• About Nature Conferences

    The Nature Publishing Group is distinguished by its scientific excellence, breadth of coverage, timeliness of topics, and commitment to clear scientific communication. In keeping with this tradition, Nature conferences are aimed at the international scientific community, with the goal of fostering and facilitating communication and collaboration between scientists.

    We are proud to present these unique events (some in concert with specific institutions) that will become essential resources for the researchers of today and tomorrow.

    • Calendar 2009

      • Nature Chemical Biology Symposium 2009

        September 19-20, 2009

        Venue:
        The Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA, USA
        Organizers:
        Paul Workman (The Institute of Cancer Research, UK), Giulio Superti-Furga (Center for Molecular Medicine, Austria), Brian Shoichet (University of California, San Francisco, USA), Joanne Kotz (Nature Chemical Biology, USA)

      • Roche - Nature Medicine Translational Neuroscience Symposium 2009: Autism and Other Developmental Brain Disorders

        April 17-18, 2009

        Venue:
        Roche Forum Buonas AG, Switzerland
        Organizers:
        Gerald Fischbach (Simons Foundation, USA), Thomas Insel (NIMH / NIH, USA), Luca Santarelli (Roche Basel, Switzerland), Christer Nordstedt (Roche Basel, Switzerland), Juan Carlos Lopez (Nature Medicine, USA), Eva Chmielnicki (Nature Medicine, USA)

      • Genetics and Genomics of Infectious Diseases

        March 21-24, 2009

        Venue:
        The Ritz Carlton Millenia Hotel, Singapore
        Organizers:
        Aravinda Chakravarti (American Society of Human Genetics, USA), Edison Liu (Human Genome Organisation, Singapore), Louisa Flintoft (Nature Reviews Genetics, UK), Chris Gunter (HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, USA), Jeremy Farrar (University of Oxford, UK)

      • Miami 2009 Winter Symposium: Interpreting the Human Genome

        January 24-28, 2009

        Venue:
        Deauville Beach Resort, Miami, FL, USA
        Organizers:
        University Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Foundation, Inc., Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Genetics, Nature Medicine, Scripps Florida

      • Symposium on Biological Complexity: Processes of Aging

        January 8-10, 2009

        Venue:
        Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California.
        Organizers:
        Yves Christen (Fondation IPSEN, France), Sue Deeley (Nature Publishing Group, USA), Andrew Dillin (Salk Institute, USA), Ron Evans (Salk Institute, USA), Marie-Therese Heemels (Nature, UK), Arianne Heinrichs (Nature Reviews Molecular and Cell Biology, UK), Fred Gage (Salk Institute, USA), Inder Verma (Salk Institute, USA)

    • Calendar 2008

    • Calendar 2007

      • Genome Evolution and Structural Variation: Next Steps in Natural Human Genetic Variation

        November 28 2007

        Venue:
        The Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, Washington, USA
        Organizers:
        Orli Bahcall (Nature Genetics), Veronique Kiermer (Nature Methods), Evan Eichler (University of Washington, USA), Deborah Nickerson (University of Washington, USA), Yves Christen (Fondation IPSEN, France)

      • Bioentrepreneur Roundtable: Where the money is — crystal gazing future drug development financing and partnerships

        November 11 2007

        Venue:
        Grand Elysee Hotel, Hamburg, Germany
        Organizer:
        Nature Biotechnology

      • Optical communication: perspectives on next generation technologies

        October 23-25, 2007

        Venue:
        Tokyo Fashion Town Hall, Tokyo, Japan
        Organizers:
        Nature Photonics, NPG Nature Asia-Pacific, Impress R&D

      • The Nature Colloquia on Biomedicine: Colloquium on Inflammation

        October 21-24, 2007

        Venue:
        The Park Hotel Villa Grazioli, Rome, Italy
        Organizers:
        Alan Ezekowitz (Merck & Co., Inc., USA), Robert L. Coffman (Dynavax Technologies, USA), Diane Mathis (Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard University, USA), Charles N. Serhan (Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA), Ursula Weiss (Nature, UK), Clare Thomas (Nature Medicine, UK)

      • Aging 2007: From bench to bedside

        October 18-20, 2007

        Venue:
        Torrey Pines Hilton Hotel, La Jolla, California, USA
        Organizers:
        Salvatore Albani (University of California, San Diego Clinical Investigation Institute), Michael Basson (Nature Medicine), Gary S. Firestein (University of California, San Diego Clinical Investigation Institute), Dilip Jeste (University of California, San Diego Clinical Investigation Institute), Ravindra Mehta (University of California, San Diego Clinical Investigation Institute)

      • Translational Approaches to Cardiovascular Research

        October 14-16, 2007

        Venue:
        Palazzo dei Congressi Di Capri, Capri, Italy
        Organizers:
        Gianluigi Condorelli (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy), Elizabeth Nabel (National Institutes of Health, USA), Michael Basson (Nature Medicine, USA)

