1st Bicyclos Cyclodextrin Workshop: a huge success!

What an incredible experience co-organizing and hosting the Bicyclos HEurope International Workshop in Budapest from September 24th-26th with close to 50 participants!

It was a true privilege to collaborate with fantastic colleagues and external speakers who brought insights and expertise. The event was a perfect mix of learning, networking, and, of course, fun! ??A huge thank you to everyone who participated and made the workshop such a success. It’s moments like these that remind me how powerful collaboration can be!

On Day 1, we started with with students sharing results and plans from their secondments, then moved along to hear from PIs about challenges, possibilities and wishes regarding the project.

Day 2 was dedicated to science with our invited speakers Matthieu Sollogoub, Francesco Trotta and Dina Yannakopoulou followed by lectures from Jose Manuel Garcia Fernandez and Milo Malanga PhD (dreaming about making synthesis simple and sustainable) and we created some hypothetic ventures with Gergely Toth.

Day 3-4 was a mix of science and soft skills with analytical lectures (Ilse Manet and Szabolcs Béni) and cyclodextrins in electrosensors (Maria Antonietta Casulli). The last sessions of the workshop dealt with soft skills rather than science. Tamas Sohajda shared insights of using social media and AI for making science more accessible. Then Ilse Manet, Maria Antonietta Casulli and Barbara Ventura delivered a workshop about grantwriting.

Finally, we elected the king of cyclodextrins via a funny quiz.

And most importantly, behold the organizing committee from E?tv?s Loránd University and CarboHyde :

There will be another Bicyclos workshop next year in Seville, I will keep you posted about the details.

I would be delighted to hear suggestions for upcoming topics and engage in Q&A, so please feel free to add your impressions in the comments or via email at [email protected]. Thank you.

In the coming weeks, we will continue focusing on using cyclodextrins as active ingredients, disease by disease. Stay tuned!

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