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FEBS/EMBO WOMEN IN SCIENCE AWARD 2008 Winner of the FEBS/EMBO Women in Science Award 2008
Naama Barkai
Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, Israel The annual FEBS/EMBO Women in Science Award is presented to a woman working in life sciences to acknowledge her exceptional achievement and to inspire future generations of women scientists. Naama Barkai will receive her award on 2nd July 2008 at the 33rd FEBS Congress & 11th IUBMB Conference in Athens. Nomination deadline for 2009 award:
1 August 2008 More Information:
www.embo.org/gender/award.html
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33rd FEBS Congress & 11th IUBMB Conference June 28th to July 3rd, 2008, Athens - Greece
Biochemistry of Cell Regulation Abstract Submission Deadline for Abstract Submission is fast approaching:
February 28, 2008 For guidelines on how to submit your abstract please click here. Note: We strongly recommend that you submit your abstract at your earliest convenience in order to avoid congestion on the date of the deadline. Should you encounter any difficulties with on-line abstract submission please contact us at febs-iubmb2008scientific@acnc.gr.    |
| Already highly downloaded - special - see ScienceDirect's most recent Top-25 Most Downloaded Sleep and circadian rhythms: Key components in the regulation of energy metabolism by Aaron D. Laposky, Joseph Bass, Akira Kohsaka and Fred W. Turek, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States This review presents evidence to evaluate the hypothesis that sleep and circadian rhythms have direct impacts on energy metabolism, and represent important mechanisms underlying the major health epidemics of obesity and diabetes. The first part of this review will focus on studies that support the idea that sleep loss and obesity are "interacting epidemics." The second part will discuss recent evidence that the circadian clock system plays a fundamental role in energy metabolism at both the behavioral and molecular levels. These lines of research must be seen as in their infancy, but nevertheless, have provided a conceptual and experimental framework that potentially has great importance for understanding metabolic health and disease. This review is included in a January 2008 thematic issue on Metabolic Diseases, guest-Edited by Laszlo Nagy and Peter Tontonoz.
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| NEW EDITOR: Noboru Mizushima Professor Felix Wieland, Managing Editor of FEBS Letters is pleased to announce the editorial appointment of Professor Noboru Mizushima, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Graduate School to help deal with the increasing number of manuscripts in the area of autophagy. We welcome him on board!
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| |  Take advantage of the reduced rate for Early Bird Registration - until February 28, 2007.  The Young Scientist Forum (YSF) was initiated by FEBS in 2001 to provide Ph.D. students and young postdoctoral fellows of the FEBS Constituent Society with opportunities to meet, make friends as well as to discuss scientific affairs and career development in a friendly and informal atmosphere. Preceding the annual FEBS Congress, the YSF is traditionally organized by local Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows. During the course of years, the YSF has now developed from a satellite meeting into a real hallmark of the Annual FEBS Congress.
Since FEBS is dedicated to promote the interaction of students and young scientists, the Organizing Committee of the YSF2007 proudly announces that applicable fees will be covered for accepted participants. Furthermore, all YSF participants will receive a free registration to the subsequent 32nd FEBS Congress "Molecular Machines", July 7-12, in Vienna.
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| FEBS Letters - Assistant Editor
FEBS Letters, the journal for rapid publication of short reports in the molecular biosciences, is seeking an Assistant Editor to join the Editorial Office team at the University of Heidelberg.
Job Description:
The main duty will be to maintain the smooth and efficient processing of manuscripts. Specific tasks include the screening and distribution of incoming manuscripts, communication with editors, authors, and reviewers, and maintenance of the journal's online submission and peer review system. The successful candidate will also be involved in the coordination of Special Issues, and be responsible for the "Spotlight on..." column that is published monthly in FEBS Letters.
Requirements:
- A Ph.D. in a relevant biological discipline and a broad interest in science are essential.
- Fluency in written and spoken English is required for the position.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- The ability to work independently as well as in a small team.
- Occasional travel is required, including attendance at scientific meetings.
The position will be available early in 2007 and will be part time (20 hours per week), with an initial contract of 3 years.
The closing date for applications is 15th December 2006.
