What to expect

In 3 days, the participants of this online workshop will take a survey of modern computer-based approaches for exploring natural products (or secondary metabolites) discovery in the omic age. Selected experts will give keynote lectures, hands on sessions, round table discussions, and oral presentations. Selected applicants (mostly early career scientists and students) will be invited to give oral presentations (15 minutes) and present posters in the form of (5 minutes) flash presentations.

Audience

MSc and PhD students, postdocs and early career researchers interested in bioinformatics, chemoinformatics, natural products chemistry, computational drug design, genomic analysis, with applications in drug discovery.

Registration

Participants should fill out the following Registration form. Those who plan to do a presentation during the workshop should upload an abstract or poster accordingly using the prescribed abstract template. All applications for participation must be received by the deadline on 05 March 2021 by midnight CET.

Deadlines

• Abstract for oral presentations (keynotes, standard oral presentations and flash presentations) must be received by midnight on 24 February 2021 CET.
• The final program of the workshop will be published by 05 March 2021.

Keynote presentations/Round table discussions

Selected experts will be directly invited by the organisers. Keynote lectures and round table discussions will last from 30 to 60 minutes.

Hands on sessions

Selected experts will be directly invited by the organisers to give lectures and practical sessions on specific software tools for web servers. Each session will last for 90 minutes.

Oral presentations

This will last up to 15 minutes each and will be selected among applicants who submit an abstract using the provided template by the deadline of 24 February 2021 by midnight (CET).

Poster/flash presentations

Selected posters from MSc and PhD students will be presented in 5 min flash presentations. All submissions will be received by the expected deadline (24 February 2021 CET by midnight). Keynote presentations, round table discussions and hands on sessions are upon invitation by the workshop organizers. Presentations not accepted as standard (15 minutes) oral presentations will automatically be assigned as flash presentations or rejected.

Lecture options and web platform

All lecture slides will be uploaded by presenters 24 hours before the workshop and will be available for download by the workshop participants.

Certificate of Participation

Participants who attend at least 60% of all lectures and take part in an online post-workshop survey will receive a signed certificate of participation.

Cost of participation

Free of charge

Language of workshop

English