The FEBS Network in 2024

An overview of posts featured on the FEBS Network throughout 2024 to highlight activities, opportunities, and resources from FEBS and other organizations, for the community of researchers in the molecular life sciences across Europe and beyond. Enjoy, share, and join us for a great 2025!
The FEBS Network in 2024
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As 2024 comes to an end we want to highlight the exciting content featured on the FEBS Network. This year has been the 60th Anniversary of FEBS and we have shared many of the activities delivered to mark the occasion. The FEBS 60th anniversary badge compiles all of those posts, which include outreach activities by the FEBS Constituent Societies, personal posts from early-career researchers who have benefited from FEBS opportunities, winners of the FEBS Advanced Courses 60th Anniversary Poster Awards, and reflections from FEBS Executive Committee members.

The months before the 48th FEBS Congress (Milano, 29 June – 3 July 2024) saw posts from several of the plenary speakers (e.g., Susan Gasser, Elena Conti, or Fabrizio Chiti), while after the event we had participants writing about how exciting and motivating the event had been, filled with great science and inspiration – from talks by Nobel Laureates to interactions with the wide range of international attendees. We also featured winners of poster awards from the FEBS Press journals (e.g., FEBS Letters, Molecular Oncology, or the FEBS Open Bio Education award), to celebrate the achievements of early-career researchers.

Also on the achievements of young scientists, the FEBS Junior Section has continued to share their events, talk recordings, and interviews on the FEBS Network. If you click on the FEBS Junior Section badge you will get all their posts throughout the year but it is also worth monitoring their overview post, for updates on upcoming talks (and of course, if you are a student or early-career researcher and want to join their initiative, get in touch with them!).

The FEBS Societies channel continues to be a place for national Societies to share the work they do with their members and the wider community across Europe and beyond, from Portugal to Türkiye and from Finland to Italy. If you are not already a member of a FEBS Constituent Society, we invite you to find out which one is your national representative and explore the options they offer to their members (members of the Societies also become members of FEBS and benefit from all the activities and opportunities we offer).

Indeed we have highlighted many of those FEBS opportunities on the FEBS Network this year, from the FEBS Excellence Awards (you can also read about past winners, such as this one), the FEBS Booster Fund, the FEBS Fellowships (for example, this FEBS Summer Fellowship), the Young Scientists’ Forum and the FEBS-IUBMB-ENABLE conference. To these opportunities we want to add the recent FEBS Women in Science webinar, the FEBS Worldwide Lectures, the posts from attendees to the FEBS Advanced Courses (such as this one on imaging or this one on signal transduction and cancer), and the activities from the FEBS Education and Training committee, from their inaugural conference and their upcoming workshop on safe learning, to the funding opportunities they offer members of Societies.

The FEBS Press journals have regularly featured articles, news on publishing developments, and activities on the FEBS Network, from the FEBS Open Bio journal webinars (don’t miss the recording of a recent one on mitochondria biogenesis), The FEBS Journal Richard Perham Prize, and the writing competitions from FEBS Letters and Molecular Oncology, to an unnervingly human-sounding AI generated podcast based on a FEBS Letters article.

We have also shared opportunities from other organizations, such as grants (e.g., the Human Frontiers Science Program, the Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard-Foundation and the Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science), competitions (e.g., the Chan Zuckerberg Imaging Institute CryoET competition), and new positions at key research institutes (from team leaders to PhD programs). We featured initiatives and associations that could be of interest to the community, such as the Women in Autophagy network, the SAFE Labs Handbook, the CancerModels.org research platform, the Night Science Podcast, and the Core Technologies for Life Sciences association. We regularly shared resources on the topics of bioinformatics, computational biology, and AI to help wet lab scientists develop their skills and contacts in those areas.

We also invited readers to explore important topics beyond research, such as science policy, environment sustainability, or EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion), as well as stay informed on scientific publishing developments (e.g., the future of scientific publishing, or the history of preprints).

Overall 2024 has been a busy and exciting year and we look forward to what next year will bring. We wish you all a good start of 2025!


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