The photo with this post shows YSF 2024 participants in Pavia, Italy.
FEBS Young Scientists’ Forum 2026: Apply by 10 December 2025
If you're a PhD student or postdoc in molecular or cellular life sciences, this is your moment. YSF 2026 applications are open until 10 December 2025. Submit your abstract, select the YSF Applicant option, and apply now. Science’s next chapter starts with you.
The 25th FEBS Young Scientists’ Forum (‘YSF 2026’), a satellite meeting of the 50th FEBS Congress, will bring together in Wageningen, the Netherlands around 100 talented postdocs and PhD students from FEBS countries who are working in the molecular and cellular life sciences. Participants will be able to meet up in a friendly international atmosphere for lectures from keynote speakers, short talks and posters from YSF attendees, sessions supporting scientific career development, and a social programme. YSF participants will then move on to also experience the larger 50th FEBS Congress in Maastricht.
FEBS will financially support participation of successful YSF applicants from FEBS countries* in both the YSF and the ensuing Congress, via YSF grants. Full details of the eligibility criteria are on the YSF applications page of the FEBS Congress website. Applicants must submit an abstract to the YSF and Congress as first author, and be a member of a FEBS Constituent Society.
YSF applications must be made through the Congress abstract submission system, selecting the YSF Applicant option, by 10 December 2025. Good luck!
*For the YSF 2026, there will also be two places for scientists from non-FEBS countries, funded by IUBMB.
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