The 1st International Electronic Conference on Biomolecules
Natural and Bio-Inspired Therapeutics for Human Diseases
The Best Paper and Best Poster Award Winners have been announced.
Please see the 'Awards Winner Announcement' section for more details.
the chairs
Dear Colleagues,
It is with great enthusiam that we announce the 1st International Electronic Conference on Biomolecules: Natural and Bio-Inspired Therapeutics for Human Diseases (IECBM2020). The conference is organized by the MDPI open-access journal Biomolecules (Impact Factor 4.082), and will be held online from 1 to 13 December 2020.
Nature has long inspired drug discovery. While synthetic products often fail to meet clinical expectacions, natural products are highly optimized for their in vivo specific functions. The field of natural and bio-inspired therapeutics grows with every new attempt to mimic nature to produce new and succesful drugs targeting a wide variety of human diseases. This conference will provide leading scientists working in the field with an online platform on which to share their latest research and engage in exciting discussions. The main topics and sessions of the conference are:
- The natural and bio-inspired drug universe (Session 1);
- Derivatives of natural drugs: when chemistry allows optimization of what was created by nature (Session 2);
- Pathways for the discovery of new bio-inspired and natural drugs and their derivatives (Session 3);
- Repurposing of previously approved natural and bio-inspired drugs (Session 4).
This online event will bring together researchers from all over the world with no concerns of travel or other related expenditures. Participation and “attendance” to the IECBM2020 are FREE of charge.
The conference invites submissions for abstracts that will be reviewed by the conference committee. The authors of accepted contributions will be invited to submit a conference paper along with a slide or poster presentation of their work. All participants will have the opportunity to examine, explore, and critically engage with research findings published in Sciforum during the conference.
After the conference, all accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of this e-conference within a dedicated issue of the MDPI journal Proceedings. In addition, all participants will be encouraged to submit a full paper to one dedicated Special Issue in Biomolecules with a 20% discount on the Article Processing Charges (APC).
We hope that you will join this e-conference to exchange ideas, start fruitful collaborations, and make this first edition a success—the first of many.
Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Vladimir Uversky
Prof. Dr. Prakash Kulkarni
Dr. Marc Maresca
The Chairs of the 1st International Electronic Conference on Biomolecules.
Conference Secretariat
M.Sc. Fancy Zhai
Ms. Kayla Wang
Dr. Elena Gonzalez
Email: iecbm2020@mdpi.com
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Meet the Event Chairs
Important Dates
- Abstract submission deadlineOct 21, 2020
- Abstract acceptance notificationOct 30, 2020
- Full file submission deadlineNov 09, 2020
Meet Our Speakers
Prof. Dr. James J. Collins
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, Wyss Institute, Harvard University, USA, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA;
Jim Collins is a bioengineering professor at MIT, the Broad Institute, and Harvard's Wyss Institute. He is one of the founders of synthetic biology and continues to advance the field through the development of novel classes of diagnostics and therapeutics. Jim is leading the Antibiotics-AI Project at MIT, and he is passionate about teaching and inspiring young people in the classroom and lab.
- S1. The natural and bio-inspired drug universe
- S2. Derivatives of natural drugs: when chemistry allows optimization of what was created by nature
- S3. Pathways for the discovery of new bio-inspired and natural drugs and their derivatives
- S4. Repurposing of previously approved natural and bio-inspired drugs
- PS. Poster Session
Sponsors and Partners
Organizer
Media partner
Two live online sessions with a series of keynote and selected speakers have been programmed. During each session, the participants will have the possibility to ask questions live to our speakers.
In order to attend the live sessions, please register in the section below. The live sessions are FREE. The number of participants to the live session is limited but the recording will be made available on Sciforum shortly afterwards. Registrations with academic institutional email addresses will be prioritized.
In this section, you will find the recordings of the live sessions to watch, re-watch and share with your colleagues.
7 December 2020
10 December 2020
We are pleased to announce the winners of Best Paper Award and Best Poster Award of IECBM2020:
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Winner: Ursolic acid promotes clearance of Trypanosoma cruzi amastigotes in the host cell (doi:10.3390/IECBM2020-08807) María Cristina Vanrell, Santiago Martinez, Lucila Muñoz, Betiana Nebaí Salassa and Patricia Romano* |
Winner: Antibacterial Activity of Specialized Biomolecules (doi:10.3390/IECBM2020-08819) Tânia D. Tavares*, Joana C. Antunes, Jorge Padrão, Ana I. Ribeiro, Andrea Zille, M. Teresa P. Amorim, Fernando Ferreira and Helena P. Felgueiras |
Selected Papers from the 1st International Electronic Conference on Biomolecules
Guest Editors: Dr. Marc Maresca, Prof. Dr. Vladimir Uversky, Prof. Dr. Prakash Kulkarni
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2021