33rd BioCity Symposium is arranged 29–30 August 2024. Registration is now open!

This year, BioCity Symposium is arranged on-site in Mauno Koivisto Centre, BioCity on 29–30 August 2024, with the title Unleashing the power of metabolism. Registration is open until Friday, 16 August 2024.
Annual BioCity Symposium is a series of meetings organized since 1991 by BioCity Turku organization and it has become the most important annual get-together in the fields of biosciences and molecular medicine in Turku. The symposium gathers together hundreds of participants each year and offers talks from cutting-edge international researchers.
This year BioCity Symposium will cover metabolism at many levels, from cellular to organismal. Particular focus will be on the interplay of metabolism with other physiological systems such as immune system, gut microbiome, and how such interplay may lead to disease.
– This year’s program includes eleven talks from international scientists spiced up with short talks from Finnish researchers, and the list of speakers is outstanding. The keynote speaker is Craig B. Thompson, past CEO of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, who will tell us about cancer metabolism, says professor Klaus Elenius, the Scientific Director of BioCity Turku.
Send your poster abstract at latest Friday, 7 June at 23:59
Researchers are encouraged to participate to the poster exhibition and submit a poster abstract when registering to the event by Friday, 7 June 2024 at 23:59 (CET +1). There is place for 120 first abstracts.
Based on the submitted abstracts six researchers are invited to give a short talk in the Symposium. Registration to the event closes Friday, 16 August 2024 at 23:59 (CET +1) and the Symposium is free of charge.
BioCity Symposium is organized by BioCity Turku, an organization coordinating research on life sciences and molecular medicine in the University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University. The visual image of the Symposium is based on the artwork called Gut Feeling by Richard Barnes.
Registration, and more details about abstracts and posters
https://biocityturku.fi/biocity-symposium/registration/
Program and list of speakers:
https://biocityturku.fi/biocity-symposium/program/
Get to know BioCity Turku
https://www.esitteemme.fi/biocityturku/MailView/
For more information:
Maija Lespinasse, BioCity Turku coordinator, 040 5658 654, biocityturku@bioscience.fi
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