Cell News 2/2014
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Content
Preface
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International DGZ Meeting 2015 in Cologne
Reserve the date: Celebrating 40 years of DGZ
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Looking for chairs for organization of four newly established
"Young Investigator organized satellite meetings"
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Research News
Robert Grosse (DGZ Award Winner 2014): Life with nuclear actin filaments
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Marianne Grafe: Science is international – going abroad for the Master thesis
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Andreas Reiner: Optical control of neuronal signaling proteins:
Activation of glutamate receptors with photoswitchable ligands
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Yosr Z. Haffani.: Substrate recognition by protein kinases is crucial for
catalysis and regulation in the cellular signaling
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DGZ Awards 2015
Walther Flemming Medal
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Nikon Young Scientist Award
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Binder Innovation Prize
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Werner Risau Prize
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Future Meetings
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Annual Symposium ‘Physics of Cancer
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October 2-5, 2014, Leipzig
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Joint Meeting of the Signal Transduction Society (STS) – Signal Transduction:
Receptors, Mediators and Genes, November 5-7, 2014, Weimar
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Workshop ‘Cell Biology of Viral Infections‘, November 19-21, 2014, Schoental
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The Company of Biologists: Individual and Society Member Subscriptions
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Missing Members
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Impressum
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Executive Board
President:
Ralph Gräf (Potsdam)
Vice President:
Carien Niessen (Köln)
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Oliver Gruss (Heidelberg)
Vice CEO:
Klemens Rottner (Braunschweig)
Advisory Board
M. Cristina Cardoso (Darmstadt)
Thomas Dresselhaus (Regensburg)
Reinhard Fässler (Martinsried)
Volker Gerke (Münster)
Harald Herrmann-Lerdon
(Heidelberg)
Ingrid Hoffmann (Heidelberg)
Eugen Kerkhoff (Regensburg)
Thomas Magin (Leipzig)
Zeynep Ökten (München)
Britta Qualmann (Jena)
Manfred Schliwa (Frankfurt/M.)
Doris Wedlich (Karlsruhe)
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for Cell Biology
Cover image:
Visualization of nuclear actin filaments by phalloidin staining.
M2 melanoma cells were kept in serum-free medium before stimulation with 20% FCS for 90 s and
immediate glutaraldehyde fixation. Cells were stained for lamin A/C (red) and actin filaments using
phalloidin (green). See article Robert Grosse.
