Global schedule

The conference will be held from July 12th until July 16th, 2026. It will start on Sunday evening (welcome reception, plenary lectures) and will last until Thursday night ending with the Gala Dinner at the Coendersborg. The conference will comprise:

  • 7 plenary lecturers and EUROBIC medal lecture

  • Three parallel sessions with keynote lectures (30 min), invited lectures (20 min) and oral communications (15 min),

  • Posters and flash presentations

  • Breakout/career sessions (for example “meet the speakers” or sessions with journal editors)

  • Welcome reception and conference dinner

  • Download provisional program as pdf

schedule for conference

Download programme (PDF) Version: 22 Jun 2026, 16:00

Day 1 Sunday, 12 July 2026

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Registration

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Opening

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Plenaries

Feringa building Main lecture room

[PL1] Bio-Inspired Catalyst Design for Small Molecule Activation in Multi-Electron Reduction Processes

Carole Duboc - CNRS

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Reception

Day 2 Monday, 13 July 2026

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Registration

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Plenaries

Metal-Modified Nucleic Acids – From Characterization to Application

Feringa building Main lecture room

[PL2] Metal-Modified Nucleic Acids – From Characterization to Application

Jens Müller - Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie

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Change rooms

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Keynote

Feringa building Main lecture room

[KN1] Unveiling an atlas of the structural and functional space of multiheme cytochromes c

Ricardo O Louro - Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier

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5111.080

[KN2] Abiotic Reactions Catalyzed by Hemoproteins Reconstituted with Artificial Metal Porphyrinoids

Takashi Hayashi - Department of Applied Chemistry

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5111.022

[KN3] Novel developments in the field of albumin-binding therapeutics

Petra Heffeter - Center for Cancer Research

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Invited and oral lectures

Feringa building Main lecture room

NMR Studies of Multidomain Snail Metallothioneins: Metalation, Metal Selectivity and High Pressure Studies

Oliver Zerbe - Department of Chemistry

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5111.080

Design of artificial metalloproteins using noncanonical amino acids

Amanda Jarvis - School of Chemistry

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5111.022

Target Recognition and Mechanistic Study of Chemo-Immunotherapy Using Metal-Based Derivatives from TCM Active Components

Ke-Bin Huang - School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences

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Feringa building Main lecture room

[O1] Active site bound hydrogen species in hydrogenases studied by sensitivity-enhanced NMR

Lukas Kaltschnee - Eduard-Zintl-Institute for Inorganic and Physical Chemistry

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5111.080

[O2] Peroxidase Activity of a Hemin-Protein Complex Based Upon the LmrR Scaffold

Kathryn Splan - Department of Chemistry

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5111.022

[O3] Silver(I) metallodrugs of antibiotics as therapeutic hydrogels for contact lenses

Christina Banti - Biological Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

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Coffee

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Invited and Oral lectures

Feringa building Main lecture room

Processing tRNAs and Metal Ions at the Core of Recoding Gut Bacteriophages - Theta Ribozymes, a New Subfamily of HDV-like Ribozymes

Roland K.O. Sigel - Department of Chemistry

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5111.080

Nickel chaperones in Helicobacter pylori: the case of UreE and HypA

Stefano Ciurli - Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology

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5111.022

Beyond Cisplatin to Next-Generation Metallotherapeutics: Mechanism-Driven Design of Hybrid Metallodrugs Targeting Breast Cancer Cells Proliferation

Sotiris Hadjikakou - Biological Inorganic Chemistry laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece

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Feringa building Main lecture room

[O4] Paramagnetic Cu2+ Probes Reveal Higher-Order G-Quadruplex Architectures: A Multi-Scale EPR Approach to DNA Structural Biology

Yury Kutin - Chemistry and Chemical Biology

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5111.080

[O5] Structure, Function, Spectroscopy, and Biosynthesis of Histidine-Coordinated [2Fe-2S] Proteins

Antonio J. Pierik - Department of Chemistry

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5111.022

[O6] Preferential Mitochondrial DNA Targeting by an Antitumor NHC-Re(I) Complex Enables Chemotherapy

Amlanjyoti Dutta - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, MUMBAI

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Feringa building Main lecture room

[O7] Systematic disruption of Tyr/Trp pathways amplifies the ROS formation 25-fold in multicopper oxidase: RRDE electrochemical studies

Patrycja Kielb - Clausius Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

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5111.080

[O8] Redox tuning of engineered heme protein active sites and catalytic implications

Michelle Mahler - Clausius Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

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5111.022

[O9] The ruthenium complex BOLD-100 rewires nucleotide and one-carbon metabolism leading to accumulation of the metabolite S-adenosyl methionine

Theresa Mendrina - Institute of Inorganic Chemistry

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Poster session and Lunch

Poster Session

Atrium Feringa building

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Keynote

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Invited and oral lectures

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Coffee

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Invited and oral lectures

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Plenaries

Day 3 Tuesday, 14 July 2026

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Registration

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Plenaries

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Change rooms

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Keynote

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Invited and oral lectures

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Coffee

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Invited and oral lectures

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Poster session

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Keynote

Feringa building Main lecture room

[KN4] Anticancer gold complexes: Controlled activation, precision targeting and beyond

Taotao Zou - School of Pharmaceutical Sciences

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5111.080

[KN5] mm-Wave (263 GHz) high power pulse EPR spectrometer and appli-cations to high spin transition metal centers

R. David Britt - Chemistry

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5111.022

[KN6] Less is More: Miniaturized Heme Enzymes with Broad Reactivity

Angela Lombardi - Department of Chemical Sciences

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Early career Researcher session

Feringa building 105

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Invited and oral lectures

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Coffee

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Invited and oral lectures

Day 4 Wednesday, 15 July 2026

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Registration

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Plenaries

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Change Rooms

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Keynote

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Invited and oral lectures

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Coffee

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Invited and oral lectures

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Plenaries

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Excursions

Day 5 Thursday, 16 July 2026

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Registration

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Plenaries

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Change rooms

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Keynote

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Invited and oral lectures

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Coffee

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Invited and oral lectures

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Poster session

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Keynote

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Coffee

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Invited and oral lectures

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SBIC award lecture

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Closing & awards

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Gala dinner