This conference will be focused on new developments in diverse fields within chemical biology. It aims to be a platform for inspiration, collaboration, and networking for researchers in academia and industry and to provide the possibility for every chemical biologist to meet and discuss with peers topics ranging from tool development to biological applications, from computational drug design to synthetic chemistry.

Topics

• Drug and target discovery
• Genetically-encoded biosensors
• Structure-function relations in chemical biology
• Chemical tools for biological imaging
• Metabolism and natural products
• Synthetic biology and protein design

Selected Speakers

• Dorothee Kern, Brandeis University, USA
• Peter Schultz, The Scripps Research Institute, USA
• Emily Balskus, Harvard University, USA
• Hagan Bayley, University of Oxford, UK
• Patrick Chène, Novartis, Switzerland
• Gabriela Chiosis, Sloan Kettering Institute, USA
• Tobias Dick, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany
• Ulrike Eggert, King’s College London, UK
• Simon Elsässer, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
• Sarel-Jacob Fleishman, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
• Arnaud Gautier, Sorbonne University, France
• Yamuna Krishnan, University of Chicago, USA
• Lingyin Li, Stanford University, USA
• Pablo Rivera-Fuentes, EPFL, Switzerland
• Raphaël Rodriguez, Institut Curie, France
• Giulio Superti-Furga, CeMM, Austria
• Yasuteru Urano, The University of Tokyo, Japan
• Olalla Vázquez, University of Marburg, Germany
• Helen Walden, University of Glasgow, UK