Scientific meetings & symposia

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FEBS Education and Training Supported Society Event: Beyond the Textbook - Biosciences Education in the Digital Era 13-14/11/2026

This FEBS Education and Training Supported Society Event, organized by Hovik Panosyan, Flora Sarukhanyan and Varduhi Knaryan (Armenian Association of Biochemists as the FEBS Constituent Society) focuses on active learning, digital tools, AI in bioscience education, curriculum innovation and capacity building for faculty and early-career researchers.

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Autumn Meeting of the Royal Belgian Society for Cell and Developmental Biology (RBSCDB)

The meeting will bring together four excellent international keynote speakers covering complementary aspects of cell migration, from mechanics and membrane curvature to tissue dynamics and development : Caterina La Porta (Milan, Italy): Phase transition in cell migration Stephan Huveneers (Amsterdam, The Netherlands): Plasma membrane curvatures at asymmetric endothelial junctions guides collective migration and angiogenesis Raimon Sunyer Borrell (Barcelona, Spain): Fibroblast migration towards physiological stiffness Elias Barriga (Dresden, Germany): The forces that coordinate embryo tectonics

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Joint Horticell - SVPW Fall Symposium

Symposium on plant biotechnology organised by Horticell and SVPW (Society for Plant Biotechnology and Tissue Culture). Programme: registration and meet-up from 09:00; opening by Remko Offringa; talks by Agnieszka Golicz (WUR), Marlies Peters (ILVO), Inna Lermontova (Leibniz-IPK), Paula Olthof (BASF - Ghent), Steffen Vanneste (UG), Stefaan Werbrouck (UG), Rita Lima (RU) and Inge Verstraeten (UG); flash talks; closing drinks and meet-up from 17:00.

Organised by Horticell - SVPW

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FEBS Education and Training Supported Society Event: Designing Authentic Assessments for Bioscience Education 10-11/12/2026

This FEBS Education and Training Supported Society Event, organized by Thomas Malcomson and Ewan Main from the Queen Mary University of London (UK Biochemical Society as the FEBS Constituent Society), focuses on authentic assessment, inclusivity, scaffolding, marking criteria and practical implementation in bioscience education. Participants are expected to leave with a personalised, worked example of an authentic assessment for their own teaching context.

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One-Day Symposium on Protein Disorder, Interactions, and Dynamics (PDID). 2nd Edition.

The 2nd edition of the One-Day Symposium on Protein Disorder, Interactions, and Dynamics (PDID 2026) will be held on Friday the 18th of December 2026 at the University of Namur (UNamur), Namur, Belgium. Organised every two years by the Belgian Biophysical Society (BBS) and the Laboratoire de Chimie Physique des Biomolécules (CPB), the PDID symposium is a human-sized and convivial event for exchanging new ideas and meeting leading experts in the field in the typical Belgian city of Namur, the capital of Wallonia located at the confluence of the rivers Meuse and Sambre. People are welcome from any scientific background who are especially interested in diving into the world of biomolecules dynamics as well as exploring their unique behaviours, comprising structural transition, interaction network, protein-ligand interaction, self-assembly, amyloid fibrillation, condensation, phase separation and transition. Through the lens of biophysics, biochemistry, bioinformatics, and molecular biology, the program aims at covering both experimental and computational approaches for the characterisation of such intricate and elusive systems in health-related, biotechnological, and biomaterial contexts.

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From Molecules to Cell to Organisms: Biochemistry across scales

The 2027 National Symposium of the Belgian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology will explore biochemical mechanisms across scales. Join us for a day of scientific exchange and enjoy the opportunity to share your research to the community through a flash talk, a selected oral presentation, or a poster presentation. More details, abstract submission and registration to follow.

Organised by the Belgian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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FEBS 2027 Congress - Riga, Latvia 3-7 July 2027

Congress theme, “From biomolecules to biomes”, captures the remarkable breadth and depth of modern molecular life sciences. Today’s biochemical research spans scales – from the intricate architecture of proteins and nucleic acids to the dynamic networks that shape cells, organisms and entire ecosystems. By bringing together experts working at every level of biological organization, we aim to foster dialogue that sparks new ideas, bridges disciplines, and accelerates discovery.

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27th IUBMB/FASBMB/SASBMB Congress

From molecular mechanisms and disease to biotechnology, drug discovery, structural biology, natural products and emerging technologies — IUBMB 2027 brings the breadth of modern molecular life sciences together in one place. Early career scientists are encouraged to apply for a fellowship to attend the congress (application deadline November 30th). https://www.iubmbcongress2027.co.za/young-scientist-program-2027/