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Congratulations to the recipients of the 2023 FEBS Excellence Awards! These awards provide €100,000 funding to early-career group leaders working in a FEBS country: more info at Individual congrats to follow! #GroupLeader #biochemistry #molecularbiology
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#Bioinformatics: would you like to learn the basics, improve your skills, or even support your students? Check out this useful post from Fernando Pozo @fpozoca full of self-directed learning resources #FEBSnet.
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Congratulations to the recipients of the 2022 FEBS Excellence Awards! These awards provide €100,000 funding to early-career group leaders working in a FEBS country: more info at #GroupLeader #biochemistry #molecularbiology #cellbiology #biophysics
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The 2023 call for applications for FEBS Excellence Awards is open! The scheme provides €100,000 funding for lab equipment & consumables over 3 years for scientists (in #biochemisty #molecularbiology #cellbiology #biophysics etc) in FEBS countries:
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Congratulations to the first recipients of the new FEBS Excellence Awards! .These awards provide €100,000 funding to early-career group leaders working in a FEBS country: more info at #GroupLeader #biochemistry #molecularbiology #cellbiology #biophysics
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Congratulations to Silvia Ramundo (@ramundo_silvia) of Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology at the Vienna Biocenter (@gmivienna @oeaw @viennabiocenter), on being awarded a FEBS Excellence Award, which provides €100,000 in research funding!
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Are you thinking of applying to become a group leader? Read this inspiring post from Rita Mateus @rita_d_mateus at @tudresden_de and @mpicbg on the #FEBSNet.
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Many thanks to the YSF 2022 organizing committee from Portugal for all their efforts in arranging a wonderful gathering of young molecular life scientists from many countries at the IUBMB–FEBS–PABMB Young Scientists’ Forum in Vimeiro! @iubmb @pabmb_official #biochem2022
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Are you a newly independent researcher in the molecular life sciences? Find out about the €25,000 grants available from the new #FEBSBoosterFund. The first call has just opened! #researchfunding #researchgrants #bioscience
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🙏 Huge thanks to everyone who made the Young Scientists’ Forum #YSF at @unipv unforgettable! We hope you had a fantastic time, created lasting memories, and built connections that will last a lifetime. Now it’s time to enjoy the 48th FEBS Congress in Milan! 🌟#youngFEBS
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Congratulations to Gautam Dey (@Dey_Gautam) of the Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, @EMBLHeidelberg on being awarded a FEBS Excellence Award, which provides €100,000 in research funding!
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We're excited that #FEBS2021 – the virtual 45th FEBS Congress – starts today!! Wishing all participants a rewarding and enjoyable event!.#biochemistry #molecularbiology #cellbiology #biophysics #biotech
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Congratulations to Cecilia Arraiano (PT) and Václav Pačes (CZ) – presented with the FEBS Diplôme d’Honneur for outstanding service to FEBS by FEBS Secretary General Miguel A. De la Rosa at the opening of the 47th FEBS Congress! @ArraianoLab, #ITQBNOVA PI @SPB84650893 @febs2csbmb
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Just out on #FEBSnet: The mindful scientist. Thanks to Christian Frezza (@FrezzaLab) for sharing thoughts on dealing with the emotional roller coaster ride that can accompany life as a scientist.
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We're excited that The Biochemistry Global Summit (#biochem2022) starts tomorrow in Lisbon!! Wishing all participants a rewarding and enjoyable event! #biochemistry #molecularbiology #cellbiology #biophysics #biotech @iubmb @pabmb_official
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Meet the winners of the @GBM_eV and @FEBSnews Anniversary Prizes 2023: Lena Pernas @MPIAGE and VilleKaila @TheKailaLab. Both will present at the FEBS 2023 Congress in France this July:.
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Online teaching in the molecular life sciences via a virtual lab: how a genetic test detects Coronavirus #molecularbiology #biochemistry #FEBSnet.
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Gut feeling? It might be your microbiota. Listen to FEBS Datta medal-winner John F. Cryan’s talk today at 11.30am for the latest on microbiome and brain disorders:.#biochem2022 #microbiome.
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Creating a tribute to Cajal's amazing drawings: thanks @CathyAbbottLab for the story! @EdinUniNeuro . #FEBSnet:
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Congratulations to Pierre Santucci (@PSantTB) of LISM, CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université on being awarded a FEBS Excellence Award, which provides €100,000 in research funding! @LISM_CNRS_AMU @CNRS_dr12 @CNRSbiologie
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📢There are FEBS bursaries available to help #PhD students and #postdocs from the #biochemistry & #molecularbiology Societies of FEBS participate in #FEBS2023 in Tours in July! Apply by 9 March 2023. Find out more about these and other support schemes at
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The 2024 call for #FEBSExcellenceAwards is now open! The scheme provides €100,000 funding for lab equipment & consumables over 3 years for scientists (in #biochemisty #molecularbiology #cellbiology #biophysics etc) in FEBS countries:
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Hear the 2019 FEBS | EMBO #WomenInScience Award recipient Sara Linse (Sweden) at #FEBS2019 today! She’ll be presented with the award and speak on ‘Secondary nucleation in amyloid formation‘ at 14:00. @lunduniversity @EMBO
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The FEBS-IUBMB-ENABLE conference series goes from strength to strength: after @ibis_sevilla in November 2022, we welcome the University of Cologne @UniCologne as the 2023 hosts. The young event organizers are buzzing!.
