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St Petersburg 2013: 38Th FEBS Congress ISSUE 1 (JANUARY) 2013 St Petersburg 2013: 38th FEBS Congress Mechanisms in Biology CONTENTS Contents: Key 2013 FEBS dates: Fellowships applications deadline Preface 3 1 April and 1 October 2013 (page 7) The 38th FEBS Congress 4 Advanced Courses applications deadline (for funding of 2014 courses) 1 April 2013 (page 8) FEBS Programmes: updates FEBS Fellowships news 7 Young Scientists’ Forum applications deadline FEBS Advanced Courses 2013 8 1 February 2013 (page 5 ) FEBS Education: recent workshops 11 Congress Bursary applications deadline Other upcoming events 13 10 March 2013 (page 5) FEBS Community News Congress early registration deadline 5 April 2013 (page 6) National Lectures 14 Hungarian Biochemical Society: 50 years 16 Congress registration deadline Obituary 19 1 June 2013 (page 6) 38th FEBS Congress FEBS Publications 6–11 July 2013 (pages 4–6) FEBS Journal 20 FEBS Letters 22 FEBS Advanced Courses Molecular Oncology 23 February–October 2013 (pages 8–10) (Registration deadlines are well ahead of course dates) FEBS Open Bio 23 Crick Memorial Meeting – 60th Anniversary Scientific Events Calendar 24 of DNA Structure 25 April 2013 (page 13) Career Opportunities 25 Education Workshops and FEBS 3+ Meeting July and autumn 2013 (page 13) Cover: St Petersburg, Russia, is the interesting location for the 38th FEBS Congress ’Mechanisms in Biology’, taking place from 6th to 11th July 2013. The cover photo shows the ‘Church of the Savior on Blood’, built from 1883 to 1907 in the style of medieval Russian architecture on the site where Tsar Alexander II was assassinated. Read more about the 2013 FEBS Congress on pages 4–7. About FEBS News: FEBS News is published three times a year. Email alerts containing a link to FEBS News are sent to subscribers and to FEBS Constituent Societies whenever a new issue is out. This issue as well as all former issues of FEBS News are available online at www.febs.org To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your contact details, simply send an email to [email protected] stating ‘subscribe’, ‘unsubscribe’ or ‘change’ in the subject line. You can also subscribe online at www.febs.org/index.php? id=364. Note that we will not distribute your data to third parties without your consent. 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A charitable organization advancing research in the molecular life sciences across Europe and beyond A Company Limited by Guarantee (Number 08239097); A Registered Charity (Number 1149638); Registered in England and Wales; Registered office: 98 Regent Street, Cambridge, CB2 1DP, UK. 2 FEBS News January 2013 PREFACE Dear Colleagues, ultimately result in a drastic reduction in FEBS’ income – a problem FEBS shares with many other 2012 was a year for FEBS to take stock of its learned societies. governance and finances, and as a result FEBS now A new financial strategy for FEBS is therefore enters 2013 in better shape for achieving long-term needed. FEBS will now try to develop its current contributions to the advancement of molecular financial reserves as an endowment, with future bioscience research and education. income derived largely from that. As a result, FEBS is reassessing and reducing some of its recent high Restructuring of FEBS expenditure levels, with any excess income over FEBS has been an unincorporated charity, which is an expenditure for the next two or three years of outmoded form of governance for a large charity with guaranteed income to be used both to cover its current financial, contractual and legal obligations. During commitments and to build up the endowment. 2012, FEBS updated its structure to become a A key area of FEBS spending that has increased company limited by guarantee (registered company dramatically in recent years is Long-Term Fellowships number 08239097) and registered as a charity (~€2.3 million in 2012), followed by Advanced (registered charity number 1149638) – a model used by Courses (~€0.9 million in 2012). Unfortunately, other significant UK-registered charities such as the these high levels of spending are now unsustainable Biochemical Society. FEBS is still a charity but is and both areas will be making fewer awards in 2013. now a legal entity with financial safeguards. Although clearly regrettable, this is unavoidable if It is important to emphasize that the name, aims FEBS is going to be able to continue to support and activities of FEBS remain unchanged by the biochemistry and molecular biology in the long- restructure. The organization’s overall objective is term. The changes mean that funding in these formally stated as ‘to contribute to and promote the programmes in 2013 and 2014 will need to be advancement of research and education for the focused on the most outstanding applications. public benefit in the sciences of biochemistry and molecular biology and related disciplines…by all FEBS programmes in 2013 suitable means…’. More details on FEBS’ Despite these