Please send your CV and a cover letter explaining your scientific background and why you would be suitable for the job to:
Prof. Felix Wieland
Managing Editor, FEBS Letters
Biochemie-Zentrum der Universität Heidelberg
Im Neuenheimer Feld 328
D - 69120 Heidelberg Germany
E-mail: felix.wieland@bzh.uni-heidelberg.de
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| | | Spotlight on...our Editors
Each month we will publish a new Spotlight on... paper featuring a board member's research, interests, views, and career. As well as making interesting reading, we hope that these articles will help our authors to identify the editorial board member who is best suited to handle their manuscripts. The most recent interviews feature:
R. Marais
S. Ferguson
J. Ovádi
T. Gojobori
 - see under Editorial Board for the complete list.
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| Forthcoming FEBS Congress and Special Meetings:
31st FEBS Congress, Istanbul, Turkey, 24 - 29 June 2006
Contact: FEBS 2006 Congress Secretariat, E-mail : febs@febs2006.org; Website : http://www.febs2006.org/
FEBS Special Meeting / European Lipidomics Initiative:
New concepts in lipidology: from lipidomics to disease October 21 - 25, 2006, Congress Center 'Leeuwenhorst', Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands Abstracts can be submitted on-line until June 30, 2006 See for more details: http://www.febslipid2006.chem.uu.nl
FEBS Special Meeting:
ATP-Binding Cassette (ABC) Proteins:
From Multidrug Resistance to Genetic Diseases March 4-10, 2006, Hotel Grauer Bär, Innsbruck, Austria http://www.febs-abc2006.org/
FEBS Letters will publish a selection of the best articles on these topics in special issues to appear in 2006.
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| FEBS Special Meeting / European Lipidomics Initiative
New concepts in lipidology: from lipidomics to disease
October 21 - 25, 2006, Congress Center 'Leeuwenhorst', Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands
Abstracts can be submitted on-line until June 30, 2006
See for more details: http://www.febslipid2006.chem.uu.nl
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| RAPID? FEBS LETTERS JUST GOT FASTER!
FEBS Letters now posts accepted author's manuscripts online within 3-5 working days after receipt at the Publisher. This step further reduces overall publication time by a week. Please note the author's accepted manuscript is not yet type-set and proofread, and will clearly be marked as such. The author's manuscript will be superceded a week later by the uncorrected typesetter's proofs, followed by corrected proofs before being compiled in an issue. This routine makes FEBS Letters one of the fastest journals in the field.
Authors wishing to reference articles in press in reference lists can do so using the article's unique DOI number which is quoted on each article.
NLM's PubMed coverage has recently been improved with the inclusion of [EPub ahead of print] links to articles.
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Submit your abstract on-line www.febs2006.org, and find details of the scientific and social programs.
Abstract Submission deadlines January 31, 2006. Early Registration March 3, 2006
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| NEW LINK FOR E-SUBMISSION
Please note that our URL for the online submission and peer review system has changed.
From now on, please submit your manuscript to: http://ees.elsevier.com/febsletters.
AUTHORS - PLEASE NOTE
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| The FEBS Letters Budapest Special Issue "Proteins and Peptides" is scheduled to go live as Volume 579/15 and online available in the next few days.
For online access to the articles contained in this exciting special issue, visit the Articles in Press.
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| Spotlight on...
Starting with volume 579 issue 9, we are introducing a new section featuring interviews with our Editorial Board members. Each month we will place a new Spotlight on... their research, interests, views, and careers. As well as making interesting reading, we hope that these articles will help our authors to identify the editorial board member who is best suited to handle their manuscripts. We look forward to featuring all our editors. The first of these interviews features our managing editor.
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| | Keystone Symposium: Systems and Biology.
April 8 - 13 2005 Keystone Colorado
Plenary topics: Mapping and Analysing Networks, Networks and Biology, Modelling Networks, Function and Dynamics of Networks, Cellular Networks
Register Now at: www.keystonesymposia.org
Registered participants: Don't forget to pick up your free copy of the FEBS Letters Special Issue on Systems Biology at the conference!
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| New platform offers European scientific community a common voice - Official Launch of Initiative for Science in Europe (ISE).
On 25 October 2004, the Initiative for Science in Europe (ISE) was officially launched at an ISE conference* in Paris, France. The launch marked the coming together of some 35 European scientific organizations to structure and give greater weight to the input of the scientific community into science policy-making and to promote the European Research Council (ERC).
Visit the ISE website at http://www.initiative-science-europe.org/ or
contact: Dr Luc Van Dyck, Secretary of ISE, E-mail: ise@elsf.org, http://www.initiative-science-europe.org/
* Elsevier acted as one of the sponsors for this important conference.
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