FEBS Committees and Working Groups
Points of reference for Committees and Working Groups of FEBS are set out in the FEBS Bylaws (see Related Documents on the right of this page).
FEBS Advanced Courses Committee
FEBS Advanced Courses Committee is responsible for evaluating funding applications from prospective FEBS courses organizers and for overseeing events.
Chair: Prof. Beáta G. Vértessy, Department of Applied Biotechnology, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Szt Gellért tér 4, 1111 Budapest, Hungary. Email
Members: Prof. Mutay Aslan, Antalya, Turkey; Dr Antonio Diaz-Quintana, Seville, Spain; Prof. João Laranjinha, Coimbra, Portugal; Prof. Mauro Maccarrone, L'Aquila, Italy; Dr Kristiina Mäkinen, Helsinki, Finland; Prof. Damjana Rozman, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Ex-Officio Members: Prof. Václav Pačes, FEBS Secretary General; Prof. Frank Michelangeli, FEBS Treasurer
FEBS Education Committee
FEBS Education Committee promotes high-quality undergraduate and postgraduate education in biochemistry and molecular biology.
Chair: Prof. Ferhan G. Sağin, Ege University Medical Faculty, Dept. of Medical Biochemistry, Bornova 35100, Izmir, Turkey. Email
Members: Prof. Manuel João Costa, Braga, Portugal; Dr Erkki Raulo, Helsinki, Finland; Prof. Néstor Torres, Tenerife, Spain; Prof. Luciane Vieira de Mello, Liverpool, UK
Co-opted Members: Prof. Xavier Coumoul, Paris, France; Dr Keith Elliott, Manchester, UK; Prof. Winnie Eskild, Oslo, Norway; Prof. Angel Herráez, Madrid, Spain; Assoc. Prof. Nino Sinčić, Zagreb, Croatia
Ex-Officio Members: Prof. Václav Pačes, FEBS Secretary General; Prof. Frank Michelangeli, FEBS Treasurer; Prof. Beáta G. Vértessy, FEBS Advanced Courses Committee Chair; Prof. Jerka Dumić, Chair of Working Group on Integration
FEBS Fellowships Committee
FEBS Fellowships Committee is responsible for evaluating applications for FEBS Fellowships and FEBS Excellence Awards, and for granting these to the selected awardees.
Chair: Prof. Alain Krol, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Strasbourg - CNRS, 2 allée Konrad Roentgen, 67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France. Email
Members: Prof. Tihomir Balog, Zagreb, Croatia; Prof. Rita Casadio, Bologna, Italy; Prof. Valeriy Filonenko, Kyiv, Ukraine; Assoc. Prof. Marie-Theres Hauser, Vienna, Austria; Dr Jussi Hepojoki, Helsinki, Finland; Prof. Sebastian Hiller, Basel, Switzerland; Prof. Jolanta Jura, Kraków, Poland; Dr Dimitris Kletsas, Athens, Greece; Adj. Prof. Maciej Lalowski, Helsinki, Finland; Assoc. Prof. Marek Mraz, Brno, Czech Republic; Dr Cedric Notredame, Barcelona, Spain; Prof. Nesrin Kartal Ozer, Marmara, Turkey; Prof. Vicente Rubio, Valencia, Spain; Prof. Graça Soveral, Lisbon, Portugal
Co-opted Members: Prof. Ayfer Yalcin, Izmir, Turkey
Ex-Officio Members: Prof. Václav Pačes, FEBS Secretary General; Prof. Frank Michelangeli, FEBS Treasurer
FEBS Finance Committee
FEBS Finance Committee assists the FEBS Treasurer in all financial matters, including drawing up budgets for submission to the Executive Committee and Council, and financial reports and annual accounts.
Chair: Prof. Frank Michelangeli, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Chester, Parkgate Rd, Chester CH1 4BJ, UK. Email
Members: Prof. Francesco Bonomi, Milan, Italy; Prof. Joel Sussman, Rehovot, Israel.
Co-opted Members: Prof. László Fésüs (Debrecen, Hungary)
Ex-Officio Members: Prof. Václav Pačes, FEBS Secretary General; Prof. Johannes Buchner, FEBS Publications Committee Chair
FEBS Publications Committee
FEBS Publications Committee oversees the operation and development of FEBS' journals.
Chair: Prof. Johannes Buchner, Department Chemistry - TUM, Lichtenbergstrasse 4, Garching 85747, Germany. Email
Members: Assoc. Prof. Marc Baumann, Helsinki, Finland; Dr Consuelo Guerri, Valencia, Spain; Prof. Johannes Herrmann, Kaiserslautern, Germany; Prof. Marcin Majka, Krakow, Poland; Prof. George Mosialos, Thessaloniki, Greece
Ex-Officio Members: Prof. Václav Pačes, FEBS Secretary General; Prof. Frank Michelangeli, FEBS Treasurer
Regular participants: Prof. Seamus Martin, Editor-in-Chief of The FEBS Journal; Prof. Michael Brunner, Editor-in-Chief of FEBS Letters; Prof. Julio Celis and Prof. Kevin Ryan, Editors-in-Chief of Molecular Oncology; Miguel de la Rosa, Editor-in-Chief of FEBS Open Bio
FEBS Science and Society Committee
FEBS Science and Society Committee raises awareness of ethical, legal and societal issues of bioscience research, and contributes to European science policy debate.
