Anthony A. Hyman

Director General EMBL, Germany

Dr. Anthony A. Hyman has been Director General of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) since March 2026. He holds a professorship of Molecular Biology at Technische Universität Dresden. Before returning to EMBL, he acted as group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, which he was one of the founding directors of. 
Hyman’s research focuses on unravelling the intricacies of biological condensates and phase separation in health and disease. The Hyman lab studies how phase separation impacts the formation of such membraneless compartmentalisation of macromolecules inside living cells. Understanding how and why condensates form and how they can transform into irreversible protein aggregates has important relevance for studying neurodegenerative diseases like ALS and Alzheimer’s disease.

11:30-20:30  |  Young Investigator Meeting (YIM; PhDs and PostDocs) (Dinner included) 

09:00-17:00  | Young Investigator Meeting (YIM; PhDs and PostDocs
(Dinner included) 

10:00-17:00  | Group Leader (GL) Satellite workshop (Group Leader)
(Dinner included) 

09:00-11:30  | Operation and Coordination Meeting (O&C; Admins) 

12:30-14:30  |  Steering Committee Meeting (SC; Directors) 

Opening Main Meeting 

Vävenscenen, Västra Strandgatan 8A

19:00–19:30  | Welcome Reception, registration, mounting of posters

19:30–20:30  | Opening of the Main meeting – Keynote lecture 
Title – TBA
Director General, Anthony A. Hyman (EMBL)

20:30–21:30  | Networking and Socializing 

08:00-08:45  |  Welcome and registration, mounting of posters

08:45-09:00  |  Opening words by the Hosts 

Session 1 

09:00-09:20  |  Clonal hematopoiesis: clinical and functional perspectives New Group Leader, Mikko Myllymäki (FIMM)   

09:20-09:40  |  Expanding append editing through programmable DNA ADP-ribosylation of multiple nucleobases
New Group Leader, Constantinos Patinios (VU-LSC) 

09:40-10:30  |  Keynote lecture
TBA

10:30-11:00  |  Coffee Break 

11:00-11:10  |  Title- TBA 
NORPOD Fellow, Amanda Muñoz-Juan (DANDRITE/MIMS) 

11:10-11:30  |  Integrating clinical and microbial signatures to predict trajectories of antidiabetic drug response
New Group Leader, Chinmay Dwibedi (MIMS, DDLS) 

11:30-11:40  |  Title: TBA 
Postdoc talk, TBA 
Laura Carroll’s lab (MIMS) 

11:40-12:00  |  Flash talks 

12:00-12:10  |  Group photo 

12:10-13:00  |  Lunch 

Session 2 

13:00-13:20  |  Title: TBA 
New Group Leader, Tim Coorens, (EMBL)  

13:20-13:30  |  Spatial Multi-Omics Dissection of SubsisterNiches: Predicting and Overcoming Chemotherapy Resistance in Ovarian Cancer
NORPOD Fellow, Sara Palomino Echeverria (FIMM/NCMBM) 

13:50-14:00  |  Title: TBA 
Short talk, TBA, student/postdoc talks (NCMBM) 

14:00-14:10  |  Title: TBA
Short talk, TBA, student/postdoc talks (NCMBM) 

14:10-14:30   |  Flash talks 

14:30-15:00  |  Coffee break 

15:00-16:00  |  Poster walks with refreshments

Session 3 

16:00-16:10  |  Title: TBA 
NORPOD Fellow, Xia Lei (FIMM/NCMBM) 

16:10-16:20  |  Title: TBA 
NORPOD Fellow, Charlène Sueur (NCMBM/FIMM) 

16:20-16:40  |  Thalamic circuits for active visual processing 
New Group Leader, Fiona Müllner (DANDRITE) 

16:40-17:00  |  Early-life sleep loss derails brain circuit maturation with lasting cognitive consequences
Group Leader, Charlotte Boccara (NCMBM) 

17:00-17:10  |  Title: TBA 
Short talk, TBA, student/postdoc talk (DANDRITE)                           

17:10-17:30  |  Biological rhythms regulating brain and whole body homeostasis 
Group Leader, Hanna M. Ollila (FIMM) 

19:00-  |  Gala Dinner at P5 

Session 4 

09:00-10:00  |  Keynote
TBA

10:00-10:20  |  Development and application of human organoid models for pathogenesis studies of emerging respiratory viruses
New Group Leader, Meaghan Flagg (MIMS) 

10:20-10:50  |  Coffee Break

09:40-10:00  |  SynOmics: Defining molecular signatures of synapses in normal and epileptic human brain circuitry
Group Leader, Urtė Neniškytė (VU-LSC) 

10:00-10:20  |  Title:TBA 
Group Leader, Jan Kamiński (Braincity) 

11:40-11:50  |  Title:TBA 
Short talk, TBA, PhD student/postdoc talk (FIMM) 

11:50-12:00  |  Title:TBA 
Short talk, TBA, PhD student/postdoc talk (VU-LSC) 

12:00-13:00 Lunch 

Session 5 

13:00-13:20  |  Molecular recording to decipher neuroplasticity 
Group Leader, Taro Kitazawa (DANDRITE) 

13:20-13:40 |  Scalable Bayesian phylogeographic inference: recent        successes and open questions.
New Group Leader, Andrew Magee (MIMS, DDLS) 

13:40-14:00  |  Host–virus interactions in Tick-borne Encephalitis Virus infection: LRP8 as a key entry receptor
Clinical Research Fellow, Sara Gredmark-Russ (MIMS, Karolinska Institutet)

14:00-14:20  |  Winner announcements (Flash talks and Poster prizes) 

14:20-14:30  |  Closing remarks 

14:30-  |  Departure