EFMC-ISCB 2023

EFMC International Symposium on Chemical Biology

Jointly organised with the Swiss Chemical Society, Division for Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology (DMCCB)

 Basel, Switzerland    November 16-18, 2023

Plenary Speakers

Ribozymes Meet RNA Modifications

Prof. Claudia HÖBARTNER
Prof. Claudia HÖBARTNER
UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG, Würzburg, Germany
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EFMC-WuXi AppTec Award for Excellence in Chemical Biology Lecture:
Translational Chemical Biology

Prof. Gonçalo BERNARDES
Prof. Gonçalo BERNARDES
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE & IMM LISBOA, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Epigenetic Nucleobases in our Genome

Prof. Thomas CARELL
Prof. Thomas CARELL
LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITY, München, Germany
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Moving Undruggable Discoveries into the Drug Discovery Pipeline with Chemical Biology

Dr John TALLARICO
Dr John TALLARICO
NOVARTIS INSTITUTES FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH, Cambridge, United States
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Keynote Speakers

Title to be Announced

Dr Marcus BANTSCHEFF
Dr Marcus BANTSCHEFF
CELLZOME/GSK, Heidelberg, Germany

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Dr Rachel GRIMLEY
Dr Rachel GRIMLEY
CANCER RESEARCH HORIZONS - THERAPEUTIC INNOVATION, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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Prof. Dorothee KERN
Prof. Dorothee KERN
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Waltham, United States

Unravelling the Molecular Mechanism of Pre-mRNA Splicing via All-atom Simulations

Prof. Alessandra MAGISTRATO
Prof. Alessandra MAGISTRATO
CNR-IOM, Trieste, Italy
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Chemical Approaches to Studying Chromatin Regulation

Prof. Tom MUIR
Prof. Tom MUIR
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Princeton, United States
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Chemogenetic and Optogenetic Technologies for Probing Molecular and Cellular Networks (Virtual Lecture)

Prof. Alice TING
Prof. Alice TING
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, United States
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Influence of Metabolism on Cancer

Prof. Matthew G. VANDER HEIDEN
Prof. Matthew G. VANDER HEIDEN
MIT, Cambridge, United States
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Fluorescent Probes for Live-cell Imaging and Translational Studies

Prof. Marc VENDRELL
Prof. Marc VENDRELL
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Invited Speakers

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Prof. Martin BLACKLEDGE
Prof. Martin BLACKLEDGE
INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE (IBS), Grenoble, France

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Dr Kimberly BONGER
Dr Kimberly BONGER
RADBOUD UNIVERSITY, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Small Molecule Therapeutics Targeting Fibroblast Activation Protein in the Tumor Microenvironment

Dr Samuele CAZZAMALLI
Dr Samuele CAZZAMALLI
PHILOCHEM AG, Otelfingen, Switzerland
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Chemical Immunology Tools for Synthetic Adjuvant and Vaccine Development

Dr Alberto FERNÁNDEZ-TEJADA
Dr Alberto FERNÁNDEZ-TEJADA
CIC BIOGUNE, Derio (Bizkaia), Spain
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Beyond Phosphorylation – Protein Pyrophosphorylation by Inositol Pyrophosphate Messengers

Prof. Dorothea FIEDLER
Prof. Dorothea FIEDLER
LEIBNIZ-FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FÜR MOLEKULARE PHARMAKOLOGIE (FMP), Berlin, Germany
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Prof. Beat FIERZ
Prof. Beat FIERZ
ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE, Lausanne, Switzerland

ABPP and its Impact on Drug Discovery - Successful Examples from the MAGL Program

Dr Uwe GRETHER
Dr Uwe GRETHER
F. HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE, Basel, Switzerland
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Towards Covalent Inhibitors Addressing Diverse Amino Acids

Dr Stephan HACKER
Dr Stephan HACKER
LEIDEN UNIVERSITY, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Chemical Biology of Sterol-mediated Processes

Dr Luca LARAIA
Dr Luca LARAIA
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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Challenges in Simulating Molecular Recognition Using Coarse-grain Models

Prof. Manuel MELO
Prof. Manuel MELO
UNIVERSITY NOVA DE LISBOA, Oeiras, Portugal
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Tumor Targeting

Prof. Dario NERI
Prof. Dario NERI
ETH ZÜRICH, Zürich, Switzerland
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Structure and Dynamics at Multiple Time Scales to Understand the Oncogenic kRas Cycle

Prof. Andras PERCZEL
Prof. Andras PERCZEL
EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY, Budapest, Hungary

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Dr Mikhail SAVITSKY
Dr Mikhail SAVITSKY
EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY, Heidelberg, Germany

Proteomics Strategies for Characterizing Degraders and E3 Ligases

Dr Meha SINGH
Dr Meha SINGH
ASTRAZENECA, Waltham, United States
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