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Science Conferences

• 14^th Sofia Science Festival, May 9-12, 2024

  Robert was invited to give a talk on "How did we make ribozymes to say "YES", "NO", "OR", "AND" and perform complex logical operations?", in the hall "Cosmos", Sofia TechPark, from 2:30 PM, on May 12, 2024 in Sofia, in Bulgarian...

• 13^th Sofia Science Festival, May 11-14, 2023

  Robert was invited to give a talk on "the New Antibiotics", in the hall "Cosmos", Sofia TechPark, from 7:00 PM, on May 11, 2023 in Sofia, in Bulgarian...

• 7^th International Conference on Pharmaceutics & Advanced Drug Delivery Systems

  Nikolet gave an invited presentation on "Bioinformatics and genomic analyses of eight riboswitches and their suitability for antibacterial drug targets" March 27-28, 2023 in London, UK...

• 15^th Congress of the Bulgarian Micro- biologists with International Participation

  Robert gave an invited lecture on "Targeting glmS and FMN riboswitches with antisense oligonucleotides for antibactеrial drug development", October 5-8, 2022 in Koprivshtitsa, Bulgaria...

• Poster of awarded best research project RD-22-838/2020 of Martina Traykovska with supervisor Robert Penchovsky by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education for young scientists in biology,

  Sofia Science Festival, May 15-16, 2021 in Sofia, Bulgaria…

• Week of the beneficent of the Bulgarian National Science Fund (BNSF)

  Robert gave an invited lecture on "Design and experimen- tal validation of chimeric antisense oligonucleo- tides as antibacterial agents" July 1-5, 2019 in Sofia, Bulgaria…

• 9^th EuroSciCon Conference on Micro- biology and Virology

  Robert gave an invited lecture on "Engineering antisense oligonucleotides as antibacterial agents" April 22-23, 2019 in Athens, Greece… see Aikaterini Valsamatzi at the conference...

• 14^th Congress of Micro- biologists in Bulgaria with International Participation

  Robert gave an invited lecture on "Design and application of antisense oligonucleotides as antibacterial agents" October 10-13, 2018 in Hisarya, Bulgaria, see our award winning posters…
  see also the Katya Popova's poster…

• German Conference on Bioinformatics - 2018

  poster:42 on "EBWS: Essential Bioinformatics Web Services for Sequence Analyses", September 25-28, 2018 in Vienna, Austria,
  see Nikolet Pavlova's poster...

• 10^th Balkan Congress of Microbiology - Microbiologia Balkanica

  Robert gave an invited lecture on "Developing drugs that overcome antibacterial resistance: where do we stand and what should we do?", November 16-18, 2017 in Sofia city, Bulgaria…

• 1^st Balkan Conference on Personalized Medicine

  Robert gave an invited lecture on "Microfluidics and functional nucleic acids as tools in personalized medicine", October 26-27, 2017 in Sofia, Bulgaria…

• 12^th Balkan Congress of Human Genetics

  Robert gave an invited lecture on "Engineering integrated digital circuits with allosteric ribozymes for scaling up molecular computation and diagnostics of rare diseases", September 8-10, 2017 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, invited speaker of plenary lecture - see the program…

• A round table on "Examples of successful innovation in research Universities in Bulgaria"

  at the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Robert was an invited speaker, in Sofia, Bulgaria, presentation…

• Jubilee Conference 125 years of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

  Robert gave an invited lecture at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University, Conference's program…

• National Conference of Biotechnology

  at the Faculty of Biology, Sofia University, Robert gave an invited lecture, Conference's program…

• Bioscience - new opportunities

  at the Faculty of Biology, Sofia University, Robert gave an invited lecture, Conference's program…

• International Seminars of

  Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Robert gave an invited talk on "Design and Screening of Ribo- switches and their Applications as Biosen- sors to Exogenous Control of Gene Expression, Molecular Computing, and Drug Development"...

• Yale Graduate Student Research Symposium

  Yale University, in New Haven, CT, USA…

• Seventh Annual Retreat

  of the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, at the Marine Biological Laboratories, in Wood Hole, MA, USA…

• Sixth Annual Retreat

  of the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, at the Marine Biological Laboratories, in Wood Hole, MA, USA…

• Engineering a DNA World

  Robert presented an invited poster, California Institute of Technology, Center for Biological Circuit Design, Pasadena, CA, USA…

• NASA

  Kennedy Space Center - Orlando, Florida, USA…

• DNA7

  Robert gave a lecture at the Seventh International Meeting on DNA Based Computers, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA…

• DNA6

  Sixth International Meeting on DNA Based Computers, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands…