June 24th, 2027
LED3 PhD/Postdoc Symposium #LED3Symposium
Keynote Lecture: Eda Canales, @gilead.com
A twice-yearly injection offering near-total protection against HIV infection
(6/8)
LED3 PhD/Postdoc Symposium #LED3Symposium
Keynote Lecture: Eda Canales, @gilead.com
A twice-yearly injection offering near-total protection against HIV infection
(6/8)
June 18, 2026 at 7:37 AM
June 24th, 2027
LED3 PhD/Postdoc Symposium #LED3Symposium
Keynote Lecture: Eda Canales, @gilead.com
A twice-yearly injection offering near-total protection against HIV infection
(6/8)
LED3 PhD/Postdoc Symposium #LED3Symposium
Keynote Lecture: Eda Canales, @gilead.com
A twice-yearly injection offering near-total protection against HIV infection
(6/8)
We are happy that we could continue our activities to bring our researchers closer together including the LED3 PhD/Postdoc Symposium #LED3Symposium and our flagship #LED3Lectures, in which we heard talks by a diverse selection of world-leading speakers in the field of #DrugDiscovery. (2/3)
December 23, 2025 at 6:29 AM
We are happy that we could continue our activities to bring our researchers closer together including the LED3 PhD/Postdoc Symposium #LED3Symposium and our flagship #LED3Lectures, in which we heard talks by a diverse selection of world-leading speakers in the field of #DrugDiscovery. (2/3)
As the #LED3Symposium came to an end, we were excited to be able to recognize the most outstanding contributions to the event.
Congratulations to Laurence Cleenewerk (best talk award), Asina Gijasi (best flash talk award) and Thanasis Patsos (best poster award).
Congratulations to Laurence Cleenewerk (best talk award), Asina Gijasi (best flash talk award) and Thanasis Patsos (best poster award).
June 21, 2025 at 8:43 AM
As the #LED3Symposium came to an end, we were excited to be able to recognize the most outstanding contributions to the event.
Congratulations to Laurence Cleenewerk (best talk award), Asina Gijasi (best flash talk award) and Thanasis Patsos (best poster award).
Congratulations to Laurence Cleenewerk (best talk award), Asina Gijasi (best flash talk award) and Thanasis Patsos (best poster award).
The #LED3Symposium was a very successful event with a lot of amazing science and many interdisciplinary interactions.
A huge thanks to our organizers @pasteldemata.bsky.social, Inês Justo, Filipe Cruz, Gianluca Turco, Evangelina Geets, @sebastianpomplun.bsky.social and @stephanhacker2.bsky.social.
A huge thanks to our organizers @pasteldemata.bsky.social, Inês Justo, Filipe Cruz, Gianluca Turco, Evangelina Geets, @sebastianpomplun.bsky.social and @stephanhacker2.bsky.social.
June 21, 2025 at 8:42 AM
The #LED3Symposium was a very successful event with a lot of amazing science and many interdisciplinary interactions.
A huge thanks to our organizers @pasteldemata.bsky.social, Inês Justo, Filipe Cruz, Gianluca Turco, Evangelina Geets, @sebastianpomplun.bsky.social and @stephanhacker2.bsky.social.
A huge thanks to our organizers @pasteldemata.bsky.social, Inês Justo, Filipe Cruz, Gianluca Turco, Evangelina Geets, @sebastianpomplun.bsky.social and @stephanhacker2.bsky.social.
Interesting talk by @mikefilius.bsky.social at the #LED3Symposium. He talked about his research on an assay using single molecule FRET measured by total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy to characterize aptamer-protein binding kinetics www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#ChemBio #Biochemistry
#ChemBio #Biochemistry
June 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Interesting talk by @mikefilius.bsky.social at the #LED3Symposium. He talked about his research on an assay using single molecule FRET measured by total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy to characterize aptamer-protein binding kinetics www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#ChemBio #Biochemistry
#ChemBio #Biochemistry
Amazing talk by @seanmckenna.bsky.social at the #LED3Symposium. He talked about his research on virtual screening (docking, pharmacophore modelling) of large libraries of compounds that can be made combinatorially from in-stock starting materials for rapid hit validation on the example of CCR2.
June 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Amazing talk by @seanmckenna.bsky.social at the #LED3Symposium. He talked about his research on virtual screening (docking, pharmacophore modelling) of large libraries of compounds that can be made combinatorially from in-stock starting materials for rapid hit validation on the example of CCR2.
The second #FlashTalk session at #LED3Symposium was another firework of diverse early #DrugDiscovery topics including β-lactamase evolution (Cristina López Gallego), EC50 determinations (Chenyu Wang), transcription factor inhibitors (Brecht Ellenbroek) and natural products discovery (Pavlo Hrab).
June 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The second #FlashTalk session at #LED3Symposium was another firework of diverse early #DrugDiscovery topics including β-lactamase evolution (Cristina López Gallego), EC50 determinations (Chenyu Wang), transcription factor inhibitors (Brecht Ellenbroek) and natural products discovery (Pavlo Hrab).
