The new FEMS Affiliates Letter is out! Read the January issue with microbiology research, events, calls, job opportunities, and more...
Issue includes: the FEMS Journals Best Article Awards for 2019.

We want to highlight especially the

DEADLINES:

01.03.2020 Meeting Attandance Grants Application
01.03.2020 FEMS Jensen Award Application
10.03.2020 FEMS Lwoff Award Nomination
15.03.2020 FEMS Summer School for Postdocs Application
15.03.2020 FEMS Conference on Microbiology Abstract Submission
 

The ÖGMBT has a very wide international network and is a member of several relevant scientific societies like FEMS. ÖGMBT members are automatically members of these societies and are entitled to benefits such as travel grants, short-term and long-term fellowships, Awards etc. Current calls and deadlines are published on our webpage and are sent to our members within the ÖGMBT newsletter.

Further info: https://www.oegmbt.at/ueber-uns/internationales

Invited lecture slots still available until 6 April More than 100 Invited Lecture slots are available for registrants that submit excellent new work   Deadline for Congress abstract submission: 6 April 2020

Abstract submission

Looking for publication opportunities? There will be three major opportunities to help you get your work published in leading international journals.   Publications workshop on Monday 29th June. Learn how to increase the chance that your research will be accepted for publication and why manuscripts are rejected.   Meet the Editors of the EFB Journal and other Elsevier journals who will answer your questions and provide advice.   Submit a publication to the Congress Special Issue. Participants are invited to submit research articles and reviews for a special issue of the EFB Journal, New Biotechnology, to be published after the Congress.   Register now to take advantage of these opportunities.

Special offer for group registrations from the same institution / organisation Free registration is offered to Principal Scientists from large groups that register and pay together for five or more people from the same institution. Alternatively, one free registration - the least expensive - is offered to groups of four people from the same institution who register together and pay their registration fees with a single payment.   To apply for this group discount, please email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. " target="_Blank">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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EFB Member Events

The ÖGMBT has a very wide international network and is a member of several relevant scientific societies like EFB. ÖGMBT members are automatically members of these societies and are entitled many benefits such as 10%  member discount for EFB organized congresses. Current calls and deadlines are published on our webpage and are sent to our members within the ÖGMBT newsletter.

Further info: https://www.oegmbt.at/ueber-uns/internationales

As of January 2020, Lukas A. Huber, the President of ÖGMBT, will take office as Vice-President of VWGÖ, the Federation of Austrian Scientific Societies. The VWGÖ includes 220 scientific societies across all disciplines (Law, Economy & Social Sciences, Medicine & Pharmacy, Natural Sciences, Humanities, Basic and Integrative sciences, Fine Arts, Agriculture & Forestry, Theology etc.) representing 30.000 scientists.

The VWGÖ was founded following World War II in order to revive the scientific community in Austria. Politics, industry and commerce and the broader public needed to be convinced that the foundation of scientific societies is indispensable for progress.

Today the awareness raising and lobbying activities are needed more than ever, given shrinking public budgets for science. It was from this background, that the ÖGMBT took the strategic decision to nominate its President Lukas Huber, as Vice-President of VWGÖ.

Protest against Central Bank “Jubiläumsfonds” to be reserved only for economic research.

An example of a recent initiative: since centuries the ÖNB (Austrian Central Bank) has a “Jubiläumsfonds/Jubilee Fund” which annually allocated 6 Million €uro for scientific research of all disciplines and was thus a pillar for research funding. End 2019 the ÖNB announced that it would henceforth only fund projects that are relevant to the “Central Bank, fiscal policy, stability of finance markets, investment strategies etc.” The VWGÖ strongly voiced its concern against this announcement of ÖNB and involved the press. Not only did the press print the protest, but various other media constantly asked the OeNB about it. Georg Sachs, editor-in-chief of Chemiereport/Austrian Life Sciences, who recently published a very good article in the new Chemiereport, was particularly persistent. Irrespective of the OeNB's adherence to the decision, we will continue to act in the interest of our members.

– see Chemie Report 8/2019 Pp 42/43

For more info about VWGÖ visit http://vwgoe.at/

The FEMS Affiliates Letter is out! Read the December issue includiung news, grants, microbiology research, scientific events, job opportunities, and more...
We want to highlight especially the FEMS Summer School for Postdocs 2020, which is now Open to Applicants.


DEADLINES:

01.01.2020    Research and Training Grants
24.01.2020    FEMS-ASM Mäkelä-Cassell Travel Award for Early Career Scientists
01.03.2020    FEMS-Jensen Award
01.03.2020    Meeting Attendance Grants
10.03.2020    FEMS-Lwoff Award



The ÖGMBT has a very wide international network and is a member of several relevant scientific societies like FEMS. ÖGMBT members are automatically members of these societies and are entitled to benefits such as travel grants, short-term and long-term fellowships, Awards etc. Current CALLS and Deadlines are published on our webpage and are sent to our members within the ÖGMBT newsletter.

