Welcome to the 2020 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Biomolecular Galaxy Sympsoium (HG2BG) website!

We are very excited to announce this year's annual mini-symposium will be on May 13th - 14th, 2020 and held at Armstrong Hall at Purdue. We are hosting Professor Doug Lauffenburger as our keynote speaker. 

The focus of our meeting is to highlight the cutting edge research that graduate students and postdocs are doing at Purdue. Opportunities for 15 minute oral and poster presentations are available for postdocs and grad students. Please refer to the schedule for details on activities.

Registration will be open soon!


A t-shirt, coffee, lunch on both days, and a chance to win monetary prizes for best talks and posters are included in the $20 registration!

This year, we are also excited to announce we are co-hosting the Leap from Lab event with Pi4D, which will serve as our Career Session event. For no charge, participants will be able to network with invited industry and government partners. Lunch will be provided and activities include a panel session and keynote. Please register and get more details about the Leap from Lab event that will be held May 12th at their website.