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EMBL Conference

Protein Synthesis and Translational Control

Overview

Registered participants will receive an email with access to the virtual conference platform on Monday 30 August.

EMBL is committed to sharing research advances and sustaining scientific interaction throughout the coronavirus pandemic. We are delighted to announce that this conference is going virtual and invite you to join us online.

Conference Overview

The regulation of mRNA translation is a process required to maintain cell homeostasis, and its malfunction can lead to disease. In recent years, advances in high-throughput and microscopy methods have revealed findings that challenge hitherto established dogmas, such as extensive translation in “untranslated” regions of a transcript, pervasive initiation from non-AUG codons, heterogeneity and specialization of the ribosome or specialized roles for ‘general’ translation factors. The influence of epitranscriptomics and physical transitions in translation, or the molecular mechanisms underlying ribosome quality control are just examples where rapid progress is impacting our view of translation.

It is also now clear that the mRNA is covered with RNA binding proteins (RBPs) that control its fate, some of which have dual functions as enzymes, revealing connections with metabolism that we still need to understand. Thus, translation cannot be seen anymore as an isolated process, but as one highly connected with other steps of gene expression and finely dependent on cellular context. Advance on these aspects will be featured, as well as the role of translation regulation in diseases as diverse as cancer, metabolic or neurological disorders.

Session Topics

  • Translation initiation
  • Ribosome, elongation, termination
  • Metabolism and disease
  • RNP complexes
  • Interconnections and turnover
  • Methods and systems approaches

This conference is partnered with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL).

Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Speakers and Session Chairs

Additional speakers will be selected from abstracts.

Scientific Organisers

Conference Organiser

Programme

Programme

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  • The virtual conference includes keynote lectures, live-streamed invited speakers and selected short talks and round table discussions.
  • All digital poster presenters are encouraged to upload a recorded flash talk or narration with their digital poster.
  • Information on the live stream and access to the discussion platform and digital posters will be provided 1 week before the start of the event.
  • Pre-recorded talks (5h total) will be made available 1 week before the start of the conference. Presenters of pre-recorded talks will be attending live roundtable discussion session. Please watch the pre-recorded talks before the respective session in order to be able to follow the discussion.
  • Access to the recorded talks will be available until 24 September 2021.
  • All times in the programme below are shown as the time in Europe/Berlin.

To find out the equivalent time zone in your location, enter Berlin, the programme time and date along with your city into the Time Zone Converter.

Day 1 – Tuesday, 7 September 2021
TimeSpeaker
14:00 – 14:10Opening remarks by Fátima Gebauer
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
Virtual Session 1: RNP Complexes
Session Chair: Marina Chekulaeva – Max Delbrück Center
for Molecular Medicine, Germany
14:10 – 14:20Introduction by Session Chair
14:20 – 14:45RNA localisation and local translation in neurons
Marina Chekulaeva – Max Delbrück Center for
Molecular Medicine, Germany
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
14:45 – 15:00Coupling of transcription with ribosome assembly and
translation in real-time
Olivier Duss – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
15:00 – 15:15Revealing the host antiviral protein ZAP-S as an inhibitor
of SARS-CoV-2 programmed ribosomal frameshifting
Neva Caliskan – Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based
Infection Research, Germany
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
15:15 – 15:20Transition (technical setup and switch to the next session)
15:20 – 15:30Break
15:30 – 15:45An RNA binding switch drives ribosome biogenesis
and tumourigenesis downstream of oncogenic KRAS
Faraz Mardakheh – Barts Cancer Institute, UK
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
15:45 – 16:00Aminoacyl tRNA synthetases utilize tRNA-related features
on mRNAs to specifically bind and regulate their translation
Yoav Arava – Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
16:00 – 16:15Pseudouridine-modified tRNA fragments repress
malignant protein synthesis and impact leukemogenesis
Sowndarya Muthukumar – Lund University, Sweden
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
16:15 – 16:30RGG-motif protein Sbp1 is required for Processing
body (P-body) disassembly
Raju Roy – Indian Institute of Science, India
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
16:30 – 16:35Transition (technical setup and switch to the next session)
16:35 – 16:45Break
16:45 – 17:10Meet the speakers of Session 1: Marina Chekulaeva,
Olivier Duss, Neva Caliskan, Faraz Mardakheh,
Yoav Arava, Sowndarya Muthukumar, Raju Roy
17:10 – 17:15Break
17:15 – 17:45Roundtable Discussion (with pre-recorded talk presenters)
moderated by session chair:
Aindrila Chatterjee – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Andrea Graziadei – Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Wenqian Hu – Mayo Clinic, USA
Rainer Nikolay – Charité – University Medicine Berlin, Germany
Diana Silvia Marina Ottoz – Columbia University, USA
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
17:45 – 18:15Social break with networking opportunity
18:15 – 19:00Keynote lecture
Getting ready for translation – ribosome synthesis

in human cells
Ulrike Kutay – ETH Zurich, Switzerland
19:00 – 19:45Keynote lecture
Visualizing cellular translation landscapes at atomic detail
Julia Mahamid – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
19:45 – 19:55Break
19:55 – 20:50Keynote lecture
The History of Studies of Protein Synthesis and its Regulation

John Hershey – University of California, Davis USA
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
20:50 – 21:20Meet the Keynote Speakers: Ulrike Kutay, Julia Mahamid
and John Hershey
21:20 – 22:35Virtual Poster Session 1
Topics: RNP complexes and Translation Initiation
(meet the poster presenters: live chats and video calls)
22:35End of day 1

Digital posters, recordings and discussion channels will be available for registered participants throughout the whole virtual conference (as well as 1 week before and 2 weeks after)

Day 2 – Wednesday, 8 September 2021
TimeSpeaker
Virtual Session 2: Metabolism and Disease
Session Chair: Anne Willis – University of Cambridge, UK
14:00 – 14:10Introduction by Session Chair
14:10 – 14:35Aberrant mRNA translation drives metabolic output
to increase cell growth in Malignant Mesothelioma
Anne Willis – University of Cambridge, UK
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
14:35 – 14:50Dynamic m6A mRNA methylation directs
translational control of TXNIP, instigates abdominal aortic
aneurysm formation in Apoe-/- mice
Haingo Hantelys – Georgia State University, USA
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
14:50 – 15:05Acetylation-activated RNA binding of Enolase 1
regulates Glycolysis and Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation
Ina Huppertz – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
15:05 – 15:10Transition (technical setup and switch to the next session)
15:10 – 15:20Break
15:20 – 15:35Investigating the roles of 4E-BP1 in breast cancer metastasis
Predrag Jovanovic – Lady Davis Institute at the Jewish
General Hospital, Canada
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
15:35 – 15:50Rpl24Bst mutation suppresses colorectal cancer by
promoting eEF2 phosphorylation via eEF2K
John Knight – CRUK Beatson Institute, UK
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
15:50 – 16:05Lung cancer cells require dihydrouridine synthase 2 to
sustain levels of tRNACys and production of
cysteine-rich proteins
Austin Draycott – Yale University, USA
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
16:05 – 16:20Ribosome collisions fuel a vicious cycle of proteotoxicity
in Huntington’s Disease
Ranen Aviner – Stanford University, USA
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
16:20 – 16:25Transition (technical setup and switch to the next
session)
16:25 – 16:35Break
16:35 – 16:50RNA translation regulates intestinal stem cell identity
via Zaka activation
Joana Silva – Netherlands Cancer Institute, The Netherlands
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
16:50 – 17:05A functional analysis of mutations in DAZL identified
in infertile patients
Nicola Gray – University of Edinburgh, UK
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
17:05 – 17:35Meet the speakers of Session 2: Anne Willis, Haingo Hantelys,
Ina Huppertz, Predrag Jovanovic, John Knight,
Austin Draycott, Ranen Aviner, Joana Silva, Nicola Gray
17:35 – 17:45Break
17:45 – 18:15Roundtable Discussion (with pre-recorded talk presenters)
moderated by session chair:
Anton Komar – Cleveland State University, USA
Antje Ostareck-Lederer – University Hospital RWTH
Aachen, Germany
Erin Ritchie – The Center for Plant Molecular
Biology (ZMBP), Germany
Mayuresh Sarangdhar – Bern University Hospital, Switzerland
Peter Todd – University of Michigan, USA
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
18:15 – 18:45Social break with networking opportunity
Virtual Session 3: Interconnections and
Turnover
Session Chair: Jeff Coller – Johns Hopkins School of
Medicine, USA
18:45 – 18:55Introduction by Session Chair
18:55 – 19:20Insights into the interconnections between mRNA
translation and mRNA stability
Jeff Coller – Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
19:20 – 19:35An alternative UPF1 isoform drives conditional remodeling
of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay
Sarah Fritz – National Institutes of Health, National Heart,
Lung, and Blood Institute, USA
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
19:35 – 19:50Cell-specific control of gene expression through
interactions of ARE-binding proteins and microRNAs
Courtney Jungers – Washington University in St. Louis, USA
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
19:50 – 19:55Transition (technical setup and switch to the
next session)
19:55 – 20:05Break
20:05 – 20:20Human SMG6 interacts with the 80S ribosome via
its unstructured N-terminal domain
Nina Kläy – University of Bern, Switzerland
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
20:20 – 20:35Timed global reorganization of protein synthesis
during neocortex neurogenesis at single-codon resolution
Matthew Kraushar – Max Planck Institute for Molecular
Genetics, Germany
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
20:35 – 20:50Unrecycled 40S-initiated mRNA decay couples translation
and piRNA production
Xin Li – University of Rochester, USA
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
20:50 – 21:05Molecular mechanisms of EDF1-mediated JUN signaling
in response to ribotoxic stress
Niladri Sinha – Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, USA
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
21:05 – 21:10Transition (technical setup and switch to the next session)
21:10 – 21:20Break
21:20 – 21:45Meet the speakers of Session 3: Jeff Coller, Sarah Fritz,
Courtney Jungers, Nina Kläy, Matthew Kraushar, Xin Li,
Niladri Sinha
21:45 – 21:50Break
21:50 – 22:20Roundtable Discussion (with pre-recorded talk presenters)
moderated by session chair:
Hagit Bar-Yosef – Technion, Israel Institute of
Technology, Israel
Susanne Huch – Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Tatsuaki Kurata – Lund University, Sweden
Shetty Sunil – University of Basel, Switzerland
David Young – National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive
and Kidney Diseases, USA
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
22:20End of day 2