Exciting talk by Max Kloet from the group of Gerbrand van der Heden van Noort from the LUMC at the #LED3Symposium. He talked about his research into the interplay of the posttranslational modifications of ubiquitination and ADP-ribosylation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#PTMs #ChemBio
#PTMs #ChemBio
June 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Exciting talk by Max Kloet from the group of Gerbrand van der Heden van Noort from the LUMC at the #LED3Symposium. He talked about his research into the interplay of the posttranslational modifications of ubiquitination and ADP-ribosylation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#PTMs #ChemBio
#PTMs #ChemBio
Interesting talk by Xuanlin Liu from the groups of @annegretemartson.bsky.social and @cvhasselt.bsky.social at the #LED3Symposium. She talked about her work on characterizing the viral load during Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections using PCR and TCID50 to build models for efficiency predictions.
June 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Interesting talk by Xuanlin Liu from the groups of @annegretemartson.bsky.social and @cvhasselt.bsky.social at the #LED3Symposium. She talked about her work on characterizing the viral load during Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections using PCR and TCID50 to build models for efficiency predictions.
Great talk by Mirjam Huizenga from the group of @mvdstelt.bsky.social at the #LED3Symposium. She talked about her doctoral research into inhibiting monoacylglycerol lipase (MAGL) for the treatment of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
June 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Great talk by Mirjam Huizenga from the group of @mvdstelt.bsky.social at the #LED3Symposium. She talked about her doctoral research into inhibiting monoacylglycerol lipase (MAGL) for the treatment of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Lunch time was also the time for the group photo and the #PosterSession at the #LED3Symposium. Great to see so many people that are excited about early drug discovery coming together and exchanging over the posters. We hope that this sparked many new interdisciplinary ideas and collaborations.
June 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Lunch time was also the time for the group photo and the #PosterSession at the #LED3Symposium. Great to see so many people that are excited about early drug discovery coming together and exchanging over the posters. We hope that this sparked many new interdisciplinary ideas and collaborations.
The first #FlashTalk session of the #LED3Symposium gave us insights into early #PKPD modelling for predicting the outcome of clinical studies for #tuberculosis treatment (Asina Gijasi) and into self-encoded libraries for affinity-selection MS of macrocyclic compounds (cycloSELs, Miguel Mata).
June 19, 2025 at 10:33 AM
The first #FlashTalk session of the #LED3Symposium gave us insights into early #PKPD modelling for predicting the outcome of clinical studies for #tuberculosis treatment (Asina Gijasi) and into self-encoded libraries for affinity-selection MS of macrocyclic compounds (cycloSELs, Miguel Mata).
Interesting talk by Laurence Cleenewerk from the groups of Joen Luirink and Nathaniel Martin at the #LED3Symposium. She talked about her research on screening natural product extracts for compounds that selectively target components in the cell envelope of Gram-negative bacteria.
June 19, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Interesting talk by Laurence Cleenewerk from the groups of Joen Luirink and Nathaniel Martin at the #LED3Symposium. She talked about her research on screening natural product extracts for compounds that selectively target components in the cell envelope of Gram-negative bacteria.
Interesting talk by Edith van der Nol from the group of @sebastianpomplun.bsky.social at the #LED3Symposium. She talked about her doctoral research into barcode-free, self-encoded libraries (SELs) for the discovery of protein binders using affinity-selection MS. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
June 19, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Interesting talk by Edith van der Nol from the group of @sebastianpomplun.bsky.social at the #LED3Symposium. She talked about her doctoral research into barcode-free, self-encoded libraries (SELs) for the discovery of protein binders using affinity-selection MS. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
Great talk by Tessa Gote at the #LED3Symposium on her doctoral research in the @armstrongchembio.bsky.social group. She talked about inhibitors for sialic acid esterases with potential for combating infectious diseases. Exciting insights into #Biochemistry, #Microbiology and #StructuralBiology.
June 19, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Great talk by Tessa Gote at the #LED3Symposium on her doctoral research in the @armstrongchembio.bsky.social group. She talked about inhibitors for sialic acid esterases with potential for combating infectious diseases. Exciting insights into #Biochemistry, #Microbiology and #StructuralBiology.
The scientific program of the #LED3Symposium gets underway with an inspiring keynote lecture by NVBMB Speaker of the Year Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz. She talked about her group's exciting contributions to imaging life's structures and their dynamics down to the atomic level.
June 19, 2025 at 8:11 AM
The scientific program of the #LED3Symposium gets underway with an inspiring keynote lecture by NVBMB Speaker of the Year Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz. She talked about her group's exciting contributions to imaging life's structures and their dynamics down to the atomic level.
At the #LED3Symposium, @seanmckenna.bsky.social introduced the activities of the @youngscinet.bsky.social of the @euromedchem.bsky.social and their relevance for our LED3 society and overall early career researchers in the field.
Check out their activities here: www.efmc.info/ysn
Check out their activities here: www.efmc.info/ysn
June 19, 2025 at 8:04 AM
At the #LED3Symposium, @seanmckenna.bsky.social introduced the activities of the @youngscinet.bsky.social of the @euromedchem.bsky.social and their relevance for our LED3 society and overall early career researchers in the field.
