This meeting was organized jointly by the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the ASCR, the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and the Israeli Embassy in Prague on May 30-31, 2012. It represented a unique opportunity, especially for students and young scientists, to meet highly distinguished international scholars and discuss their ideas and projects directly with the most knowledgeable experts in the fields of biological chemistry. structural biology and material sciences. The invited speakers included four current Israeli Nobel Prize Laureates in Chemistry: Ada Yonath (Weizmann Instiute, Rehovot, Nobel Prize 2009), Aaron Ciechanover (Technion, Nobel Prize 2004), Avram Hershko (Rappaport Institute. Haifa, Nobel Prize 2004) and Dan Shechtman (Technion. Nobel Prize 2011) and other extraordinary scientific personalities from the USA, Israel, Germany and the Czech Republic, accompanied by several of their inspiring and talented students. and Luděk Svoboda.