! Postponed! NWO Life2020 – Networks in Life

The programme committee of Life2020 regrets to announce the cancellation of Life2020 and has decided to move this event to next year, Thursday 27 and Friday 28 May 2021. Save these dates!

Deadline abstract submission: 1 March 2020 (oral presentation) & 1 April 2020(poster presentation)
Deadline registration: 1 May 2020
More information and registration: nwolife.nl
Organizer: The Netherlands Research Council (NWO)

This year’s theme is ‘Networks in Life’. Networking and interdisciplinary collaboration is essential for researchers in the Life Sciences. Networks are also essential in life at all scale, from cellular, fungal and neural networks to ecological networks.

Life2020 covers the full scope of the Dutch Life Sciences at all scales: from femtometer to kilometer, from cell to planet. Life is meant to connect senior and junior researchers from all different disciplines in the life sciences, including people from industry, from  Universities of Applied Sciences and policymakers. To explore and push boundaries, to lively discuss new or desirable developments in the field, to get inspired by each other’s research and approaches and to start new interdisciplinary collaborations.

Invited speakers
We are proud to announce our invited speakers. Edith Heard, professor in epigenetics and cellular memory, will give the opening lecture of Life2020. Heard is Director General of European Molecular Biology Laboratory, the intergovernmental organisation for basic research in the life sciences. The second keynote speaker is Mark Huijbregts, professor in environmental science at the Radboud University. The third keynote speaker is John Duncan, neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge, writer of the popular science book How Intelligence Happens, and winner of the Heineken Prize 2012 of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Track 1 Biomolecular networks within and between cells

  • Prof. Jack Pronk, Industrial Microbiology, TU Delft
  • Prof. Yvette van Kooyk, Molecular Cell Biology and Immunology, Amsterdam UMC/VUmc

Track 2 Genome regulation: how tissues and organisms form and survive

  •  Prof. Hans Clevers, Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht
  • Dr. Effie Apostolou, Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA

Track 3 Interactions with the environment: for better or worse

  • Prof. Tobias Kalenscher, Heinrich Heine University/University Düsseldorf, Germany

Track 4 Life and Planet

  • Prof. Elizabeth Borer, Department of Ecology, Evoluation & Behavior, University of Minnesota, USA
  • Dr. Danielle Lee, Department of Biological Sciences, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, USA

Track 5 Connecting the dots: novel approaches in biological measurement and analysis

  • Prof. Cecilia Sahlgren, Biomedical engineering and in cell biology, TU Eindhoven and the Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
  • Prof. Erik van Nimwegen, Computational Systems Biology, University of Basel, Switzerland

Tuesday, May 26, 2020 through May 27
For times see website
Hotel Zuiderduin
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