Ģý

For a general introduction to Ģý National Lectures, see the webpage Support for activities of Ģý Societies.

GUIDELINES

1. Ģý National Lectures were established to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Ģý. These Ģý National Lectures (usually 5 per year) are intended as Plenary Lectures that significantly enhance the quality of a scientific meeting, symposium or annual national scientific meeting of a Constituent Society.

2. The Lecturer should be a distinguished scientist with a significant international reputation for fundamental contributions to the fields of biochemistry and molecular biology. An engraved glass award will be provided by Ģý for presentation to the Ģý National Lecturer after his/her presentation, as a memento of the speaker’s selection and significant contribution to the meeting.

3. The Lecturer should be working in a Ģý country different from the one organizing the meeting.

4. The Lecturer should not be a plenary speaker at the Ģý Congress in the same or following year. They also should not have been previously a Ģý National Lecturer at the Society’s meeting, nor in the past 5 years a Ģý National Lecturer at another Ģý Constituent Society’s meeting (see list below).

5. The support shall consist of reasonable travel expenses (e.g. economy flight); additional support for Ģý countries with HINARI status is available. The host organization will offer free registration and accommodation. Ģý will not offer an honorarium. Reimbursement will be made by the Ģý Treasury.

6. Ģý National Lecture applications for Ģý3+ Meetings can only be considered from the partner Societies of that meeting (as the host Society is already in receipt of Ģý funds to support the meeting), if the partner Society is holding a national meeting as part of the Ģý3+ Meeting.

7. An application proposing a maximum of two candidates for the Ģý National Lecturer should include their short Curricula Vitae and full details of the event,  including expected participant number. It should be sent to the Ģý Congress Counsellor by, or be endorsed by, the Ģý Constituent Society President. The application will be evaluated by the Ģý Congress Counsellor and Ģý Secretary General, who may consult with other members of the Ģý Executive Committee, and will be awarded within 2 months of receipt of the application.

8. The invited speaker shall be named The Ģý National Lecturer and designated as such in all announcements and programmes.

9. The Ģý National Lecturer should be introduced by a member of the host organization with a brief acknowledgement of Ģý and the lectureship at the beginning of his/her presentation.

10. For queries, please contact the Ģý Congress Counsellor via the Contact section of the Ģý website.


Recent or upcoming Ģý National Lecturers

2027
Reinhard Jahn (Göttingen, Germany) – SEBBM (Spain) Congress

2026
Martin Blackledge (Grenoble, France) – GBM (Germany) Compact Meeting
Henrik Oster (Lübeck, Germany) – SEBBM (Spain) Congress
Michele Vendruscolo (Cambridge, UK) – HBS (Hungary) Meeting
Karin Lindkvist (Lund, Sweden) – NBS (Norway) Contact Meeting

2025
Dagmar Wachten (Bonn, Germany) – NBS (Norway) Contact Meeting
Bernard Perbal (Nice, France) – HBS/MBKE (Hungary) Meeting
Paola Pizzo (Padova, Italy) – SEBBM (Spain) Congress
Nikolaus Rajewsky (Berlin, Germany) – PTBioch (Poland) Congress

2024
Graça Raposo (Paris, France) – NBS (Norway) Contact meeting
Ivana Ivančić Baće (Zagreb, Croatia) – ATSB (Tunisia) Congress
Masashi Narita (Cambridge, UK) –  SEBBM (Spain) Congress
Wanda Kukulski (Zurich, Switzerland) – GBM (Germany) Compact Meeting
Maria Carmo-Fonseca (Lisbon, Portugal) – SFBBM (France) SifrARN meeting
Michael N. Hall (Basel, Switzerland) – HSBMB (Greece) Conference

2023
Dragan Primorac (Split, Croatia) – ABMB in B&H (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Conference
Peter Rehling (Göttingen, Germany) – SEBBM (Spain) Congress
Massimiliano Mazzone (Leuven, Belgium) – SIB (Italy) Congress
Pietro Roversi (Milan, Italy) – RSBMB (Romania) Meeting
Grazielle Pellegrini (Modena, Italy) – PTBioch (Poland) Congress
Anke Becker (Marburg, Germany) – SBD (Slovenia) Meeting
Konrad Sandhoff (Bonn, Germany) – TBS (Türkiye) Congress

2022 (some previously postponed)
Anders Lund (Copenhagen, Denmark) – βιος-SBSCy (Cyprus) Conference
Xavier Coumoul (Paris, France) – TBS (Türkiye) Congress
Jörg Vogel (Würzberg, Germany) – SFBBM (France) SifrARN meeting
Irene Diaz Moreno (Seville, Spain) – HDBMB (Croatia) Congress
Carlo Catapano (Bellinzona, Switzerland) – SIB (Italy) Congress
Dario Alessi (Dundee, UK) – SEBBM (Spain) Congress
Andrea Thorn (Hamburg, Germany) – SFBBM (Sweden) Conference
Helgi Schioth (Uppsala, Sweden) – Ģý3+ Meeting (Latvia application)
Finbarr O’Harte (Belfast, UK) – BioBio (Finland) Meeting
Thierry Candresse (France) – ATSB (Tunisia) Congress