FEBS FORUM FOR YOUNG SCIENTISTS
October 18-20, 2002, Istanbul, Turkey

The FEBS Forum for Young Scientists is a satellite meeting of the 28th International FEBS Meeting, intended for PhD students and recently graduated PhDs who are members of a FEBS Constituent Society.

Organizers
M. Makarow (Finland), T. Özben (Turkey) and N. Saris (Finland)

Program   

Friday October 18
14.00-16.00	REGISTRATION
15.30-16.00	COFFEE
16.00-16.10	OPENING REMARKS Tomris Özben
SESSION 1	Signal transduction & Protein phosphorylation
	Chair Tomris Özben
16.10-16.30	Zoulika Kherrouche, France Identification of apoptosis signal regulating kinase 1 as an E2F1 transcriptional target gene
16.30-16.50	Sárká Pospísilová, Czech Republic Activation of tumor suppressor protein p53 to DNA binding by post-translational modifications
16.50-17.10	Guido Posern, UK Monomeric actin as a signalling intermediate regulating Serum Response Factor-mediated transcription
17.10-17.30	Mauro Salvi, Italy On the presence of tyrosine kinases and phosphatases in rat brain mitochondria
17.30-17.50	Claudia van Tiel, The Netherlands Regulation of mouse phoshatidylinositol transfer protein b by protein kinase C
Saturday October 19
SESSION 2	Protein folding
	Chair Marja Makarow
09.00-10.00	Key note lecture, F.-Ulrich Hartl, Germany Molecular machines for protein folding
10.00-10.20	Lynsey Jenkinson, UK Interaction of molecular chaperone Hsp47 with procollagen
10.20-10.40	Alexandra Hillebrand, Romania Folding of tyrosinase in an in vitro translation system
10.40-11.00	COFFEE
SESSION 3	Translocation and intracellular transport of proteins
	Chair Marja Makarow
11.00-11.20	Claudia Kitzmüller, Austria Deglycosylation of a glycoprotein of the endoplasmic reticulum destined for proteasomal degradation
11.20-11.40	Gabriela Ring, Israel Protein translocation in inverted membrane vesicles from the halophilic archaeon Haloferax volcanii
11.40-12.00	Sweta Srivastava, UK The exocyst: a key player in membrane trafficking
12.00-12.20	Yael Haberman, Israel Synaptotagmin 9 – a novel Syt homologue implicated in Ca2+ dependent exocytosis
	Dennis van Hoof, The Netherlands Insect lipoprotein follows a transferrin-like recycling pathway mediated by the insect LDL receptor homologue
12.40-15.00	LUNCH & POSTER SESSION I
14.30-15.00	COFFEE
15.00-18.00	PANEL DISCUSSION ON YOUNG SCIENTISTS’ ISSUES
	Chair Marja Makarow Riccardo Cortese, Italy Building up a scientific career Gerlind Wallon, EMBO Funding instruments for young scientists Fatima Chakrani, France The new PhD’s career: Research versus industry Case: Ineke Braakman, The Netherlands (How) Did I plan my career? Case: Manuel Vega, France From basic researcher to founder of start-up company General discussion with audience and panelists
19.30	BANQUET on boat on Bosphorus, with music and belly dancer
Sunday October 20
09.00-10.00	POSTER SESSION 2
SESSION 4	Genomics
	Chair Tomris Özben
	Anton A. Buzdin, Russia A new metod for genome-wide identification of differences between related species
10.20-10.40	Sergey Shaposhnikov, Norway Investigation of DNA loop organization within a region of human chromosome 16q22.1
10.40-11.00	Liana Pliss, Latvia A mitochondrial DNA database of Latvians
11.00-11.30	COFFEE & SANDWICHES
SESSION 5	Molecular medicine & Clinical chemistry
	Chair Tomris Özben
11.30-11.50	Olga Kolesnikova, Russia Import of yeast tRNA derivatives into human MERRF cells can partially cure respiratory deficiency
	Meral Yüksel, Turkey Glutathione-dependent enzyme activities in various brain regions in 3-NPA induced Huntington’s disease model
12.10-12.30	Sanja Stankovic, Yugoslavia Apolipoprotein E and angiotensin-converting enzyme gene polymorphism in patients with stroke
12.30-12.50	Václav Brázda, Czech Republic Analysis of p53 protein-DNA binding properties by new ELISA technique, activation of p53-DNA binding
12.50-13.10	Jerka Dumic Belamaric, Croatia Fucosylation of IgG heavy chains in autoimmune diseases

Accepted participants
The applicants who have been accepted to participate in the FEBS Forum for Young Scientists, are listed here.