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Congratulations to Eugene Kim (@eugene_kim__) of the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics (@MPIbp), Frankfurt on being awarded a FEBS Excellence Award, which provides €100,000 in research funding! @EKimlab
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The process of creating an image for a journal cover or paper, a lab website, or a presentation, is a collaboration between researchers and illustrators. Veronica Falconieri Hays @FalconieriV shares her experience on the #FEBSnet.
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FEBS is launching a new programme aimed at supporting highly competitive research in molecular life sciences: #FEBSnet #GroupLeader.
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FEBS is offering additional support through its Fellowships programme for molecular life scientists in or displaced from Ukraine: find details on the FEBS website at
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Thanks to @jfcryan for an engaging introduction to his research work in the post below, and congrats for the Datta medal from FEBS, which will be awarded at the IUBMB–FEBS–PABMB Congress (#biochem2022) this July! #FEBSnet #microbiome @iubmb.
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Congratulations to Elly Tanaka! She will be presented with the award and deliver a plenary lecture on 'Decoding the Molecular Basis of Limb Regeneration' at the 45th FEBS Congress in Ljubljana in July:
Announcing the recipient of the FEBS|EMBO Women in Science Award 2020: Elly Tanaka @IMPvienna @viennabiocenter. Congratulations Elly! Read more here: @FEBSnews #womeninscience
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Congratulations to Peter Marhavý @pmarhavy @UmeaPlantSc for winning the FEBS Anniversary Prize 2022 of the @GBM_eV! .Don't miss his talk at the IUBMB–FEBS–PABMB Congress in Lisbon.
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From open innovation and training to open building design: find out how the new EMBL Imaging Centre will support the #imaging needs of the scientific community: #FEBSnet @embl @EmblImaging
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Young researcher thinking about your next step? Join the @iubmb_trainee webinar on 29 June: "Marketing Yourself for Careers in Academia & Industry", with Arjun Raj @arjunrajlab and Kyle Hess, from Bristol Myers Squibb.@FEBS_JS @iubmb.
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FEBS Fellowships congratulations: we wish Elisabetta Cacace from @Microbio_ETH (ETH Zürich, Switzerland) a rewarding research trip to @Typaslab, @EMBLHeidelberg!'.@ElisCa960 #FEBSFellowships
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Congratulations to the Institute of Biomedicine of Seville, in Spain, which will be hosting the 2022 FEBS-IUBMB-ENABLE Conference. We look forward to collaborating with them! @ibis_sevilla @iubmb @EnableNetworkEU .
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What do we want?! Great science, career advice and networking opportunities! When do we want it?! 16-18 Nov, 2022, at @ibis_sevilla for the @FEBSnews @iubmb @EnableNetworkEU conference. Served with a twist of Seville🍊🍊🍊oranges: .
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PhD student or Master's student in #biochemistry #molecularbiology #cellbiology #biophysics #biotech etc looking to boost your research this year? Check out FEBS Summer Fellowships: #FEBSnet.
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Give your PhD and Postdocs community the opportunity to develop their event organising skills: apply to host the FEBS-IUBMB-ENABLE 2022 Conference. Budget €65,000. Deadline 15/09/21 @iubmb @EnableNetworkEU .
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Are you a young scientist in the molecular life sciences? Registration is now open for the 2nd FEBS-IUBMB-ENABLE 2023 conference, which will be 23–25 November in Cologne, Germany. Early bird and travel grants are available. Find out more:.
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Registration has opened for a joint FEBS/EMBO lecture course on 'Lipids, proteins and their interactions in organelle biology', Spetses, 29 May – 4 June 2022.
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A new avenue for engaging with society about your research? @emblbarcelona group leader @marietabernabeu shares her interesting experience of outreach via a social media influencer: #FEBSnet @the_prbb @embl.
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Featured on #FEBSnet: FEBS Excellence Awardee Florian Schur (@SchurLab) at @ISTAustria, including early-career words of wisdom. Thanks Florian!
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Apply by 1 September for FEBS Excellence Awards!.The scheme is for scientists in countries where FEBS Constituent Societies are established; read more at #GroupLeader #FEBSnet.
