Content: G7 academies advise the summit. Statements on the future of the oceans, neglected tropical diseases and antimicrobial resistance are handed to Chancellor Angela Merkel

• Statement by academies: Helping shape plant genetic engineering in Germany
• International: German-Israeli symposium on the latest neuroscience findings in dementia research
• Class II symposium – Life Sciences: Animals as our eyes and ears

Title image: © David Ausserhofer