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The organizing committe would like to thank all the participants, presenters, exhibitors, helpers and sponsors for helping in making this meeting such a success.
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Interscientific Exchange
ÖGMBT traditionally aims to strives to bridge the gaps between the diverse branches of biosciences and expand upon networking procedures with workshops and satellite events. The 7th Annual Meeting hosted a large variety of events that empowered this philosophy
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| Annual Biophysics Austria Meeting Biophysics is the bridge between biology and physics. To foster interactions with biology, it has thus become tradition to liaise with the ÖGMBT and hold the Annual Biophysics Austria Meeting as satellite of the Annual ÖGMBT meeting. The meeting highlighted recent advances and new emerging areas, including invited speaker Peter Jakob of the University of Würzburg. |
Translational Oncology Sessions On Friday, September 11th, two seperate sessions on the topics of translational oncology were organized by the Austrian Association of Surgical Research in cooperation with ÖGMBT. |
Building Bridges
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| Exhibitors & Quiz 40 exhibitors were given the opportunity to present their unique innovations and novel products directly to researching scientists. The ÖGMBT tried to motivate engaging in a dialogue with an annual meeting premiere: the exhibitor quiz. Those who answered several specific questions correctly eventually had the chance to win great prizes like a Samsung tablet, an eBook reader or free entrance to the next ÖGMBT conference. |
ÖGMBT Info Point Located right next to the entrance and registration area, the ÖGMBT tent served as an info point for those curious about the society in general, the ongoings of the conference and events, as well as the various services on offer. Various members of the organising comittee as well as many helpers provided the visitors of the conference with viable information and gave insight on the ÖGMBT. |
Career Corner How to improve your CV? HR professionals spend only few minutes to read your application and to decide - few minutes and rows to catch the attention and to convince with your personality. Gabriela Zechner of Life Science Career Service offered the chance for a quick resume and cover letter check at her info point. At the same time, the Erber/Biomin Group provided young scientists with several potential job opportunitites. |
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| Wine & Science Socialising within the scientific community is a vital part of both the conference environment, as well as ones individual, professional development. The well-established Networking event once Wine & Science again offered the opportunity to share ideas and experiences, to meet old friends or make new ones - while enjoying a glass of wine. |
Interactive Training with Nature Publishing Dominika Rudnicka, associate editor at Nature Communications, gave insights into the process of getting published and the work of a scientific editor at within the publishing group. The “hands-on” workdshop provided by Macmillan Science Communication included tips and tricks on getting published in Nature and its sister journals. |
Workshop with Pall Life Sciences Breaking free from the limitations of the shake flask - the microbioreactor for early stage process development has the ability to run up to 24 bioreactors simultaneously, with independent control of each reactor. The Pall Life Sciences workshop gave visitors the chance to "touch" the Pall Micro-24 microbioreactor and talk to the experts. |
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Austrias Life Science Hot-Spot
ÖGMBT is a platform for scientific exchange and diversity by connecting researchers, students and entrepeneurs.The 7th ÖGMBT Annual Meeting "Salzburg goes Science" inlcuded plentiful sessions in the key disciplines, with manifold satellite events creating the perfect environment and atmosphere for discussion between Austrias leading life scientists and establishing new networks - in the beautiful city of Salzburg.
