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The FEBS Congress 2025: where science meets the spirit of Istanbul

Get ready for an unforgettable scientific experience at the 49th FEBS Congress in vibrant Istanbul! Our dynamic program features world-leading scientists, including Mübeccel Akdis on food allergy mechanisms, Andrea Ballabio on lysosomal signaling in cancer, Annette G. Beck-Sickinger on G protein-coupled peptide receptors, Gökhan S. Hotamışlıgil on metabolic diseases, and Anne Bertolotti on protein quality control in neurodegenerative diseases. The exceptional scientific program includes not only inspiring plenary lectures but also cutting-edge symposia on frontier research and special sessions on research infrastructures, biochemistry and clinical laboratory medicine, innovative teaching, and scientific publishing.

Explore speaker biographies and the full program on the event website, where you’ll also find details on presenting your work, registration, and travel information.

While advancing science, why not enjoy Istanbul’s rich culture? During the Congress, the city will come alive with the 32nd Istanbul Jazz Festival, offering world-class performances in iconic venues. Plus, don’t miss out on a 10% flight discount with Turkish Airlines, our official airline partner.

Join us in a city where continents meet and ideas flourish. Let’s shape the future of science together in Istanbul! 

Ferhan Sağın, Chair of the FEBS Congress 2025

 Key upcoming FEBS Congress 2025 deadlines:
FEBS Sprinzl scheme: 30 January 2025
FEBS bursaries: 13 March 2025
Abstract submission: 13 March 2025
Early registration fee: 13 March 2025

 

FEBS Advanced Courses 2025

FEBS Advanced Courses are organized by expert scientists with funding from FEBS to provide updates, training and networking in focused research areas. The following 2025 events are now open for registration, and you can browse the full events list to find additional courses with registration due to open soon. FEBS Youth Travel Fund grants are available to help PhD students and postdocs participate; find details on the course websites. 

FEBS Advanced Lecture Courses
PARP2025: from molecular aspects to medical applications
   Illkirch, France | 11–15 May 2025 
Emerging insights from structural biology into molecular mechanisms of diseases
   Groningen, Netherlands | 27–31 May 2025 
Biological surfaces and interfaces: biointerfaces at lipids, proteins and polymers 
   Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain | 8–13 June 2025  
Functional genomics of metabolic diseases
   Spetses Island, Greece | 29 August – 3 September 2025  

FEBS Special Meetings
Sphingolipid biology: breaking boundaries 
   Varna, Bulgaria | 25–30 May 2025 
Expanding frontiers in aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase research 
   Dubrovnik, Croatia | 28 September – 3 October 2025 

FEBS Practical Course
Fluorescence microspectroscopy: functional imaging of biological systems
   Wageningen, Netherlands | 18–24 May 2025 

FEBS Workshops
Time-resolved spectroscopy meets time-resolved crystallography: the future of dynamic photobiology
   Pecs, Hungary | 6–8 May 2025 
European workshop on bacterial protein toxins
   Oñati, Spain | 29 June – 3 July 2025 

Joint FEBS | EMBO Lecture Courses
Physical virology: across length scales 
   Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain | 1–6 June 2025  
Venice Summer School 2025: Emergence & evolution of multi-level regulatory systems
   Venice, Italy | 17–22 August 2025 
The new microbiology
   Spetses Island, Greece | 3–11 September 2025  

FEBS Advanced Courses proposals 2026

The next deadline for event proposals for Advanced Courses from prospective organizers is 1 March 2025. Find more details here about submitting an application for funding.

Images above are from the courses 'PARP2025: from molecular aspects to medical applications', 'Biological surfaces and interfaces: biointerfaces at lipids, proteins and polymers' and 'Fluorescence microspectroscopy: functional imaging of biological systems'.

 

More FEBS-supported meetings in 2025

FEBS3+ Meetings
These are broad scientific meetings organized through collaboration of three (or more) FEBS Constituent Societies, usually from nearby countries:

  • FEBS 3+ Baltics: Biochemistry at the Fore Line; Lithuanian Biochemical Society – LBS (organizer and host), with EBS (Estonia) and LaBS (Latvia) Societies
      Vilnius, Lithuania | 23–25 April 2025
  • FEBS3+ Meeting: Unlocking the Secrets of Life (XXVIII Congress); Czech Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology – ČSBMB (organizer and host), with SSBMB (Slovakia), PTBioch (Poland) and GBM (Germany) Societies
       Prague, Czech Republic | 7– 10 September 2025
  • FEBS 3+ Meeting: Serbian Biochemical Society – SBS (organizer and host), with HDBMB (Croatia), MBKE (Hungary), SBD (Slovenia) and ABMBBIH (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Societies. Webpage available soon.
       Belgrade, Serbia | 24–27 September 2025

FEBS Education and Training Joint Workshop
Education Workshop on Safe Learning: Bridging the Gap Between Learning Partners
   Izmir, Türkiye | 28 February – 2 March 2025

 

Other FEBS alerts in brief

Looking to widen your research experience and training this year?
FEBS Fellowships support training and facilitate international collaboration by providing stipends for a research visit to a host lab in the FEBS area in a different country to the one where the researcher is based. Application periods in 2025 are summarized below:

Know an outstanding educator in the molecular life sciences?
Nominate for the 2025 FEBS Education Award by 15 February 2025.

Ready for a thought-provoking read?
Enjoy a futuristic take on academic Societies in an editorial and the winning entry for the recent FEBS Letters writing competition organized for the 60th anniversary of FEBS.
 

 
 

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