Worldwide Lectures

Molecular life science research is a global activity. Journals from FEBS publish papers from researchers working across the world, often with collaboration between scientists in different countries and continents. Moreover, our journals are receiving increased article submissions from Asia and other emerging economies. Subscribers to our journals are also scattered around the globe, and the journals' open access options and schemes for literature access by developing countries help to ensure ever-increasing worldwide readership. Independently, the FEBS annual Congress and Advanced Courses programme attract participants from well beyond the European FEBS region, and our Fellowships programme is open to FEBS members of all nationalities working in the FEBS area.

With these global considerations in mind, FEBS has long held close ties with the International Union for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB), and is also developing links with learned societies in the molecular life sciences in regions with emerging interest, investment and output in this area of research – including the Society of Biological Chemists (India) (SBCI), the Chinese Society for Cell Biology (CSCB), the Chinese Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (CSBMB), the Federation of Asian and Oceanian Biochemists and Molecular Biologists (FAOBMB), the PanAmerican Association for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (PABMB), the Brazilian Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Society (SBBq), and the Federation of African Societies of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (FASBMB). In particular, FEBS contributes to the quality and range of research communication and education at large scientific meetings of such societies by funding transcontinental travel of distinguished speakers. The sponsored lectures also provide opportunities to raise awareness of the journals of FEBS among potential contributors and readers, as well as of other FEBS activities.

Upcoming and recent sponsored Worldwide Lecturers

30th FAOBMB Conference
(22 - 25 November 2023, Bangkok, Thailand) Sir Gregory Winter (Cambridge, UK)

27th FAOBMB Conference 
(19 - 22 August 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) Prof. Dominique Soldati-Favre (Geneva, Switzerland)

47th Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SBBq)
(26 - 19 May 2018, Joinville, SC, Brazil) Dr Mariagrazia Pizza (Siena, Italy)

24th IUBMB & 15th FAOBMB Congress (4-9 June 2018, Seoul, South Korea)
Prof. Angela Nieto (Alicante, Spain)

FAOBMB-ConBio 2017 Conference (6-9 December 2017, Kobe, Japan)
Prof. Pura Munoz-Canoves (Barcelona, Spain)

CSBMB 2016 National Congress of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (20-23 October 2016; Hangzhou, China)
Prof. Dan Tawfik (Rehovot, Israel; Protein structure and function evolution)

FAOBMB 14th Conference (27–30 November 2015; Hyderabad, India)
Prof. Giulio Superti-Furga (Vienna, Austria; Molecular networks, drug action and genome-informed medicine)

23rd IUBMB Congress & 44th Annual SBBq Meeting (24–28 August 2015; Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil)
Prof. Gunter Meister (Regensburg, Germany; RNA binding proteins as modulators of coding and non-coding RNA pathways)

IUBMB–FAOBMB–TSBMB Conference (21–26 October 2014; Taipei, Taiwan)
Sir Alan Fersht (Cambridge, UK; Aggregation of tumour suppressor p53)

CSBMB: 2014 National Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (21–23 August 2014; Xiamen, China)
Prof. Gerry Melino (Leicester, UK and Rome, Italy; apoptosis and cancer)

SBBq Annual Meeting (17–20 May 2014; Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, Brazil)
Prof. Seamus Martin (Dublin, Ireland; molecular mechanisms of programmed cell death, especially the links between cell death, inflammation and cancer)
Prof. Cecilia Arraiano (Oeiras, Portugal; RNA degradation mechanisms and enzymes that mediate RNA decay in microorganisms)