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• Calendar 2019

  • Chicago Science 2019: Epigenetics and Gene Editing

    June 12-14, 2019

    Venue:

    Louis A. Simpson and Kimberly K. Querrey Biomedical Research Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago Campus
    

    Organizers:

    Rex Chisholm (Northwestern University, USA), Tiago Faial (Nature Genetics, USA), Kate Gao (Nature Medicine, USA), Al George (Northwestern University), Dimitri Krainc (Northwestern University), Beth McNally (Northwestern University), Joao Monteiro (Nature Medicine, USA), Eric Neilson (Northwestern University, USA), Ali Shilatifard (Northwestern University)
    For more information or to be alerted when registration opens, please email: sarah.sandler@us.nature.com

  • Plants of the Future

    June 13-14, 2019

    Venue:

    Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life, New York University, New York, NY, USA
    

    Organizers:

    Myles Axton, (Nature Genetics, USA); Gloria Coruzzi, (New York University, USA); Lei Lei, (Nature Plants, USA); Catherine Potenski, (Nature Genetics, USA); Michael Purugganan, (New York University, USA)
    For more information or to be alerted when registration opens, please email: sarah.sandler@us.nature.com

  • Grand Challenges in Immunology: Immunotherapy for Cancer and Beyond

    June 11-13, 2019

    Venue:

    Sheraton Huangdao Hotel, Qingdao, China
    

    Organizers:

    Zhigang Tian (University of Science and Technology of China, China), Yvonne Bordon (Nature Reviews Immunology, UK), Zoltan Fehervari (Nature Immunology, UK), Alexandra Flemming (Nature Reviews Immunology, UK), Kirsty Minton (Nature Reviews Immunology, UK)
    For more information or to be alerted when registration opens, please email: iris.liu@nature.com

  • Cellular Metabolism

    April 8-11, 2019

    Venue:

    The Aqua Resort, Xiamen, China
    

    Organizers:

    Sheng-Cai Lin (Xiamen University, China), Ana Mateus (Nature Metabolism, UK), Christoph Schmitt (Nature Metabolism, Germany), Vesna Todorovic (Nature, USA)

  • The Tumour Cell: Plasticity, Progression and Therapy

    March 3-6, 2019

    Venue:

    Geoffrey Beene Cancer Research Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
    

    Organizers:

    Barbara Marte (Nature, UK), Ross Levine (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA), Scott Lowe (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA), Dana Pe'er (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA), Sarah Seton-Rogers (Nature Reviews Cancer, UK), Alexia-Ileana Zaromytidou (Nature Cell Biology, UK)

• Calendar 2018

  • Naturejobs Career Expo — Düsseldorf 2018

    November 16, 2018

    Venue:

    Classic Remise, Düsseldorf, Germany
    

    Organizers:

    Natureconferences and Naturejobs
    
    

  • Topological Photonics - From Concepts to Devices

    November 11-13, 2018

    Venue:

    Charles F. Knight Executive Education & Conference Center, St. Louis, MO, USA
    

    Organizers:

    Richard Brierley (Nature Communications, UK), Nina Meinzer (Nature Communications, UK), Lan Yang (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)

  • Nanophotonics and Integrated Photonics

    November 9-11, 2018

    Venue:

    Nanjing Xindi Hotel, Nanjing, China
    

    Organizers:

    Shining Zhu (Nanjing University, China), Yanqing Lu (Nanjing University, China), Xiaosong Ma (Nanjing University, China), Tao Li (Nanjing University, China), Jia Zhu (Nanjing University, China), Zhenda Xie (Nanjing University, China), Minghui Lu, (Nanjing University, China), Maria Maragkou (Nature Materials, UK), Alberto Moscatelli (Nature Nanotechnology, UK), Christiana Varnava (Nature Electronics, UK), Rachel Won (Nature Photonics, UK)

  • Inflammation and Cancer

    October 23-25, 2018

    Venue:

    Main Building, Tsinghua University
    

    Organizers:

    Chen Dong, (Tsinghua University, China), Tak Mak, (University of Toronto, Canada), Miriam Merad, (Mount Sinai HESS Center for Science and Medicine, USA), Ursula Weiss, (Nature, UK), Alexia-Ileana Zaromytidou, (Nature Cell Biology, UK)

  • Synthetic Biology — Resource Allocation in Natural and Unnatural Systems

    October 15-17, 2018

    Venue:

    Shanghai Institute of Biological Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology & Ecology
    

    Organizing committee:

