FINAL PROGRAMME

Career round table 8th YSF FEBS-IUBMB 2008

The Career round table is considered the highlight of the Young Scientist Forum programme, the occasion for each participant to ask questions and discuss strategies.
To promote the exchange of information, the speakers will briefly present their experience in the development of scientific careers, and will illustrate how their organizations contribute to the training of young scientists. The main aim of this round table is to stimulate the discussion with the YSF participants, giving tips for a successful career in science.

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)