University of Geneva (UNIGE), Geneva, Switzerland.
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
ACS Chem Biol. 2020 Jun 19;15(6):1287-1291. doi: 10.1021/acschembio.0c00135. Epub 2020 Apr 24.
On January 22-24, 2020, scientific luminaries across the far-flung corners of chemical biology gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, to deliver their latest and greatest discoveries in the field. Generously supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), our academic partners, and industrial and journal sponsors, this chemical biology symposium in our opinion will remain memorable for several years to come, not only because of the diversity in scientific topics delivered by our invited eminent speakers as detailed herein, but it is also one-of-a-kind conference which reflected multidimensional balance-balance in age and gender, across these speakers. Such a remarkable speaker line-up doubtless attracted >200 attendees from academia and industry in and around Switzerland and beyond, representing a huge swathe of subfields of science interfacing chemistry and biology. Poster presentations from students and postdocs further spotlighted the exciting diversity in the field: spanning biosynthesis, optochemical genetics, genetic code expansion, lipid chemical biology, redox perturbation, microfluidics screening, membrane signaling, immune modulation, DNA circuits, and synthetic and computational biology. This notable heterogeneity in scientific topics also went hand-in-hand with the diverse representations of student/postdoc trainees from 56 institutions covering 14 countries worldwide, allowing us to witness science as a truly global enterprise.
2020 年 1 月 22 日至 24 日，来自遥远角落的化学生物学领域的科学精英们齐聚瑞士日内瓦，分享他们在该领域的最新最伟大的发现。在瑞士国家科学基金会（SNSF）、我们的学术合作伙伴、工业界和期刊赞助商的慷慨支持下，我们认为这个化学生物学研讨会在未来几年内将令人难忘，不仅因为我们邀请的杰出演讲者所涵盖的科学主题的多样性，而且还因为它是独一无二的会议，反映了这些演讲者在年龄和性别方面的多维平衡。这样一个杰出的演讲者阵容无疑吸引了来自瑞士及周边地区和其他地区的 200 多名学术界和工业界人士参加，代表了化学和生物学交叉的众多科学子领域。学生和博士后的海报展示进一步突显了该领域令人兴奋的多样性：涵盖生物合成、光化学生物学、遗传密码扩展、脂质化学生物学、氧化还原干扰、微流控筛选、膜信号转导、免疫调节、DNA 电路以及合成和计算生物学。科学主题的这种显著异质性也与来自全球 14 个国家的 56 个机构的学生/博士后培训生的多样化代表相伴而生，使我们能够见证科学作为一项真正的全球性事业。