    Institute of Plant Physiology & Ecology, SIBS, CAS, Nature Communications, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, East China University of Science and Technology)

  • Viral Infection and Immune Response 2018

    October 12-14, 2018

    Venue:

    Pullman Shanghai South, Shanghai, China
    

    Organizers:

    Hong Tang (Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Lubin Jiang (Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Xiaoming Zhang (Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Xia Jin (Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Andrew Jermy (Nature Microbiology, UK), Nonia Pariente (Nature Microbiology, UK), Sonja Schmid (Nature Communications, USA)

  • Flexible Electronics – Visions of a Flexible Future

    October 12-14, 2018

    Venue:

    Jin Jiang International Hotel, Xi’an, China
    

    Organizers:

    Wei Huang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China), Xiaogang Liu (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Jianpu Wang (Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Tech University (NanjingTech), China), Quli Fan (Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NJUPT), China), Luke Fleet (Nature, UK), Karl Ziemelis (Nature, UK), Bo Liu (Nature Communications, China), Congcong Huang (Nature Communications, China), Michael Lee (Nature Electronics, UK), Elsa Couderc (Nature Energy, UK), Luigi Martiradonna (Nature Materials, UK), Ali Stoddart (Nature Reviews Materials, UK), Olga Bubnova (Nature Nanotechnology, UK)

  • RNA at the Bench and Bedside

    October 8-10, 2018

    Venue:

    Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa, La Jolla, CA
    

    Organizing committee:

    Stanley T. Crooke (Ionis Pharmaceuticals, USA), Andy Marshall (Nature Biotechnology, USA), Kate Gao (Nature Medicine, USA), Ines Chen (Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, USA)

  • Big Data and Cancer Precision Medicine

    October 1-2, 2018

    Venue:

    Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, Boston, MA
    

    Organizing committee:

    Orli Bahcall (Nature, USA), Ethan Cerami (cBio Center at Dana-Farber, USA), Rosy Favicchio (Nature Biomedical Engineering, UK), Laura Kleiman (cBio Center at Dana-Farber, USA), Sarah Perry (Nature Biotechnology, UK), Chris Sander (cBio Center at Dana-Farber, USA)
    

  • Naturejobs Career Expo — London 2018

    October 4, 2018

    Venue:

    The Business Design Center, London, UK
    

    Organizers:

    Natureconferences and Naturejobs
    
    

  • Minerals and Materials for a Sustainable Future

    September 11-13, 2018

    Venue:

    Scandic Nidelven Hotel, Trondheim, Norway
    

    Organizers:

    Tom Heldal (Geological Survey of Norway, Norway), Jostein Mårdalen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Norway), Jack Ødegård (SINTEF, Norway), Luigi Martiradonna (Nature Materials, UK), Rebecca Neely (Nature Geoscience, China), Amy Whitchurch (Nature Geoscience, UK)

  • NYU - Nature Conference on Chemical Biology

    August 13-14, 2018

    Venue:

    Kimmel Center for University Life, New York University, New York, NY, USA
    

    Organizers:

    Paramjit Arora (New York University, USA), Terry Sheppard (Nature Chemical Biology, USA), Dirk Trauner (New York University, USA)

  • Nature Roundtable: The Future of Medicine

    July 16, 2018

    Venue:

    Darmstadtium, Darmstadt, Germany
    

    Organizers:

    Joao Monteiro (Nature Medicine, USA), Victoria Aranda (Nature, UK), Ulrich Betz (Merck)

  • Princeton - Nature Conference: Frontiers in Electron Microscopy for the Physical and Life Sciences

    July 11-13, 2018

    Venue:

    Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
    

    Organizers:

    Nan Yao (Princeton University, USA), Craig Arnold (Princeton University, USA), Nieng Yan (Princeton University, USA), Zachary Lapin (Nature Communications, USA), Maria Maragkou (Nature Materials, UK), Inês Chen (Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, USA)

  • Science and the Sustainable City Summit

    July 11, 2018

    Venue:

    Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
    

    Organizers:

    Springer Nature

  • Countering Antimicrobial Resistance

    May 28-29, 2018

    Venue:

    Pullman Beijing South, Beijing, China
    

    Organizers:

    Alison Farrell (Nature Medicine, USA), Andrew Jermy (Nature Microbiology, UK), Andrew Marshall (Nature Biotechnology, USA), Xiao-Qing Qiu (West China Hospital, Sichuan University, China)

  • Genome Variation in Precision Medicine 2018

    May 25-27, 2018

    Venue:

    Chengdu Marriott Hotel Financial Centre, Chengdu, China
    

    Organizers:

