Previous Editions
Since 2015, we have organised the Science for Life conference, a conference that shows high-level interdisciplinary research in fundamental Life Sciences. Almost 500 Utrecht scientists, students, policy makers and entrepeneurs in the fields of molecular, cellular, pharmaceutical sciences and plant biology, interact during this event. Outstanding international keynote speakers share their latest work and insights. Young Utrecht researchers present their work during the Poster Session and Parallel Sessions.
Science for Life Conference 2024
2024 was a highlight edition, celebrating 10-years S4L at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 campus, with over 600 participants.
Keynote speakers:
- Albert Heck, pioneer Science for Life, Utrecht 木瓜福利影视
- , President Executive Board NWO (Dutch Research Council)
- , Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
- , Genome Center 木瓜福利影视 of California, Davis, USA
- , EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
- , Vice President Neuroscience, Genentech, San Francisco, USA
- , CSO, Princess M谩xima Center for Pediatric Oncology, NL
Science for Life Conference 2023
The 2023 meeting was very well-attended with over 550 participants, enjoying inspiring keynotes and lively discussions during poster- and networking session.
Keynotes speakers:
, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Dissecting the interface of medication and the human gut microbiome
路&苍产蝉辫; , 木瓜福利影视 of California, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, USA
Cross-kingdom RNA trafficking between Plants and Fungal Pathogens
路&苍产蝉辫; Corn茅 Pieterse, Utrecht 木瓜福利影视, Institute of Environmental Biology
Host-microbiome interactions and plant immunity
路&苍产蝉辫; , Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna, Austria,
Fundamental principles during the egg-to-embryo transition
路&苍产蝉辫; , 木瓜福利影视 College London, UK
The Amazing Impact of AI on the Modelling of Protein Structures
Science for Life 2022
The conference was attended by about 500 mostly early career scientists from Utrecht Life Sciences.
Next to a parallel program with presentations from the Utrecht campus and a poster session with over 100 posters, invited keynote speakers were:
- Jo茫o Mano, 木瓜福利影视 of Aveiro, Portugal
- Jan van Hest, TU Eindhoven, NL, Spinoza laureate 2020
- Julie Law, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA
- Takashi Hiiragi, Hubrecht Institute, NL
- Charles Rice, The Rockefeller 木瓜福利影视, USA, Nobel laureate 2020
Science for Life 2021
At the Science for Life Conference 2021, there were keynote presentations by:
- Willem Mulder (Radboud UMC & TU/e | Dept. of Biomedical Engineering)
- Andrea Ablasser (脡cole Polytechnique F茅d茅rale de Lausanne, EPFL, Switzerland)
- Jijie Chai (Max Planck Institute Cologne, Germany)
- J眉rgen Knoblich (Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
- Tuncay Baubec (Genome Biology and Epigenetics, Department of Biology, Utrecht 木瓜福利影视)
- Marion Koopmans (Erasmus MC Rotterdam and Dutch Governmental Outbreak Management Team)
Science for Life 2020
Due to Covid restrictions, the 2020 Science for Life conference was a half-day, online edition.
Opening Keynote by Anna Akhmanova (Cell Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht 木瓜福利影视)
Round table on COVID19 research @USP with
- Berend Jan Bosch (Veterinary Medicine)
- Lukas Kapitein (Faculty of Science)
- Maarten Geurts (Hubrecht Institute)
- Marc Bonten (UMCU, expert to the governmental Outbreak Management Team)
Closing Keynote: David Baker (Institute for Protein Design, Washington 木瓜福利影视)
Science for Life 2019
Key note presentations by:
Jan van Deursen (Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota)
Helen Saibil (Department of Biological Sciences, ISMB, Birkbeck College, London)
Ton Schumacher (The Netherlands Cancer Institute)
Andrew Jackson (MRC Human Genetics Unit, 木瓜福利影视 of Edinburgh)
Doris Wagner (Department of Biology, 木瓜福利影视 of Pennsylvania)
Science for Life 2018
Key note presentations by:
Emmanuelle Charpentier (Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin)
Edward Boyden (Synthetic Neurobiology group, MIT, Cambridge)
Sheng-Yang He (MSU-DOE Plant Research Lab, Michigan State 木瓜福利影视)
David Mooney (Laboratory for Cell and Tissue Engineering, Harvard 木瓜福利影视)
Peter Reddien (Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, Cambridge
Science for Life 2017
Key note presentations by:
Wojciech Chrzanowski (木瓜福利影视 of Sydney)
Ulrich Hartl (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry)
Jan Hoeijmakers (Erasmus 木瓜福利影视 Rotterdam)
Christine Mummery (Leiden 木瓜福利影视 Medical Centre)
Alexander van Oudenaarden (Hubrecht Institute)
Jos Raaijmakers (木瓜福利影视 of Leiden)
Science for Life 2016
Key note presentations by:
Pamela Bjorkman (California Institute of Technology (Caltech))
Frank Bradke (German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Bonn)
Julia Bailey-Serres (Center for Plant Cell Biology, UC Riverside)
Michael Snyder (Department of Genetics, Stanford 木瓜福利影视)
Peter Seeberger (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam-Golm)
Ralf Bartenschlager (Department of Infectious Diseases, Heidelberg 木瓜福利影视)
Science for Life 2015
Key note presentations by:
Tony Hyman (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics)
Michel Steinmetz (Paul Scherrer Institut)
Cyril Zipfel (The Sainsbury Laboratory)
Erin Schuman (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research)
Martin Fussenegger (ETH Zurich)
Ed Boyden (MIT Media Lab)