Digital posters, recordings and discussion channels will be available for registered participants throughout the whole virtual conference (as well as 1 week before and 2 weeks after)

Day 3 – Thursday, 9 September 2021
TimeSpeaker
Virtual Session 4: Translation Initiation
Session Chair: Sunnie R. Thompson – University of Alabama
at Birmingham School of Medicine, USA
14:00 – 14:10Introduction by Session Chair
14:10 – 14:35The role of eS25 in cellular homeostasis and 40S binding
by internal ribosome entry sites
Sunnie R. Thompson – University of Alabama at
Birmingham School of Medicine, USA
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
14:35 – 14:50Single-molecule dynamics of early eukaryotic translation
initiation
Seán O’Leary – University of California Riverside, USA
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
14:50 – 15:05eIF1-eIF4G1 inhibitors uncover alternative path of
translation activation of stress-response genes via
enhanced ribosome loading and 5’ UTR translation
Urmila Sehrawat – Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
15:05 – 15:10Transition (technical setup and switch to the next session)
15:10 – 15:20Break
15:20 – 15:35eIF4A1 unwinding activity is RNA sequence-specifically
deployed through eIF4A1-multimerisation to facilitate
translation of mRNAs with local repressive RNA
structure
Tobias Schmidt – CRUK Beatson Institute, UK
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
15:35 – 15:50A specific eIF4A paralog facilitates LARP1-mediated
translation repression during mTORC1 inhibition
Yuichi Shichino – RIKEN, Japan
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
15:50 – 16:05Molecular basis of mRNA Kozak sequence recognition
on the ribosome
Bruno Klaholz – Centre for Integrative Biology, France
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
16:05 – 16:20Dissecting translation start site selection in the
transcription factor, CEBPA with CRISPRi
Samantha Fernandez – University of California Berkeley, USA
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
16:20 – 16:25Transition (technical setup and switch to the next session)
16:25 – 16:35Break
16:35 – 16:50Translation of small open reading frames in 3’ UTRs
enhances translation of their canonical open reading frames
Qiushuang Wu – Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
16:50 – 17:05Single-molecule and structural analyses of human
translation initiation
Christopher Lapointe – Stanford University School of Medicine,
USA
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
17:05 – 17:35Meet the speakers of Session 4: Sunnie R. Thompson,
Seán O’Leary, Urmila Sehrawat, Tobias Schmidt,
Yuichi Shichino, Bruno Klaholz, Samantha Fernandez,
Qiushuang Wu, Christopher Lapointe
17:35 – 18:05Social break with networking opportunity
18:05 – 18:35Roundtable Discussion (with pre-recorded talk presenters)
moderated by session chair:
Dasmanthie De Silva – University of California, Berkeley, USA
Ben Hawley – Weill Cornell Medical College, USA
Ivaylo Ivanov – National Institutes of Health, USA
Aakshi Puri – McGill University, Canada
Shilpa Rao – University of Texas, USA
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
18:35 – 19:15Social Program: Virtual speed networking
(Rotating through 5-min meet ups
in random groups of 2-3 people in a breakout room)
19:15 – 20:30Virtual Poster Session 2
Topics: Interconnections and Turnover, Metabolism
and Disease, Methods and Systems Approaches
(meet the poster presenters: live chats and video calls)
20:30 – 20:40Break
20:40 – 21:55Virtual Poster Session 3
Topics: Ribosome, Elongation, Termination
(meet the poster presenters: live chats and video calls)
21:55End of day 3

