Guest speakers 2026

Aakriti Jain (UT Southwestern Medical Center, US)
Brenda Schulman (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, DE)
Cristina Mayor-Ruiz (IRB Barcelona, ES)
David Balchin (Francis Crick Institute, UK)
Hemmo Meyer (University of Duisburg-Essen, DE)
Ian Ganley (University of Dundee, UK)
Janine Kirstein (Leibniz Institute on Aging – Fritz Lipmann Institute, DE)
Juliette Fedry (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK)
Paul Elliott (University of Oxford, UK)
Yasin Dagdas (Heidelberg University, DE)

Best Short Talk 2026

Anastasia Okun (Max Perutz Labs, AT)

Best Posters 2026

Kashish Singh (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK)
Jakob Farnung (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, DE)
Julian van Gerwen (ETH Zurich, CH)
Sonja Achleitner (Max Perutz Labs, AT)

Travel Grant Awardees 2026

Celia Alonso Martin (UCLouvain, BE)
Tânia Francesco (University of Porto, PT)
Laura Merino Cacho (CIC bioGUNE, ES)
Gopal Jayaraj (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, DE)
Katarína Ondrušková (Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ)

ECR Organizing Committee 2026

Malak Haddad (Gross lab, BOKU Vienna)
Lisa Kainacher (Winter lab, AITHYRA)
Hannah Knaudt (Haselbach lab, IMP)
Konstantina Kravvariti (Clausen lab, IMP)
Alvar Pascual Garcia (Gross lab, BOKU Vienna)
Max Schmid (Martens lab, Max Perutz Labs)
Alexander Vogel (Clausen lab, IMP)