Past IUBMB Plenary Lecturers

2025

Luke O'Neill Luke O’Neill, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
“A break in mitochondrial endosymbiosis as a basis for inflammatory diseases”
Given at the 54th Annual Meeting of Brazilian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SBBq)

Aguas de Lindóia, São Paulo, Brazil | 17-20 May 2025

Julie Forman-Kay Julie Forman-Kay, Hospital of Sick Children / University of Toronto, Canada
“Intrinsically Disordered Protein Regulation in Function and Pathology: Biophysical and Computational Insights”
Given at the 2025 CSMB-PRinCE Joint Conference on Protein Homeostatsis – From Basic Science to Human Health

Ottawa, ON, Canada | 26-29 May 2025

Erika Holzbaur Erika Holzbaur, University of Pennsylvania, USA
“Organelle dynamics and quality control pathways are required to maintain neuronal homeostasi”
Given at the 2025 CSMB-PRinCE Joint Conference on Protein Homeostatsis – From Basic Science to Human Health

Ottawa, ON, Canada | 26-29 May 2025

Alexandra Newton Alexandra Newton, University of California San Diego (UCSD), USA
“Protein Kinase C Signaling in Health and Disease”
Given at the 47th Sociedad Española de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular (SEBBM) Congress

Cáceres, Spain | 2-5 September 2025

George DiallinaGeorge Diallinas, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
“Cargo-centric membrane trafficking: insights from genetic, microscopy and high-resolution structures of the UapA purine transporters”
Given at the 40th Small Meeting on Yeast Transport and Energetics

Stockholm, Sweden | 3-7 September 2025

Jean Francois ColletJean Francois Collet, UCLouvain, Belgium
“Bacterial Cell Envelope”
Given at the EMBO|FEBS Lecture Course on “The new Microbiology”

Stockholm, Sweden | 3-11 September 2025

Ángel RayaÁngel Raya, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Spain
“From Bench to Bedside: The Transformative Power of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells”
Given at the XLVIII Annual Meeting 2025 of the Chilean Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

La Serena, Región de Coquimbo, Chile| 6-9 October 2025

Francisco J. QuintanaFrancisco J. Quintana, Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
“Astrocyte control of the immune response in the CNS”
Given at the 61st Sociedad Argentina de Investigación Bioquimica y Biologia Molecular (SAIB) Annual Meeting

Córdoba, Argentina | 27-30 October 2025

2024

Eva Nogalesr Eva Nogales, UC Berkeley, CA, USA
“Structural Insights into the Regulation of the PRC2 Gene Silencer”
Given at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Society for Biochemistry MeetingÁguas de Lindoia, São Paulo, Brazil | 18-21 May 2024
Freda Miller Freda Diane Miller, The University of British Columbia, Canada
“Understanding mammalian tissue repair and regeneration at the single cell level”
Given at the 67th Annual Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences (CSMB) MeetingWinnipeg, MB, Canada | 6-8 May 2024
Johannes Herrmann Johannes Herrmann, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
“Distinct types of intramitochondrial protein aggregates protect mitochondria against proteotoxic stress”
Given at the EMBO | FEBS Advanced Lecture Course: Membranes, Lipids and Proteins in Organelle BiogenesisSpetses, Greece | 26 May – 1 June 2024
Kiaran Kirk Kiaran Kirk, Australian National University, Australia
“Humanity’s ongoing battle with infectious disease: Malaria as a case study”
Given at the 2024 Congress of the South African Society of Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyPolokwane, South Africa | 7-10 July 2024
Thomas LangerThomas Langer, Max-Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Germany
“Proteolytic control of mitochondria in ageing and disease”
Given at the XLVII Annual Meeting of Chilean Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SBBMch) 2024: Celebrating 50 years of our society La SerenaRegión de Coquimbo, Chile | 30 September – 4 October 2024
Susanne HaublerSusanne Häußler, TWINCORE – Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, Institute of Molecular Bacteriology, and Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany
“Functional Genomics in Pseudomonas aeruginosa”
Given at the XIX Congreso Argentino de Microbiología General SAMIGECórdoba, Argentina | 22-25 October 2024
Raphael H. ValdiviaRaphael H. Valdivia, Duke University, USA
“Friend or foe? Akkermansia muciniphila a commensal bacterium and a next generation probiotic”
Given at the 60th Annual Congress of Argentine Society for Research in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SAIB)Córdoba, Argentina | 5-8 November 2024

2023

Faith OsierFaith Osier, Imperial College London, UK
“IgG Fc-effector function guided vaccine design for P. falciparum malaria”
Given at the 48th Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and FunctionLorne, Victoria, Australia | 8 February 2023
Rachel E KlevitRachel E Klevit, University of Washington, USA
ASBMB-IUBMB Tribute to Eddy Fischer: Reversible Phosphorylation
“Ubiquitylation: Phosphorylation, only bigger?”
Given at the ASBMB DiscoverBMB 2023 Annual MeetingSeattle, WA, USA | 26 March 2023
Markus RalserMarkus Ralser, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
“Functional Proteomics for understanding gene function, and to study basic principles of protein expression dynamics”
Given at the 66th Annual CSMB Meeting: Metabolic Regulation of Cell SignallingOttawa, ON, Canada | 30 May – 2 June 2023
Antonio Vidal-PuigAntonio Vidal-Puig, University of Cambridge, UK
“Adipose tissue expandability, lipotoxicity and the metabolic syndrome”
Given at the 45th Annual Meeting of Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM)Zaragoza, Spain | 5-8 September 2023
Vaughn CooperVaughn Cooper, University of Pittsburgh, USA
“Empowering Evolution to Teach Us How Microbes Interact with Surfaces, Drugs, and Host”
Given at the XVIII Annual Meeting of the Argentine Society of General Microbiology SAMIGEChapadmalal, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina | 2-5 October 2023
Gökhan HotamışlıgilGökhan Hotamışlıgil, Sabri Ülker Center for Metabolic Research at Harvard University School of Public Health, USA
“Subcellular Molecular Architecture as a Critical Determinant of Metabolic Programming”
Given at the International Biochemistry Congress 2023 & 34th National Biochemistry CongressFethiye, Turkey | 29 October – 1 November 2023

2022

John ScottJohn Scott, University of Washington School of Medicine, USA
“Exploring and Exploiting the Spatial Constraints of cAMP Signaling”
Given at the Gordon Research Conference (GRC): Cyclic Nucleotide PhosphodiesterasesEurotel Victoria, Les Diablerets, VD, Switzerland | 19-24 June 2022
KRISTIJAN RAMADANKristijan Ramadan, University of Oxford, UK
“DNA-protein crossslink proteolysis repair: from human disease to cancer therapy”
Given at the HDBMB22: From Science to KnowledgeBrela, Croatia | 28 September – 1 October 2022