David R. Liu
Harvard University
USA
Overview
Conference Overview
This year we are celebrating 10 years of the EMBO Chemical Biology Conference. The conference sets the stage for the dissemination and exchange of new developments in diverse, hot fields within Chemical Biology, being the platform for inspiration, collaboration and networking for researchers in academia and industry. Over 300 participants can meet the 22 speakers and other top researchers whilst at the same time discussing their own data in three large poster sessions. About 15 short talks and 30 flash talks will be selected from the participants. We aim to provide the possibility for every chemical biologist to meet and discuss with peers, from tool development to biological applications, from computational drug design to synthetic chemistry. Most importantly, participants come to see where the field stands in its full breadth. The past meetings were very successful in this respect, ensuring that this conference on chemical biology remains the largest and broadest meeting in this field.
Session Topics
- Drug and target discovery
- Chemical biology of posttranslational modifications
- Molecular optogenetics and synthetic biology
- Nucleotide chemical biology
- Peptide and protein modifications
- Redox and metabolic enzyme chemical biology
- Chemical biology of cellular reprogramming
History of this conference
The conference Chemical Biology 2010 was one of the first conferences held at the new Advanced Training Centre at EMBL Heidelberg. Due to the large success of the initial conferences in 2008 and 2010 the following conferences in this biennial series became a member of the family of EMBO-funded conferences. With about 25 invited speakers, 15 oral presentations chosen from the abstracts, 200 posters and over 300 participants, this conference series became a truly impressive success.
The conference report of Chemical Biology 2016 in ChemBioChem is available online.
Speakers
Keynote Speakers
Stuart L. Schreiber
Harvard University and Broad Institute
USA
Carsten Schultz
EMBL Heidelberg, Germany and Oregon Health & Science University
USA
Speakers
Yimon Aye
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Switzerland
Jeffrey W. Bode
ETH Zurich
Switzerland
Michelle C. Chang
University of California, Berkeley
USA
Peng Chen
Peking University
China
Michael S. Cohen
Oregon Health & Science University
USA
Nathanael S. Gray
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
USA
Itaru Hamachi
Kyoto University
Japan
Claudia Höbartner
University of Würzburg
Germany
Henning J. Jessen
University of Freiburg
Germany
Ludger Johannes
Institut Curie
France
Shana Kelley
University of Toronto
Canada
Stefan Knapp
Goethe-University Frankfurt
Germany
Stefan Matile
University of Geneva
Switzerland
Huib Ovaa
Leiden University Medical Center
The Netherlands
Andrea Rentmeister
University of Münster
Germany
Floris van Delft
Wageningen University and Research
The Netherlands
Jan C.M. van Hest
Eindhoven University of Technology
The Netherlands
Priscilla Yang
Harvard Medical School
USA
Shigeyuki Yokoyama
RIKEN
Japan
Scientific Organisers
Maja Köhn
University of Freiburg
Germany
Kai Johnsson
Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
Germany
Edward Lemke
JGU & IMB Mainz, EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
Carsten Schultz
EMBL Heidelberg, Germany and Oregon Health & Science University
USA
Conference Organisers
Tim Nürnberger
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
Programme
Date: 29 Aug - 1 Sep 2018
Location: EMBL Heidelberg