FEMS Affiliates Letter January 2020
Thursday, 06 February 2020 11:34
The new FEMS Affiliates Letter is out! Read the January issue with microbiology research, events, calls, job opportunities, and more...
Issue includes: the FEMS Journals Best Article Awards for 2019.
We want to highlight especially the
DEADLINES:
01.03.2020 Meeting Attandance Grants Application
01.03.2020 FEMS Jensen Award Application
10.03.2020 FEMS Lwoff Award Nomination
15.03.2020 FEMS Summer School for Postdocs Application
15.03.2020 FEMS Conference on Microbiology Abstract Submission
The ÖGMBT has a very wide international network and is a member of several relevant scientific societies like FEMS. ÖGMBT members are automatically members of these societies and are entitled to benefits such as travel grants, short-term and long-term fellowships, Awards etc. Current calls and deadlines are published on our webpage and are sent to our members within the ÖGMBT newsletter.
Further info: https://www.oegmbt.at/ueber-uns/internationales
EFB Newsletter January 2020
Tuesday, 04 February 2020 04:10
Invited lecture slots still available until 6 April
More than 100 Invited Lecture slots are available for registrants that submit excellent new work
Deadline for Congress abstract submission:
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Looking for publication opportunities?
There will be three major opportunities to help you get your work published in leading international journals.
Publications workshop on Monday 29th June. Learn how to increase the chance that your research will be accepted for publication and why manuscripts are rejected.
Meet the Editors of the EFB Journal and other Elsevier journals who will answer your questions and provide advice.
Submit a publication to the Congress Special Issue. Participants are invited to submit research articles and reviews for a special issue of the EFB Journal, New Biotechnology, to be published after the Congress.
Register now to take advantage of these opportunities.
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Special offer for group registrations from the same institution / organisation
Free registration is offered to Principal Scientists from large groups that register and pay together for five or more people from the same institution. Alternatively, one free registration - the least expensive - is offered to groups of four people from the same institution who register together and pay their registration fees with a single payment.
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EFB Journal New BiotechnologyAntibody-cytokine fusion proteins: A novel class of biopharmaceuticals for the therapy of cancer and of chronic inflammation
Antibody-cytokine fusion proteins represent a novel class of biopharmaceuticals, with the potential to increase the therapeutic index of cytokine ‘payloads’ and to promote leukocyte infiltration at the site of disease. In this review, we present a survey of immunocytokines that have been used in preclinical models of cancer and in clinical trials. In particular, we highlight how antibody format, choice of target antigen and cytokine engineering, as well as combination strategies, may have a profound impact on therapeutic performance. Moreover, by using anti-inflammatory cytokines, antibody fusion strategies can conveniently be employed for the treatment of auto-immune and chronic inflammatory conditions.
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SCI EventApplied late-stage functionalisation: where chemistry meets biology
The purpose of this meeting is to highlight some of the hot and emerging developments in the inorganic catalysis and biocatalysis arenas and both the academic and application of late-stage functionalisation methodologies.
This meeting is aimed at industrial and academic members of the scientific community working in pharmaceuticals, medicinal chemistry, biotechnology, chemical biology or broadly interested in synthesis, catalysis and enzymatic reactions. |
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Be in with the chance of winning a fantastic prize whilst supporting the global biosciences community: enter the Royal Society of Biology’s Anniversary Fundraising Raffle. All proceeds will go towards funding the RSB's charitable work and a full list of the exciting prizes can be found at www.rsb.org.uk/raffle. Enter by 25th February 2020. |
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EFB Member Events
organised by AFOB
9 − 11 February 2020
Yogyakarta − Indonesia
organised by SCI
24 - 25 February 2020
Cambridge − UK
The ÖGMBT has a very wide international network and is a member of several relevant scientific societies like EFB. ÖGMBT members are automatically members of these societies and are entitled many benefits such as 10% member discount for EFB organized congresses. Current calls and deadlines are published on our webpage and are sent to our members within the ÖGMBT newsletter.
Further info: https://www.oegmbt.at/ueber-uns/internationales
Lukas A. Huber elected as Vice-President of VWGÖ
Wednesday, 22 January 2020 02:23
As of January 2020, Lukas A. Huber, the President of ÖGMBT, will take office as Vice-President of VWGÖ, the Federation of Austrian Scientific Societies. The VWGÖ includes 220 scientific societies across all disciplines (Law, Economy & Social Sciences, Medicine & Pharmacy, Natural Sciences, Humanities, Basic and Integrative sciences, Fine Arts, Agriculture & Forestry, Theology etc.) representing 30.000 scientists.
