• Thursday, June 30.
  • 13.00 Registration and mounting of posters
  • 16.00 Opening of the meeting: Claudina Rodrigues-Pousada (Chairperson of the FEBS Working Group on the Career of Young Scientists)
  • 16.10 Welcome message from Jacques-Henry Weil (Secretary General of IUBMB)
  • 16.15 Plenary lecture: Dr. Miklós Kellermayer (Hungary)
  • 17.00 Session I. (chair: Miklós Kellermayer)
    • Signalling Pathways
      • Diana Avram: Phospatidylinositol transfer protein expression and phosphorylation is regulated by TNF-alpha in human neutrophils and myeloid cell lines
      • Natalia Derebecka-Holysz: Transcriptional repression of human CYP17 by transforming growth factor beta is mediated by Smad signalling pathway
      • Aurelio Vicente Graça-Souza: Heme: A new modulator of neutrophil-mediated innate immune response
      • Jaehoon Jung: Molecular mechanism of Na,K-ATPase inhibition by ouabain: ouabain dephosphorylates cofilin through the Ras/MEK/ERK pathway
      • Nellie Taleux: The hypothalamic AMPK-mediated stimulation of food intake is lacking in Lou/C rats, a strain resistant to obesity
      • Beáta Lontay: Okadaic acid induces phosphorylation and translocation of myosin phosphatase target subunit 1 influencing myosin phosphorylation, stress fiber assembly and cell migration in HepG2 cells
    • Gene regulation
      • Feray Kockar: Comparative Analysis of the Xenopus C/EBP Promoter to Mammalian Homologues
      • Dmytro Minchenko: Alternative splicing as a new possible regulator of the enzymatic activity of 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase/fructose-2,6-biphosphatase 4
      • Gabriela Ring: In Haloferax volcanii, Membrane Protein Biogenesis and Protein Synthesis Rates are Affected by Decreased Ribosomal-Binding to the Translocon
  • 19.30 Get together party
• Friday, July 1.
  • 09.00 Keynote lecture: Karl Kuchler
  • 10.00 Coffee
  • 10.30 Session II. (chair: Karl Kuchler)
    • Diseases
      • Ferdinánd Molnár: Molecular evaluation of the high basal activity of human PPARs
      • András Palotás: The one-and-only calcium in neurodegeneration
      • Meital Reches: Formation of tubular and closed-caged nanostructures by self-assembly of aromatic peptides
    • Stress response
      • Ana O'Loghlen: Reversion of the hydrogen peroxide-induced modification of eukaryotic initiation factor 4F activity by N-acetyl-cysteine involves distinct signaling pathways
      • Jan Lochman: Activation of different defense-related genes expression by ergosterol
      • Theodoros C. Konstantinidis: Mutations in yeaset 18S rRNA affect tranlational fidelity and oxidative stress
      • Roberta Sauerborn Klobucar: ABC transport proteins as mediators of the multixenobiotic resistance (MXR) defence mechanism in aquatic organisms
  • 12.30 Lunch
  • 13.30 Poster session I. (odd numbers)
  • 15.00 Panel discussion on young scientists issues
    • Claudina Rodrigues-Pousada (chair)
    • Thomas Schweins (QUIAGEN)
    • Graham Wilkie (Marie Curie actions)
    • Jan Taplick (EMBO)
    • Orfeu Flores (STAB)
  • 19.00 Banquet
• Saturday, July 2.
  • 09.00 Poster session II. (even numbers)
  • 10.30 Coffee
  • 11.00 Session III. (chair: Elza Friedländer)
    • Structure and function
      • Daniela Rial: Involvement of molecular chaperones in chloroplast protein import
      • Katarina Kristan: Topology of the N-terminal part of equinatoxin II, an eukaryotic pore-forming toxin, in the final pore
      • Jelena Brkljacic: Association of Rat Liver Glucocorticoid Receptor with Hsp90 and Hsp70 Upon Mercury Intoxication
      • Martino Calami: Aggregation and fibrillation of Acylphosphatase can proceed from partially unfolded states with different structures
      • Ylva Ivarsson: Exploring the importance of an active site residue on the stereo- and regioselectivity of Mu class glutathione transferases
      • Zoltán Giricz: Inhibition of Matrix Metalloproteinases Mimics the Cardioprotective Effect of Preconditioning in Normal and Hyperlipidemic Rats
      • Natalia Parakhnevitch: Human ribosomal proteins S13 and S16: expression, purification and refolding
      • Peggy C. Stolt: Structural Genomics of Bacterial Transporters and their Human Homologues
  • 13.00 Closing of the meeting, lunch, transfer to Budapest

