Join Us
Date: Thursday, 26 November 2026
Time: 09:30 – 18:30 CET
Location: Gorlaeus Building (Atrium EM1 & Lecture Hall CM1.26), Einsteinweg 55, 2333 CC Leiden
Tickets: Morning session – Free
Whole day - €25 (including catered lunch - payment required before 18 November)
Scientific Posters: PhD candidates, postdocs, and researchers are warmly encouraged to bring and present a poster! Please indicate your poster title on the registration form.
Registration: https://fd24.formdesk.com/universiteitleiden/fifteenyearsofnecen
Programme
|
Time |
Session / Topic |
Speaker / Location |
|
09:30 – 10:30 |
Registration & Welcome Coffee |
Atrium EM1 |
|
10:30 – 10:40 |
Welcome Address |
Faculty of Science, Leiden University |
|
10:40 – 10:55 |
Start of NeCEN: 15 Years of Cryo-EM |
Bram Koster (LUMC) |
|
10:55 – 11:10 |
NEMI: Netherlands Electron Microscopy Infrastructure |
Judith Klumperman (Utrecht University / UMC Utrecht) |
|
11:10 – 11:25 |
EMPower: Powering the Future of Cryo-EM in The Netherlands |
Friedrich Förster (Utrecht University) |
|
11:25 – 12:00 |
Ceremonial Kickoff & Unveiling of Titan Krios 5 |
NeCEN Entrance |
|
12:00 – 13:00 |
Lunch, Poster Presentations & VIP Facility Tours |
Atrium EM1 |
|
13:00 – 13:10 |
Dutch Structural Biology Day: Scientific Opening |
Meindert Lamers (Director, NeCEN) | Lecture Hall CM1.26 |
|
13:10 – 13:35 |
Scientific Presentation |
Arjen Jakobi (TU Delft) |
|
13:35 – 13:50 |
Scientific Presentation |
Karla de la O Becerra (Utrecht University) |
|
13:50 – 14:05 |
Scientific Presentation |
Albert Guskov (University of Groningen) |
|
14:05 – 14:30 |
Scientific Presentation |
Tassos Perrakis (Netherlands Cancer Institute - NKI) |
|
14:30 – 14:45 |
Scientific Presentation |
Lars Jeuken (Leiden University) |
|
14:45 – 15:10 |
Scientific Presentation |
Miguel Leung (Hubrecht Institute) |
|
15:10 – 15:20 |
Instruct-ERIC: European Structural Biology Access |
Harald Schwalbe (Instruct-ERIC / Goethe Univ Frankfurt) |
|
15:20 – 15:50 |
Coffee & Tea Break |
Foyer next to CM1.26 |
|
15:50 – 16:05 |
Scientific Presentation |
Sneha Hakke (Maastricht University) |
|
16:05 – 16:30 |
Scientific Presentation |
Willem Noteborn (NeCEN) |
|
16:30 – 17:15 |
Keynote Lecture |
Sir Richard Henderson (Nobel Laureate, MRC LMB Cambridge) |
|
17:15 – 18:30 |
Celebratory Drinks, Poster Session & Facility Tours for All |
Atrium EM1 |
Poster Session, Drinks & Facility Tours
From 17:15 onwards, join us for celebratory drinks and bites in the Atrium next to NeCEN. Browse posters from academic and industrial peers, connect with fellow structural biologists, and take part in a guided tour of NeCEN and the new Titan Krios 5.
Scientific Poster Presentations: PhDs, postdocs, and researchers are warmly encouraged to bring and present a poster for the Dutch Structural Biology Day. You can register your poster title directly via the online registration form.
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We look forward to welcoming you on 26 November in Leiden!
NeCEN & Faculty of Science | Leiden University
Contact: events@science.leidenuniv.nl