Conference
IBL Symposium
- Date
- Thursday 18 June 2026
- Time
- Location
- Kamerlingh Onnes Gebouw
Steenschuur 25
2311 ES Leiden - Room
- KOG - A1.44
Programme
09:00 – 09:30 Walk-in
09:30 – 09:35 Scientific Director Hubertus Irth
Session 1: Health and Genomics
09:35 – 10:15 Benedetta Artegiani: Advanced human organoids for the study of organ development and disease
10:15 – 10:40 Marcel Tijstermann: Exploiting Nature’s Copy-Paste Systems: Translating Fundamental Genetics into Crop Improvement
10:40 – 11:00 Coffee Break
Session 2: NeCEN
11:00 – 11:40 Meindert Lamers: Electron microscopy to understand disease and find new cures
11:40 – 12:00 Coert Margadant: Structural basis of a fetal/neonatal bleeding disorder revealed by Cryo-EM
12:00 – 12:20 Lennart Schada von Borzyskowski: From plastic upcycling to carbon dioxide fixation – Why biotechnology benefits from structural biology
Session 3: PhD & Postdoc Presentations
12:20 – 12:30 iGEM
12:30 – 13:50 Lunch and Poster Session
13:50 – 14:05 Marjolein Crooijmans: TBA
14:05 – 14:20 Vincent Vermeulen: How Migrating Cells and the Extracellular Matrix Shape Each Other During Angiogenesis: A Quantitative Analysis
14:20 – 14:35 Samuel Thamm: Discovery of novel bioactive natural products from rare Actinobacteria associated with the endangered sea turtle Eretmochelys imbricata
14:35 – 14:50 Filipe Cruz: Exploring the chemistry and bioactivity within Iridaceae bulb-like organs
14:50 – 15:05 Luis Alfredo Avitia-Dominguez: Go-big or go-it-alone, Experimental Evolution of Multicellularity in Streptomyces venezuelae
15:05 – 15:25 Coffee Break (20 min)
Session 4: Biodiversity and Society
15:25 – 16:05 Erik van Zwam: Storytelling on biodiversity
16:05 – 16:30 Renske Onstein: The botanical consequences of mutualism breakdown due to the downsizing of animal communities
16:30 – 16:55 Martin Rucklin: Evolution of vertebrate innovations and medical implications
Closing remarks
17:00 –18:30 Drinks and Poster Session
