Special Sessions

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Saturday 30 August	Sunday 31 August	Monday 1 September
SFBBM Session The 100th Anniversary of SFBBM, the French Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Birgit Habenstein, FR Patrice Dunoyer, FR Annabelle Varrot, FR Franck Martin, FR Sophie Rahuel-Clermont, FR Paul Guichard, FR Guy Dirheimer, FR Frédéric Dardel, FR	FEBS Letters Award Session Susanna Törnroth-Horsefield, SE Structural principles behind eukaryotic aquaporin regulation	EMBO Scientific Publishing Session Bernd Pulverer, DE Transparent Publishing - Reinventing the Paper followed by panel discussion
	FEBS Journal Award Session Hee-Yeon Jeon, KR Depletion of Aurora-A in zebrafish causes growth retardation due to mitotic delay and p53-dependent cell death	Symposium from biomolecules to cells: the NMR contribution Lucia Banci, IT NMR in Cellular Structural Biology: from single molecules to pathways Stefano Gustincich, IT SINEUPS: a new functional class of natural and synthetic antisense non-coding RNAs that activate translation Ed C. Hurt, DE Insight into eukaryotic ribosome biogenesis by NMR structural analysis Harald Schwalbe, DE RNA-based regulation studied by NMR and beyond
	Science and Society Session Patrick Rüdelsheim, BE Biosafety: all for one; one for all Elisabeth Waigmann, EU The role of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in the risk assessment of GMOs Mario Tredici, IT Food & biofuels from large-scale algae mass cultures: opportunities & challenges Jane Calvert, UK Responsible design in synthetic biology **note: new speaker order:13.08.2014
	Symposium from biomolecules to cells: the NMR contribution Claudio Luchinat, IT Metabolomics as a potential breakthrough in public healthcare: the role of NMR Rolf Boelens, NL Structure and dynamics of nucleosome complexes Jose Rizo-Rey, US Using NMR spectroscopy to elucidate the mechanism of neurotransmitter release Guy Vandenbussche, BE Structural and metal binding characterization of SilB coordinations sites, a protein involved in metal resistance in Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34

Tuesday 2 September	Wednesday 3 September
FEBS \| EMBO Women in Science Session Confessions of a male sexist: What you and I are doing to hold women back, and how to stop Curt Rice, NO followed by panel discussion	Science & Society Round Table New trends in scientific policy in Europe Moderator: Gottfried Schatz, CH Discussants: Helga Nowotny, AT Daniel Louvard, FR
FEBS Education Session 1 What skills and knowledge are required to improve molecular life science education Francesco Michelangeli, UK Jean-Luc Souciet, FR	FEBS Education Session 2 New technologies available to teach molecular life science Quentin Vicens, FR Michael.E.Caspersen, DK Neil Morris, UK
FEBS Biomolecular complexes and assemblies A FEBS Journal Symposium to honor Richard Perham Sheena Radford, UK Frédéric Dardel, FR Wolfgang Baumeister, DE Angela Gronenborn, US Vladimir Uversky, US David Nicholson, UK