Digital posters, recordings and discussion channels will be available for registered participants throughout the whole virtual conference (as well as 1 week before and 2 weeks after)

Day 4 – Friday, 10 September 2021
TimeSpeaker
Virtual Session 5: Methods and Systems Approaches
Session Chair: David Gatfield – University of Lausanne,
Switzerland
14:00 – 14:10Introduction by Session Chair
14:10 – 14:35Upstream and downstream of ribosomal collisions
David Gatfield – University of Lausanne, Switzerland
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
14:35 – 14:50Manipulation of global translation rates by CRISPR
based targeting of rRNA transcription
Stefan Stricker – Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich/
Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany
14:50 – 15:05A robust in vitro translation system from human cells
based on dual centrifugation
Evangelos Karousis – University of Bern, Switzerland
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
15:05 – 15:10Transition (technical setup and switch to the next session)
15:10 – 15:20Break
15:20 – 15:35Luciferase-based reporter system for in vitro evaluation
of elongation rate and processivity of ribosomes
Tiina Tamm – University of Tartu, Estonia
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
15:35 – 15:50A global and dynamic picture of rna and protein
subcellular localisation in response to er stress
Mariavittoria Pizzinga – University of Cambridge, UK
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
15:50 – 16:05Spatial discordances between mRNAs and proteins
in the intestinal epithelium
Yotam Harnik – Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
16:05 – 16:20Regulated protein cleavage produces specialized
ribosomes during erythroid differentiation to fulfil
stage-specific needs
Huili Guo – Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
16:20 – 16:25Transition (technical setup and switch to the next session)
16:25 – 16:35Break
16:35 – 17:00Meet the speakers of Session 5: David Gatfield, Stefan
Stricker, Evangelos Karousis, Tiina Tamm,
Mariavittoria Pizzinga, Yotam Harnik, Huili Guo
17:00 – 17:05Break
17:05 – 17:35Roundtable Discussion (with pre-recorded talk presenters)
moderated by session chair:
Paige Diamond – University of California, Berkeley, USA
Michay Diez – Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA
Andrew Hsieh – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA
Duygu Kuzuoglu Ozturk – University of California, USA
Lorenzo Lafranchi – Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
17:35 – 18:05Social break with networking opportunity
Virtual Session 6: Ribosome, Elongation, Termination
Session Chair: Jody Puglisi – Stanford University School
of Medicine, USA
18:05 – 18:15Introduction by Session Chair
18:15 – 18:40Dynamics of translation initiation
Jody Puglisi – Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
18:40 – 18:55Structural basis of early translocation events on the
ribosome
Emily Rundlet – St. Jude Children’s Hospital, USA
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
18:55 – 19:10Time-resolved cryo-EM visualizes ribosomal translocation
with EF-G and GTP
Christine Carbone – UMass Medical School, USA
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
19:10 – 19:15Transition (technical setup and switch to the next session)
19:15 – 19:25Break
19:25 – 19:40Structural mechanism of GTPase-powered
ribosome-tRNA movement
Niels Fischer – Max Planck Institute for Biophysical
Chemistry, Germany
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
19:40 – 19:55Ribosome collisions in bacteria promote ribosome rescue
by triggering mRNA cleavage by SmrB
Hanna Kratzat – Gene Center and Department of
Biochemistry, University of Munich, Germany &
Kazuki Saito – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
19:55 – 20:10Structural basis for PoxtA-mediated resistance to
Phenicol and Oxazolidinone antibiotics