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The scientific get-to-gether was divided into several sessions with diverse topics:
Science in Biotech Companies - Systems Biology - Epigenetics & Cancer
NanoScience - Immunology & Allergology - Structural Biology
Translational Oncology – Plant Biology & Biotechnology - Signal Transduction
Stem Cells - Biophysics - Satellite Meeting by Biophysics Austria
The range and quality of bioscientific research in Austria was reflected by the top speakers that took stage throughout the meeting, including the following invited speakers:
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| Wolfram Weckwerth University of Vienna, AT |
Maria Sibilia Medical University of Vienna, AT |
Holger Sültmann DKFZ Heidelberg, DE |
| Stephan Feller Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, DE |
Christoph v. Kalle DKFZ Heidelberg, DE |
Guido Grossmann COS Heidelberg, DE |
| Stephan Knapp University of Oxford, GB |
Iseult Lynch University of Birmingham, GB |
Alexander Leitner ETH Zürich, CH |
| Kevin E. Healy University of California, US |
Umberto Galderisi Second University of Napoli, IT |
Michael Groll Technical University München, DE |
| Werner Baumgartner JKU Linz, AT |
Peter Jakob University of Würzburg, DE |
Christina Zielinski Technical University München, DE |
Young aspiring scientists and their extraordinary research received awards in four different categories: PhD-Awards, Research Awards, Poster- and Talk Awards
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| Verena Ruprecht, ÖGMBT/Biomin Research Award 2015 Actomyosin network contractilityt riggers a stochastic transformation into highly motile amoeboid cells |
Daniela Gallerano, ÖGMBT/Eppendorf Research Award-I 2015 HIV microarray for the mapping and characterization of HIV-specific antibody responses |
Matthias Farlik, ÖGMBT/Eppendorf Research Award-II 2015 Single-cell DNA methylome sequencing and bioinformatic inference of epigenetic cell state dynamics |
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| Janett Göhring, ÖGMBT/THP PhD Award 2015 Imaging of Endogenous mRNA Splice Variants in Living Plant Cells |
Best Poster & Best Talk Awards
Der mit EUR 300,- dotierte "Best Talk" wurde vom wissenschaftlichen Kommitte aus den insgesamt 61 Short Talks der 14 Sessions der Tagung ausgewählt. Wir gratulieren Nicole Prutsch herzlich. Wir bedanken uns herzlich beim Sponsor VWR International.
9 Best Poster Awards dotiert mit je EUR 100,- wurden verliehen an: Sophie Kitzmüller Nadja Kunkel Elisa Redl Christine Haider Robert Behmüller Andreas Aufschnaiter Markus Schosserer Laura Gallego Drew Marquardt
Herzlichen Dank an die Sponsoren: VWR International, Microsynth und Hitachi/Metrohm! |
Birgit Ploier, ÖGMBT/Polymun PhD Award 2015 Molecular enzymology of lipolytic enzymes in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
Check out the full programme and abstract book for more information on the conference!
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ÖGMBT would like to thank all speakers, visitors and sponsors for their support!
35 Exhibitors - 5 Plenary Speakers - 13 Invited Speakers - 9 Sessions - 110 Posters - 54 Short Talks
Salzburg goes Science! The Annual ÖGMBT conference is Austrias most essential life science meeting: connecting researchers, students and corporate representatives to share their knowledge and visions.
The 7th Meeting in September 2015 was hosted by the Department of Molecular Life Sciences from the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Paris-Lodron University in Salzburg, with the breathtaking backdrop of Salzburg castle providing a magnificent atmosphere for the diverse scientific program. The Organizing and Scientific Committee was chaired by Silja Wessler.
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Satellites // Workshops // Networking The conference as a platform for networking and interscientific exchange |
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more than 550 attendees
40 exhibitors - 7 plenary speaker - 40 invited Speaker
14 Sessions - 220 Poster - 61 Short Talks
For the sixth time running, the ÖGMBT hosted Austrias most important Life Science Meeting at the UZA1 University Campus in the nations capital city, Vienna. The former University of Economics (WU) - which is currently home to the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) - proved to be the ideal site for a conference, which for the first time aimed to break out of the rigid corset of conventional scientific meeting and offer a uniquely diverse program under this years motto:
Life Sciences meet Entrepeneurship
Throughout the last years, the Annual Meeting had already established itself as the biggest hot-spot of the national Life Science scene. The 2014 edition expanded upon the regular program of bioscientific sessions with talks and posters, with the banner Life Sciences meet Entrepeneurship creating a strong connection between research and business. The specifically designed Entrepreneurship Track was complemented by the session Science in Biotech Companies. The link between the two spheres was drawn by the LifeScience Circle, organised by LISAvienna, a scientific get-to-gether dedicated to networking and exchange.
A Network of Ideas
On the other end of the spectrum, the program was improved in scientific value and diversity by the inclusion of plentiful networking and satellite events , such as the Bioinformatics Round table and the Biophysics satellite meeting. At the same time, young scientists were approached with seminars focusing on career-oriented soft skill workshops like „How to write a paper“ by Eva Müller or „The purpose of research“ by Lukas Madl. In that way, despite the vast diversity of attendees most, if not all, interests were able to be engaged. It is not surprising, that the general feedback was positive throughout. Wolfgang Weinkum, Marketing Manager and Organiser of one of the business workshops, spoke of an "excellent event with possibility to network with a lot of key opinion leaders from biotech, academics, key universities and non-university research institutes". Accredited represantatives of the (bio-)scientific media, including Chemie Report and Transkript, were on site to report their impressions of the meeting.
