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Participants will have the opportunity to find out more about scientific publishing. Each publication will have a display in the exhibition area and there will be various sessions offering careers advice in relation to publishing plus opportunities to meet the EMBO editorial teams.
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Saturday 4 September |
10:00 to 12:00 Room H2, Level -1
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Part of the career day, EMBO Editors will discuss how the peer-review process works, and provide practical advice on how to review papers. Using, for example, Review Process Files, which are published alongside EMBO Journal manuscripts, the course will look at how the review process normally works, what makes a good report, and how editors deal with conflicting reports and other difficult situations. Material for the course will be made available prior to the start.
Registration is required as space restrictions apply - details on how to register here
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Meet the Editors Lunch
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Sunday 5 September |
12:30 to 13:30 Foyer 0, Level 0 (at the rear of the auditorium)
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The editorial teams of the four EMBO publications warmly invite you for informal discussions over lunch. We look forward to meeting you, hearing about your research, discussing your views on science & publishing and informing you about the scope & editorial procedures of our journals. Participants need not register for this event; please feel free to stop by and meet the editors.
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Lecture on Scientific Publishing
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Sunday 5 September |
19:00 to 20:00 Room H3, Level -1
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Bernd Pulverer
Head of Scientific
Publications, EMBO
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Biography
After undergraduate studies in Cambridge, Bernd Pulverer received his PhD in 1992 for work on the regulation of c-Jun and c-Myc by Ser/Thr kinases carried out in Jim Woodgett’s lab at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer research (London), followed by postdoctoral research at the Ontario Cancer Institute (Toronto), the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle) and the University of Innsbruck. After three years as senior editor at Nature he was appointed chief editor of Nature Cell Biology in 2002 and he was senior editor at the Signaling Gateway. Bernd joined EMBO in the autumn of 2009
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Poster Prizes
by EMBO Publications supported by EMBO Young Investigators |
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The EMBO editors want to highlight exceptional contributions by young researchers at The EMBO Meeting. Each of the EMBO Publications (The EMBO Journal, EMBO reports, Molecular Systems Biology and EMBO Molecular Medicine) will award a poster prize to their elected top poster exhibited at the meeting.
They will be looking for high quality and exciting unpublished research presented in a clear and appealing manner.
How to participate:
Submit an abstract to The EMBO Meeting. Your poster will be automatically considered if it falls in one of the subject categories selected by the journals. The categories to be highlighted will be announced on this site.
Selections:
Selections will be made by the editors of the journals and members of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme.
Prize:
The prize is a voucher (value: €250) to be used towards the registration fee to any EMBO Course, Workshop or Conference of choice in the year following the award.
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