Further info: https://www.oegmbt.at/ueber-uns/internationales

ÖGMBT celebrated the International Day of Microorganisms - a good occasion to have the "Microorganism of the Year 2019" chosen in a competition

Together with Open Science, the ÖGMBT called on pupils to choose the microorganism of the year 2019. School classes were asked to explain what distinguishes the microorganism they had chosen and what makes it so special.

There were no limits to the imagination when it came to design - the submission documents could be drawn and designed by hand or worked out electronically. The only important thing was to show what the microorganism of 2019 should be.

All submitted works were exhibited at the 11th ÖGMBT Annual Meeting, the most important congress for life sciences and biotechnology with 300 participants, in mid-September at the International Day of Microorganisms in Salzburg. Scientists reviewed and selected the submissions of the children.

The winner was the work of Jonas, Jakob, Moritz and Florian from class 2b (now 3b) of the Bundesgymnasium St. Johann in Tyrol on the bacterium Escherichia Coli.

School class @ the Medical University of Innsbruck

The prize included an invitation for the whole class to a microbiological practical course and lecture in the new teaching and learning building of the Medical University of Innsbruck. The head of the Institute of Molecular Biology, Hubertus Haas, had put together an exciting, age-appropriate programme and ÖGMBT President and head of the Institute of Cell Biology at the Medical University of Innsbruck, Lukas A. Huber, provided the lunchtime snack.

Before the visit, the students received agar plates and were asked to make "hand swab", "door handle swab" & "mobile phone swab". The view of the overgrown agar plates and the closer look under the microscope obviously surprised the students.

International Microorganism Day

Since 2017 the International Microorganism Day aims to raise awareness among young people and the society in general on the essential role that microorganisms play in our health, environment and quality of life, as well as of their biotechnological potential.

It is celebrated on 17th of September, the day in 1683 when the Dutch Anton van Leeuwenhoek – a merchant with no fortune or university degrees - sent a letter to the Royal Society of London, reporting the first description of a single-celled organism. This unlikely scientist displayed infinite curiosity, being a pacient and tireless worker, gifted with extraordinary power of observation. He built and developed his own microscopes (hundreds of them!), perfecting the lenses of his optical system and thus making it possible to obtain extraordinary amplifications, well ahead of his time, and to observe and describe, for the first time, microorganisms. In this famous letter, an exquisite description was made of the first observation of living bacteria present on the dental plaque, which was accompanied by drawings of the microorganisms and their movements. Finaly reaching Microscopic Life, the foundations of Microbiology were laid.

John van der Oost Announced as Plenary Speaker
	John van der Oost is group leader of the Bacterial Genetics Groups in the Laboratory of Microbiology at Wageningen University. Professor van der Oost is considered pioneer of the “CRISPR revolution” for his fundamental work in the ground-breaking CRISPR-cas technique, and his group has founded methods to remove, add or alter specific genes with accuracy.

Please see below the future events planned for EFB members:

EFB Member Events

The ÖGMBT together with 50 other scientific societies under the umbrella of the Federation of Austrian Scientific Societies (VWGÖ), which represents 28,599 scientists in Austria, protested against the restriction of the support of the Jubilee Fund of the Austrian National Bank. We will stay tuned and report on it.

http://vwgoe.at/

Find photos, reports and updates on a range of FEBS activities, including FEBS Council election outcomes, a round-up of the Krakow FEBS Congress, a feature on FEBS member Societies, and a first look at FEBS events lined up for 2020.

Apply to the 2020 FEBS Young Scientists' Forum (YSF)
by December 15, 2019

2020 will be the 20th anniversary of this special pre-Congress meeting
for postdocs and PhD students!

Start your 2020 FEBS Congress experience with this smaller gathering in Lovran on the Croatian coast, where you can present your work, pick up career and skills tips, and get to know other early-career researchers from across the FEBS area. Those selected to take part have their participation at the YSF and the ensuing Congress supported by FEBS YSF grants. Find all the details in the YSF section of the Congress website: 

YSF Welcome ● YSF Programme ● YSF Applications ● YSF Venue

The list of FEBS Advanced Courses for 2020 is now out!

FEBS-supported events within the Advanced Courses programme include lecture courses, practical courses, workshops and ‘special meetings’, and offer training,
learning and networking in focused research fields.

See the new list for 2020 on the FEBS website, together with course summaries.
FEBS Youth Travel Fund grants are available for all events to assist
participation of early-career researchers.

Images above are from the FEBS Advanced Courses 'Advanced methods in macromolecular
crystallization IX', and 'Microspectroscopy: functional imaging of biological systems'.

Have you seen the 2019 FEBS Press Special Issues?

Check out the review content from experts in...
The FEBS Journal: 
ER Stress in Disease | Extracellular matrix in health and disease | Single-cell analyses 
FEBS Letters:
 Krakow Special Issue | The Golgi 
and Molecular Oncology:
 Noncoding RNAs: Dark matter of the genome and cancer | Boosting the social impact of innovative cancer research – towards a mission‐oriented approach to cancer

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