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Excitement is building towards the summer molecular life sciences fest #FEBS2023 – 'Together in bioscience for a better future'. Find out about presenting your work and submit your abstract by 9 March 2023! #biochemistry #molecularbiology #cellbiology.
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💡 Very inspiring and empowering talk on Women in Science and Equality by Caroline Dean @CarolineDeanLab at the Young Scientists’ Forum #YSF 👩🔬We should lean on for a more inclusive future in Life Sciences #youngFEBS
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Congratulations to Francesca Grisoni (@fra_grisoni) of Dept of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology on being awarded a FEBS Excellence Award, which provides €100,000 in research funding! @molecularML @TUeindhoven
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🌟Highlights from the FEBS Young Scientists’ Forum in Pavia!🌟 .From June 26-29, 100 brilliant PhDs and postdocs in biochemistry and life sciences gathered for an unforgettable experience!👩🔬👨🔬.Catch the energy, new friendships, and fun! 🧬 #YSF #youngFEBS #FEBS2024 #FutureLeaders
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The @ERC_Research Starting Grant call has opened and the Young Academy of Europe @yacadeuro has a set of great mentoring resources for potential applicants. Find out more on this FEBS Network post from YAE's current Chair, @KatalinSolymosi:.
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Happy Birthday Protein Data Bank! In this #FEBSnet post, PDB present a brief intro/history and info on a special virtual symposium to commemorate and celebrate on 4-5 May 2021 #PDB50 #structuralbiology.
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#FEBS2017: abstract submission has opened! #biochemistry #molecularbiology #cellbiology #biophysics #postdoc #PhD
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Do you want to do science communication in creative, engaging and beautiful ways? Be inspired by this #FEBSnet post from @KasturiMahadik @ASAPbio Fellow 2022:.
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New on FEBS Career Opportunities webpage: 23 PhD positions at Medical University of Graz, Austria, with a focus on cancer research, immunology, bioinformatics, cardiovascular research, microbiome and aging:
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Reinhard Jahn reflects on the skills and approaches that have helped him lead research groups in the molecular life sciences:.
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A useful assessment of the AlphaFold DB and method on the #FEBSNet. Thank you @emblebi and @PDBeurope.
What new research avenues have been opened up by #AlphaFold DB and what are the limitations of the method? @emblebi's Sameer Velankar, Gerard Kleywegt and @Alexbateman1 discuss more @FEBSnews network:
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Here's a rich new resource on #FEBSnet in cancer #systemsbiology – invited-speaker talks recorded at a recent online EMBO|FEBS Lecture Course organized by @institut_curie scientists and training unit: .#Bioinformatics #ComputationalBiology.
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Interested in a PhD in the molecular medicine? Check out the @NordicEMBL PhD program (deadline to apply 11 Feb) and please share with your networks of students:.
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We are delighted that the 2021 FEBS | @EMBO Women in Science Award to Molly Stevens @imperialcollege has been delivered (where are you Molly?), though we wish we could have presented it in person in Ljubljana! #FEBS2021 Congress
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#PhD students + #postdoc researchers + #biochemistry + #molecularbiology + #cellbiology + #biophysics + Tours (#LoireValley) = the 2023 FEBS Young Scientists' Forum! Apply by 8 December 2022 for a funded place covering the FEBS Congress in Tours as well 😀.
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For International Day of Women & Girls in Science we highlight the achievements of #WomenInScience research leaders delivering plenary lectures at the #FEBS2024 Congress – on #clathrin #RNAbiology #cellpolarity #heterochromatin #organelles #ubiquitylation
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The FEBS Network's 'Director Visions' series moves to Scandinavia with this post - thank you @JuleenRZierath for insight into CBMR @Metabolcenter, Copenhagen!.
"Groundbreaking metabolic research requires a collaborative culture that rewards high-risk research and where scientists feel safe asking big questions". Executive Director @JuleenRZierath in @FEBSnews on CBMRs strengths and the value of building culture.
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Thanks to Arkaitz Carracedo for an engaging post on managing a research team, interesting also for earlier career stages: '. we begin to lead others much earlier than the moment we become group leaders' #FEBSnet @ArkaitzLab #GroupLeader.
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#PhD students + #postdoc researchers + #biochemistry + #molecularbiology + #cellbiology + #Portugal = the IUBMB–FEBS–PABMB Young Scientists’ Forum 2022! Apply by 15 December 2021 for a funded place that covers joining the Congress in Lisbon as well😀.
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Read about José M. Mato strategy for @CICbioGUNE and @CICbiomaGUNE at the #FEBSnet Director's Vision series.
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📢The FEBS YSF 2023 application deadline is this week: Thursday 8 December 2022, 23:59 (UTC+01:00)! Good luck!.
