Scientific Symposium

ā€œEXPLORING LIFEĀ DYNAMICS: In and out of equilibriumā€

ENABLE is more than just a regular conference. Participants will have opportunities for a scientific exchange through short talks and poster presentations, and will also be able to share their personal experiences with other peers and guests during career chats and networking activities.

The scientific program will cover aĀ broad range of topics, from fundamental biology to translational medicine, and touch upon multidisciplinary research projects and integrative omics approaches.

This year, the symposium will feature lectures fromĀ 8 highly-renowned keynote speakers grouped into four sessions that cover driving topics of modern research.

Scientific sessions and keynote speakers

Fundamental Biology

The many hats of the cell

Integrative Omics

Towards personalised medicine: solving the enigma of bytes

Wilhelm Huck

Radboud University

Nijmegen, Netherlands

Ā Raffaella Di Micco

IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele

Milan, Italy

Cecilia LindgrenĀ 

University of Oxford

Oxford, UK

Nicola Segata

University of Trento

Trento, Italy

Translational Medicine

Bridging the gap between bench and bedside

Multidisciplinary Research

Life sciences join forces to push biomedicine forward

Linda Saif

The Ohio State University

Ohio, USA

Andreas PlĆ¼ckthun

University of Zurich

Zurich, Switzerland

Marta Alonso

University of Navarra

Navarra, Spain

Anthony HymanĀ 

Max Planck Institute

Dresden, Germany

Further scientific activities

Round table with peers

On Wednesday, 12th of May, we will organize a Round Table debate where our attendees will have a unique opportunity to interact with scientists and leaders from academia and industry and gain insight into their career paths, obstacles they have encountered and how they overcame them as well as their general views on life in Academia. Moreover, attendees will be able to choose topics and lead the flow of discussion.

Round Table speakers:

  • Borgermann Nikoline, Sustainable Research Consultant, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Duits Linda, Public Speaker and researcher at the Utrecht University, Netherlands
  • Kalebic Nereo, group leader at Neurogenomics center, Human Technopole, Milan Italy
  • Vassena Rita, Scientific Director EUGIN group, Barcelona, Spain

Cross-disciplinary session

ā€œThe trophy would not fit the suitcase because it was too small: Machine Learning between science and narrativeā€

We will organize a public discussion in collaboration with the eXtemporanea, a ā€œsmall temporary scientific communityā€ comprising students and researchers located all around Italy and Europe. The topic of this session will be Machine learning and it will be in English.

The main aim of the cross-disciplinary session is to encourage the participation of the general public in a dynamic discussion with speakers coming from different fields.

The final goal of the whole event is of course to offer people a different point of view on science and on scientist life.

Short talks

PhD and PostDoc attendees will be selected toĀ present their current resultsĀ and goals, alongside renowned speakers, in 15-minute presentations, including questions from the audience.

Poster sessions

Students are invited to present their own work inĀ four poster sessions during the scientific days of the symposium.

Speaker:
Harry Collins, Distinguished Research ProfessorĀ School of Social SciencesĀ Cardiff University, UK
Moderator:Ā 
Matteo Polettini, Researcher, Complex Systems and Statistical Mechanics group, University of Luxemburg, Luxemburg

Location

This year the ENABLE conference will be entirely online!

However, while everyone will be able to join the event and all its features from the safety of their homes, we are preparing for you some online content of the best landmarks of our host city: Milan!

This project has received funding from the European Unionā€™s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 724115.