The VWGÖ was founded following World War II in order to revive the scientific community in Austria. Politics, industry and commerce and the broader public needed to be convinced that the foundation of scientific societies is indispensable for progress.
Today the awareness raising and lobbying activities are needed more than ever, given shrinking public budgets for science. It was from this background, that the ÖGMBT took the strategic decision to nominate its President Lukas Huber, as Vice-President of VWGÖ.
Protest against Central Bank “Jubiläumsfonds” to be reserved only for economic research.
An example of a recent initiative: since centuries the ÖNB (Austrian Central Bank) has a “Jubiläumsfonds/Jubilee Fund” which annually allocated 6 Million €uro for scientific research of all disciplines and was thus a pillar for research funding. End 2019 the ÖNB announced that it would henceforth only fund projects that are relevant to the “Central Bank, fiscal policy, stability of finance markets, investment strategies etc.” The VWGÖ strongly voiced its concern against this announcement of ÖNB and involved the press. Not only did the press print the protest, but various other media constantly asked the OeNB about it. Georg Sachs, editor-in-chief of Chemiereport/Austrian Life Sciences, who recently published a very good article in the new Chemiereport, was particularly persistent. Irrespective of the OeNB's adherence to the decision, we will continue to act in the interest of our members.
– see Chemie Report 8/2019 Pp 42/43
For more info about VWGÖ visit http://vwgoe.at/
FEMS Affiliates Letter December 2019
Friday, 20 December 2019 10:54
The FEMS Affiliates Letter is out! Read the December issue includiung news, grants, microbiology research, scientific events, job opportunities, and more...
We want to highlight especially the FEMS Summer School for Postdocs 2020, which is now Open to Applicants.
DEADLINES:
01.01.2020 Research and Training Grants
24.01.2020 FEMS-ASM Mäkelä-Cassell Travel Award for Early Career Scientists
01.03.2020 FEMS-Jensen Award
01.03.2020 Meeting Attendance Grants
10.03.2020 FEMS-Lwoff Award
The ÖGMBT has a very wide international network and is a member of several relevant scientific societies like FEMS. ÖGMBT members are automatically members of these societies and are entitled to benefits such as travel grants, short-term and long-term fellowships, Awards etc. Current CALLS and Deadlines are published on our webpage and are sent to our members within the ÖGMBT newsletter.
Further info: https://www.oegmbt.at/ueber-uns/internationales
School project: Microorganism of the year 2019
Thursday, 19 December 2019 04:16ÖGMBT celebrated the International Day of Microorganisms - a good occasion to have the "Microorganism of the Year 2019" chosen in a competition
Together with Open Science, the ÖGMBT called on pupils to choose the microorganism of the year 2019. School classes were asked to explain what distinguishes the microorganism they had chosen and what makes it so special.
There were no limits to the imagination when it came to design - the submission documents could be drawn and designed by hand or worked out electronically. The only important thing was to show what the microorganism of 2019 should be.
All submitted works were exhibited at the 11th ÖGMBT Annual Meeting, the most important congress for life sciences and biotechnology with 300 participants, in mid-September at the International Day of Microorganisms in Salzburg. Scientists reviewed and selected the submissions of the children.
The winner was the work of Jonas, Jakob, Moritz and Florian from class 2b (now 3b) of the Bundesgymnasium St. Johann in Tyrol on the bacterium Escherichia Coli.
School class @ the Medical University of Innsbruck
The prize included an invitation for the whole class to a microbiological practical course and lecture in the new teaching and learning building of the Medical University of Innsbruck. The head of the Institute of Molecular Biology, Hubertus Haas, had put together an exciting, age-appropriate programme and ÖGMBT President and head of the Institute of Cell Biology at the Medical University of Innsbruck, Lukas A. Huber, provided the lunchtime snack.
Before the visit, the students received agar plates and were asked to make "hand swab", "door handle swab" & "mobile phone swab". The view of the overgrown agar plates and the closer look under the microscope obviously surprised the students.
International Microorganism Day
Since 2017 the International Microorganism Day aims to raise awareness among young people and the society in general on the essential role that microorganisms play in our health, environment and quality of life, as well as of their biotechnological potential.
