regeneration: from hydra to humans’ is part of a series of Summer Schools with a 50-year tradition on the wonderful island of Spetses, Greece. It brings together leaders in the fields of ageing and regeneration with early-stage researchers, i.e. PhD students and postdocs. The meeting combines lectures, discussion groups, poster sessions, tutorials under the olive trees or on the beach, and common dinners. The intense nature of the course creates a familiar and inspiring atmosphere and fosters interactions between participants and speakers. It thus creates a unique training and networking opportunity.

Organizers: Christoph Englert, Tatjana Piotrowski

The conference sets the stage for the dissemination and exchange of new developments in diverse, emerging fields within chemical biology. It is the largest and longest-standing conference in the field, being a platform for inspiration, collaboration, and networking for researchers in academia and industry. We aim to provide the possibility for every chemical biologist to meet and discuss with peers topics ranging from tool development to biological applications, from computational protein design to new drug modalities.

Organizers: Yimon Aye ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND Bryan Dickinson THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, USA Maja Köhn UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG, GERMANY

This course will be offered in both onsite and virtual format, with different modules available to each format, and will provide the best and most exciting novelties in the field and focus on exploiting tools and concepts of SynBio for multi-scale engineering of bacterial systems. The intensive schedule includes lectures by experts in the field, discussions, poster sessions, and, importantly, an experimental program.

Organizers: EMBO

Mitochondrial research has advanced significantly over the last decade due to the development of new techniques that allow the investigation of mitochondrial functions from new angles. This Joint FEBS/EMBO Lecture Course will cover diverse and prevalent topics related to mitochondrial biology, including I) mitochondrial biogenesis and the role of mitochondria in the control of cellular metabolism, II) mitochondrial dynamics and organellar quality control, III) mitochondrial communication with the cell with a focus on membrane contact sites, and IV) engineering of mitochondrial functions through the development of novel tools to study and functionally manipulate these complex organelles.

Organizers: F.-Nora Vögtle, Ricarda Richter-Dennerlein

This meeting will involve scientists from population genetics, bioinformatics, microbiology, anthropology, archaeology and history and will strengthen future interactions in this young research field that is already changing the way we think about our past and will shape how we study genetic variation in the future.

Session topics
Our closest living and extinct relatives
Detecting patterns of selection
Reconstructing the genetic history of human populations
Ethical considerations and research practices in paleogenomics
Integrating genetic and historical evidence
Evolution of human pathogens, microbiome, and health
New methods and avenues for ancient genomic data analysis

Organizers: Johannes Krause MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY, GERMANY Ida Moltke UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN, DENMARK Maanasa Raghavan UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, USA Pontus Skoglund THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE, UK

On behalf of the Biomolecular Horizons 2024: Discover, Create, Innovate Organising Committee we are delighted to invite early career researchers to participate in the Young Scientist Program (YSP2024), taking place in the Macedon Ranges, Australia from Friday 20- Sunday 22 September 2024.

YSP2024 will bring together outstanding PhD candidates and early career researchers (<10 years post-PhD) from the FAOBMB region and IUBMB member countries for a 2-day scientific and networking program, prior to the Biomolecular Horizons 2024: Discover, Create, Innovate Congress.

During the 2-day scientific and networking program, the outstanding young scientists will have the opportunity to disseminate their research to an international audience, build their global network with peers, and promote their scientific career. As well as presentations from all participants, YSP2024 will include extensive networking opportunities and career-focused workshops. All participants will receive a Travel Fellowship to support their participation at both YSP2024 and Biomolecular Horizons 2024: Discover, Create, Innovate.

Vist the event website for benefits, program, eligibility and application process.

Organizers: FAOBMB/IUBMB

Deadline for applications: 29 February 2024