#PhD students + #postdoc researchers + #biochemistry + #molecularbiology + #cellbiology + #biophysics + Tours (#LoireValley) = the 2023 FEBS Young Scientists' Forum! Apply by 8 December 2022 for a funded place covering the FEBS Congress in Tours as well 😀.
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'The postdoctoral career stage is a unique and uncertain time in the path of most academic researchers.' Here's a quick look at what unis/institutes might do to help – thanks @ImperialPFDC for insight into your approaches #FEBSnet #postdoc #AcademicTwitter.
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'Work hard, be resilient and get involved – do not wait for others to change things for you.' Many thanks to #lipid biochemist @NoemiJRojo of @unige_en for an inspiring post on #FEBSnet
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📢 There's still just time to bring a poster to Lisbon for #biochem2022 in July! Late-breaking abstract submission closes 25 May 2022. Find all the details here:
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What do you get when you mix @jenheemstra and a group of young European scientists? A great post about key topics in research and careers! @ogmbt_ylsa @JuniorGBM @SEBBM_es @bem_cordoba @bem_toledo @Bqenmovimiento @BiochemSoc @SIB_biochimica .
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What might you do with the AlphaFold DB and what limitations you need to consider? Read Sameer Velankar, Gerard Kleywegt and @Alexbateman1 #FEBSNet Network post @PDBeurope @emblebi .
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The call for applications for FEBS Excellence Awards has opened! .The scheme is for scientists in countries where FEBS Constituent Societies are established; read more at #GroupLeader #FEBSnet.
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Late-breaking abstract submission for the 2023 FEBS Congress in France has opened! 😀 If you've just had a research breakthrough or are now sorting out your summer plans, check out the details at and be part of ‘Together in bioscience for a better future’!
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📢There are FEBS bursaries available to help #PhD students and #postdocs participate in the joint IUBMB, FEBS and PABMB Congress in Lisbon! Apply by 10 March 2022. Find out more about these and other support schemes at .#biochem2022 @iubmb @pabmb_official
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A video AND a writing competition, tips to apply for a #postdoc, webinars, #FEBS2023 Congress info, #fellowships, links to our #journal articles, national Society conferences: this and more on the FEBS Network #FEBSnet for #molecular #bioscientists.
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The 2020 call for FEBS Long-Term Fellowships has opened! Here's insight into the opportunity and thoughts on postdocs in general from recent experience. Thank you @GeorgesJanssen2! #FEBSnet #phd #postdoc.
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📢Application deadline is this week: 23:59 (UTC+01:00), December 15, 2021! Good luck!.@iubmb @pabmb_official.
#PhD students + #postdoc researchers + #biochemistry + #molecularbiology + #cellbiology + #Portugal = the IUBMB–FEBS–PABMB Young Scientists’ Forum 2022! Apply by 15 December 2021 for a funded place that covers joining the Congress in Lisbon as well😀.
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Congratulations to Svante Pääbo – who also received the FEBS Theodor Bücher Medal in 2010.
BREAKING NEWS: .The 2022 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.”
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Congrats to Simon Ebbinghaus @tuBraunschweig and Michael Zimmerman @embl Heidelberg for receiving the 2021 FEBS Anniversary Prizes! Catch their talks on #ProteinFolding and #GutMicrobiota, respectively, at the virtual #FEBS2021 on
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When p53 behaves like a prion: mutant p53 protein amyloid aggregation could be a target for cancer therapies. Read about Jerson L. Silva’s research path in his FEBS Network post before his PABMB plenary lecture today at #biochem2022.@pabmb_official.
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Late-breaking abstract submission for the IUBMB–FEBS–PABMB molecular life science fest in Lisbon this July is now open – and you could catch the early registration rate if you act now!.
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What's it like working on the inside of scientific article publishing? Here's a peek from one of the @FEBSJournal editorial team! #FEBSnet.
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Karen Vousden @LabVousden delivers the Opening Plenary and Sir Hans Krebs Lecture at the 47th FEBS Congress #FEBS2023 today, on “Diet, metabolism and cancer progression”. Read on the FEBS Network how her career has evolved:.
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FEBS Fellowships congratulations: we wish Claudia Sanchis López (@clausanchis) from @cgmlaboratory at the Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics, Madrid (@CBGP_Madrid) a rewarding research trip to @EMBLHeidelberg! #FEBSFellowships
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Highlighted on #FEBSnet: a Special Issue from @febsjournal on G protein-coupled receptors (14 review articles and more. ) #GPCR.Straight to journal issue: #FEBSnet intro: .
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📣⌛️🧬🔬 Abstract deadline this week! Present a poster at #FEBS2023 on an international stage and get the bigger picture across #biochemistry, #molecularbiology & more. Late-breaking abstract submission closes 24 May 2023, 23:59 (UTC+01:00)! Details at:
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