Mirror Of Research Quality
As is the tradition, the meeting was also the stage for many young and aspiring scientists and their research. Two awards each were handed out for extraordinary research (Karoline Kollmann and Christian Gruber/Andreas Loos) and PhD theses (Michael Tscherner and Christoph Hasenhindl) Alongside, further prizes for three inspiring scientific talks (Mario Kuttke, Jonas Ramoni and Simone Kurz) and 12 posters (Antonio Biundo. Eva Maria Putz, Andrea Düregger, Christina Andrea Müller, Eva Stappler. Justyna Nocon, Iulia Danciu, Stefan Unterweger, Alba Hykollari, Andreas Weinhäusel, Anna Bachmayr-Heyda, Verena Bachmann and Stefan Hofbauer) at the meeting were awarded during the closing ceremony. The Austrian Young Glycoscientist Awards went to Markus Tomek and Elisabeth Svehla, for the best Glycobiology-related talk and poster, respectivley. Josef Glößl, Head of ÖGMBT, pointet out the “admirable range and quality of fundamental bioscientific research with potential for application, which is being conducted at Austrian institutes”. This was mirrored in the Scientific Committee of this years Annual Meeting, which comprised almost the entirety of Viennas Universities and Academic Insitutes alike:
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Sebastian Nijman CeMM |
Christine Schäffer BOKU |
Kristina Djinovic-Carugo MFPL |
Rudolf Dömötör WU |
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Maria Sibilia MUW |
Hannes Stockinger MUW |
Gerda Egger MUW |
Irene Fialka INiTS |
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Joachim Seipelt AWS |
Eva Stöger BOKU |
Georg Gübitz BOKU |
Christoph Herwig TU |
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Angela Sessitsch AIT |
Martin Wagner Vetmeduni |
Karl Kuchler MUW |
Mathias Müller Vetmeduni |
The 6th Annual ÖGMBT Meeting was organised by
Rudolf Dömötör (WU), Josef Glößl (BOKU), Alexandra Khassidov (ÖGMBT), Karl Kuchler (MUW) and Ernst Müllner as chair (MFPL).
Exhibition
One particular concern of the ÖGMBT is the stimulation of communication between academia and industry. With 40 exhibitors who informed the participants about their products and services the exhibition was fully booked.
Wolfgang Weinkum (PALL), exhibitor and organiser of a workshop later described the meeting as an "Excellent event with possibility to network with a lot of key opinion leaders from biotech, academics, key universities and non-university research institutes"
The diverese program of the 6th ÖGBMT Annual Meeting featured 7 plenary speakers, a further 40 invited speakers and 61 short talks, held in a manner of 14 themed sessions, which covered the entire range of bioscientific research fields:
Bioengineering & Synthetic Biology – Bioresources – Cancer – Chromatin & Epigenetics – Entrepreneurship - Glycobiology – Immunology & Allergology - Infectiology – Molecular Diagnostics – Plant Biology & Biotechnology - Science in Biotech Companies – Signaling – Structural Biology & Bioinformatics -
Translational Biotechnology - Translational Systems Medicine – Biophysics
Click image to download Abstractbook as PDF (4.8MB)
Plenary Speakers
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Pascale Ehrenfreund
(FWF, Austria) From basic research to entrepreneurship and innovation |
Peter Tompa
(Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, Belgium) Towards describing IDP function by dynamic structural ensembles |
Stefan Kaufmann
(Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Germany) Immunity against Tuberculosis: Floating between Basic Research and Application |
Jürgen Knoblich
(Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austria) Neural stem cells, metabolism and artificial brains |
Pieter Dorrestein
(UCSD, USA) A “GoogleMAP” type and crowdsource GPS infrastructure for analysis |
Jan Tavernier
(UGent/VIB, Belgium) MAPPIT and Co: the importance of system artifacts |
The scientific program was spear-headed by a heterogenic group of top researchers from various backgrounds and fields within the bioscientific sphere. Austrias top-tier was represented by Pascale Ehrenfreund (FWF), who concluded the first conference day with a spectacular lecture about biological life in space, and Jürgen Knoblich (IMBA), who presented his findings on neural stem cells and the creation of miniature artifical brains. International invitees like Peter Tompa (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) and Jan Tavernier (Ugent/VIB) from Belgium, Stefan H.E. Kuafmann of the Max Planck Institue for Infection Biology (Germany) and Pieter Dorrestein from UCSD (USA) – creator of “Google-Map streetview”-like applicatons for molecular space – succesfully rounded up the broad spectrum.
