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Registration is now open for the 20th Congress of the Spanish Society for Biotechnology – Biotec 2027, which will be held at the University of Córdoba from 2 to 5 February 2027. The Congress website provides information on the programme, which will feature keynote speakers José Miguel Mulet, Pablo I. Nikel, Juan Antonio Marchal, Iñaki Hormaza, Magali Remaud-Simeon and Olga Genilloud.

The official opening of the conference will take place on Tuesday 2 February 2027 (6.30 pm) at the University of Córdoba’s Rectorate building. This will be preceded by the specialised courses on Omics Technologies and Biotechnological Processes and Applied Biocatalysis, which have been so well received at recent SEBiot conferences.

According to the published provisional programme, on Wednesday 3 there will be sessions on Biocatalysis and sustainable production (1A 9.00 am / 1B 11.00 am), on Agricultural and Food Biotechnology (2A 9.00 am / 2B 11.00 am / 2C 3.30 pm) and on Biotechnology and Health (3A 3.30 pm), and there will be a round-table discussion on ‘The Present and Future of Biotechnology in Spain’, as well as one of the plenary lectures and a poster session.

On the morning of Thursday 4, there will be sessions on Environmental and Microbial Biotechnology (4A 9.00 am / 4B 11.00 am) and on Chemical Engineering and Industrial Biotechnology (5A 9.00 am / 5B 11.00 am), as well as the plenary lecture and the corresponding poster session. In the afternoon, there will be a round-table discussion on artificial intelligence and the SEBiot Members’ Assembly will be held.

The conference will conclude on Friday 5 February with sessions on Biotechnology and Health (3B 9.00 am) and New Horizons in Biotechnology (9.00 am), two plenary lectures and the closing ceremony (1.00 pm).

The speakers at the plenary sessions will be Magali Remaud-Simeon, head of the Biocatalysis Department at the Toulouse Biotechnology Institute (TBI) of INSA, who will deliver the conference’s opening address on 2 February; Iñaki Hormaza, CSIC research professor at the Institute of Subtropical and Mediterranean Horticulture (IHSM) La Mayora, where he heads the group on Breeding and Developmental Biology of Subtropical Fruit Trees (3 February, 12.30 pm); Olga Genilloud, scientific director of the MEDINA Foundation and head of its Department of Microbiology, where she works on the discovery of new bioproducts and the development of medicines (4 February, 12.30 pm); Pablo Ivan Nikel, professor of Synthetic Bacterial Metabolism at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), where he leads the Systems Environmental Microbiology Group and is scientific director of BRIGHT, the Biotechnology Research Institute for the Green Transition (4 February, 4.30 pm); José Miguel Mulet Salort, Professor of Biotechnology at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), a researcher at the Institute of Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology (IBMCP) and a popular science communicator (5 February, 10.30 am); and Juan Antonio Marchal Corrales, Professor of Human Anatomy and Embryology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Granada (UGR) and, amongst other roles, founder and scientific director of BioFab i3D, the UGR’s 3D Biomanufacturing and Bioprinting Laboratory, who will deliver the final plenary session on 5 February at 12.00.

On the conference website, www.biotec2027.com, you can find further information about the speakers and the conference programme, and complete your registration. ♦