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Ģý Advanced Courses Committee

Ģý Advanced Courses Committee is responsible for evaluating funding applications from prospective Ģý courses organizers and for overseeing events.

Chair: Prof. Mauro Maccarrone, Department of Applied Clinical and Biotechnological Sciences, University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy. Email
Members: Dr Tamas Aranyi (Budapest, Hungary); Prof. Marek Figlerowicz (Poznan, Poland); Dr Mateja Manček Keber (Ljubljana, Slovenia); Dr Zrinka Kovarik (Zagreb, Croatia); Prof. Milagros Medina (Zaragoza, Spain); Prof. Jan Riemer (Cologne, Germany).
Ex-Officio Members: Prof. Miguel De la Rosa, Ģý Secretary General; Prof. Frank Michelangeli, Ģý Treasurer.

Ģý CAREERS OF YOUNG SCIENTISTS Committee

The main responsibilities of the Ģý Careers of Young Scientists Committee are overseeing the organization of the annual Ģý Young Scientists’ Forum and, with other partners, the Ģý-IUBMB-ENABLE Symposia.

Acting Chair: Riccardo Miggiano (Italy). Email
Members: Dr Anna Jagusiak (Krakow, Poland); Dr Vlastimil Kulda (Pilsen, Czech Republic); Dr Elisa Frezza (Paris, France); Alexander Röntgen (Cambridge, UK).
Co-opted Members:
Prof. Jerka Dumić (Zagreb, Croatia).
Ex-Officio Members: Prof. Miguel De la Rosa, Ģý Secretary General; Prof. Frank Michelangeli, Ģý Treasurer; Prof. Irene Diaz-Moreno, Excellence Awards and Fellowships Committee Chair; Prof. Anne Ephrussi, Women in Science Working Group Chair.

Ģý Education and training Committee

Ģý Education and Training Committee promotes high-quality undergraduate and postgraduate education in biochemistry and molecular biology.

Chair: Prof. Ferhan G. Sağin, Ege University Medical Faculty, Dept. of Medical Biochemistry, Bornova 35100, Izmir, Türkiye. Email
Members: Prof. Robert Harris (Stockholm, Sweden); Prof. Francesco Malatesta (Rome, Italy); Prof. Didier Picard (Geneva, Switzerland); Assoc. Prof. Nino Sinčić (Zagreb, Croatia); Dr Ly Villo (Tallinn, Estonia).
Ex-Officio Members: Prof. Miguel De la Rosa, Ģý Secretary General; Prof. Frank Michelangeli, Ģý Treasurer; Prof. Xavier Coumoul, Integration and Networking Committee Chair.

Ģý excellence awards and Fellowships Committee

Ģý Excellence Awards and Fellowships Committee is responsible for evaluating applications for Ģý Fellowships and Ģý Excellence Awards, and for granting these to the selected awardees.

Chair: Prof. Irene Diaz-Moreno, Scientific Research Center Isla de la Cartuja, University of Seville, Americo Vespucio 49, 41092 Sevilla, Spain. Email
Members: Prof. Annette Beck-Sickinger (Leipzig, Germany); Prof. Carmen Castresana (Madrid, Spain); Prof. Carlos Farinha (Lisbon, Portugal); Dr Hannu Koistinen (Helsinki, Finland); Prof. Aristidis Moustakas (Uppsala, Sweden); Prof. Natasa Poklar Ulrih (Ljubljana, Slovenia); Prof. Ana Salomé Veiga (Lisbon, Portugal); Prof. Julia Shifman (Jerusalem, Israel); Dr Marie Sissler (Strasbourg, France); Dr Pawel Switonski (Poznan, Poland); Prof. László Virág (Debrecen, Hungary).
Co-opted Members: Prof. Jerka Dumić (Zagreb, Croatia); Prof. Alain Krol (Strasbourg, France).
Ex-Officio Members
: Prof. Miguel De la Rosa, Ģý Secretary General; Prof. Frank Michelangeli, Ģý Treasurer.

Ģý Finance Committee

Ģý Finance Committee assists the Ģý Treasurer in all financial matters, including drawing up budgets for submission to the Executive Committee and Council, and financial reports and annual accounts.

