Signal Transduction: Receptors, Mediators and Genes 2010 Meeting

The 14^th STS Meeting 2010: Signal Transduction - Receptors, Mediators and Genes will be held at the Leonardo Hotel Weimar from Monday, October 18th to Wednesday, October 20th, 2010.

The STS Meeting 2010 will take place in the Leonardo Hotel (former Hilton Hotel) in Weimar. Following suggestions by many former attendees, the Meeting will this year be held from Monday to Wednesday (instead of Wednesday to Friday in previous years). The beginning of the scientific program is scheduled for Monday, October 18, at 2.00 p.m. The conference will officially end in the evening of Wednesday, October 20. On Tuesday, October 19 there will be a congress party and the award celebrations.

Online registration for this year's meeting is now open. The registration fees were kept to a moderate level. Along with relatively low accommodation rates (see below), the STS council and advisory board aimed at making the meeting attractive and affordable also for young scientists.

Please note that the following meeting fees cover lunches, dinners and catering during coffee breaks and poster sessions throughout the meeting. Moreover, the conference book and the traditional personalized STS coffee mug are also included in the registration fees. The meeting rates are:

The lecture hall in the Leonardo Hotel in Weimar (previously: Hilton Weimar) is suitable for 300 participants. Due to the development of the society and potentially resulting space limitations, we strongly encourage all STS members and potential participants to register early. As usual, registration will be handled as first come first serve. Registration and abstract submission is possible online only.

The deadline for abstract submission is September 1st, 2010. As usual, there will be no extension of this deadline.

A cancellation of a meeting registration is possible until four weeks prior to the meeting. In case of cancellation, only a processing fee of EUR 50,— will be charged to cover costs for program organization, handling of funds, cups and buttons. The remainder of the registration fee will be refunded. After that date, a refund will not be possible.

With regard to lodging throughout the Meeting, we could arrange a substantial reduction of the rates as compared to last years meeting to very moderate accomodation rates at the Leonardo Hotel Weimar. As compared to the regular rate at this hotel (190,— EUR per night), single rooms will be available to the conferees of the STS meeting for 73,— EUR and double space rooms (which can be shared by two conferees) for 85,— EUR, both arrangements of course including the Leonardo breakfast buffet! Hotel reservations at these reduced rates have to be made under the keyword 'STS'. Please note that the Hotel and third party contractors occasionally offer travel arrangements at even lower rates. Therefore, it might be worthwhile to check for special offers when making your resevation.

Special Focus 2010
"Signal Transduction, Drug Discovery and Design"

(co-organized by the "Fachsektion Chemical Biology"
of the DECHEMA, DPhG, GBM and GDCh, and the
GBM Special Interest Group "Receptors and Signal Transduction")

This year's special focus on "Signal Transduction, Drug Discovery and Design" will be co-organized by the "Fachsektion Chemical Biology" (Jörg Rademann, Berlin) and the GBM study group "Receptors and Signal Transduction" (Karlheinz Friedrich). The special focus symposium includes a number of invited lectures on structure-function relationships as well as on drug discovery and development, substituted by short talks elected from the submitted abstracts by the Special Focus Committee.

As in recent years, each workshop will be started by an overview-like keynote talk that will be given by renowned invited speakers nominated by STS members. Confirmed keynote speakers will be:

For the first time the STS will, in cooperation with "Cell Communication and Signaling" (CCS), the open access Society journal, award the STS/CCS Honorary Medal for outstanding contributions to signal transduction research. The first laureate to receive this medal will be

who is going to present a special "Medal Award Lecture" on this occasion.

STS-CCS-Science-Award 2010 (1,000.– EUR)
sponsored by BIOMOL GmbH

Prof. Dr. Frank Entschladen
Institute of Immunology
Witten/Herdecke University
Stockumer Str. 10
58448 Witten, Germany
Mail: frankent@uni-wh.de

GBM-Innovation-Award for Young Scientists

The Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology/Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie e.V (GBM) announces for the fourth time at the occasion of the STS Joint Meeting Signal Transduction - Receptors, Mediators and Genes 2010 the GBM-Innovation-Award for Young Scientists.

This scientific award (EUR 500,–) will be given to a young scientist (diploma, master, MD or PhD student) who is developing a new innovative method, which might be attractive for all of us.

