The event aims to provide an international forum for the face-to-face exchange of knowledge and ideas across the molecular life sciences. 

Topics

• Cancer
  Cancer and ageing
  Immunometabolism in cancer development and therapy
  The exposome and cancer
• Cellular responses to stress
  Autophagy
  Cell death, and inflammation
  Cell metabolism and stress
• Future biotech
  Biotech solutions to current problems
  Chemical biology
  Climate change: biochemical CO2 fixation
  Emerging technologies for the future
• Genetics and epigenetics
  Gene expression / epigenetics
  RNA biology
• Microbes and endosymbionts
  Host–microbial interactions
  Innate immune pathogen sensing
  Mitochondria in health and disease
• Protein life cycle
  Protein life cycle I: Localisation, dynamics, functioning
  Protein life cycle II: Degradation
  Protein life cycle III: Ribosomes, folding, chaperones
• Supramolecular assemblies
  Supramolecular assemblies I: Signal transduction
  Supramolecular assemblies II: RNA–protein complexes, molecular machines
  Supramolecular assemblies III: Metabolons, multienzyme complexes
• Medical biochemistry
  Neurobiochemistry (including neurodegenerative diseases)
  Medicinal biochemistry
  Food and nutrition in biochemistry
  Cardiovascular diseases
  Molecular basis of disease (excluding cancer)
• Molecular life sciences education
  Undergraduate teaching/learning
  Postgraduate teaching/learning
  Faculty development
  Career development

Selected Speakers

• Karen Vousden, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
• Eric Westhof, University of Strasbourg, France
• Mariano Barbacid, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
• Sarah Teichmann, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
• Eileen Furlong, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany
• Peter Eastmond, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, UK
• Eilika Weber-Ban, Institute for Molecular Biology & Biophysics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Marina Rodnina, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany
• Maya Schuldiner, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
• Jose Rizo-Rey, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, USA
• James Rothman, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA