Nine special sessions, organized by students, post-doctoral fellows and research fellows, were selected by the Scientific Organizing Committee, out of over 40 submitted session proposals, as a part of the regular scientific program. The scientific committee took into consideration the novelty and timeliness of the topic, and the redundancy with existing sessions. 

The sessions are: 

• From the lab to the plate – BioConvergence for food development
• Mechanism of Healthy Aging 
• Protein translation in health and disease
• From mutation to evolution
• Tissue Repair in the Animal Kingdom

• Molecular tools in wildlife conservation research
• New Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering Applications
• Biological control and plasticity from molecular circuits to human populations
• Biophysics of plants