We would like to ask ALL SUCCESFUL APPLICANTS to submit their registration and abstract to the Congress at this web-site URGENTLY, since we need to receive the abstract before the January 31^st deadline to be able to process it. Submission of the abstract as a part of the application does not substitute its on-line submission to the ABSTRACT form. Please note that you will need to register first to be able to enter to the abstract submission menu. If your name is listed here please disregard the Registration fee and Hotel options since for you both will be free (if you want to stay at the Hotels offered). Travel support (equal with the amount of your ticket but not more than 300 EUR) can be collected only at the Congress Venue by presenting a copy of your ticket and a proof of the price of the ticket.

The 2005 FEBS Forum for Young Scientists is a satellite meeting of the 30th FEBS Congress - 9th IUBMB Conference, organized for PhD students and recently graduated PhDs The Forum will give a unique possibility for outstanding young colleagues from all parts of the world to get to know each other and to discuss both their research data and career possibilities in an informal way.

Financial Support. For successful applicants the IUBMB and Sigma Aldrich Corporation Travel scholarships will cover all local expenses during the FEBS Forum for Young Scientists including the attendance fee, local transport to and from the Forum and accommodation in a double room. The Scholarship will cover all meals, the get together party and the banquet for all participants during the Forum. Participants' registration fee to the 30th FEBS Congress-9th IUBMB Conference will also be covered. Free accommodation in Hotel Ventura or Summer Hill and an allowance for meals will be provided.
In addition five of the winners of the IUBMB and Sigma-Aldrich travel scholarships will be provided with up to 1000 USD to support their travel. Other winners of these scholarships will have to pay their own travel expenses.
To apply to an IUBMB and Sigma-Aldrich Corporation travel scholarship, please submit your application using the following application form (get MS Word document or ZIP-compressed file) not later than December 5th 2004 to the email address of fellowships@febs-iubmb-2005.com. Please send all parts of the application in one email. Only email submissions will be accepted. The applications will be evaluated by a special committee of IUBMB: Knut-Jan Andersen, Jan Joep H. H. M de Pont and Jacques-Henry Weil.
The deadline of the applications was December 5^th. We are sorry: no more applications are accepted. The list of winners will be published here after January 15^th.

Scholarship winners, who will receive a travel support covering their ticket up to 1000 USD at the Congress venue in addition to the benefits below:

Scholarship winners, who have to cover their travel costs from local sources:

The joint IUBMB and SIGMA ALDRICH Corporation Travel Scholarships cover all local expenses during the FEBS Forum for Young Scientists including the attendance fee, local transport to and from the Forum and accommodation in a double room. The Scholarship will cover all meals, the get together party and the banquet for all participants during the Forum. Participants' registration fee to the 30th FEBS Congress-9th IUBMB Conference will also be covered. Free accommodation in Hotel Ventura or Summer Hill and an allowance for meals will be provided. Fellowship recipients should mark their poster with the sign: "Supported by IUBMB and SIGMA ALDRICH Corporation Travel Scholarship" to acknowledge the support. We apologize for those who were not selected at this time. We hope they will find a way of alternative support to come to the Congress. The competition was tough, and the awardees have submitted high-level applications. Congratulations to all of them and see you at the Congress!

If any of the awardees is unable to come to the Congress she/he should immediately contact Knut-Jan Andersen at (knut-jan.andersen@med.uib.no) to allow another fellow from the high level applicants to enjoy this opportunity.

• Outstanding Young Woman Scientist Award
  • EUR 500 prize and
  • leather-bound notebook

• Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry Young Investigator Award
  • US$500 or EUR400 prize
  • Framed Certificate
  • Free personal online subscription to Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry
• Biochemical Journal Young Investigator Award
  • US$500 or EUR400 prize
  • Framed Certificate
  • T-shirt and other BJ gifts

• Youth Excellence Award
  • EUR 500 prize and
  • leather-bound notebook

• Youth Excellence Award
  • One year's personal print and online subscription to one of EMBO's scientific publications, EMBO reports and
  • Assorted EMBO gifts

You can already nominate a young participant of the Congress by downloading the Nomination Form from HERE, filling it and sending to Ms. Zsuzsa Huszenicza as an attached file.