GCSB 2026

Call for Abstracts

Take your chance to present your own research amongst leading reasearchers of the synthetic biology field! Submit an abstract of your research and apply to present a poster or give a talk on this year’s German Conference on Synthetic Biology.

 The call for abstracts is open now!

Submit your abstract here!

Deadline for abstract submissions:

October, 5th 2025 for lectures
January, 31st, 2026 for posters

The scientific committee invites you to submit abstracts of lectures and posters of research from the diverse fields of synthetic biology: 

  • biomedical applications
  • cell-free and bottom-up systems
  • metabolic engineering
  • modelling (automation, data science, systems biology)
  • smart materials
  • solutions for sustainability
  • synthetic genomics and gene circuits
  • xenobiology

Please prepare an 1-page abstract with (incl. figures, max. size 1 MB).

  1. Please use the Template to correctly format your contribution and upload it as PDF file.
  2. Enter the author list (author and co-author/s) and affiliations in the same order as in your abstract.
  3. DECHEMA will not make any adjustments regarding the author information. The information will be published as given, so please double-check.

Contributions will be selected by the scientific committee based on the scientific quality and the fit to the topic of the conference. The abstracts will be made available to the participants in collective form, but no special form of publication is planned for the contributions beyond that in order to ensure an open forum to discuss cutting-edge results.

The congress language is English.
Please note: Registration fee cannot be waived for authors.

Scientific programme:



Event organizer:

DECHEMA e.V.