It is celebrated on 17th of September, the day in 1683 when the Dutch Anton van Leeuwenhoek – a merchant with no fortune or university degrees - sent a letter to the Royal Society of London, reporting the first description of a single-celled organism. This unlikely scientist displayed infinite curiosity, being a pacient and tireless worker, gifted with extraordinary power of observation. He built and developed his own microscopes (hundreds of them!), perfecting the lenses of his optical system and thus making it possible to obtain extraordinary amplifications, well ahead of his time, and to observe and describe, for the first time, microorganisms. In this famous letter, an exquisite description was made of the first observation of living bacteria present on the dental plaque, which was accompanied by drawings of the microorganisms and their movements. Finaly reaching Microscopic Life, the foundations of Microbiology were laid.
EFB Newsletter November 2019
Thursday, 21 November 2019 05:01
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John van der Oost is group leader of the Bacterial Genetics Groups in the Laboratory of Microbiology at Wageningen University. Professor van der Oost is considered pioneer of the “CRISPR revolution” for his fundamental work in the ground-breaking CRISPR-cas technique, and his group has founded methods to remove, add or alter specific genes with accuracy. |
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Deadline for Earlybird submissions: Friday 13th December.
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Please see below the future events planned for EFB members:
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EFB Journal New BiotechnologyPre-analytics and tumor heterogeneity
When dealing with pre-analytics for tissues, it is often that case that tissue heterogeneity, and particularly tumor heterogeneity, is not taken into account as a preliminary condition for obtaining reproducible results in molecular analysis at the diagnostics and clinical research levels. It is well known that when sampling tumor tissues in different areas, for example the border or the central area of the tumor, different genes are expressed and, due to polyclonality in most tumors, different areas can have different DNA and epigenetic alterations. For this reason, it is extremely important to establish and standardize specific tissue sampling protocols for molecular extraction as well as in situ molecular methods. A correct approach to heterogeneity is the basis for a more reproducible and exchangeable type of molecular analysis that can provide useful information at the prognostic and predictive levels. Heterogeneity should also be taken into consideration during cancer treatment, since therapy modifies the clonal composition of tumors. Here, the different types of tumor heterogeneity and the improper pre-analytical conditions in tissue processing that can generate heterogeneous artefacts are described.
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SCI Event26th SCI Annual Review Meeting – Catalysis and Enabling Technologies for Synthesis
The 26th Annual Review Meeting - Catalysis and Enabling Technologies for Synthesis will address key areas of contemporary synthetic organic chemistry. An exciting line-up of leading early career academics will deliver a series of review lectures covering topics such as photoredox catalysis, biocatalysis, chemoinformatics, and automated reaction optimisation.
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AFOBInternational Conference on Biomaterial-Based Therapeutic Engineering and Regenerative Medicine |
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ÖGMBTMicrobe-Assisted Crop Production - Opportunities, Challenges & Needs (miCROPe 2019) |
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EFB Member Events
organised by AFOB
13 − 14 December 2019
Gunupur − India
organised by AFOB
9 − 11 February 2020
Yogyakarta − Indonesia
organised by SCI
18 − 19 February 2020
Manchester − UK
organised by SCI
24 − 25 February 2020
Cambridge − UK
Open letter to the Austrian National Bank
Thursday, 21 November 2019 04:24The ÖGMBT together with 50 other scientific societies under the umbrella of the Federation of Austrian Scientific Societies (VWGÖ), which represents 28,599 scientists in Austria, protested against the restriction of the support of the Jubilee Fund of the Austrian National Bank. We will stay tuned and report on it.
FEBS Newsletter - November 2019
Thursday, 07 November 2019 03:52Find photos, reports and updates on a range of FEBS activities, including FEBS Council election outcomes, a round-up of the Krakow FEBS Congress, a feature on FEBS member Societies, and a first look at FEBS events lined up for 2020.
Registration and abstract submission for the 45th FEBS Congress
are now open!
Join us in the vibrant city of Ljubljana in July 2020 for inspiration, learning
and discussion across the spectrum of molecular and cellular life sciences.
Find out more on the FEBS Congress website:
Home ● Welcome ● Plenary Lectures ● Programme Overview ● Symposia ● Call for Abstracts ● Registration ● Young Scientists' Forum ● FEBS Bursaries ● Ljubljana
Key upcoming deadlines:
FEBS Young Scientists' Forum: December 15, 2019
Abstract Submission: March 5, 2020
FEBS Bursaries: March 5, 2020
Apply to the 2020 FEBS Young Scientists' Forum (YSF)
by December 15, 2019
2020 will be the 20th anniversary of this special pre-Congress meeting
for postdocs and PhD students!
Start your 2020 FEBS Congress experience with this smaller gathering in Lovran on the Croatian coast, where you can present your work, pick up career and skills tips, and get to know other early-career researchers from across the FEBS area. Those selected to take part have their participation at the YSF and the ensuing Congress supported by FEBS YSF grants. Find all the details in the YSF section of the Congress website:
The list of FEBS Advanced Courses for 2020 is now out!
