Cell News 1/2015
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Preface
Dear colleagues,
we are right in front of our biggest annual event, the International Meeting of the German Society for Cell
Biology. Reserve the dates from March 24 – 27 and come to Cologne! You can still register at
cpb.de/1/index.php?id=586
or through the link on our website
. You'll find the final exciting
program
) in this issue of Cell News. For the first time,
we have also included very interesting satellite symposia organized by young investigators starting already on
Tuesday morning. Furthermore, we will celebrate the 40th anniversary of our society in an outstanding plenary
symposium on past and present breakthroughs in cell biology with Harald Herrmann, Jan Ellenberg, Jennifer
Lippincott-Schwartz and Matthias Mann. In addition to the scientific program, we will have a party on Thursday
evening and an absorbing industrial exhibition. Don't miss the chance to visit the booths of our exhibitors, as
there are many interesting things to learn from them. Keep in mind that our meetings are financed through the
continuous support of our industrial exhibitors. Only if they receive attention from the meeting participants in
Cologne, they will want to come back to our next year’s international meeting in Munich.
We cannot think about our own anniversary without giving credits to the founder of the DGZ, Prof. Werner
W. Franke (DKFZ, Heidelberg), who recently celebrated his 75th birthday. On this occasion, he gave a very
enjoyable talk at the DKFZ dealing with "Ten major problems of the cell and molecular biology of normal and
diseased cells". Enjoy a video footage of his talk at Youtube
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).
Once again I would also like to invite YOU to contribute to Cell News. If you want to write an article about your
work, a book review or a journal club article, don't hesitate to contact us. Note that it is free of charge and the
copyright is completely yours. You'll find instructions to authors at
.
Last but not least an organizational announcement: from this year on, we will retrieve your membership fees in
the second quarter of the year.
See you in Cologne and all the best,
Ralph Gräf
DGZ Member Meeting 2015
We are inviting all members to attend our next member meeting that will take place on
Thursday, March 26, 2015, 13:00
at the International Meeting of the DGZ in Cologne, venue: University of Cologne,
Hörsaalgebäude
(room: Hall F)
, Gebäudenummer (Building No.) 105,
Universitätsstraße 35, 50931 Köln.
Agenda:
1. Confirmation of the minutes of the last year’s DGZ member meeting 2014
2. The president’s annual report
3. Financial report
4. The auditors’ report
5. Approval of the executive board
6. „Other“
