5th European Conference on Natural Products

The submission deadline for oral presentations has already expired. Posters can still be submitted.

You are cordially invited to contribute to the scientific programme with a last minute poster.
Deadline for last minute poster submission is 10 October 2024.

You can submit papers for the following topics:

• Organic Syntheses
• Biosyntheses & Synthetic Biology
• Targets and MoA / Chemical Biology
• Chemical Communication / Signalling
• NP Discovery and Characterization
  (e.g. Marine and plant NPs, Isolation of substrates, Protein-protein interactions, Structural biology, Genome mining/ bioinformatics, Regulation of NP biosynthesis, Applications of biosynthetic enzymes in synthesis, Application of molecular networking to NP discovery

Please prepare an abstract with 1-2 pages (incl. figures, max. size 1 MB, max. 2 pages).
The abstract should explicitly mention objectives, new results and conclusions or significanceof the work.

1. Please use the Template to correctly format your contribution and upload it as PDF file.
2. Enter the author list (author and co-author/s) and affiliations in the same order as in your abstract.
3. DECHEMA will not make any adjustments regarding the author information. The information will be published as given, so please double-check.

SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT for last minute posters HERE

Accepted abstracts will be published for all conference participants in a book of abstracts (PDF file).
The publisher WILEY will sponsor three poster awards.

Please note: Registration fee cannot be waived for authors.

The lecture and poster programme is available as online version:

lECTURE PROGRAMME

POSTER PROGRAMME

The conference programme as PDF file is available here:

Programme at a glance

Registration fees

Mixed VAT, no VAT requested for scientific conferences according to § 4.22 UstG but registration fee include a Business Package with VAT.

¹⁾ Personal DECHEMA-, VDI-GVC-members and EFC/EFCE passport holders; personal VAAM members
²⁾ Proof of status requested

How to become a member?

Online-Registration

Registration

The DECHEMA terms and conditions for conferences apply. Please note that the following information are exerpts and supplements to the general terms and conditions.

Registration is possible up to the beginning of the conference (subject to capacity in the lecture rooms). You will receive an email with a booking confirmation as well as hyperlinks to download your invoice and payment confirmation as PDF files.

The registration fees include a conference ticket, digital book of abstracts (PDF), digital list of participants as well as food & beverages during all coffee and lunch breaks, poster party and conference dinner.
The conference programme brochure will be available via conference app.

Editorial deadline for list of participants is 14 October 2024.

Cancellation and Refunds

Cancellations are only accepted in writing (i.e. by fax, surface mail or e-mail). Please find details about cancellation dates and fees in the general terms and conditions. In case of no-show the conference fees won't be refunded and fees not yet paid still have to be paid.

Keynote Speakers

	Emily Balskus Harvard Medical School, Harvard/US Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Keynote: Chemical discovery in the microbial world
	Helge Bode Max-Planck-Institut, Marburg/Germany Department of Terrestrial Microbiology Keynote: Engineering of megasynthases for drug discovery
	Elke Dittmann University Potsdam, Potsdam/Germany Department of Microbiology Keynote: Exploitation of cyanobacterial natural products: lessons from natural communities
	Pieter Dorrestein University of California, San Diego/US Department of Pharmacology and Pediatrics Keynote: Scaling The Discovery of New Microbial Metabolites Through Data Science on Unused Metabolomics Data
	Muriel Gondry Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-Sur-Yvette/France Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell Keynote: Aminoacyl-tRNA-dependent enzymes in natural product biosynthesis: an overview of the cyclodipeptide synthase family
	Bo Li University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill/US Department of Chemistry Keynote: Antibiotic Biosynthesis by Pathogenic Bacteria

We are pleased that most of the keynote speakers will be available for a "Meet the Speaker" in the evening of the first conference day during the Poster Party.