FEBS-supported events within the Advanced Courses programme include lecture courses, practical courses, workshops and ‘special meetings’, and offer training,
learning and networking in focused research fields.
See the new list for 2020 on the FEBS website, together with course summaries.
FEBS Youth Travel Fund grants are available for all events to assist
participation of early-career researchers.
Images above are from the FEBS Advanced Courses 'Advanced methods in macromolecular
crystallization IX', and 'Microspectroscopy: functional imaging of biological systems'.
Have you seen the 2019 FEBS Press Special Issues?
Check out the review content from experts in...
The FEBS Journal:
ER Stress in Disease | Extracellular matrix in health and disease | Single-cell analyses
FEBS Letters:
Krakow Special Issue | The Golgi
and Molecular Oncology:
Noncoding RNAs: Dark matter of the genome and cancer | Boosting the social impact of innovative cancer research – towards a mission‐oriented approach to cancer
EFB Newsletter October 2019
Friday, 01 November 2019 01:01
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Hans Clevers is group leader at the Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research and at the Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology. He is also professor of Molecular Genetics at the University Medical Center Utrecht and Utrecht University and Oncode Investigator.
The Clevers group has pioneered methods to study the molecular mechanisms of tissue development and cancer of various organs. |
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Four short talks will be included in each symposium in the scientific programme. At least half will be selected from abstracts submitted from outside Europe. To increase your chance of being selected, register now and submit your abstract immediately. |
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IBS2020
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) initiated the International Biotechnology Symposium (IBS) in Rome in 1960. Its aim was to highlight the role of chemistry in life science and biotechnology. The IBS Congress was held every 4 years, rotating between different continents. It soon became acknowledged internationally as the prime biotechnology conference. Since 2008, the IBS series has been convened biennially to address the unprecedented progress of biotechnology. The 19th IBS (IBS 2020) will be held in conjunction with the 19th European Congress on Biotechnology (ECB 2020) in Maastricht, the Netherlands from 28th June – July 1st.
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EppendorfStem Cell Community Day 2019
Bringing the global stem cell research community together
Following up on two successful events on recent advances in the stem cell field, Eppendorf is hosting the Stem Cell Community Day 2019 on November 21 in Lisbon, Portugal. We invite all researchers to discuss challenges, opportunities, and achievements in stem cell bioprocessing with a special focus on controlled cultivation in stirred-tank bioreactors. Check out our website as we update the program on a regular basis. |
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EFB Journal New BiotechnologyDiverse Human VH antibody fragments with bio-therapeutic properties from the Crescendo Mouse
We describe the ‘Crescendo Mouse’, a human VH transgenic platform combining an engineered heavy chain locus with diverse human heavy chain V, D and J genes, a modified mouse Cγ1 gene and complete 3’ regulatory region, in a triple knock-out (TKO) mouse background devoid of endogenous immunoglobulin expression. The addition of the engineered heavy chain locus to the TKO mouse restored B cell development, giving rise to functional B cells that responded to immunization with a diverse response that comprised entirely ‘heavy chain only’ antibodies. Heavy chain variable (VH) domain libraries were rapidly mined using phage display technology, yielding diverse high-affinity human VH that had undergone somatic hypermutation, lacked aggregation and showed enhanced expression in E. coli. The Crescendo Mouse produces human VH fragments, or Humabody® VH, with excellent bio-therapeutic potential, as exemplified here by the generation of antagonistic Humabody® VH specific for human IL17A and IL17RA.
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SCI EventMIBio 2019: Stability of Biopharmaceuticals – From molecular interactions to successful products
MIBio 2019 will focus on discussing challenges linked to novel product modalities such as RNA based products or fusion proteins as well as strategies to overcome these challenges. The talks will particularly focus on protein-protein interactions, formulation, drug product development and competitive product profiles.
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Industry Skills Certificate
The Royal Society of Biology has developed an Industry Skills Certificate. This new initiative is designed to support the employability of scientists in industry. With extensive research and input from our Employer Advisory Group (EAG), we have created a bespoke suite of online and in-person training courses that are aimed to enhance the experience, skill set and knowledge of scientists.
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The ÖGMBT has a very wide international network and is a member of several relevant scientific societies like EFB. ÖGMBT members are automatically members of these societies and are entitled many benefits such as 10% member discount for EFB organized congresses. Current CALLS and Deadlines are published on our webpage and are sent to our members within the ÖGMBT newsletter.