    Zhenglin Yang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, China), Myles Axton (Nature Genetics, USA), Wei Li (Nature Genetics, China), Jianjun Liu (Guangdong Medical University, China), Xuejun Zhang (Anhui Medical University, China)

  • Naturejobs Career Expo-Jobs in China, Chicago 2018

    May 4, 2018

    Venue:

    Venue: Ida Noyes Hall, the University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
    

    Organizers:

    Natureconferences and Naturejobs
    
    

  • Naturejobs Career Expo-Jobs in China, New York 2018

    May 2, 2018

    Venue:

    Faculty House at Columbia University, New York, USA
    

    Organizers:

    Natureconferences and Naturejobs
    
    

  • Naturejobs Career Expo-Jobs in China, Boston 2018

    April 30, 2018

    Venue:

    Back Bay Events Center, Boston, USA
    

    Organizers:

    Natureconferences and Naturejobs
    
    

  • Naturejobs Career Expo-Jobs in China, San Francisco 2018

    April 2, 2018

    Venue:

    Martin Luther King Jr. Building, Berkeley, CA, USA
    

    Organizers:

    Natureconferences and Naturejobs
    
    

  • Naturejobs Career Expo-Jobs in China, Los Angeles 2018

    March 31, 2018

    Venue:

    Carnesale Commons, Los Angeles, CA, USA
    

    Organizers:

    Natureconferences and Naturejobs
    
    

  • Maternal and Child Health

    March 22-24, 2018

    Venue:

    Conrad Guangzhou, Guangzhou, China
    

    Organizers:

    Huimin Xia (Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, China), Kang Zhang (University of California, San Diego, USA), Francesca Cesari (Nature, UK), I-han Chou (Nature, USA), Nathalie Le Bot (Nature, UK)

  • Materials Electrochemistry: Fundamentals and Applications

    January 13-15, 2018

    Venue:

    InterContinental Shenzhen, China
    

    Organizers:

    Yusheng Zhao (Southern University of Science and Technology, China), Khalil Amine (Argonne National Laboratory, USA), Shiyi Chen (Southern University of Science and Technology, China), Jun Lu (Argonne National Laboratory, USA), Xiaolin Li (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA), Yan Yao (University of Houston, USA), Yongye Liang (Southern University of Science and Technology, China), Yaoqing Zhang (Nature Communications), Magdalena Helmer (Nature), Alberto Moscatelli (Nature Nanotechnology), Alex Zhang (Nature Energy), Vincent Dusastre (Nature Materials), Nicky Dean (Nature Energy)

• Calendar 2017

  • Taste Science, Culture and Communication

    December 11, 2017

    Venue:

    Kings Place, London, United Kingdom
    

    Organizers:

    Michelle Grayson (Senior Editor, Nature Outlooks), Ikuko Oba (Commercial Director, Nature Research, Japan Korea, Southeast Asia), Naoko Youda (Project Coordinator, Nature Research, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia)

  • Naturejobs Career Expo — Düsseldorf 2017

    November 17, 2017

    Venue:

    Classic Remise, Düsseldorf, Germany
    

    Organizers:

    Natureconferences and Naturejobs
    
    

  • Regeneration

    November 16-18, 2017

    Venue:

    Aula Caravella Santa Maria, San Raffaele Congress Centre, Milan, Italy
    

    Organizers:

    Victoria Aranda (Nature, USA), Francesca Cesari (Nature, UK), Luca Guidotti (San Raffaele Congress Centre, Italy), Nathalie Le Bot (Nature, UK), Gianvito Martino (San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Italy), Clare Thomas (Nature, UK)

  • What Can You Be With a PhD? | in association with Naturejobs

    November 4-5, 2017

    Venue:

    NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, USA
    

    Organizers:

    Natureconferences and Naturejobs
    
    

  • HIV Immunity and Eradication, a Herrenhausen Symposium

    November 2-3, 2017

    Venue:

    Herrenhausen Palace Conference Center, Hanover, Germany
    

    Organizers:

    Tanya Bondar (Nature Medicine, USA), Christine Borowski (Nature Medicine, USA), Alison Farrell (Nature Medicine, USA), Oliver Grewe (Volkswagen Foundation, Germany)

  • Ferroic Materials: Challenges and opportunities

    October 25-27, 2017

    Venue:

    Paradise Resort, Xi’an, China
    

    Organizers:

    Xiaobing Ren (Frontier Institute of Science and Technology (FIST), Xi’an Jiaotong University, China), Wei Fan (Nature Communications, China), Giulia Pacchioni (Nature Reviews Materials, UK), Giacomo Prando (Nature Nanotechnology, UK)

