Programme

09:00

Arrival, coffee, tea

09:30

Anna Akhmanova, chair Science for Life Board & Conference 2024
Isabel Arends, chair Life Sciences deans, Utrecht University
Albert Heck, pioneer Science for Life 

Marcel Levi, President Executive Board NWO (Dutch Research Council)

10:05

Ben Lehner, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
Programmable predictive biology

10:45

Coffee Break

11:15

Shioban Brady, Genome Center University of California, Davis, USA
Plant resilience

Julia Mahamid, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
In-cell structural biology

12:35

Poster Session, Exhibition & Lunch

14:00

Parallel Sessions: 5 x 5 early-career research presentations

15:15

Coffee Break

Casper Hoogenraad, vice president Neuroscience, Genentech, San Francisco, USA

René Medema, CSO, Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, NL

Paul Smit, philosopher/speaker
Shifting perspectives: How can we collaborate in a better way?

17:35

Saskia van Mil, Utrecht University Life Sciences board
Henk Kummeling, Rector Magnificus, Utrecht University
Poster prize & Closure

17:50

Drinks & Bites, followed by Walking Dinner (light)