FEBS Network

The FEBS Journal's editors regularly attend this yearly event, and we have last-minute tips and tricks that will help you savour everything this exciting event has to offer. Set Clear Goals. Are you attending to learn new techniques, network with peers, meet your heroes, initiate new collaborations, or showcase your work? All of the above? Having clear intentions will guide your actions so you don't miss the unmissable but also keep your stamina up until the end. Plan, plan, plan.

Welcome to the Netherlands, and welcome to Wageningen! Wageningen may be relatively small, but it has a remarkably lively and cosmopolitan atmosphere. Wageningen University & Research attracts students and researchers from all over the world. The city is home to more than 13,000 students representing over 100 nationalities, making Wageningen a truly international meeting place. Wageningen also holds a special place in Dutch history.

Attending a recent webinar organized by the Kenya Society of Haematology and Oncology (KESHO) on “From Data to Discovery: Leveraging Registries and Clinical Insights to Advance Research” made me reflect on something I had not previously considered deeply: the possibility that a significant part of medical research may already be embedded within routine clinical practice.

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Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) revolutionized structural biology by enabling high-resolution imaging of biomolecules in their native state. This free special issue edited by Panagiotis L. Kastritis features 8 review articles that highlight how cryo-EM is moving beyond static structure determination toward understanding the dynamics, assembly, regulation, evolution, and cellular context of biomolecular complexes, increasingly supported by advanced computational and AI-driven methods.

The event took place at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (University of Cambridge, UK), where Vitória was serving as a Visiting Researcher. The session, hosted in collaboration with Professor Julian Rayner’s group, gathered early-career and senior researchers to critically analyse an impactful malaria study recently published in FEBS Letters: “Plasmodium falciparum gametogenesis essential protein 1 (GEP1) is a transmission-blocking target”. Group photo of the journal club participants.

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In the previous article, which focused on how to "ask a scientific question", I suggested that scientists may find it harder today to identify good questions because so much already seems to have been discovered. This phenomenon, known as the "burden of knowledge", can be particularly discouraging for early-career researchers and students, but it likely affects most scientists today.

As I hope you have seen from the YSF programme, as part of the "Careers Skills” on Saturday 4th July I will be running a session on CV preparation. This will be a short introduction followed by practical exercises when you will be looking at some current job adverts to help you develop and target your CV - look out for another post just before the YSF for more information.

From biomimetic materials to cancer metabolism, this month's Meshwork webinar "New frontiers in biomaterials and cancer research" explores how advances in matrix biology are driving innovation across diverse areas of biomedical research.