SUNDAY, 7th September 2025

12:00 – 16:00

Registration

16:00 – 16:30

Opening Ceremony

16:30 – 17:30

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

MONDAY, 8th September 2025

08:00 – 16:00

Registration

08:30 – 09:30

Plenary Lecture:
Paul Nurse – Cell cycle and cyclin dependent kinases

09:30 – 10:00

Coffee Break

10:00 – 11:30

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

11:30 – 12:30

Lunch

12:30 – 14:00

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

14:00 – 15:30

Poster Session and Refreshments

15:30 – 16:30

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

16:30 – 17:30

Career Skills Session for Young Scientists

TUESDAY, 9th September 2025

08:00 – 16:00

Registration

08:30 – 09:30

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

09:30 – 10:00

Coffee Break

10:00 – 11:30

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

11:30 – 12:30

Lunch

12:30 – 14:00

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

14:00 – 15:30

Poster Session and Refreshments

15:30 – 16:30

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

17:00

Guided tour National Library of Technology (optional)

19:30

Organ concert at Our Lady of the Snows (optional)

WEDNESDAY, 10th September 2025

08:00 – 14:00

Registration

08:30 – 09:30

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

09:30 – 10:00

Coffee Break

10:00 – 11:30

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

11:30 – 12:30

Lunch

12:30 – 14:00

Education & Career in Life Science

14:00 – 14:30

Closing Ceremony