Check out their activities here: www.efmc.info/ysn
Check out their activities here: www.efmc.info/ysn
Inês Justo welcomes a full lecture hall to the #LED3Symposium, which was afterwards officially opened by the dean of @leidenscience.bsky.social, Jasper Knoester. He highlights the importance of interdisciplinary interactions, like fostered by LED3, for world-leading science.
#ChemBio #ChemSky
#ChemBio #ChemSky
June 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Inês Justo welcomes a full lecture hall to the #LED3Symposium, which was afterwards officially opened by the dean of @leidenscience.bsky.social, Jasper Knoester. He highlights the importance of interdisciplinary interactions, like fostered by LED3, for world-leading science.
#ChemBio #ChemSky
#ChemBio #ChemSky
We are about to get started with the 2nd LED3 PhD/postdoc symposium #LED3Symposium. We are looking forward to a full day of exciting science presented by the early career researchers of our network!
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/science/l...
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/science/l...
June 19, 2025 at 7:35 AM
We are about to get started with the 2nd LED3 PhD/postdoc symposium #LED3Symposium. We are looking forward to a full day of exciting science presented by the early career researchers of our network!
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/science/l...
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/science/l...
At the #LED3Symposium, we also announced next year's #LED3Lectures with an amazing program including Emily Balskus, Andrew Leach, Tjeerd Barf, Paola Picotti, Andrea Rentmeister, Jeffery Kelly, John Overington, Kim Lewis, Ed Tate, and Jay Keasling.
June 21, 2024 at 9:58 AM
At the #LED3Symposium, we also announced next year's #LED3Lectures with an amazing program including Emily Balskus, Andrew Leach, Tjeerd Barf, Paola Picotti, Andrea Rentmeister, Jeffery Kelly, John Overington, Kim Lewis, Ed Tate, and Jay Keasling.
We had an amazing day with a lot of exciting, interdisciplinary science at the #LED3Symposium. Over 120 participants took part in our event and learned a lot about early drug discovery projects across the @led3hub.bsky.social institutes of Leiden University.
June 20, 2024 at 5:31 PM
We had an amazing day with a lot of exciting, interdisciplinary science at the #LED3Symposium. Over 120 participants took part in our event and learned a lot about early drug discovery projects across the @led3hub.bsky.social institutes of Leiden University.
We are very excited to host the first @led3hub.bsky.social PhD/postdoc symposium #LED3Symposium on Thursday, June 20th. We are looking forward to keynotes by Marta Artola, Laura Heitman and Nathaniel Martin and especially to many talks and posters by our PhD and postdoc researchers.
June 18, 2024 at 8:48 AM
We are very excited to host the first @led3hub.bsky.social PhD/postdoc symposium #LED3Symposium on Thursday, June 20th. We are looking forward to keynotes by Marta Artola, Laura Heitman and Nathaniel Martin and especially to many talks and posters by our PhD and postdoc researchers.
Was great showing our work on single molecule analysis of aptamer-protein interactions at the #LED3Symposium
Interesting talk by @mikefilius.bsky.social at the #LED3Symposium. He talked about his research on an assay using single molecule FRET measured by total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy to characterize aptamer-protein binding kinetics www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#ChemBio #Biochemistry
#ChemBio #Biochemistry
June 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Was great showing our work on single molecule analysis of aptamer-protein interactions at the #LED3Symposium
Excited to be part of the @led3hub.bsky.social of @leidenscience.bsky.social and of the organizing committee of the #LED3Lectures and #LED3Symposium. I am convinced that these are amazing initiatives that strengthen our collaborative spirit. New exciting activities are coming in 2026 and 2027.
Another exciting year for our LED3 hub comes to a close. We were able to celebrate many successes including grants, publications, awards and started companies. In 2025, the activities of LED3 were also formalized in the theme "Drug Discovery and Development" of @leidenscience.bsky.social. (1/3)
December 23, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Excited to be part of the @led3hub.bsky.social of @leidenscience.bsky.social and of the organizing committee of the #LED3Lectures and #LED3Symposium. I am convinced that these are amazing initiatives that strengthen our collaborative spirit. New exciting activities are coming in 2026 and 2027.
I had a blast at the #LED3Symposium. I learned many new things about the exciting and diverse research that is going on in our @led3hub.bsky.social.
A huge thank you to our PhD organizers, @pasteldemata.bsky.social, Inês Justo, Filipe Cruz, Gianluca Turco and Evangelina Geets for making it possible.
A huge thank you to our PhD organizers, @pasteldemata.bsky.social, Inês Justo, Filipe Cruz, Gianluca Turco and Evangelina Geets for making it possible.
June 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM
I had a blast at the #LED3Symposium. I learned many new things about the exciting and diverse research that is going on in our @led3hub.bsky.social.
A huge thank you to our PhD organizers, @pasteldemata.bsky.social, Inês Justo, Filipe Cruz, Gianluca Turco and Evangelina Geets for making it possible.
A huge thank you to our PhD organizers, @pasteldemata.bsky.social, Inês Justo, Filipe Cruz, Gianluca Turco and Evangelina Geets for making it possible.