Caillan Crowe-McAuliffe – University of Hamburg, Germany
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
20:10 – 20:25Interactions with the ribosome rather than high
thermodynamic stability enable regulatory mRNA
stem-loops to pause translation
Chen Bao – School of Medicine and Dentistry, University
of Rochester, USA
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
20:25 – 20:30Transition (technical setup and switch to the next session)
20:30 – 20:40Break
20:40 – 20:55 Regulation of translation by dynamic site-specific
ribosomal RNA 2’-O-methylation
Martin Jansson – University of Copenhagen, Denmark
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
20:55 – 21:10Investigating the dynamics of translation readthrough
in live cells
Kelsey Bettridge – The National Institute of Diabetes
and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, USA
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
21:10 – 21:40Meet the speakers of Session 6: Jody Puglisi,
Emily Rundlet, Christine Carbone, Niels Fischer,
Hanna Kratzat, Kazuki Saito, Caillan Crowe-McAuliffe,
Chen Bao, Martin Jansson, Kelsey Bettridge
21:40 – 21:50Break
21:50 – 22:20Roundtable Discussion (with pre-recorded talk presenters)
moderated by session chair:
Claudia Fusco – Max Planck Institute for Brain Research,
Germany
Sandeep Eswarappa – Indian Institute of Science, India
Kathrin Leppek – Stanford University, USA
Evan Mercier – Max Planck Institute for
Biophysical Chemistry, Germany
Maxim Svetlov – University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
22:20 – 22:30Closing remarks by Fátima Gebauer
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AFTER LIVE STREAM
22:30End of conference

Digital posters, recordings and discussion channels will be available for registered participants throughout the whole virtual conference (as well as 1 week before and 2 weeks after)

Practical information

Registration Fees and Abstract Submission

Registration Fees (include access to all of the talks, digital poster sessions and online group discussions, and help us cover our costs to run the event. For further information please refer to the FAQ page):

Academia190 Euro
PhD Student140 Euro
Industry240 Euro
EMBL StaffIntranet access

Accredited journalists may be eligible to register for a complimentary registration. Registrants may be required to provide accreditation or equivalent proof of press membership after registration. Please contact Raili Pall for more information.

Confirmation and Payment

Registration will be on a first-come first-served basis. Your place can only be confirmed after payment of the registration fee.
Types of payments accepted are international bank transfers and credit card payments.

Abstract submission

Only registered participants are eligible to submit an abstract. We only accept online abstract submissions.

After you have logged in and successfully registered, you will receive an email asking you to submit your abstract.  Click on the link provided and enter your abstract in the text box provided. Alternatively you can submit your abstract by clicking on the link on the confirmation page directly after registering.

When submitting your abstract you can also apply for an oral or poster presentation.

A selection process will take place with the results announced 5-6 weeks after the abstract submission deadline.

Financial Assistance

Financial Fee Waivers

All academic and student registrants are invited to apply for a registration fee waiver, provided by the EMBL Advanced Training Centre Corporate Partnership Programme and EMBO. The registration fee waiver covers the registration sum that you have paid to attend the meeting. Conference participants are not required to pre-pay the registration fee to be selected for a fee waiver for a virtual meeting. If you have already paid the registration fee and are awarded a fee waiver, it will be reimbursed after the meeting.

