Tt is our great pleasure to invite all interested students from your institute to participate in the 24^th EMBL PhD Symposium - "The Spectra of Life: Dimensional Breadth in Biological Research", which will take place on 7^th-9^th December 2022 at EMBL Heidelberg. Please feel free to share this email with all students at your institute!

In this year's symposium, EMBL would like to highlight the heterogeneity of life (sciences) spanning across different scales. They have divided the symposium in four topics: "Extremes in Biology", where they explore the resilience of life with speakers like Ikram Blilou (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia) and Elizabeth Murchison (University of Cambridge, UK). In "Scales of Complexity" they look at how the simple building blocks of life come together to form these incredibly complex systems together with speakers such as Tobias Erb (MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany) and Jean Fan (John Hopkins University, USA). The third topic is "Size Scales", where speakers like Clarice D. Aiello (UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, USA) and Paul Guichard (Université de Genève, Switzerland) will take you from the extremely small to the “merely small”. Finally, in "Temporal Scales" they will explore the time dimension of life from fast enzymatic reactions to slow evolutionary processes with Gerhard Hummer (MPI for Biophysics, Germany) and Fyodor Kondrashov (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) among others.

They are aiming for a lively scientific exchange and fruitful discussions, and they encourage students to participate in the form of a short talk or a poster by submitting an abstract the latest on the 14th of September. Furthermore, they have three registration fees available for students submitting an outstanding abstract! Registration for on-site attendance without presenting will be possible until the 26th of October.

For more information about the EMBL PhD Symposium, speakers, and registration, please refer to: http://phdsymposium.embl.org. Feel free to follow them on our social media accounts linked below to receive exciting updates.

Please, do not hesitate to contact them at [email protected] in case you have any further questions.