Save the date!
When: 3–4 November 2026
(Optional activities and add-ons on 3 November morning and 5 November)
Where: LINXS, The Loop, Rydbergs torg 4, 224 84, Lund, Sweden
Registration & Fees: Registration will open in August.
There will be a registration fee according to career level and affiliation:
PhD students/postdocs: 650 SEK
Academic: 1000 SEK
Commercial entity: 1800 SEK
The fee includes all coffee breaks, one lunch on 4 November, and the conference dinner (plus lunch on 3 November for participants joining the MAX IV or ESS visits).
Participants from commercial entities will be offered the opportunity to present a poster or roll-up and distribute materials.
Travel & Stay: Lund is well connected to Copenhagen Airport (Kastrup), with frequent direct train connections to Lund Central Station. From there, the tram runs through the city to its final stop “ESS”, located directly outside The Loop building.
Central Lund offers a range of hotels, all conveniently connected to LINXS by tram. Hotels closer to the venue include Motel L Lund and Elite Hotel Ideon.
For detailed directions, please see How to get to LINXS.
About
The LINXS theme Pandemics and Alertness (PandA) will hold its first Symposium – Knowing and Fighting the Virus – at LINXS on the 3rd and 4th of November 2026. The Symposium will start in the afternoon of the 3rd and include a full-day on the 4th.
In the morning of the 3rd, before the Symposium, there will be a possibility for interested participants to visit either the MAX IV laboratory or the European Spallation Source (please note there is a limited number of participants allowed on each visit and you will have to sign up for a visit with the registration to the Symposium).
Each session will be a mix of a keynote lecture, shorter talks invited by the work packages and presentations selected from submitted abstracts. We encourage you to submit abstracts both for oral presentations and posters during the registration period.
A poster session with mingle will be organized on the 3rd November, before the conference dinner.
Work Packages
WP1 Understanding the virus
Understanding the virus will use its session to deepen our understanding of how viruses invade and replicate within cells and cause disease and how the immune system counteracts them, with a focus on how structural biology can contribute to this understanding.
WP2 Fighting the virus
Fighting the virus will in its session exemplify/discuss how users and infrastructures can use their complementary competences as well as neutrons, X-rays, and electrons to advance our ability to address pandemic disease.
WP3 Complementary and enabling technologies
Complementary and enabling technologies will in its session highlight how complementary methods to X-ray and neutron-based approaches can advance our understanding of viral lifecycles, virus–host interactions, and translational applications such as diagnostics, therapeutics, and prevention strategies.
Additional event - 5th of November
“PandA Data Clinic on Multimodal Data Analysis and Integration” will be held on 5 November. Participation is free of charge and requires separate registration. For more information see here.
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3rd of November
09.00–12.00 Visit to MAX IV or ESS – optional and restricted in numbers
12.00–13.00 Lunch for the MAX IV or ESS visitors (Loop)
13.00–13.30 Registration (LINXS)
13.30–13.45 Welcome – Wolfgang Knecht
13.45–16.45 WP1 session with coffee break – chair Eva Friebertshäuser
◇ Keynote 1: Meytal Landau
◇ WP invited talks
◇ Talks selected from submitted abstracts
17.00–19.00 Posters and Mingle
19.00–Conference Dinner at the Loop4th of November
09.00–12.00 WP2 session with coffee break – chair Mats Ohlin
◇ Keynote 1: Marianna Yanez-Arteta
◇ WP invited talks
◇ Talks selected from submitted abstracts
12.00–13.00 Lunch
13.00–16.00 WP3 session with coffee break – chair Lotta Happonen
◇ Keynote 1: Jonathan Grimes
◇ WP invited talks
◇ Talks from submitted abstracts
16.00–16.15 Closure and goodbye – Wolfgang KnechtAdditional event - 5th of November
Requires separate registration, please read more here09:00–16:00 PandA Data Clinic on Multimodal Data Analysis and Integration
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Keynote speakers
◆ Jonathan Grimes (Professor of Structural Virology & Head of Oxford Particle Imaging Centre, University of Oxford),
“Investigating mechanisms of Influenza virus replication and assembly” (https://www.strubi.ox.ac.uk/team/jonathan-grimes)
◆ Meytal Landau (Lead Scientist at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Professor (W3) at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB), Hamburg, Germany),
“The many lives of antimicrobial and virulence peptide amyloids” (https://landau-lab.de/hamburg/)
◆ Marianna Yanez-Arteta (Senior Director, Advanced Drug Delivery, Pharmaceutical Sciences, R&D, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden),
“Engineering mRNA Lipid Nanoparticles: From Structure to Performance and Manufacturability” (https://www.linkedin.com/in/marianna-yanez-arteta-07a03759/)
Work package invited speakers
◆ Marta Bally (Professor, Deputy Director of the Umeå Center for Microbial Research, Umea University),
“Virus interactions at the cell surface and in the glycocalyx: forces, kinetics and diffusion” (https://www.linxs.se/people-panda/marta-bally)
◆ Simon Ekström (Head of Unit, Structural Proteomics, SciLifeLab & BioMS, Lund University Node, Lund University)
“tbd” (https://www.linxs.se/people-panda/simon-ekstrm)
◆ Alex Evilevitch (Professor at Virus Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University)
“tbd” (https://www.linxs.se/people-panda/alex-evilevitch)
◆ Anna Munke (Associate Senior Lecturer, Division of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Department of Chemistry, Lund University)
“tbd” (https://www.linxs.se/people-panda/anna-munke)
◆ Janis Müller (Professor, Institute of Virology, Marburg University)
"Extracellular vesicles in body fluids as innate defence against virus transmission" (https://www.linxs.se/people-panda/janis-mller)
◆ Sarah Rowland-Jones (Professor of Immunology, University of Oxford)
“How HIV-2 protein structures have revealed their functions?” (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-rowland-jones-47725a17/)
◆ Staffan Svärd (Professor, Pandemic Laboratory Preparedness, SciLifeLab & Uppsala University)
“The Pandemic Laboratory Preparedness program now and in the future” (https://www.uu.se/kontakt-och-organisation/personal?query=XX4149)
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◆ Wolfgang Knecht
Pandemics and Alertness Core Group leader and deputy‑leader of WG1 (Understanding the virus), WG2 (Fighting the virus) and WG3 (Complementary and enabling techniques)
Lund Protein Production Platform (LP3) & Protein Production Sweden (PPS), Department of Biology, Lund University◆ Eva Friebertshäuser
Pandemics and Alertness Leader WG1 (Understanding the virus)
Institute of Virology, Philipps‑University Marburg, Germany◆ Mats Ohlin
Pandemics and Alertness Leader WG2 (Fighting the virus)
Dept. of Immunotechnology & SciLifeLab Drug Discovery and Development Platform, Lund University◆ Lotta Happonen
Pandemics and Alertness Leader WG3 (Complementary and enabling techniques)
SciLifeLab & Faculty of Medicine, Lund University◆ Joakim Esbjörnsson
Pandemics and Alertness Core Group member
Lund University Virus Centre, Lund University◆ Marjolein Thunnissen
Pandemics and Alertness Core Group member
MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University
Contact:
For questions regarding the content of the conference, please contact
Wolfgang Knecht, wolfgang.knecht@biol.lu.se
For practical questions about LINXS and the venue, please contact josefin.martell@linxs.lu.se
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