For a general introduction to FEBS National Lectures, see the webpage Support for activities of FEBS Societies.

GUIDELINES

1. FEBS National Lectures were established to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies. These FEBS National Lectures (usually 5 per year) are intended as Plenary Lectures that significantly enhance the quality of a scientific meeting, symposium or annual national scientific meeting of a Constituent Society.

2. The Lecturer should be a distinguished scientist with a significant international reputation for fundamental contributions to the fields of biochemistry and molecular biology. An engraved glass award will be provided by FEBS for presentation to the FEBS National Lecturer after his/her presentation, as a memento of the speaker’s selection and significant contribution to the meeting.

3. The Lecturer should be working in a FEBS country different from the one organizing the meeting.

4. The Lecturer should not be a plenary speaker at the FEBS Congress in the same or following year. They also should not have been previously a FEBS National Lecturer at the Society’s meeting, nor in the past 5 years a FEBS National Lecturer at another FEBS Constituent Society’s meeting (see list below).

5. The support shall consist of reasonable travel expenses (e.g. economy flight); additional support for FEBS countries with HINARI status is available. The host organization will offer free registration and accommodation. FEBS will not offer an honorarium. Reimbursement will be made by the FEBS Treasury.

6. FEBS National Lecture applications for FEBS3+ Meetings can only be considered from the partner Societies of that meeting (as the host Society is already in receipt of FEBS funds to support the meeting), if the partner Society is holding a national meeting as part of the FEBS3+ Meeting.

7. An application proposing a maximum of two candidates for the FEBS National Lecturer should include their short Curricula Vitae and full details of the event,  including expected participant number. It should be sent to the FEBS Congress Counsellor ([email protected]) by, or be endorsed by, the FEBS Constituent Society President. The application will be evaluated by the FEBS Congress Counsellor and FEBS Secretary General, who may consult with other members of the FEBS Executive Committee, and will be awarded within 2 months of receipt of the application.

8. The invited speaker shall be named The FEBS National Lecturer and designated as such in all announcements and programmes.

9. The FEBS National Lecturer should be introduced by a member of the host organization with a brief acknowledgement of FEBS and the lectureship at the beginning of his/her presentation.

10. For queries, please contact the FEBS Congress Counsellor via the Contact section of the FEBS website.

Recent or upcoming FEBS National Lecturers

2027
Georg E. Winter (Vienna, Austria) – LS² (Switzerland) Meeting
Serena Nik-Zainal (Cambridge, UK) – GBM (Germany) Mosbach Colloquium
Reinhard Jahn (Göttingen, Germany) – SEBBM (Spain) Congress

2026
Martin Blackledge (Grenoble, France) – GBM (Germany) Compact Meeting
Henrik Oster (Lübeck, Germany) – SEBBM (Spain) Congress
Michele Vendruscolo (Cambridge, UK) – HBS (Hungary) Meeting
Karin Lindkvist (Lund, Sweden) – NBS (Norway) Contact Meeting

2025
Dagmar Wachten (Bonn, Germany) – NBS (Norway) Contact Meeting
Bernard Perbal (Nice, France) – HBS/MBKE (Hungary) Meeting
Paola Pizzo (Padova, Italy) – SEBBM (Spain) Congress
Nikolaus Rajewsky (Berlin, Germany) – PTBioch (Poland) Congress

2024
Graça Raposo (Paris, France) – NBS (Norway) Contact meeting
Ivana Ivančić Baće (Zagreb, Croatia) – ATSB (Tunisia) Congress
Masashi Narita (Cambridge, UK) –  SEBBM (Spain) Congress
Wanda Kukulski (Zurich, Switzerland) – GBM (Germany) Compact Meeting
Maria Carmo-Fonseca (Lisbon, Portugal) – SFBBM (France) SifrARN meeting
Michael N. Hall (Basel, Switzerland) – HSBMB (Greece) Conference

2023
Dragan Primorac (Split, Croatia) – ABMB in B&H (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Conference
Peter Rehling (Göttingen, Germany) – SEBBM (Spain) Congress
Massimiliano Mazzone (Leuven, Belgium) – SIB (Italy) Congress
Pietro Roversi (Milan, Italy) – RSBMB (Romania) Meeting
Grazielle Pellegrini (Modena, Italy) – PTBioch (Poland) Congress
Anke Becker (Marburg, Germany) – SBD (Slovenia) Meeting
Konrad Sandhoff (Bonn, Germany) – TBS (Türkiye) Congress

2022 (some previously postponed)
Anders Lund (Copenhagen, Denmark) – βιος-SBSCy (Cyprus) Conference
Xavier Coumoul (Paris, France) – TBS (Türkiye) Congress
Jörg Vogel (Würzberg, Germany) – SFBBM (France) SifrARN meeting
Irene Diaz Moreno (Seville, Spain) – HDBMB (Croatia) Congress
Carlo Catapano (Bellinzona, Switzerland) – SIB (Italy) Congress
Dario Alessi (Dundee, UK) – SEBBM (Spain) Congress
Andrea Thorn (Hamburg, Germany) – SFBBM (Sweden) Conference
Helgi Schioth (Uppsala, Sweden) – FEBS3+ Meeting (Latvia application)
Finbarr O’Harte (Belfast, UK) – BioBio (Finland) Meeting
Thierry Candresse (France) – ATSB (Tunisia) Congress