Programme

Congress programme starts: Saturday, June 26, 2010, at 17.00

Congress programme ends: Thursday, July 1, 2010, at 13.00

Plenary speakers

Opening lecture: Roger Tsien (UCSD; Nobel Laureate 2008)
Closing lecture: Venki Ramakrishnan (MRC-LMB; Nobel Laureate 2009)
Special lectures: Elizabeth Blackburn (UCSF; Nobel Laureate 2009) John Walker (MRC Cambridge, Nobel Laureate 1997)
Datta Lecture: Juleen Zierath (Karolinska Institute)
Krebs Lecture: Harald Stenmark (Norwegian Radium Hospital)
Bücher Lecture: Svante Pääbo (MPI Leipzig)
EMBO Lecture: Uri Alon (Weizmann Institute)
IUBMB Lecture: Susan Lindquist (Whitehead Institute)
FEBS/EMBO WISE Award Lecture: Ingrid Grummt (German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg)

Congress Symposia

A - Molecules in Health and Disease

A1 Ageing
A2 Molecular Immunology
A3 Metabolic Diseases
A4 Neurobiology
A5 Infectious Diseases

B - Molecular Networks

B1 Metabolic networks
B2 Signal Transduction
B3 Global Networks
B4 Gene regulation
B5 Regulation of protein function

C - Molecules at Work

C1 Molecular Machines
C2 Biological Cycles
C3 Extracellular structures
C4 Membrane Transport
C5 Energy transduction

D - Cellular Compartments

D1 Secretory pathways
D2 Mitochondria
D3 Endocytosis
D4 Nucleus
D5 Chloroplasts

E - Biomolecular Design and Function

E1 Synthetic Biology
E2 Molecular Recognition
E3 Design of Macromolecules
E4 Folding
E5 Catalytic Mechanisms

And more

Workshops: Sequencing technology, Life imaging, Protein expression, Proteomics technologies, Dynamic modelling, Lipidomics, Metabolomics, Protein interactions, Network modelling, Protein structures, Molecular imaging, Bioinformatics

FEBS working group sessions, Tutorials, Corporate Seminars, Press Meeting, Public Activities

FEBS working group sessions:

Education Events: “The Researching, Teaching and Learning Triangle at Universities: Unite or Divide?”

“Practical System’s Biology; an Introduction to Mapping and Modelling of Cellular Signal Transduction”.

Science and society: "Biofuels are more than fuels"

Women in science: “Gender in Science.”