Exhibitor

	We assist the chemical, pharmaceutical and biotechnological industry in sourcing and producing chemical specialties. The core of our work is to supply the product which our customer is looking for – with the right documentation, the correct quantity from mg to mt and proper quality and this not only for a one shot business but to support projects from RnD state up to commercial production. To achieve these challenging goals we use our excellent knowhow and worldwide network of qualified suppliers. Finding the best solution! It’s not just a sentence – it’s our mission! Visit our website: www.cfmot.de
	Natural products have found numerous applications to treat and prevent diseases in humans, animals, and plants, and are widely used as research reagents to probe biological processes. They are a proven and sustainable resource for R&D projects in different fields. The micro4all (www.micro4all.com) platform  represents a Major Change in Drug Discovery, making R&D processes faster and more successful. This platform provides access to purified compounds, microbial extracts and strains, and to the “Molecules Gateway”, an extensive online database of >150k molecules, known and yet-to-be described, physically present in the microbial extracts derived from strains from Naicons collection. Through multiple search options, users can explore this growing database to readily find data or materials that are relevant for their projects. Visit our website: www.naicons.com
	PhytoLab is an independent, ISO 17025-accredited, and GMP-certified service lab for herbal medicinal products, botanicals, cosmetics and animal nutrition. Our services include analysis, development, quality control, regulatory affairs and medical affairs and a comprehensive range of ultrapure phyproof® herbal reference standards. With more than 30 years of experience and an excellent reputation in the domestic and international regulatory and scientific communities we help our customers rise to the challenge posed by the complexity of herbal matrices. Our phyproof® reference standards meet the highest quality and documentation standards. A member of the nature network, we are committed to ensuring the quality, safety and effectiveness and of herbal products, using world-class technology and drawing on our team’s long-standing expertise. Visit our website: www.phytolab.com

Media Partner

	Visit our website: www.peerj.com

Sponsors

Visit our website: www.symrise.com

Chemistry & Biodiversity is an interdisciplinary journal exploring nature at the molecular and macromolecular levels. The publication covers a wide range of biorelevant topics from all research fields straddling the border between the chemical and biological sciences. We feature prominently the isolation/identification, (bio)synthesis, derivatization, and biological testing of natural products. Visit our website: www.wiley-vch.de

The exhibition, fully integrated in the conference, offers a unique opportunity to promote your technologies, products and services in the field secondary metabolite research.

More than 200 participants from science and industry took part in past conferences. We expect at least the same number of participants in 2024.

We offer the following opportunities for your company to participate as an exhibitor or sponsor:

Sponsoring Package   

• Exhibition space 6 sqm
• Basic equipment: 1 table, 2 chairs, power supply, wifi
• 1 full conference ticket included (conference dinner also included)
• Logo and short introduction (max. 500 characters) on the conference website with hyperlink to the company´s official website
• Logo presence:
  • on the event website with a link to the company website
  • in the logo slider on the event website
  • in the event app
  • on sponsors & exhibitors banner in registration area
• Placement of advertising (1 brochure/flyer) in the entrance area
• 1 page of advertisement in the digital conference programme
• Option to book 1 addtitional conference ticket for the reduced fee of 650 € (excl. VAT)

Package price: 3.500 EUR (excl. VAT)

Book Sponsoring

Exhibition Package   

• Exhibition space 6 sqm
• Basic equipment: 1 table, 2 chairs, power supply, wifi
• 1 full conference ticket included (conference dinner also included)
• Logo and short introduction (max. 500 characters) on the conference website with hyperlink to the company´s official website
• Option to book 1 addtitional conference ticket for the reduced fee of 650 € (excl. VAT)
• Logo presence:
  • on the event website with a link to the company website
  • in the logo slider on the event website
  • in the event app
  • on sponsors & exhibitors banner in registration area

Package price: 1.700 EUR (excl. VAT)

Book Exhibition

For further enquiries about sponsorship options and more information, please contact our conference office.

