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AUSBI Annual Symposium 2026

Welcome to the AUSBI Annual Symposium 2026

Welcome to the AUSBI Annual Symposium 2026


The Annual Symposium for the research network AUSBI will take place Tuesday April 14th, 2026. It is a full-day meeting dedicated to sharing of interdisciplinary science in structural biology and biophysics from the sub-molecular scale to cellular scale and larger, with focus on methods and expertise available to researchers at Aarhus University.

The program will include both external invited speakers, as well as presentations by junior and senior researchers from AUSBI. There will of course also be plenty of time for poster sessions and networking in the program. 

We hope it will be yet another wonderful annual symposium, with introduction to science projects outside our own daily work, insights into specific methods and expertise available locally and internationally, and of course great possibilities for networking during the poster session, breaks and lunch, and late-afternoon pizza. All of which hopefully facilitates possibilities for collaborations and easier access to know-how in the AUSBI community.

All researchers and students at Aarhus University, who are interested in structural biology and biophysics, are cordially invited to join.

The registration is open and free of charge!

 

Confirmed invited speakers

  • Michael Lund Nielsen, New professor at Dept. Molecular Biology and Genetics

    Expert in Mass Spectrometry with focus on protein composition and regulation, with particular emphasis on protein modifications and their functional significance

  • Further speakers to be confirmed

Programme outline

The final programme will become available in start April.

Welcome
08:30 Coffee and registration
09:00 Welcoming remarks by AUSBI steering group
09:10 Opening remarks
Integrated Methods for Structure and Dynamics (part I)
09:15 Invited keynote lecture
9:50 AUSBI talk
10:10 AUSBI talk
10:30 Coffee break and Poster Session 1 (even numbers, with prepared 2 min presentations)
Integrated Methods for Structure and Dynamics (part II)
11:15 Invited keynote lecture
11:50 AUSBI talk
12:10 Group photo
 
12:15 Lunch
Integrated Methods for Structure and Dynamics (part III)
13:15 Invited keynote lecture
13:50 AUSBI talk
14:10 AUSBI talk
14:30 Coffee break and Poster Session 2 (odd numbers, with prepared 2 min presentations)
Integrated Methods for Structure and Dynamics (part IV)
15:15 Invited keynote lecture
15:50 AUSBI talk
16:10 AUSBI talk
Closing remarks and networking
16:30 AUSBI Poster Prize announcement
16:35 Closing remarks by AUSBI steering group
16:45 Networking and drinks
18:00 Thanks for today

Organizing comittee


The AUSBI steering group:

  • Gregers Rom Andersen, Dept. Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Victoria Birkedal, Dept. Chemistry
  • Michael Westberg, Dept. Chemistry
  • Rasmus Kock Flygaard, Dept. Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Thomas Lykee-Møller Sørensen, Dept. Biologival and Chemical Engineering

AUSBI administrative support:

  • Karen Bech-Pedersen, Dept. Molecular Biology and Genetics

Group photo at the last AUSBI Annual Symposium in 2025

By AUSBI

/// Share & find expertises /// Network & find future collaborators ///

Date and time

Date: 
Tuesday April 14th, 2026

Time:

  • Morning coffee from 8:30
  • Program from 9:00-16:45
  • Networking and drinks from 16:45-18:00

Registration

The registration is open and free of charge:
 

Obs: You can change the language in the registration system, if need be, via the button in the top right corner

Registration deadline: Tuesday April 7th, 2026

Abstract submission deadline: Friday March 27th
Junior and senior researchers can apply to present their research, by submitting an abstract in their registration.

Selected speakers will be informed by: Tuesday March 31st, 2026

Symposium announcement

Venue

The venue will be the wonderful auditorium, hall, and surroundings at Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies (AIAS), building 1631-1632, located in the Aarhus University park.

Venue address: 
Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS)
Høegh-Guldbergs Gade 6B
DK-8000 Aarhus C
Denmark

The main entrance at AIAS (building 1631)
The main entrance at AIAS (building 1631)

More information about the venue is available here: Getting to AIAS

Poster information

All participants are highly encouraged to bring a research poster.

The poster boards have the dimensions: 190 cm high, and 84 cm wide.
This fits well with A0 poster format (which is 1189mm tall and 841mm wide), but no specific poster size format is requested though.

Poster hanging guidelines:

  • Please hang your poster in the AIAS Hall upon registration in the morning.
  • There will be poster boards available in the AIAS Hall, as well as poster gum and pins.
  • Each poster will get a number. Find your poster number at the poster list available at the registration desk.
  • Please hang your poster at the assigned poster board number matching your poster number.
  • Please take your poster down at the end of the day, preferable after the networking session ending 18:00.

Viewing & presentation of posters:

  • There will be 2 designated poster sessions; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. 
  • Poster authors please prepare a 2 min short oral presentation of your poster.
    • In the morning poster session: The poster authors having an even poster number are requested to stand by their poster for the first 30 min, so everyone else can visit and hear the short 2 min presentations.
    • In the afternoon poster session: The poster authors having an odd poster number are requested to stand by their poster for the first 30 min, so everyone else can visit and hear the short 2 min presentations.

Poster prize & voting:

  • All symposium participants are asked to vote for the best poster presentation.
  • Everyone is requested to submit their vote by scanning the QR code available in the AIAS Hall.
  • The most popular poster will be awarded this year's AUSBI poster prize, which will be announced at the end of the program, before the networking session.
Revised 25.02.2026
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Karen Bech-Pedersen