concerns, there is much for FEBS to objectives, the restructuring and links to FEBS’ be positive about as 2013 begins. Congress funding governing documents can be found on the FEBS is maintained and we look forward to a spectacular website under ‘FEBS as a charity’. and unique event in St Petersburg in July (see pages 4–6). FEBS has an excellent range of Advanced Publishing changes and FEBS finances Courses lined up for the year (pages 8–10), with FEBS has recognized the value of and demand for many bridging pure biochemistry/molecular- open access publishing in the bioscience and wider biology studies and medical/industrial applications community over recent years, and as a result its – and all at exciting locations across Europe. FEBS established journals offer open access publication continues to offer Youth Travel Fund grants for options, and indeed FEBS recently launched the most of these events. Although competition for entirely open access journal FEBS Open Bio. Long-Term Fellowships will become fiercer, the full At the same time, FEBS is very aware of how range of FEBS Fellowships are also still on offer. traditional journal subscription publishing models For Constituent Societies, FEBS will be funding have enabled investment in and development of National Lectures (e.g. see pages 14–15), a FEBS3+ high-quality science publishing by its journals. meeting, and education workshops (see pages 11– Furthermore, as FEBS wholly owns these, this mode 13). All members of the FEBS Executive and other of publishing has generated significant income for Committees (elected to posts by FEBS Council) FEBS to use to support and advance the molecular continue to devote their time and energy to FEBS life sciences cross Europe and further afield, and the bioscience community on a pro bono basis, through research fellowships, conferences, travel with some administrative support only for the grants and so on. The established journals of FEBS busier areas of FEBS work. currently have a strong subscription base, but we On behalf of the FEBS Executive Committee, I must face the reality that the trend towards open wish you all the best in your scientific endeavours in access publishing will continue, and that current 2013. pricing structures for open access publication will Alan Fersht, FEBS Honorary Treasurer 3 FEBS News January 2013 FEBS CONGRESS The 38th FEBS Congress: St Petersburg, 6–11 July 2013 TEN REASONS TO BE PART OF IT Plenary Lectures 1. The Congress Advisory Board and the Program Aaron Ciechanover (Israel) Committee have built AN OUTSTANDING SCIENTIFIC hallmark proteasomal signal The end of the polyubiquitin chain as the insulators and long ● Pavel Georgiev (Russia) PROGRAM under the motto ‘Mechanisms in Biology’. -distance interactions Chromatin ● Evolutionary perspectives of innate immunity Jules Hoffmann (France) A central attraction is the series of Plenary Lectures Proteases and their control in health and disease ● Robert Huber (Germany) delivered by distinguished speakers, including ten (USA) The molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription ● Roger D. Kornberg Nobel Laureates, and encompassing a wide spectrum (France) Perspectives in chemistry: from supramolecular ● Jean chemistry-Marie Lehn towards adaptive chemistry of ground-breaking achievement in molecular life ● Richard Roberts (USA) methylomes ● Gottfried Schatz (Switzerland) Bacterial science research. science – and what Europe should do for its youngWhat scientists it takes to succeed in The core of the Congress comprises 38 Symposia Szostak (USA) The origin of cellular life and the emergence of Darwinian ● Jack W. chaired by internationally renowned scientists. These evolution ● John E. Walker (UK ) (USA) Lecture to be announced will span all key areas of biochemistry, molecular The chemical logic and enzymatic machinery of natural ● Chrisproduct Walsh assembly lines ● Kurt Wüthrich (USA) biology, biotechnology and related fields, allowing and membrane proteins Structural genomics with soluble ● Ada E. Yonath (Israel) every Congress bonding machine functioning nowadays An ancient chemical participant to stay on top of the latest research in his or her area. Programs are currently being developed with keynote and symposium speakers from Europe, USA, Japan and beyond. To learn more on the scope of topics and lectures, visit the Congress website at http://www.febs- 2013.org/ 2. The Congress offers a unique chance to visit ST PETERSBURG, one of the most beautiful European cities, in the high season of the famous WHITE NIGHTS. St Petersburg is located on the delta of the River Neva on a series of islands, and its many waterways have led to the title ‘Venice of the North’. The city is renowned for its culture, beauty, splendour and rich history, with numerous palaces, cathedrals, A White Night view of the Peter-and-Paul Fortress, a small island on the River Neva where museums, monuments and Tsar Peter the Great founded St Petersburg in 1703.
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