Information for Authors

Registration

Dear lecture and poster authors, please note: Registration fee cannot be waived for authors.
Please register until 16 August 2024.
If you are unable to present your lecture for any reason, please let us know as soon as possible.

Conference Language

The official language of the conference is English. Simultaneous translation will be not available.

Introduction to the audience/CV

A brief CV questionary enables the appropriate chair person to introduce all lecturers to the audience. Therefore lecturers are asked to download the CV form and to return it to the conference office until 10 October 2024  to 

Technical Information

The ideal format for the presentation is 16:9. A notebook (MS Office 2010, Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.3) and a wireless presenter will be provided. Please bring your presentation slides as PowerPoint or PDF-File on a USB stick. Nevertheless we kindly ask you to bring your own laptop computer as a backup.

In case that you need internet /special software for your presentation or if you have videos included into your file, please notify the conference secretariat in advance.

Lectures/Oral Presentations

Each lecture is planned for a duration of 20 minutes plus 5 minutes for discussion. Strict timekeeping will be essential for the smooth running of the conference. We suggest to use a minimum font size of 24 pt for your presentation slides.

Information for Poster Authors

The posters will be shown throughout the whole conference. Please hang up your poster at the beginning of the conference on 22 October 2024.
A poster board will be available for each poster, with the poster number attached.

At the end of the first day of the conference, all poster authors will have the opportunity to present their poster at the Poster Party. (22 October, 18:00 - 21:00)

Preparation of a Poster

As a major guideline it is proposed to make the poster intelligible in itself, even in the absence of the author. It is suggested to divide the content of each poster into introduction, results and conclusion, with a summary listing the pertinent results and conclusion.

The poster should be legible from a distance of 2-3 meters. Standard size for posters is 0.85 x 1.2 m (DIN A0 German Standard) vertically oriented. Therefore, please find the following specifications:

• the minimum size should be 20 cm for graphs,
• 3 cm for the paper’s title and the names/adresses of the authors in the heading lable,
• 1,5 cm for sections headings such as introduction, results, labelling of figures and tables,
• 0,8 cm characters in height for further text,
• line spacing: 1,1 cm at minimum; 10 of such lines correspond to one figure.
• please use colours, symbols and schemes for improved clarity.

We are proudly present to award "Best Poster Prize" sponsored by:

https://peerj.com/chemistry/

The PeerJ Awards program aims to support researchers by highlighting their work, as well as bringing continued awareness to the benefits that open access has in keeping science open and available to all.

The winner of "Best Poster Award" (sponsored by PeerJ) receive a  free publication in any of the PeerJ journals (subject to peer review) and the opportunity to discuss the research on the PeerJ blog site PeerJ blog site

Venue

You can find further information about the congress center at www.wuerzburg-b2b.de/ccw-das-haus/

Accommodation

We can offer you accommodation at Maritim Hotel (right next to the Congress Center) and a room allotment in further hotels in Würzburg.
Please note that we do not commission third parties to provide you hotel services or other services on our behalf!

Maritim Hotel

Single room/night from 156 € incl. breakfast
Deadline for a reservation of a single room of this room allotment is 4 August 2024.
Please make a reservation via email

Booking Code: "ECNP 2024"

Further Hotels

On the following website you can find a selection of further hotels near the Congress Center Würzburg that provide us rooms as a call-off contingent. Deadline for a reservation of accommodation from this room allotment is 8 September 2024.

Single room/night from 114 € - 139 € incl. breakfast.

Further Accommodation in Würzburg

TRAVELLING BY TRAIN

Are you planning to travel to Würzburg by train? Use the joint offer from Deutsche Bahn (DB) and DECHEMA and travel to our conference at a reduced fare starting from 49,50 € (one way).

Further information at http://www.dechema.de/en/train.html.

Visa Request

To receive a formal invitation letter for a visa application, please complete the application form. The invitation will be sent to you by email after verification. 

 Apply here for VISA invitation letter