This year’s Virtual ChemBioTalks will take place on September 30th, 2025, from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. CEST. We are very happy to have Sarah O’Connor (Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena) and Craig Crews (Yale University) as our keynote lecturers. Furthermore, we will have exciting talks by Kelly Chibale (University of Cape Town), Cathleen Zeymer (Technical University of Munich), Chris Dallago (Nvidia Corporation), Jennifer Prescher (University of California, Irvine) and Chengqi Yi (Peking University).
We will once again feature three flash talks by PhD candidates and postdocs. If you are interested in this opportunity, apply via our Flash Talk Challenge. The deadline for applying is June 30th.
Scientific organizers
- Marina Rubini, University College Dublin
- Boris Vauzeilles, Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles
- Michelle Frei, ETH Zurich
- Hana Cahová, IOCB Prague
- Ben Schumann, Imperial College London
- Markus Lakemeyer, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
- Shixian Lin, Zhejiang University
- Stephan Hacker, Leiden University
- Ruben Ragg, Wiley-VCH
- Meghan Lucas, Wiley-VCH
Originating from a collaboration between Leiden University, the Leiden University Medical Center, and the Technical University of Munich in 2021, the Virtual ChemBioTalks are an annual, half-day virtual event with world-leading speakers from all sub-disciplines of Chemical Biology. The event is coordinated by an international team of scientific organizers in collaboration with Wiley-VCH. Since 2022, the event has been sponsored by the European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology (EFMC). In addition to lectures by leading scientists in the field, the event also features flash talks by PhD candidates and postdocs that are selected from an abstract challenge.
For more information and to register visit https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2025/09/virtual-chembiotalks-2025