Instructions for speakers
The selected speakers are indicated in the above program. Please give a generous introduction to the field, as the audience represents very different areas, and leave 5 min for discussion. Thus, your total time is 15 min. Unexperienced speakers are advised to rehearse with the supervisor. Speakers will not present posters, but submit an abstract as explained below.

Posters
All other participants except the speakers will present a poster.
The size of the poster board is 70 cm (width) x 100 cm (length).

Confirmation of attendance & Abstract Book
All accepted participants are asked to confirm their participation in the FEBS Forum for Young Scientists via e-mail to these two addresses: ozben@akdeniz.edu.tr and akan@med.akdeniz.edu.tr
before September 10.
Please indicate clearly whether you have registered to the 28th FEBS Meeting, and what is your abstract number. To this e-mail, please attach as a file your abstract, to be published in the FEBS Forum Abstract Book. Use the format described here. Speakers should indicate what technical equipment they need for their presentation.

Venue
The participants will be accommodated in Hotel Ceylan Inter-Continental, Asker Ogaci Cad. No. 1, 80200 Taksim, Istanbul (tel. +90-2122312121, www.interconti.com), in the city center close to the venue of the main meeting. We have made a reservation for the accepted participants for 2 nights, October 18-20, and will pay their hotel bill. Check in-time is 2 pm, and check out-time is at noon.

Those arriving by plane can take a shuttle (HAVAS), running every half an hour to TAKSIM (city center), which is 50 m from the hotel. It costs the equivalent of 3 euros, in Turkish Lira.

Do not forget to check whether you need a Visa for Turkey.

Financial support
FEBS will pay the accommodation of all participants in a double room in Hotel Ceylan Inter-Continental for 2 nights, October 18-20 (breakfast encluded, no extras). If you attend the 28th International FEBS Meeting, you must make your hotel reservation for that period (October 20-25) yourself, and pay for it yourself (see the main meeting's web page for hotels).We will sponsor for all participants the meals indicated in the FEBS Forum program and the banquet.
Should you participate in the 28th International FEBS Meeting, we will pay your registration fee.

We will be able to cover the travel costs of most participants. All participants who want a travel grant must e-mail (no attachments) the price of their air ticket (cheapest economy class, with student reduction if possible) or train ticket (no other costs) in euros to nina.saris@helsinki.fi before September 1st.

Those participants who absolutely need the travel grant in advance for buying the ticket, please contact Louise McSeveny, Secretary to the FEBS Treasurer, Dept Biochemistry, University College London, tel.+44 (0) 207 679 2192 fax +44 (0) 207 387 183, e-mail louisem@biochemistry.ucl.ac.uk before September 10. The travel costs of others will be reimbursed after the meeting. Remember to keep the original receipt of your ticket for reimbursement.

Late applications will be accepted till September 1st. Please enclude the following:

1. A short covering letter with affiliation, complete contact information, date of birth and sex.
2. Short CV containing in addition to personal data, affiliation, name of your supervisor, date of start (and end if applicable) of your PhD work, (tentative) title of PhD thesis, list of publications, and formal education received for PhD degree.
3. Certificate of membership of FEBS Constituent Society
4. Abstract in format described here

Mail 2 copies (no e-mail) of your application to Dr. Tomris Özben, Akdeniz University, Medical Faculty, Dept Biochemistry, 07070 Antalya, Turkey, and 2 copies to Dr. Nina Saris, University of Helsinki, Viikinkaari 9, 00710 Helsinki, Finland.