22nd Vienna Biocenter PhD Symposium - 5-7 November 2025
This year’s symposium will take place between the 5-7 November 2025 and will be an exclusive Vienna BioCenter Alumni reunion, titled "Bringing it all back Home".
The symposium will be an opportunity to connect the current members and alumni of the Vienna BioCenter through our shared commitment to advancing science. Scientific talks, career workshops and panel discussions will be featuring exclusively Vienna BioCenter Alumni with various backgrounds and career paths. We are looking forward to exciting discussions engaging sessions and networking opportunities among past and present members of the Vienna BioCenter community.
An event for the IMP 40th Anniversary will be held on 5 November, “40 Years of Finding Out”. Further details of this IMP alumni only event will be published later.
Topics: Cell and Developmental Biology, Translational Sciences, Virology and Immunology, Structural Biology
Registration: Registration will open on 1 June via the Vienna BioCenter alumni platform. Alumni of the Vienna BioCenter are invited to join the platform and attend this exciting reunion Symposium.
Further information can be found here:
Vienna BioCenter Alumni Network https://alumni.training.vbc.ac.at/page/home
The poster abstract submission deadline: 1 September 2025.
Organizing Committee
Every year a dedicated team of volunteers from the student body gets together to organize the symposium with the help of the Scientific Training team and other staff at the research institutes on campus.
This year the committee consists of: América Ramírez Colmenero (Max Perutz Labs), Anna Dimitriadi (IMBA), Barbara Da Costa (GMI), Elisabeth Pottendorfer (IMP), Eliska Kohoutkova (IMP), Estela Mancheno (IMBA), Guillem Estivill (IMP), Navaneeth Srinivasan (IMP), Patrick Zelger (IMP), Samuele Maturi (IMBA), Sebastian Platzer (Max Perutz Labs), Sofia Moysiadou (IMP).
With the VBC Training Team: Eva Schmid, Chiara Ceriotti, and Christopher Robinson.