  • Agricultural Genomics 2017 - Functional Genomics toward Green Crops for Sustainable Agriculture

    October 25-27, 2017

    Venue:

    Conference Hall, National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Wuhan, China
    

    Organizers:

    Myles Axton (Nature Genetics, USA), Xiaofeng Cao (Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, CAS, China), Xiaoya Chen (Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, CAS, China), Bin Han (Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, CAS, China), Sanwen Huang (Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China), David Jackson (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA), Jonathan Jones (The Sainsbury Laboratory, UK), Jiayang Li (Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China), Jun Lyu (Nature Plants, China), Richard Pattison (Nature Communications, USA), Catherine Potenski (Nature Genetics, USA), Rod Wing (University of Arizona, USA), Qifa Zhang (National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, China)

  • Naturejobs Career Expo — London 2017

    October 4, 2017

    Venue:

    The Business Design Center, London, UK
    

    Organizers:

    Natureconferences and Naturejobs
    
    

  • IBS-Nature Conference on Frontiers in Genome Engineering

    September 27-29, 2017

    Venue:

    Hoam Faculty House, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
    

    Organizers:

    Jin-Soo Kim (Institute for Basic Science/Seoul National University, Korea), Caixia Gao (Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, CAS, China), Victoria Aranda (Nature, USA), Markus Elsner (Nature Biotechnology, Germany)
    To be alerted when registration opens, please email: n.cruz@us.nature.com

  • Nature Conference on Inflammatory Diseases

    September 18-20, 2017

    Venue:

    Grand Hyatt Beijing, China
    

    Organizers:

    Xuetao Cao (Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, China), Douglas Green (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA), Lucy Bird (Nature Reviews Immunology, UK), Kirsty Minton (Nature Reviews Immunology, UK), Zoltan Fehervari (Nature Immunology, UK), Ursula Weiss (Nature, UK), Nick Bernard (Nature Communications, UK)

  • 5th Helmholtz-Nature Medicine Diabetes Conference

    September 17-19, 2017

    Venue:

    Lenbach Palais, Munich, Germany
    

    Organizers:

    Matthias Tschöp (Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany), Susanna Hofmann (Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany), Randy Levinson (Nature Medicine, USA)

  • NYU Nature Conference on Neurogenetics

    August 9-11, 2017

    Venue:

    Kimmel Center for University Life, New York University, New York, NY, USA
    

    Organizers:

    Alexander Arguello (Nature Neuroscience, USA), Kevin Da Silva (Nature Neuroscience, USA), Claude Desplan (New York University, USA), Eric Klann (New York University, USA), Brooke LaFlamme (Nature Genetics, USA), Catherine Potenski (Nature Genetics, USA)

  • Electron Microscopy for Materials — The Next Ten Years

    May 27-29, 2017

    Venue:

    Hangzhou Huagang HNA Resort, Zhejiang, China
    

    Organizers:

    Ze Zhang (Zhejiang University, China), Gaorong Han (Zhejiang University, China), Qian Yu (Zhejiang University, China), Rosamund Daw (Nature, UK), John Plummer (Nature Materials, China)

  • Naturejobs Career Expo—Jobs in China, New York

    May 24, 2017

    Venue:

    Faculty House, Columbia University, New York, USA
    

    Organizers:

    Natureconferences and Naturejobs
    
    

  • Naturejobs Career Expo—Jobs in China, Boston

    May 21, 2017

    Venue:

    The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
    

    Organizers:

    Natureconferences and Naturejobs
    
    
    

  • Genome Variation in Precision Medicine 2017

    May 18-20, 2017

    Venue:

    Crowne Plaza Guangzhou City Centre, Guangzhou, China
    

    Organizers:

    Myles Axton, Nature Genetics, USA, Xueqing Yu, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, China, Musheng Zeng, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, China, Brooke Laflamme, Nature Genetics, USA Jianjun Liu, Anhui Medical University, China, Xuejun Zhang, Anhui Medical University, China
    To be alerted when registration opens, please email: fengyizhi_nnu@126.com

  • Environmental Microbial Biofilms and Human Microbiomes: Drivers of Future Sustainability

    February 12-15, 2017

    Venue:

    Nanyang Executive Centre, Singapore
    

    Organizers:

    Staffan Normark (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden), Yehuda Cohen (Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE), Singapore), Alexander Zehnder (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Staffan Kjellberg (Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE), Singapore), Nico Fanget (Nature Research, UK)

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