The event aims to gather research leaders and young scientists from across the globe and covers a wide range of biochemistry topics including environmental biotechnology, life sciences, health and diseases. The conference will also feature special sessions focusing on biochemical education, science and society, women in science and public funds in transnational research.
Selected Speakers
- Bruce Beutler, UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Discovering therapeutic targets by random germline mutagenesis and automated meiotic mapping - Frances Brodsky, University College London, UK
Clathrin-mediated membrane traffic and its influence on human health - Fabrizio Chiti, University of Florence, Italy
Protein misfolding and aggregation: role in aging, neurodegeneration, non-neuropathic diseases and cancer - Elena Conti, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany
To degrade or not to degrade: molecular mechanisms of RNA homeostasis - Patrick Cramer, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Germany
Transcription of the genome - Anne Ephrussi, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany
RNA transport in a large polarised cell - Susan Gasser, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Loss of heterochromatin drives increased genome instability in aging and cancer - Robert Huber, Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Germany
The century of vision in molecular biology - Sergio Lavandero, Universidad de Chile, Chile
New molecular and cellular insights in cardiovascular diseases - Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA
Emerging imaging technologies to study subcellular architecture, dynamics and function - Alberto Mantovani, Humanitas University, Italy
Innate immunity and inflammation: from molecules to cancer and COVID-19 - Venki Ramakrishnan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
Initiation of translation by the ribosome - Brenda Schulman, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany
Signaling through the ubiquitin-proteasome system - Sandro Sonnino, University of Milano, Italy
Membrane lipids and neural cell signaling - John Walker, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, UK
The rotary mechanism of ATP synthase; how it is regulated and influences the assembly of the enzyme
