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Are you an NWO Life Essential? | Call for abstracts

We are thrilled to invite you to become an NWO Life2025 essential! Through this years’ theme, The Essentials of Life, we will explore multiple angles of Life’s essentials. On top of the inspiring keynote and invited speakers, your research, insights and knowledge will serve as glue for the scientific programme. The strength of NWO Life lies in its ability to gather researchers across various disciplines, who will present their work in a way that is meant to spark fresh and creative ideas for your own work.

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The scientific programme consists of different sessions that revolve around a specific topic, carefully selected by our programme committee. These 8 topics will collectively showcase the latest developments across a wide range of fascinating research subjects within and surrounding the Life Sciences. Featuring speakers from various disciplines, each session aims to inspire and foster collaboration beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries. 

Each session will host one invited speaker, compimented with selected speakers who submitted an abstract. All presentors will adress the topic from their perspective, leaving plenty of room for discussion.

Registration

Registration for NWO Life2025 is now closed. Would you still like to join? Send an email to life@nwo.nl. The organisation will let you know if it is possible.

Who Should Participate?

We welcome both early career and advanced researchers to submit abstracts for oral presentations:

Early Career Researchers: This is a fantastic opportunity to practice communicating your work to a diverse audience and receive valuable input for your research.

Advanced Researchers: Showcase your work, inspire a broad audience with your expertise and extend your professional network.

Topics

  • Regulatory systems and metabolism
    With Invited speaker: Dolf Weijers (WUR)
  • Cellular communication
    With Invited speaker: Madelon Maurice (UMCU)
  • (Multimodal) data integration and spatial organization
    With invited speaker: Miao-Ping Chien (EMC)
  • Mechanistic modelling, machine learning and AI
    With invited speaker:Jasmijn Baaijens (TU Delft)
  • Model systems: Rationales, benefits and limitations
    With invited speaker: Nael Nadif-Kasri (RUMC)
  • Evolution and patterns in life
    With Invited speaker: Matti Gralka (VU)
  • Order in living systems
    With invited speaker: Vincent Merckx (Naturalis)
  • Environmental effects on life
    With invited speaker: Martina Vijver (LEI)

Full descriptions of the topics

Posters

Posters will be organised by the same topics rather than by research discipline. Encouraging you to engage discussions about new ideas and perspectives.

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We look forward to your participation and the unique insights you will bring to NWO Life2025.

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