Biochemistry Without Borders 2026:
Annual Meeting of the Hungarian Biochemical Society

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the Biochemistry Without Borders 2026: Annual Meeting of the Hungarian Biochemical Society (HBS) will take place this August 26^th-28^th at the University of Debrecen.

The official language of the conference is English. The scientific program will be organised along the following topics:

• Lipids and membranes – components, structure and function
• Genome organization, maintenance, functional genomics
• Bioinformatics, synthetic biology, genome engineering, biotechnology
• Molecular signaling, cell-cell communication, cell death and differentiation
• Molecular basis and tissue models of disease and therapy, stem cells, immunity and inflammation
• Protein structure, function and modeling, proteomics, intrinsically disordered proteins: prediction of structure, dynamics and interactions
• Regulation of gene expression, regulatory RNA, epigenetics
• Translational research, medicinal biochemistry, drug development

The scientific programme will be organised according to the traditions; a few plenary lectures followed by oral presentations running in parallel sessions. Abstracts selected by the Scientific Advisory Board are delivered as oral lectures; all other abstracts are presented as posters.

The list of confirmed speakers is growing, and currently includes:

• Gregor Anderluh (National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana) - Protein nanopores
• Agnieszka Chacinska (iMol Institute Warshaw) - Mitochondrial protein import
• Veerle Janssens (KU Leuven) - Signaling in disease
• Dietmar Manstein (Medical University Hannover) - Contractile proteins
• George Garinis (University of Crete, IMBB-FORTH) - Genome stability
• Lumir Krejci (Masaryk University Brno) - Genome stability
• Rob Leurs (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) - Photopharmacology
• Sandra Macedo-Ribeiro (i3s Porto) - Structural biology
• Andras Nagy (Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Toronto) - Allogenic cell transplants
• Laszlo Nagy (Johns Hopkins University) - Epigenomic regulation
• Agnieszka Robaszkiewicz (University of Lodz) - Single-cell transcriptomics
• Xavier Salvatella (IRB Barcelona) - Intrinsically disordered proteins, drug development
• Michele Vendruscolo (Cambridge University) - Protein structure/function prediction
• Markus Zweckstetter (MPI-NAT Göttingen) - Protein NMR

The registration and abstract submission site will open on March 15th.

Early registration is before June 15^th 2026; Abstract submission is before May 15^th 2026.

According to the traditions, Diamond Congress Kft (https://www.diamond-congress.hu/) will help us in making this conference a success.

Please come to Debrecen and bring as many colleagues with you as you can!

On behalf of the organisers, we wish you all the best

Mihály Kovács
Chair of the Hungarian Biochemical Society