FINAL PARTICIPANTS LIST - UPDATED 27/05/2008

YSF Organizing Committee

Career round table composition:

Dr. Jan Taplick, EMBO fellowship program manager

Dr. Carmen Vela Olmo, INGENASA Managing Director, Advisor Committee of the Spanish Minister of Science, member of the Second European Science and Technology Assembly (ESTA)

Prof. Dr. Keith Elliot, FEBS educational committee

Dr. Mike W. Rogers, Senior Administrator, European Commission, DG Research, Dir T, Marie-Curie Actions

Prof. Dr. Claudina Pousada, FEBS Honorary Chair of the Working Group on the Career of Young Scientists

INVITED PLENARY SPEAKERS

26/06/2008: CECILIA MARIA ARRAIANO, professor at Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biologica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
will give a plenary lecture entitled:
"The Amazing New World of RNA"
(http://www.itqb.unl.pt/Research/Biology/Control_of_Gene_Expression/)

27/06/2008: Dr. AARON CIECHANOVER, Laureate of The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004, Distinguished Research Professor in Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel will give a plenary lecture entitled:
"Why our proteins have to die so we shall live or the ubiquitin system - from bench to bedside"
(http://md.technion.ac.il/inner/personnel.php?Lecturer_ID=32) (http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2004/ciechanover-cv.html)

28/06/2008: Dr. NEKTARIOS TAVERNARAKIS, Professor/Principal Investigator in Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Crete, Greece will give a plenary lecture entitled:
"Mitochondrial energy metabolism during diapause and ageing in C. elegans"
(http://www.imbb.forth.gr/worms/nektarios.html)

NEWS

• June 2008: Hellenic Minisrtry of Tourism Development has agreed to sponsor YSF 2008.
• June 2008: The printing of Abstarct books and the poster walls are kindly offered of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, www.uoa.gr.
• 20/05/08: All participants who have requested letters of invitation for Visa permits for YSF2008 should have received their invitation letters by now. Please check that you have already received your letters and contact us if there is any problem.
• May 2008: A detailed programme and a list of all participants will be added to the official YSF 2008 site by the end of May. Participants will be also informed regarding their oral and poster presentations by the end of May.
• 12/05/08: Prof. N.K. KARAMANOS has accepted our invitation to salute YSF 2008.
• May 2008: Three prizes (one for the best oral presentation and two for the best poster presentation -one for each poster session-) have been decided to be awarded during YSF 2008.
• May 2008: Biosure R&T Cell Co has agreed to sponsor YSF 2008.
• May 2008: The composition of the Career Round Table has been finalized and has been added on our official site.
• April 2008: Prof. Dr. Keith Elliot of FEBS educational committee has accepted our invitation to participate as Career Round Table invited speaker.
• April 2008: John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation has agreed to sponsor YSF 2008.
• March 2008: Mike Rogers, European Commission officer responsible -European Technology Assessment Network (ETAN), Marie-Curie Actions-fellowship program, has accepted our invitation as Career Round Table invited speaker.
• 03/03/08: All YSF 2008 applicants have received the necessary travel form to complete and return to the Secretary of FEBS Treasurer, Ms Louise McSeveny in order to receive the travel grant.
• March 2008: Prof. Dr. Claudina Pousada, FEBS Honorary Chair of the Working Group on the Career of Young Scientists, has accepted our invitation as Career Round Table invited speaker.
• 28/02/08: The letters of acceptance/rejection have been sent to all applicants. All accepted participants have been registered automatically to the Main FEBS Congress and should have received a confirmation mail with their personal access code. All applicants who were not accepted to the YSF2008 and want to participate on the main FEBS congress must register by themselves.
• February 2008: Bio-Rad Laboratories has agreed to sponsor YSF 2008. A lecture regarding "Gene Modulation, Expression Profiling and Real Time PCR Quantification" will be delivered. The lecture is scheduled for 27/06/08.
• February 2008: Dr. Jan Taplick, EMBO fellowship program manager, has accepted our invitation to participate as Career Round Table invited speaker.
• February 2008: Boerge Diderichsen from Novo Nordisk has agreed to sponsor YSF 2008 and to cover the travel expenses of Dr. Ciechanover.
• January 2008: FEBS publising group has agreed to sponsor YSF 2008.
• January 2008: Dr. Carmen Vela Olmo, INGENASA Managing Director, Advisor Committee of the Spanish Minister of Science, member of the Second European Science and Technology Assembly (ESTA), has accepted our invitation as Career Round Table invited speaker.
• December 2007: Dr. CECILIA ARRAIANO, Professor in Instituto de Technologia Quimica e Biologica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal on the 26th of June, has accepted our invitation to give a plenary lecture during YSF 2008. The lecture is scheduled for 26/06/08.
• September 2007: Dr. NEKTARIOS TAVERNARAKIS, Professor/Principal Investigator in Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Crete, Greece, has accepted our invitation to give a plenary lecture during YSF 2008. The lecture is scheduled for 28/06/08.
• May 2007: Dr. AARON CIECHANOVER Laureate of The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004, Distinguished Research Professor in Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel has accepted our invitation to give a plenary lecture during YSF 2008. The lecture is scheduled for 27/06/08.