Preface
          
        
        
          Dear colleagues,
        
        
          This issue of Cell News announces the
        
        
          
            DGZ 2015 International Meeting, which is going to be held in Cologne from March 24
          
        
        
          
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            to
          
        
        
          
            27
          
        
        
          
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          The organising committee headed by our Vice President Carien Niessen is putting together an extraordinary program covering a
        
        
          broad range of cell biological topics (see p. 5). Moreover, we are going to celebrate
        
        
          
            40 years of the German Society for Cell Biology
          
        
        
          with a special anniversary session! Make sure to come and see your colleagues in Cologne for a stimulating and exciting meeting.
        
        
          
            From
          
        
        
          
            October 2 to 5 this year, the University of Leipzig once more hosts the Physics of Cancer meeting
          
        
        
          . Running annually since 2010,
        
        
          PoC has established as a worldclass meeting on the physical mechanisms underlying cancer progression.
        
        
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          Oliver Gruss
        
        
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