Chair and Treasurer: Prof. Frank Michelangeli, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Chester, Parkgate Rd, Chester CH1 4BJ, UK. Email
Members: Prof. Antonio Ferrer-Montiel (Alicante, Spain); Prof. Beáta Vértessy (Budapest, Hungary).
Co-opted Members: Prof. Franco Bonomi (Milan, Italy).
Ex-Officio Members: Prof. Miguel De la Rosa, Ģý Secretary General; Prof. Johannes Buchner, Ģý Publications Committee Chair.

Ģý INTEGRATION and networking Committee

The Ģý Integration and Networking Committee aims to support wide and effective participation in molecular life science research and teaching by scientists from across the countries of the Ģý area, particularly via the role of learned Societies that belong to Ģý. The committee oversees the aims and strategy of the Ģý Network platform, and some members also act as ‘channel overseers’.

Chair: Prof. Xavier Coumoul, Paris, France. Email
Members: Sophie Rahuel Clermont (France); Dr Myrtani Pieri (Nicosia, Cyprus); Prof. Natalija Polović (Belgrade, Serbia).
Co-opted Member: Prof. Jerka Dumić (Zagreb, Croatia).
Ex-Officio Members
: Prof. Miguel De la Rosa, Ģý Secretary General; Prof. Frank Michelangeli, Ģý Treasurer; Prof. Ferhan G. Sağin, Ģý Education Committee Chair; Prof. Rasa Žukienė, Ģý Science and Society Committee Chair.

Ģý Publications Committee

Ģý Publications Committee oversees the operation and development of Ģý’ journals.

󲹾:Prof. Johannes Buchner, Department Chemistry – TUM, Lichtenbergstrasse 4, Garching 85747, Germany. Email
Members: Prof. Nicola Gray (Edinburgh, UK); Dr Isabel Fabregat (Barcelona, Spain); Peppi Karppinen (Finland); Dr Rina Rosenzweig (Rehovot, Israel); Pierre Santucci (France).
Co-opted Member: Susanna Gevorgyan (Hamburg, Germany)
Ex-Officio Members:
Prof. Miguel De la Rosa, Ģý Secretary General; Prof. Frank Michelangeli, Ģý Treasurer.
Regular participants: Prof. Seamus Martin, Editor-in-Chief of The Ģý Journal; Prof. Michael Brunner, Editor-in-Chief of Ģý Letters; Prof. Kevin Ryan, Editor-in-Chief of Molecular Oncology; Prof. Miguel De la Rosa, Editor-in-Chief of Ģý Open Bio.

Ģý Science and Society Committee

Ģý Science and Society Committee raises awareness of ethical, legal and societal issues of bioscience research, and contributes to European science policy debate.

Chair: Prof. Rasa Žukienė, Lithuania. Email
Members: Prof. Margarida Carvalho (Lisbon, Portugal); Prof. Sara Garcia Linares (Madrid, Spain); Mark Roberts (UK).
Ex-Officio Members: Prof. Miguel De la Rosa, Ģý Secretary General; Prof. Frank Michelangeli, Ģý Treasurer; Prof. Xavier Coumoul, Integration and Networking Committee Chair.

Ģý Working Groups

Women in Science

The Working Group on Women in Science main objective is to facilitate awareness on the issue of Women in Science, to encourage people to participate actively in promoting gender equality in science, and to support the Constituent Societies of Ģý and academic institutions in Ģý countries on the issue of Women in Science.

Chair: Prof. Anne Ephrussi. Email
Ex-Officio Members: Prof. Miguel De la Rosa, Ģý Secretary General; Prof. Frank Michelangeli, Ģý Treasurer; Riccardo Miggiano, Acting Chair of the Careers of Young Scientists Committee.

Other roles and information

Ģý Congress Counsellor (Ģý Congress, Ģý National Lectures, Ģý 3+ meetings, Ģý Patronage): Graça Soveral (Lisbon, Portugal). Email

Ģý Secretary General: Prof. Miguel De la Rosa, cicCartuja, University of Seville & CSIC, Americo Vespucio 49 , 41092 Sevilla, Spain. Email

Ģý Treasurer: Prof. Frank Michelangeli, Department Biological Sciences, University of Chester, Parkgate Rd, Chester CH1 4BJ, UK. Email

Ģý registered office: 2D & 2E, St Andrew’s House, 59 St Andrew’s St, Cambridge CB2 3BZ, UK. Tel. +44 (0)1223 369020.

Chief Administrator: Tom Kingsnorth Email; Treasury Manager: Barbara Baron Email; Events Manager – Congress, 3+, Advanced Courses: Carolyn Elliss Email.