Chair: Prof. Emmanouil Fragkoulis, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, 15701 Athens, Greece. Tel: + 30 210 727 4509 Email
Members: Prof. Mauro Torti, Pavia, Italy; Dr Melita Vidaković, Belgrade, Serbia; Prof. Enrique Viguera Minguez, Malaga, Spain
Co-opted Members: Prof. Raffaele Porta, Napoli, Italy; Prof. Isabel Varela-Nieto, Madrid, Spain
Ex-Officio Members: Prof. Václav Pačes, FEBS Secretary General; Prof. Frank Michelangeli, FEBS Treasurer; Prof. Miguel A. De la Rosa, FEBS Congress Counsellor
FEBS Working Groups
Careers of Young Scientists
The main responsibilities of the Working Group on the Careers of Young Scientists are overseeing the organization of the annual FEBS Young Scientists' Forum and, with other partners, the FEBS-IUBMB-ENABLE Symposia.
Chair: Prof. Irene Diaz-Moreno, Scientific Research Center Isla de la Cartuja, University of Seville, Americo Vespucio 49, 41092 Sevilla, Spain. Email
Co-opted Members: Dr Anna Jagusiak, Krakow, Poland; Dr Vlastimil Kulda, Pilsen, Czech Republic
Ex-Officio Members: Prof. Václav Pačes, FEBS Secretary General; Prof. Frank Michelangeli, FEBS Treasurer
FEBS Network
The Working Group on the FEBS Network oversees the aims and strategy of the FEBS Network platform, and some members also act as 'channel overseers'.
Chair: Prof. Xavier Coumoul, INSERM UMR-S 1124 - T3S, Université de Paris, Faculté des Sciences, UFR des Sciences Fondamentales et Biomédicales, 45 rue des Saints-Pères, 75006 Paris, France. Email
Members: Prof. Andrea Bellelli, Rome, Italy; Prof. Ali Burak Özkaya, Izmir, Turkey
Co-opted Members: Prof. Irene Diaz Moreno, Working Group on the Careers of Young Scientists Chair; Prof. Beáta G. Vértessy, FEBS Advanced Courses Committee Chair; Prof. László Fésüs, former FEBS Network Working Group Chair
Delegated Members: Prof. László Nyitray, ex-Fellowships Committee; Prof. Enrique Viguera Minguez, Science and Society Committee; Prof. Boris Turk, ex-Publications Committee
Integration
Chair: Prof. Jerka Dumić, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Ante Kovačića 1, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia. Email
Members: Ass. Prof. Dr Aleš Berlec, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Prof. Tatiana Borisova, Kiev, Ukraine
Ex-Officio Members: Prof. Václav Pačes, FEBS Secretary General; Prof. Frank Michelangeli, FEBS Treasurer; Prof. Ferhan G. Sağin, FEBS Education Committee Chair; Prof. Beáta G. Vértessy, FEBS Advanced Courses Committee Chair
Women in Science
The Working Group on Women in Science main objective is to facilitate awareness on the issue of Women in Science, to encourage people to participate actively in promoting gender equality in science, and to support the Constituent Societies of FEBS and academic institutions in FEBS countries on the issue of Women in Science.
Chair: Prof. Cecília Maria Arraiano, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Apartado 127 2781-901, Oeiras, Portugal. Email
Ex-Officio Members: Prof. Václav Pačes, FEBS Secretary General; Prof. Frank Michelangeli, FEBS Treasurer
FEBS Congress Counsellor (FEBS Congress, FEBS National Lectures, FEBS 3+ meetings, FEBS Patronage):
Prof. Miguel A. De la Rosa, cicCartuja, University of Seville & CSIC, Americo Vespucio 49 , 41092 Sevilla, Spain. Email
FEBS Secretary General: Prof. Václav Pačes, Institute of Molecular Genetics, Academy of Sciences, Vídenska 1083, CZ-14220 Prague 4, Czech Republic. Email
FEBS Treasurer: Prof. Frank Michelangeli, Department Biological Sciences, University of Chester, Parkgate Rd, Chester CH1 4BJ, UK. Email
FEBS registered office: Suite B1, 3rd Floor, St Andrew's House, 59 St Andrew's St, Cambridge CB2 3BZ, UK. Tel. +44 (0)1223 369020
Chief Administrator: Tom Kingsnorth Email; Communications and Projects Manager: Carolyn Elliss Email; Treasury Manager: Barbara Baron Email