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The year 2016 almost comes to an end and that means we can
look back to a very successful international meeting in Munich and
look forward to new events in 2017. Although recent international
meetings were great successes in terms of attendance, science,
discussion and sponsoring, the trends of the last meetings showed
that DGZ members only form a small number of attendees, in
contrast to meetings from many other national and international
societies.
Together with the fact that it is increasingly difficult to find
members to take on the organization of the international meeting,
this made the board of the DGZ think about future organizations
of the international meeting and of the DGZ itself: what we stand
for, why we need a German Society for Cell Biology and what the
Society should and can offer to its members. We further discussed
these important issues with members of our advisory board. As
one result of these discussions it was decided to organize, instead
of the international meeting, a member meeting that is organized
by and for members with new formats. It will include a general
discussion on what members expect from the DGZ and what we
as the executive board feel the DGZ can really offer.
Our new spring member meeting will take place in Leipzig on
March 1-2 and will include 4 sessions organized by young and
upcoming independent DGZ members. We will have talks selected
from abstracts, a social evening, new oral digital poster presen-
tations for all abstracts to increase interactions, the Carl Zeiss
Lecture by Peter Walter, the president of the ASCB, who can also
provide us with essential input from our “big” sister organization,
and, finally, talks by the prize winners.
We would thus like to encourage all of our members to come and
join us for this 2-day meeting and to participate in shaping the
future of the DGZ! More detailed information can be found on
page 6 of this Cell News.
In addition, we would like to encourage everybody to apply or
suggest candidates for the Nikon Young Scientist Award of the
DGZ, the Binder Innovation Prize, the Werner Risau Prize and the
Walther Flemming Award. For details on eligibility and deadlines,
please see pages 12-13.
On behalf of my fellow board members Karin Schumacher, Thomas
Magin, Oliver Gruss, I hope to see many of you in Leipzig and wish
you happy holidays and a good start to 2017!
Carien Niessen
PREFACE
DEAR DGZ MEMBERS
