Speakers
Keynote speakers confirmed
Yimon Aye
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
“The many guises of reactive metabolite signaling”
Shankar Balasubramanian
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
“Chemical biology of the genome”
Christopher Chang
UC Berkeley Princeton University, USA
“Activity-Based Sensing: Leveraging Chemical Reactivity to Study Biology at the Atomic Scale”
Alessio Ciulli
University of Dundee, United Kingdom
“Induced Proximity-Pharmacology: PROTACs/Molecular Glue Degraders and beyond”
Matthew Disney
UF Scripps Research Institute, USA
“Sequence-based design of small molecules targeting RNA structure”
Amanda Hargrove
University of Toronto, Canada
“Strategies to modulate the conformation and function of RNA with small molecules”
Barbara Imperiali
MIT, USA
“Rolling Out Glycan Assembly: A Tale of Two Topologies”
Daniel Nomura
UC Berkeley, USA
“Reimagining Druggability using Chemoproteomic Platforms”
Raphaël Rodriguez
Institut Curie, Paris, France
“Chemical Control of Cell Adaptation”
Herbert Waldmann
MPI Dortmund, Germany
“Pseudo Natural Products – Chemical Evolution of Natural Product Structure”
Invited speakers confirmed
Jeanette Andersen
Arctic University of Tromsø, Norway
“Arctic marine bioactive compounds as a starting point for chemical optimization towards clinical candidates”
Chase Beisel
HIRI, Würzburg, Germany
“Programmable gene editing by appending chemical groups to DNA”
Christophe Biot
Univ. Lille, France
“Chembioart: Exploring the Aesthetic and Narrative Dimensions of Chemical Biology”
Sébastien Campagne
INSERM, ARNA unit, Bordeaux, France
“Specific splicing correction by small molecules and 5′-splice site bulge repair mechanism”
Zoe Cournia
Academy of Athens, Greece
“Predicting protein-ligand, protein-protein and protein-membrane interactions using molecular simulations and AI”
Ivan Đikić
Frankfurt University, Germany
“Targeting the Ubiquitin and Autophagy networks”
Mélanie Ethève-Quelquejeu
Université Paris Cité, France
“Chemical probes targeting β-lactam-binding proteins”
Jess Ewald
EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, United Kingdom
“Cell Painting for cytotoxicity and mode-of-action analysis in liver-relevant cell lines”
Massimiliano Gaetani
Karolinska Institute, Sweden
“Multimodal and Proteome-Wide MS-based Deconvolution of Drug Targets and Mechanisms of Action with Validation and Characterization of Drug-Target Interaction”
Sébastien Gouin
Nantes Université, France
“Electrochemical Wiring of Sugars onto Proteins and Living Cells”
Marie Hinnebo
Univ. Lille, France
“Chembioart: Exploring the Aesthetic and Narrative Dimensions of Chemical Biology”
Claudia Höbartner
University of Würzburg, Germany
“Targeting RNA by alkyltransferase ribozymes”
Carsten Hopf
Hochschule Mannheim, Germany
“Spatial Chemical Biology and Spatial Metabolomics using Mass Spectrometry”
Agnieszka Konopacka
The Institute of Cancer Research – Sutton – UK
“Induced Proximity Therapeutics for Cancer”
Olivier Loiseleur
Syngenta, Stein, Switzerland
“Natural Products In Modern Crop Protection Research”
Katlin Massirer
CQMED, University de Campinas, Brazil
“Weak affinity chromatography used for chemical fragment
screening do guide RNA binding protein ligands”
Sereina Riniker
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
“Conformational flexibility of (bio)molecules: Combining experiments and computation”
Christopher Schmied
EU-OPENSCREEN, Germany
“Large scale Cell Painting dataset enables prediction of chemical compound properties”
Benjamin Schumann
TUD Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
“Chemical Precision Tools to Dissect Protein Glycosylation”
Marc Vendrell
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
“Fluorescent Probes for Translational Bioimaging”
Louise Walport
The Francis Crick Institute/Imperial college, United Kingdom
“Found in translation: new target binding sites for cyclic peptides”
Bengang Xing
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University – Kowloon (Hong Kong)
“Orthogonal Molecular Toolkits for Precison Bio-Imaging & Therapeutic ENCTACs Manipulation”
Awardees
Arnaud Chevalier
CNRS-ICSN, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
SCF-ChemBio Young Researcher Award 2025 – “Real-time imaging of mitochondrial reductase-mediated chemical transformations with smart fluorogenic probes”
Lina El Hajji
CPCV, Sorbonne Université, École Normale Supérieure, Université PSL, Paris, France
SCF-ChemBio PhD Thesis Award 2025 – “Chemogenetic fluorescent tags for advanced biological imaging”
Fleur Ferguson
University of California San Diego, USA
2025 ICBS Young Chemical Biologist Awardee – “Interrogating the Druggable Proteome with Proximity Pharmacology”
Julie Karpenko
LIT, Université de Strasbourg, France
SCF-ChemBio Young Researcher Award 2024 – “Synthesis and application of fluorescent antimicrobial peptides”
Hannes Mikula
TU Wien, Austria
2025 ICBS Young Chemical Biologist Awardee – “Unlocking Chemistry: Next-Level Bioorthogonal Click-To-Release”
Nadja A. Simeth-Crespi
Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany
EuChemS ChemBioLife Award 2023 – “Manipulating Peptides and Proteins with Light”
Chayasith Uttamapinant
Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC), Thailand
2025 ICBS Young Chemical Biologist Awardee – “Engineering multiphase protein condensates for DNA amplification and disease detection”
Lixin Zhang
East China University of Science and technology, Shanghai, China
2025 ICBS Global Lectureship Awardee – “Orchestrating secondary metabolite production in streptomyces”