
Symposia Topics, Chairs, and Speakers
Symposia Topics, Chairs, and Speakers
The symposia of the 49th FEBS Congress will show groundbreaking research in basic and applied molecular and cellular life sciences and are arranged into the broader themes set out below for easy browsing; click on each bar to reveal the individual Symposia and their invited speakers, including speaker biographies. As is the tradition at FEBS Congresses, each Symposium is normally chaired by one expert in the field from outside the host country and one from the host country.
Nearer the time of the event, 'short talk' and 'speed talk' speakers will be selected on the basis of submitted abstracts to join the invited speakers in each Symposium.
Structural biology: from complexes to membrane-less organelles
06/07/2025
09:00 – 11:00h
Umut Sahin (TR)Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, İstanbul, Türkiye
Edward A. Lemke (DE)Institue of Molecular Physiology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
FEBS & Cell Death Research Society Joint Session – Cell stress, cell senescence, and cell death decisions
06/07/2025
09:00 – 11:00h
H. Seda Vatansever (TR)
Peter Vandenabeele (BE)Cancer biochemistry
06/07/2025
09:00 – 11:00h
Sreeparna Banerjee (TR)
Jean-Ehrland Ricci (FR)Decoding cancer: genetics and epigenetics in cancer
06/07/2025
16:00 – 18:00h
Ali Ünlü (TR)
Tuğba Bağcı Önder (TR)Protein life cycle I: Dynamics of protein synthesis and folding
07/07/2025
09:00 – 11:00h
Suat Erdogan (TR)
Türkan Haliloğlu (TR)Revolutionizing cancer diagnosis and treatment
07/07/2025
09:00 – 11:00h
Hilal Koçdor (TR)
Silvia Pastorekova (SK)Molecular basis of disease
07/07/2025
09:00 – 11:00h
Mehmet Senes (TR)
Margarida D. Amaral (PT)Protein life cycle II: Protein localization and dynamics
07/07/2025
16:00 – 18:00h
Kemal Baysal (TR)
Elif Nur Fırat Karalar (TR)Neuroscience
07/07/2025
16:00 – 18:00h
Arzu Aral (TR)
Robert Harris (SE)Protein life cycle III: Degradation: proteases, proteasome, autophagy
08/07/2025
09:00 – 11:00h
Serkan Bolat (TR)
Devrim Gözüaçık (TR)Tracing biomarkers from bench to bedside
08/07/2025
09:00 – 11:00h
H. Hakan Aydin (TR)
Alain van Gool (NL)Biotechnology and enzyme engineering
08/07/2025
09:00 – 11:00h
Rana Sanyal (TR)
Stefania Iametti (IT)AI – application in basic and applied biomolecular sciences
08/07/2025
16:00 – 18:00h
Oguzhan Zengi (TR)
Atakan Ekiz (TR)From genes to functional proteins
08/07/2025
16:00 – 18:00h
Oytun Portakal (TR)
Crisanto Gutierrez (ES)Emerging topics in molecular life sciences
09/07/2025
09:00 – 11:00h
Murat Cihan (TR)
Güneş Özhan (TR)Immunity and host–pathogens interplay
09/07/2025
09:00 – 11:00h
Aylin Sepici Dinçel (TR)
Cezmi Akdiş (CH)RNA biology: coding and non-coding RNAs
09/07/2025
13:30 – 15:30h
Asuman Özkara (TR)
Morana Dulic (HR)


