Events calendar: page 4

Conference Language: The official conference language will be English.
Area of expertise: biocatalysis and biotransformations.

The biocat congress is part of a biennial conference series established in 2002. It provides an overview of the latest advances in biocatalysis and biotransformations by integrating the know-how of experts and early-career researchers from academia and industry. biocat2024 will cover the following topics:

• AI and computational methods
• Structure function analysis and enzyme engineering
• Enzymatic and whole-cell biotransformations
• Reaction cascades: Electro-, chemo- and photoenzymatic synergies
• Bioprocess engineering, design of smart reactors
• Facing climate change: Sustainability and circular bioeconomy

Organizers: Conventus Congressmanagement & Marketing GmbH

Since 2009, this essential Science Research Conference (SRC) has provided new and exciting insights into NAD+ biology, one of the most rapidly growing fields in biology.

This discipline has substantial medical implications with direct relevance to autoimmune diseases, cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, diabetes, and more. It brings together topical fields of research, including PARP biology, sirtuin biology, NAD+ metabolism, and signaling by NAD metabolites, such as NAADP. With pharmaceutical companies showing great interest in NAD+ biology due to the importance of its regulation in human disease and NAD’s role in aging, there has been growing interest in translational studies.

Organizers: Andreas H. Guse, PhD; Santina Bruzzone, PhD; Xiaolu Cambronne, PhD; Michael O. Hottiger, DVM, PhD

This workshop aims to bring together and help establish an emerging community with the common goal of four dimensional reconstruction of mammalian development. A number of long­standing questions surrounding the early development of mammals have been inaccessible to molecular research due to technical limitations and poor physical accessibility of these processes. How is the body plan established in the early embryo? How is morphogenesis coordinated with lineage specification? The recent revolutions in advanced light microscopy and bioimage informatics have opened up completely new avenues to address these questions and make fundamental advances in our understanding of the developing mammalian embryo

Organizers: an Ellenberg EMBL HEIDELBERG, GERMANY Kate McDole MRC-LMB CAMBRIDGE, UK Isabel Espinosa Medina JANELIA RESEARCH CAMPUS, USA Robert Prevedel EMBL HEIDELBERG, GERMANY Shankar Srinivas UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK

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