Program Overview
The many faces of Life Science
To delve deeper into the many facets of biosciences, many renowned speakers from the Austrian Life Science scene were invited to particpate. The following speakers contributed to the 14 concurrent sessions - each featuring four topically related talks – sharing detailled infromation about their own research. Abstracts of the respective lectures – as well as all other short talks held at the meeting - can be found in the Abstract Book, which is available for Download here.
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Balbino Alarcon
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Menno Creyghton |
Juri Rappsilber |
Michael Trauner |
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Rudi Balling
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Jochen Förster |
Peter Rossmanith |
Antonella Viola |
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Denise Barlow
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Jeffrey Hoorfar |
Monika Schmoll |
Erwin Wagner |
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Eva Benková
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Paul Kosma |
Christian Seiser |
Günter Weiss |
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Frederic Berger
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Kristiina Kruus |
Veronika Sexl |
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Axel Brakhage
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Diethard Mattanovich |
Eva Sigl |
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Tim Clausen
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Christoph Mayer |
Herbert Strobl |
Another scientific perspective was added by the poster session and walks: 220 Posters were submitted, with young scientists in particular using the opportunity to promote their research for the first time in front of an interested, like-minded audience - which was also engaged by several school students invited in the OpenScience project – and as a smooth conversation starter during social breaks.
The Entrepreneurial Adventure
The strong focus on entrepreneurship was apparent in the session assigned to Science in Biotech Companies, chaired by Michael Bergmann and featuring invited speakers Tilmann Bürckstümmer (Haplogen Genomics, Austria), Thomas Felzmann (Activartis Biotech GmbH, Austria), Dorothee Holm-von Laer (ViraTherapeutics GmbH, Austria), Lukas Paul (Lexogen GmbH, Austria) and Patrick Sagmeister (Exputec GmbH, Austria). The following Entrepreneurship-Track allowed attendees an intimate look at the Ups and Downs in the lifes of young entrepeneurs like Frederik Debong (mySugr GmbH, Austria). Sanja Selak (ORIGIMM Biotechnology GmbH, Austria), Franz Obermayer (Panoptes Pharma GmbH, Austria) and Karl Skriner (DRDX GmbH, Germany).
Rounding up the links between Life Sciences and Entrepreneurship, Irene Fialka (INits) and Rudolf Dömötör (WU, ECNetwork) - who were responsible for establishing the cooperation with ÖGMBT along with Joachim Seipelt (AWS) - held an interesting podium discussion to conclude upon the acquired perspectves. Irene Fialka seemed content with the outcome of this years focus, summing up the project accordingly:
„The 4 Entrepreneurs presented their personal stories and answered many questions from the audience that participated in the discussion very actively. That the entrepreneurship track seemed to be one of the most interesting topics was shown by the highest number of registrations amongst the breakout sessions. Despite the difference of personalities, technologies and diseases adressed there was common sense: about the importance of the definition of goals to be prepared for the roller coaster, how much fun it is to be entrepreneur and how high the learning curve. On top of all that, failure would not stop all four speakers from starting it all over again as it is part of the (ad)venture.“
Broadening ones horizon and keeping an open mind has become one of the integral characteristics of the scientific field. As a society that strives to empower these values, ÖGMBT has always been proud to expand upon the regular conference procedures with additional satellite and networking events. Be it the diversification of subjects (like featuring Bioinformatics and -physics in assigned seminars), workshops focussing on valuable soft skills or career- and education-related social sessions: the widespread approach resembled the diversity of interests present at the meeting.
