FEBS Newsletter February 2020 – Fellowships, Events, Journals, Network

FEBS Summer Fellowships: call for applications

Apply by 1 April 2020 for this year's FEBS Summer Fellowships – a chance for PhD and Master's students to boost their research work through a short visit to a lab in a different country. Applications for support for other visits for research work in the FEBS area for up to 3 months – via Short-Term Fellowships (for postdocs and advanced PhD students) and Collaborative Developmental Scholarships (for PhD students from certain countries) – can be submitted throughout the year.

It's time to prepare your abstract for FEBS 2020!

The deadline to submit abstracts for consideration for oral presentations, FEBS bursaries and inclusion in the FEBS Open Bio Congress supplement is 5 MARCH 2020. Come and play an active part in the scientific programme!

Congratulations to Elly Tanaka, winner of the 2020 FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award

Prof. Tanaka will receive the award at FEBS 2020, where she will join the plenary speaker line-up with her talk 'Decoding the molecular basis of limb regeneration'.

Explore the extensive Congress programme

Beyond the plenary lectures, get updated and be inspired with a choice of 40 research symposia, and several special sessions on extra topics such as career tips and teaching.

FEBS Advanced Courses 2020
More events are now open for registration:

FEBS Practical Courses / FEBS Practical and Lecture Courses
Advanced methods in macromolecular crystallization IX (course image above)
Nove Hrady, Czech Republic | May 16–22, 2020
Exploring the human proteome with antibodies, transcriptomics and mass spectrometry
Stockholm, Sweden | June 21–26, 2020
Macromolecule MD simulations for interdisciplinary beginners
Nove Hrady, Czech Republic | September 6–12, 2020
Microspectroscopy: functional imaging of biological systems
Wageningen, Netherlands | September 8–17, 2020
Computational approaches to understanding and engineering enzyme catalysis
Oulu, Finland | October 13–16, 2020

FEBS Workshops
The new biology of polyphosphate in health and disease
Cadiz, Spain | April 21–23, 2020
Crosstalk between nucleus and mitochondria in human disease
Seville, Spain | May 19–22, 2020
Nucleotide excision repair and crosslink repair – molecules to mankind
Smolenice, Slovak Republic | May 31 – June 4, 2020
Lost in integration – probing biomolecules with electrons, photons, neutrons and magnetic spins
Spetses Island, Greece | September 14–20, 2020

FEBS Advanced Lecture Courses
Molecular targets for anti-aging interventions
Spetses Island, Greece | May 25–30, 2020
Cellular stress and ADP-ribosylation
Naples, Italy | July 12–18, 2020
Protein folding, aggregation and compartmentalization
Spetses Island, Greece | August 21– 28, 2020
Redox alterations and cellular responses: from signalling to interventions
Spetses Island, Greece | September 21–27, 2020
4th Danube conference on epigenetics
Budapest, Hungary | October 6–9, 2020

Joint FEBS/EMBO Lecture Courses
Ion channels and transporters: from molecule to man
Erice, Italy | May 17–23, 2020
Molecular mechanisms of ageing and regeneration: from hydra to humans
Spetses Island, Greece | September 5–13, 2020

Prospective course organizers: the first call for proposals for 2021 events in the FEBS Advanced Courses programme closes 1 March 2020.

A welcome to new Editors-in-Chief

Two new Editors started their roles in January 2020. Read about Miguel De la Rosa's plans for FEBS Open Bio as its first Editor-in-Chief and Kevin Ryan's motivation for joining Julio Celis as joint Editor-in-Chief of Molecular Oncology.

The FEBS Network: insight, support and connections
for the molecular life science community
Explore a selection of recent posts:

Sustaining your motivation during the scientific journey, Maya Schuldiner | On becoming a group leader: Leo Kurian | What should I read?, David C Rubinsztein | Women in Science profiles: Evangelia Petsalaki | Euro-BioImaging’s role in the imaging revolution | ELIXIR - coordinating life science resources across Europe | Horizon Europe and its role in supporting health research, Marieke Meijer | David Baulcombe: “I still see genetic regulation as a big challenge that can inform all areas of biology.” | Roman Jerala: "…I often have to take care that I am not carried away by new tempting ideas."

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