The award jury consisting of the speakers of the GBM Study Groups "Biochemical Pharmacology and Toxicology" and "Receptors and Signal Transduction" will select appropriate candidates. If you think your method is exciting and innovative, then do not hesitate to send your abstract together with a brief comment of your supervisor including a statement for the reason for your application until September 18th, 2010 to:

The STS General Assembly decided to continue to distribute a total amount of 2,500.— EUR in STS stipends. We hope that the financial situation of the STS will enable the Society to keep on supporting up to ten young STS members (diploma or doctoral students) by a travel grant of 250.— EUR each.

According to the stipend guidelines it should be noted that the acceptance of this STS stipend requires a STS membership which should be sustained for at least three more years. Applicants must currently be diploma- or doctoral-students and a letter of confirmation from the head of the department must be supplied with the application. Please also include a copy of your immatriculation certificate. Furthermore, applications must be accompanied a curriculum vitae, a description of the current project (no more than two pages) and an abstract to be presented at the meeting. All young STS members who comply with these criteria are also eligible to apply for a STS travel stipend!

The application deadline for STS-stipends expires on September 1st, 2010. Successful applicants will be notified and personally awarded during the STS Meeting in Weimar. Please send your stipend application, including all the required information, to the chairman:

Poster presentations will be again particularly attractive. First of all, there will be ample space for all posters to remain mounted throughout the conference in conjunction with the sponsors exhibition. Second, all posters may be introduced to the plenum in the famous "one minute - one transparency (no slide)" session. Moreover, we extended the time for poster presentations and discussion. Last not least, five poster prizes will be awarded (first prize: 250,— EUR, second prize: 200,— EUR, third prize: 150,— EUR, fourth prize: 100,— EUR and fifth prize: 50,— EUR. Since it is the policy of the STS to particularly encourage and support young scientists, the council decided that chairpeople and heads of departments or institutes are not eligible for a poster award. Awards will be made payable by cheque and must be cashed latest by December 31st of this year (expiration date of the cheques).

The industrial exhibition of sponsoring companies will take place in an approximately 400 square meter area together with the poster exhibition in order to concentrate and to facilitate interactions between the conference participants and the industry.

Sponsoring companies of this years STS meeting as well as companies who would like to support alternative activities such as organization of a dinner tutorial, sponsoring of scientific awards, banner commercials, etc. are kindly requested to contact Frank Entschladen or Ralf Hass for further information.

All presentations will be given as plenary overview lectures/short presentations in the main conference hall. Most sessions will be opened by an introductory overview keynote presentation of 25 minutes plus 5 minutes of discussion. Thus, in 2010, the STS will again attract and invite Overview-Speakers who significantly contributed to the development of specific areas of signal transduction research. Further speakers will be selected by the chairpeople of a session and the program committee.

Due to time constraints, however, only a limited number of abstracts will be selected for oral presentations of 10 minutes plus 5 minutes of discussion. The oral presentations should thematically be related to the Workshop Topics. They will be selected according to the author's indicated preferences by the Workshop chairpeople on the basis of scientific quality and consistency with the program.

Eight Sponsoring Companies of the STS meeting will have the opportunity for a plenary lecture at the STS meeting 2010. Please note that this offer might be "sold-out" fairly early this year. Thus, the Workshop sessions will include presentations of 15 minutes by sponsoring companies on innovative products for signal transduction research. These presentations will conclude each session to allow further discussions with the company's representatives during the following breaks.

All accepted poster contributions can be mounted already on Monday afternoon and will stay throughout the whole meeting in an area directly connected to the conference hall together with the sponsors' exhibition. This comfortable area will also be the major get-together site during the coffee (and beer) breaks. Poster viewing and discussion is scheduled for Wednesday through Friday. In addition, posters may be presented to the plenum in a separate Poster Workshop as a 'one-minute presentation' (one minute - one (A4) transparency - no slide).

Poster Size: The format for posters is DIN A0 in portrait orientation (width: 841 mm, height: 1189 mm)

For detailed information in German about traveling by plane or by car and the location of the Conference Venue please refer to the Leonardo Hotel Weimar. For special inquiries about local peculiarities, contact Karlheinz Friedrich.