Science is Fun and Evening Programs

Public Awareness Program High school student researchers as hosts and hostesses Pub Tours with Professors Exhibition of 3D Computer Graphics (part of Bioinformatics Contests) Exhibition of Protein Physical Models (part of the Most Beautiful Protein Contests)

June 30-July 2, Visegrád

FEBS Forum of Young Scientists

July 2, Saturday

10:00 Registration begins at the Congress venue 14:30 Films on the Hungarian World Heritage in the Plenary Room 16:00 Opening ceremony 20:00 Welcome Reception

July 3, Sunday

12:00 William J. Whelan: 50 years of IUBMB 13:00 Opening of the Hungarian Protein Products Fair 13:30 Bioinformatics Internet Contest I: Sequence Analysis (Group A) 13:30 Protein Cinema 13:30 The Most Beautiful Protein Contest: Modern Painting 14:00 BioRad Workshop: Contemporary Approaches for Biomarker Discovery 15:30 Bioinformatics Internet Contest I: Sequence Analysis (Group B) 15:30 Media Relations Symposium 20:00 Meet the Eminent - Meet the Expert (a panel discussion on the joys and burdens of research with special reference to women in science)

July 4, Monday

13:00 Press Conference 13:30 The Most Beautiful Protein Contests: Sculpture Making 13:30 Waters Workshop: The application of a Novel MALDI TOF Mass Spectrometer for Bacterial Fingerprinting and Protein Identification 14:00 When your Proteins get stressed: a Mixed Lecture Session 15:30 FEBS Science and Society Conference 18:30 The Most Beautiful Protein Contests: announcement of winners 20:00 Congress Banquet (paying)

July 5, Tuesday

13:30 QIAGEN Workshop: Cell-free Protein Synthesis 13:30 Intellectual Property Rights Workshop 13:30 The Most Beautiful Protein Contests: 3-D Modeling 13:30 Bioinformatics Internet Contest II: 3D Structures (Group A) 13:30 Hungarian Film and Discussion (Art Film) 15:30 Bioinformatics Internet Contest II: 3D Structures (Group B) 18:45 FEBS Letters / FEBS Journal Reception for Young Scientists 20:00 Congress Concert

July 6, Wednesday

12:30 Workshop of the FEBS Working Group and EMBO: Women in Science (WISE) 13:30 Hungarian Film and Discussion (Classic Film) 14:00 BioRad Workshop: Current Imaging and Sample Processing Technologies for Proteomics 14:00 Historical Hungarian weapon show 19:00 Farewell Cultural Folk Program

July 7, Thursday

12:30 Closing Ceremony including lectures of three eminent young investigators

Lift your Proteins to the Air: a FEBS-IUBMB Balloon Special issue of FEBS Letters to the Congress