Bioinformatics Round Table was started in 2011 by Thuan Christine Huynh Buu, Bernhard Knapp and Christian Siehs. The idea for the round table discussion was born at the Bioinformatics Stammtisch at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria in Hagenberg, as an opportunity for students to meet their professors outside the university. Main goal is to connect researcher and students, bridging gaps and enabling participants to share experiences and best practice. Despite the early hours and limited advertisement some 30 young and more senior researcher were interested and joined the session before the official start of the annual meeting. Bernhard Knapp opened the session and Christian Siehs gave an overview on the broad range of bioinformatics aspects and tools , including anekdotes and practical hints. The first part of the satelite event was finished with the excellent key note by Amos Bairoch, who talked about the important but many ties neglected topic of curation within the bio and life sciences. The second part of the satellite was labeled "Meet the Bioinformatics Experts " and numerous distinct bioinformatics experts from Vienna answered and discussed with the participants and other interested scientists. Among others topics like sequencing and analysis, structural bioinformatics, computational systems biology, networks and functional analysis, biological knowledge discovery and data management were covered. Thuan Christine Huynh Buu closed the successful first bionformatics satelite after 4 hours of interesting, lively and also intense interaction between bioinformaticians and participants of the OGMBT annual meeting. more info
Biophysics Austria event had invited contributions covering the whole range of the field - this year with a particular focus on theoretical Biophysics. The Session Chair was Bojan Zagrovic of the Max F. Perutz Laboratories Vienna and Young PI Talk was held by Chris Oostenbrink, University of Natural resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna. more info
„How to write a paper“ was held by Eva Müller, a Ph.D. biologist turned science writer and gave those interested answers to the most relevant questions when it comes to developing a clear and conclusive story line for your scientific manuscript : a catchy title, convincing abstract, an intrudoction that arouses interest or a compelling discussion could be the essential factors for spicing up your publication. more info
The purpose of research What is science all about? Why is research important? Intriguing questions asked by Lukas Madl (Tecnet equity). In his workshop, he discussed the opinions of famous thinkers, trends today, chances and risks for the future. To his mind, both pure scientific endeavour on the one hand and new technologies on the other can serve humanity - if handled with care and responsibility.
ÖGMBT Career Day once again aimed to reflect upon the links between science and business: booths maintained by Life Science companies and service providers alike were spread across the foyer to provide relevant information to curious attendees. The “Wine & Science” event deserves a specific mention, as it allowed attendees to open up a casual conversation to business owners/leaders like Prof. Katinger of Polymun or Mr. Perklitsch of Mediatum in a relaxed and informal environment.
Shaking Up Early-Stage Process Development (PALL) demonstrated a high-throughput screening technology for small-scale fermentation and cell culture experiments. Furthermore fortèBIO (a Division of Pall Life Sciences) will demonstrate their newest technology for label free protein analysis for drug discovery and bioprocess monitoring. Wolfgang Weinkum, organiser of this satellite later described the meeting as an "Excellent event with possibility to network with a lot of key opinion leaders from biotech, academics, key universities and non-university research institutes"
Infusion in small rodents with osmotic pumps in the interests of 3R (Charles River) featured the application and handling of ALZETs miniature, implantable pumps, which deliver test compound solutions at continuous and controlled rates, for research in laboratory animals. They can be used for systemic infusion as well as for targeted delivery - for instance to specific organs or the CNS.
Wissen_scha(f)ft_Berufe was the motto of the final conference day. More than 100 students between the age of 13 and 17 years were invited by their respective schools to join the Meeting and breath the scientific air of a conference. A specially organised poster walk, as well as several workshops such as DNA isolation and blood typing, were organised by OpenScience in cooperation with the ÖGMBT. The schedule was rounded off by short talks about potential educational careers in the life sciences. more info
The Life Science Circle by LISAvienna was held opened by Josef Glößl (ÖGMBT), Peter Halwachs and Johannes Sarx (both LISAvienna). The key note lecture about Entrepreneurship in the Life Sciences was held by Franz Obermayer, CEO of Panoptes Pharma. After conclusion of the plenary, the attendees were left among themselvs to socialise, network and discuss the implications of the connections between business and sciences. more info
The 6th ÖGMBT Annual Meeting had a multifaceted program on offer: next to contributions by academic participants, the entrepeneurial focus of this years addition allowed for an additional valuable perspective within the scientific spectrum of the conference. The experience was appreciated by attendees, organisers and media alike. To find out more about the various impressions of the event, feel free to flick through our picture gallery or read the written accounts of participating media.
Chemie Report (p62) http://www.chemiereport.at/sites/default/files/uploads/printausgaben/chemiereport_7_14_web.pdf
Transkript http://oegmbt.at/images/presse/38_tk11_2014.pdf
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