Childcare Grants

For participants and speakers with childcare responsibilities there is the possibility to apply for a grant, provided by the EMBL Advanced Training Centre Corporate Partnership Programme and EMBO, to offset childcare costs incurred when participating at a virtual event. Eligible costs include fees for a babysitter or childcare facility or travel costs for a care giver. Please note that priority will be given to early stage researchers. Costs will be reimbursed after the meeting only once a reimbursement form and original receipts have been received. Attendance at the event is required in order to be eligible to receive the reimbursement. In order to apply for this grant, you must be registered by the abstract submission deadline.

Application

Applications for financial assistance can be submitted via the submission portal* (for the submission of abstracts for conferences) by completing the Financial Assistance Application Section (underneath the section for entering abstract/motivation letter information). The link to the portal can be found in the registration confirmation email that you will receive after registering for the conference.

For conferences, if you are not submitting an abstract, you can still apply for financial assistance in the submission portal. Take a look at the instructions for applying for financial assistance. Note that priority will be given to those submitting an abstract to present at the conference. In your application you will be asked to answer questions regarding your motivation for applying, and, for registration fee waivers, the reasons why your lab cannot fund your attendance and how your attendance will make a difference to your career. Application for financial support will not affect the outcome of your registration application.

Selection

The scientific organisers will select the recipients of registration fee waivers during the abstract selection process for conferences and the participant selection process for courses. Results will be announced approximately 3 – 4 weeks before the event start date. Selection results do not impact your admission to the meeting. Registration fee waiver selection is based on your current work or study location, your motivation for applying, the reasons for needing financial support and the impact this event will have on your career. Childcare grants are allocated based on career stage, with priority given to early stage researchers.

Further details

Check our list of external funding opportunities and read our information on attending a conference as an event reporter.

For further information about financial assistance please refer to the FAQ page.

Virtual Participation Guidelines

Please do:

  • Use the event-specific hashtag as communicated during the event for any related tweets
  • Tweet unless the speaker specifically says otherwise
  • Be mindful of unpublished data
  • Be respectful in tone and content

Please don’t:

  • Share the link to the conference platform with anyone else
  • Broadcast the conference to unregistered participants
  • Capture, transmit or redistribute data presented at the meeting unless presenter gives explicit consent
  • Use offensive language in your posts
  • Engage in rudeness or personal attacks

Additional information can be found in our Code of Conduct.

Health and well-being

It is important to stay healthy and move around, especially when you are attending an event virtually. We have put together a few coffee break stretches and yoga videos. You can find these under ‘resources’ on the conference platform.

How to ask questions

Please use the Q&A function. It is possible to send a direct message to participants, poster presenters, and speakers within the conference platform.

If you have any other questions, you can go to the Help Desk on the conference platform. Click on ‘more’ on the top menu and click Help Desk. 

Time zone

The programme is planned based on Central European Summer Time (CEST) unless otherwise stated. As many virtual participants are attending from around the world, we do our best to accommodate as many time zones as possible when creating the programme. Please take your time zone into consideration when planning your attendance. Remember to set your time zone in your account. 

Virtual event platforms

We are using a virtual event platform for this conference. More information about the platform will be shared ahead of the conference.

Sponsors

Media Partners

EMBO Journal, an EMBO Press journal

International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Open Biology, a Royal Society journal

RSC Chemical Biology, Royal Society of Chemistry

Sponsorship Opportunities

We offer a variety of event sponsoring possibilities, with the flexibility to select a set sponsorship package or combine individual sponsorship options to suit your event budget. Discounts are available for companies sponsoring multiple events at EMBL Heidelberg. View other conferences, or contact sponsorship@embl.de for further information.

If you are interested in becoming a media partner of this event, please visit our media partnerships webpage.

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Please also note that:

  • EMBL never provides attendee lists for purchase. Any offers of such are fraudulent.
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Date: 7 - 10 Sep 2021

Location: Virtual


Deadline(s):

Abstract submission: Closed

Registration: Closed


Organisers:

  • Fátima Gebauer
    Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)

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