FEBS Newsletter Mar 2019 – Spring Round-up
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FEBS Fellowships for short research visits: apply now
Explore the three types of Fellowships FEBS offers to support visits for up to 3 months for research work at a lab in a different country in the FEBS area:
Short-Term Fellowships – for postdocs and advanced PhD students
Summer Fellowships – for pre-doctoral students. Apply by 1 April.
Collaborative Developmental Scholarships – for PhD students from certain countries
Now is the time to submit your abstract to the 2019 FEBS Congress in Krakow!
The deadline to submit abstracts for consideration for oral presentations, bursaries and inclusion in the FEBS Open Bio Congress supplement is 7 March 2019. Come and present your work at this inspiring international gathering!
Congratulations to Sara Linse, winner of the 2019 FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award
Prof. Linse will be presented with the award at the 2019 FEBS Congress, where she will join the plenary speaker line-up with her talk 'On the mechanism of amyloid β aggregation and the role of inhibitors'.
Explore the rich Congress programme
In the city that is home to one of the oldest European universities, deepen your learning across the molecular life sciences with a choice of 40 research symposia, and expand your horizons with sessions on extra topics such as education, 'science and society' and 'art and science'.
Recent Special Issues from FEBS Press journals
Find insightful reviews from experts in these recent thematic collections
from The FEBS Journal, FEBS Letters and Molecular Oncology
FEBS Advanced Courses 2019
Registration is open for the events below:
FEBS Advanced Lecture Courses
Molecular organization, function and dynamics of biomembranes
Cargèse, France | June 10–20, 2019
Europhosphatase 2019: from molecular mechanisms to system-wide responses
Debrecen, Hungary | June 11–16, 2019
Biological surfaces and interfaces: the mechanistic view
Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain | June 30 – July 5, 2019
Advanced proteomics
Varna, Italy | July 28 – August 3, 2019
Molecular mechanisms in signal transduction and cancer
Spetses Island, Greece | August 16–24, 2019
Epigenomics, nuclear receptors and disease
Spetses Island, Greece | August 25–30, 2019
Biochemistry of membrane proteins – structure, trafficking, regulation
Budapest, Hungary | August 25–30, 2019
Oncometabolism: from conceptual knowledge to clinical applications
Luso, Portugal | September 1–6, 2019
Biosystem design: computational and experimental approaches
Spetses Island, Greece | September 29 – October 7, 2019
FEBS Practical Courses
Functional imaging of nuclear organisation and signaling
Amsterdam, The Netherlands | June 9–15, 2019
Biomolecules in action II
Hamburg, Germany | June 23–28, 2019
FEBS Special Meeting
Sphingolipid biology: sphingolipids in physiology and pathology
Cascais, Portugal | May 6–10, 2019
FEBS Workshop
Ageing and regeneration
Innsbruck, Austria | September 9–12, 2019
Joint FEBS/EMBO Lecture Courses
Molecular mechanisms of tissue injury, repair and fibrosis
Spetses Island, Greece | May 23–31, 2019
Venice summer school 2019: mechanisms in development and evolution
Venice, Italy | August 26–30, 2019
The new microbiology
Spetses Island, Greece | September 4–12, 2019
The Hydra XIV European summer school on stem cell biology and regenerative medicine
Hydra, Greece | September 15–22, 2019
Mitochondria in life, death and disease
Herceg Novi, Montenegro | September 24–28, 2019
Images at the top of this section are from the 2019 FEBS Advanced Courses 'Biochemistry of membrane proteins – structure, trafficking, regulation', 'Advanced proteomics' and 'Oncometabolism: from conceptual knowledge to clinical applications'.
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Foreign Secretary, the Ukrainian Biochemical Society,
Palladin Institute of Biochemistry NAS of Ukraine
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