Draft Programme

12:00 – 20:00

Registration

13:00 – 15:00

Pre-symposium Youth in Life Science (UCT Prague)

16:00 – 16:30

Opening Ceremony

16:30 – 16:50

J. V. Koštíř Award 2025

16:50 – 17:15

Coffee Break

17:15 – 18:00

Opening Plenary Lecture:
Hana Cahová – Dinucleoside polyphosphates serve as RNA caps in bacteria and mammalian cells

18:00 – 19:00

Celebrating 70 years of the ČSBMB – „Evening of Memories: Milestones of Czech and Slovak Biochemistry”

„A Tribute night with Daniel Stach“

19:00 – 21:00

Welcome Reception

07:30 – 17:00

Registration

09:00 – 10:30

3 Parallel Sessions:
– Cells and Organelles
– Membranes, Bioenergetics
– Enzymes

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:00

Plenary Lecture:
Paul Nurse – New Perspectives on CDKs and Cell Cycle Control

12:00 – 13:30

Lunch

13:30 – 15:00

3 Parallel Sessions:
– ELIXIR Track 1: Bioinformatics and Structural Biology
– DNA, RNA, Gene Expression, Epigenetics
– Biotechnology

15:00 – 16:00

Poster Session I and Refreshments

16:00 – 17:00

Plenary Lecture:
Christina E. Weinberg – Unraveling biology by studying ribozymes and riboswitches

17:00 – 17:40

Career Skills Session for Young Scientists

08:30 – 17:00

Registration

09:00 – 10:30

3 Parallel Sessions:
– Molecular Basis of Diseases
– Glycobiochemistry
– Proteomics

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:00

Plenary Lecture:
Katarína Mikušová – Uncovering the secrets of mycobacterial cell wall assembly

12:00 – 13:30

Lunch

13:30 – 15:00

3 Parallel Sessions:
– Multiomics Symposium
– Redox Biochemistry and Sensors
– Xenobiotics

15:00 – 15:30

Coffee Break

15:30 – 16:30

Plenary Lecture:
Erling Norrby – Nobel Prizes and the Protein Folding Problem

16:30 – 17:30

Poster Session II and Refreshments

17:30

Guided tour National Library of Technology (optional)

19:30

Organ concert at Our Lady of the Snows

08:00 – 13:00

Registration

09:00 – 10:30

Education & Career in Life Science

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 – 11:05

Congress Best Poster Prize sponzored by SIPOCH

11:05 – 11:10

FEBS Open Bio Poster Prize sponzored by FEBS

11:10 – 12:10

Plenary Lecture:
Artur Osyczka – Molecular operation of cytochromes bc of respiratory and photosynthetic electron transport chains

12:15 – 13:45

3 Parallel Sessions:
– Viruses, Microbes and Parasites
– ELIXIR Track 2: Artificial Intelligence
– Plants

13:45 – 14:00

Closing Ceremony