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Saturday 5 September

09:00–17:00

Special interest symposia

09:00-17:00

Career day

 

17:15–17:45

Welcome address & EMBO Gold Medal award ceremony

17:45–18:30
Opening lecture

Joan A. Steitz US

18:30–20:00
Plenary lectures I

Nuclear Architecture

Geneviève Almouzni FR
Wendy Bickmore UK
Susan M. Gasser CH

20:00–21:30

Welcome drinks & Exhibition opening

Sunday 6 September

09:00–10:30
Plenary lectures II

Pathogens and Defence

Gillian M. Griffiths UK
David Holden UK
Mary Carrington US

09:00–18:00

Exhibition & Life Science Job Market

Break
 

11:00–13:00

Concurrent sessions

13:00–14:30
Lunch / Poster viewing

14:00 - 14:15
Satellite symposia

13:15–14:15

Meet the speakers

Flash talks by poster presenters

13:15-14:15

Science Policy session 1 - Research integrity

14:30–16:30

Concurrent sessions

16:30–18:00

Poster Session A

18:00–19:00

Special lecture: The ESA Rosetta mission

Matt Taylor NL

19:00–20:00

Transparent publishing: How to share reproducible data

Bernd Pulverer DE

Monday 7 September

09:00–09:45
Keynote lecture

Peter Walter US

09:00–18:30

Exhibition & Life Science Job Market

09:45–10:45

Louis-Jeantet Prize lectures
Emmanuelle Charpentier DE/SE
Rudolf Zechner AT

 
Break
 

11:15–13:15

Concurrent sessions

13:15–15:00

Lunch / Poster viewing

13:30–14:30

Meet the speakers

13:30–14:45

Pursuing an academic career mentoring session

13:30–15:00

Horizon 2020 training

13:30-15:00

India Session: Life sciences opportunities in India

15:00–17:00

Concurrent sessions

17:00–18:30

Poster Session B

18:30–19:45
Science Policy session 2
Jack Stilgoe UK
Claudio Sunkel PT
18:30–19:45
EMBO | FEBS
Women in Science
Session Cancelled
 

20:00 - 22:00

Explore Birmingham

Led by local scientists

Tuesday 8 September

09:00–11:00

Concurrent sessions

 

09:00–14:00

Exhibition & Life Science Job Market

11:00–12:30

Poster Session C

12:30–13:30

Lunch/ Poster viewing

12:30–13:30

Meet the speakers

12:30 - 13:30

Satellite symposia

13:30 - 15:00
Plenary lectures III

Stem Cell Biology

Jürgen Knoblich AT
Fiona Watt UK
Azim Surani UK

15:00–15:30

Poster prize ceremony & Closing address
Maria Leptin DE
Bernd Pulverer DE
Geneviève Almouzni FR