Ralph Brown Expedition Award

The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Ralph Brown Expedition Award is a single annual award worth £12,500, offered to the leader of an expedition working in a marine environment. This includes the study of coral reefs, rivers, lakes and shallow seas. The award was created in memory of Ralph Brown whose passion was jet-boating the wild rivers of the world. He led many expeditions and competed in the top international jet-boating races, winning the world championship trophy in 1996. The deadline for applications for this grant is the 27th November 2009. More detailed information can be found here.

OzBio 2010 Congress

OzBio2010 is the 12th IUBMB-21st FAOBMB-ComBio2010 Conference, which will take place in Melbourne, Australia, 26 September to 1 October 2010. As is customary for IUBMB Conferences, a Young Scientist Forum will take place immediately preceding the OzBio2010 Conference. The YSF at OzBio2010 will take place over the period 23 to 26 September 2010, immediately prior to the OzBio2010 Conference. Please note that the deadline for applications for YSF Fellowships for OzBio2010 is 1 February 2010. More detailed information about the YSF events and the On-line application form can be found under the FELLOWSHIP tab at the OzBio2010 website.

SPB National Congress 2010

TO ALL SPB MEMBERS: The current SPB Governing Bodies want to promote the active participation of all SPB members in the selection of the scientific program for the next National Congresses. Therefore, SPB and the organizing committee of the XVII National Congress of Biochemistry invites all SPB members to present proposals for symposiums and speakers to the next Congress that will be held in Porto, on 15-17 December 2010. For more information please go here.

8th SPBf Short Course - Systems Biology

The SPB-affiliated society SPBf has announced that the 8th SPBf Short Course will take place in Santarém on 30 October - 1 November, 2009. This course will focus on Systems Biology and how scientists can harness the power of computational biology to develop the omics methodologies. For further information, please go to the meeting's website.

4th SPB Clinical Biochemistry Workshop

The Organizing Committee would like to invite you to the 4th SPB Clinical Biochemistry Workshop, which will take place for the first time in the South of Portugal, on January 29, 2010. In this workshop, the main focus will be on diagnosis and therapeutics with a biochemical basis in order to strengthen the interactions between biochemistry and clinical practice. The abstract submission deadline is December 11, 2009. Further news will be released soon on the website of the meeting.

Canal BQ - Issue #6 is Out

Canal BQ, Issue #6, is out. This new issue is about meetings and scientific societies. Several contributors have sent their views to Canal BQ, namely Leonor Cancela, former SPB President; the President of the Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM), Miguel de la Rosa; Cecília Arraiano, who has recently organized a RNA meeting in Portugal; and Natércia Teixeira, who has organized several workshops on Clinical Biochemistry. In this issue a scientific article on bone mineralisation has also been accepted.

4th International Symposium on BMB

The Cuban Section of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SCBBM) together with the Cuban Society of Chemistry (SCQ) are pleased to announce the IV International Symposium on Biochemistry and Molecular Biology within the 1st Ibero-American Congress on Chemistry, Biochemistry and Chemical Engineering which, along with the 7th International Congress on Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, will be held at the Havana International Conference Center in Havana City, Cuba, from October 12th to 16th, 2009. This conference will be sponsored by IUBMB among other organizations. For further information, please go to the meeting's website.

EMBO fellowship news

Applications for EMBO short-term fellowships can be submitted 3 months before the start date of the proposed project. See this and other news on the EMBO fellowships web page.

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