The sixth edition of The EMBO Meeting will be held in Birmingham in the United Kingdom on 5–8 September 2015. The EMBO Meeting brings together an outstanding line-up of speakers in one of the largest annual events for the life science community in Europe. It is the perfect opportunity to hear about the latest science from researchers in different scientific disciplines and from speakers from many countries around the world.

The EMBO Meeting 2015 will take place at The ICC in Birmingham, with 60 talks from scientists in 20 concurrent sessions providing an in-depth snapshot of almost all areas of the life sciences. The concurrent sessions are accompanied by keynote lectures and plenary sessions.

This the first EMBO meeting Ximbio will be attending. The team are excited to meet lots of new scientists, learn about new developments in research and new opportunities for Ximbio. If you are attending, make sure to come to find us at our exhibition stand. We have lots of goodies to give away!

Some notable speakers will be presenting, including:

·Stephen Jackson of the Gurdon Institute

·Joan Steitz of Yale University School of Medicine and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute who will give an opening lecture on the molecular events involved in the formation of messenger RNA

·Peter Walter of the University of California, San Francisco, who will give a keynote lecture on therapeutic interventions to improve memory

·Emmanuelle Charpentier of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research and the Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine, and Rudolf Zechner of the Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, will deliver the Louis-Jeantet 2015 Prize Lectures

·Plenary session speakers include Susan Gasser of the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, David Holden of Imperial College, London, and Fiona Watt of King’s College, London

·Professor Gillian Griffiths of University of Cambridge, who recently published in Immunity demonstrating how cytotoxic T cells destroy tumour cells and virally-infected cells, using state-of-the-art imaging techniques.