Students and young researchers of some FEBS Constituent Societies have come together to create the FEBS Junior Section. They develop joint activities and share resources, as well as open doors for young European scientists to opportunities outside their home countries by providing the relevant contacts and fostering communication within the network. They also organise academic and career online talks from key researchers, which they take turns to plan and deliver. Find out more about the FEBS Junior Section and join them!

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The next online talk from the FEBS Junior Section will be on 8 December 2022. It is organized by ÖGMBT/YLSA (the Junior Section of the Austrian Society ÖGMBT).

• Speaker: Dr. Botond Cseh, Brand and Customer Manager in Oncology, Vienna
• Topic: “Graduating from Academia: How to leave Alcatraz and come back only as a tourist. The 5-steps to success”
• Time: 8 December 2022, 18:00 (CET)

Visit the FEBS Network for more information on this talk and to register.

Background on the FEBS junior section

In 2021 young representatives of some of the FEBS Constituent Societies started a network of students and young researchers across Europe: the FEBS Junior Section initiative. Their aims are to collaborate and share resources, as well as to encourage mobility across Europe for young scientists in the molecular life sciences.

The members of the FEBS Junior Section initiative take turns organizing monthly online talks on research and career topics. In 2021 they organized a talk from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and one from the team at EMBL-EBI that co-developed the AlphaFold database. In 2022 they started a new series of talks:

• January with Dr. Andreas Schlundt (Goethe University Frankfurt): The roles of sequence, structure and dynamics for specific RNA-recognition by proteins
• February with Prof. Andreas Laustsen (Technical University of Denmark): Bridging academia and bioentrepreneurship
• March with Dr. Tessa Sinnige (Utrecht University): Elucidating the molecular mechanisms of protein aggregation in C. elegans as a living model system
• April with Prof. Igor Stagljar (University of Toronto, Canada): My story about life, science and success (in the field of membrane protein-protein interactions)
• May with Prof. Florian Rüker (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna): Circumventing immunization by in vitro directed evolution and selection of human antibodies from large surface display libraries
• June with Prof. Loredano Pollegioni (Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Italy): D-Serine: from unnatural (and negligible) amino acid to (main) neuromodulator involved in relevant human pathologies
• July with Prof. Mara Dierssen (Center for Genomic Regulation of Barcelona, Spain): The emerging scenario of epigenetic regulation in Down syndrome
• August with Dr. Anna McConnell (Otto-Diels-Institute, University of Kiel, Germany): My Supramolecular Chemistry Journey
• September with Iva Tolić (Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia): Mechanobiology of mitosis and its role in mitotic fidelity
• October with Dr. Marco de Boer (Predica Diagnostics, The Netherlands): Entrepreneurship, the early steps
• November with Federico Forneris (University of Pavia, Italy): The molecular diversity of collagen lysine post-translational modification enzymes