      • Cancer Therapeutics: The Road Ahead

        October 8-10, 2007

        Venue:
        Palazzo dei Congressi Di Capri, Capri, Italy
        Organizers:
        Chair: Tak W. Mak (Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research, Canada), Ritu Dhand (Nature, UK)

      • Oncogenes and Human Cancer: The Next 25 Years

        October 3-6, 2007

        Venue:
        Palacete de los Duques de Pastrana, Madrid, Spain
        Organizers:
        Mariano Barbacid (CNIO, Spain), Ezzie Hutchinson (Nature Reviews Cancer), David Lane (Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore), Chris Marshall (The Institute of Cancer Research, Chester Beatty Laboratories, UK), Barbara Marte (Nature), Frank McCormick (UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center and Cancer Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, USA), Bernd Pulverer (Nature Cell Biology), Charles Sawyers (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA), Bert Vogelstein (Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA), Karen Vousden (Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, USA), Robert Weinberg (Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA), Nicola McCarthy (Nature Reviews Cancer)

      • Small RNAs in Development, Immunology and Cancer

        October 3 2007

        Venue:
        The New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY, USA
        Organizers:
        Boyana Konforti (Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, USA), Jamie Wilson (Nature Immunology, USA), Sabbi Lall (Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, USA), Christine Borowski (Nature Immunology, USA), Yves Christen (Fondation IPSEN, France)

      • Science Foo Camp

        August 3-5, 2007

        Venue:
        Googleplex, Mountain View, California
        Organizers:
        O'Reilly Media, Nature Publishing Group, Google

      • The Genomics of Common Diseases

        July 7-10, 2007

        Venue:
        The Wellcome Trust Conference Centre, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, at Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
        Organizers:
        Timothy Aitman (Imperial College London, UK), David Altshuler (Broad Institute; Harvard Medical School, USA), Myles Axton (Nature Genetics, USA), Edward M. Rubin (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)

      • DMM 2007: Emerging Technologies and Cancer Biology

        May 22-24, 2007

        Venue:
        Cambridge, Massachusetts
        Organizers:
        Randall Peterson (Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School), Daniel Haber (Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School), Jesper Z. Haeggströ (Karolinska Institutet), Alison Farrell (Nature Medicine)

      • TACBAC 07: Therapeutic Applications of Computational Biology and Chemistry 2007

        March 11-13, 2007

        Venue:
        Wellcome Trust Conference Centre, Hinxton, Cambs, UK
        Organizers:
        Kathy Aschheim (Nature Biotechnology, USA), Cath Brooksbank (EMBL-EBI, UK), Liz Ford (EMBL-EBI, UK), Sara Girard (Nature Publishing Group, USA), Peter Kirkpatrick (Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, UK), Andrew Marshall (Nature Biotechnology, USA), Paul Matthews (EMBL-EBI, UK)

      • Forefronts Symposium on Nephrogenetics: From Development to Physiology

        March 8-11, 2007

        Venue:
        Sheraton Ferncroft Resorts, Danvers, MA
        Co-Chairs:
        Myles Axton (Editor, Nature Genetics, USA), Qais Al-Awqati (Columbia University, USA)

      • MGH-HKU-Nature China Forum Molecular Medicine and Biopharma Opportunities

        March 5-6, 2007

        Venue:
        William MW Mong Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong
        Organizers:
        Massachusetts General Hospital, The University of Hong Kong, Nature Publishing Group

      • Miami 2007 Winter Symposium: Innate Immunity and Novel Vaccines

        January 27-31, 2007

        Venue:
        Miami Beach Resort & Spa, Miami Beach, Florida
        Organizers:
        The University of Miami, Nature Publishing Group, Scripps Florida

      • Symposium on Biological Complexity: Diseases of Transcription

        January 11-14, 2007

        Venue:
        The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California
        Organizers:
        Yves Christen (Fondation IPSEN, Paris), Ron Evans (Salk Institute, La Jolla), Beatrice Renault (Nature Publishing Group), Inder Verma (Salk Institute, La Jolla)

    • Calendar 2006

      • 25 Years of Embryonic Stem Cells

        December 18-19, 2006

        Venue:
        Babbage Lecture Theater, Cambridge,UK
        Organizers:
        Azim Surani, (University of Cambridge,UK), Natalie DeWitt, (Nature San Francisco), Austin Smith, (University of Cambridge,UK)

      • Ringberg Colloquia 2006: Self Organization and Morphogenesis in Biological Systems

        December 3-6, 2006

        Venue:
        Schloss Ringberg, Tegernsee, Germany
        Organizers:
        Kai Simons (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics), Eric Karsenti (EMBL), Daniel St Johnston (Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge), Cornelis Weijer (University of Dundee), Sowmya Swaminathan (Nature Cell Biology)