Monday, November 4, to Wednesday, November 6, 2019.

The scientific program started on Monday, November 4 at 8.45 am, and ended on Wednesday, November 6 after lunch (~ 3 pm).

The Meeting Report has been published in the “International Journal of Molecular Sciences” and is available for download here .

Workshops were on:

1. Infection and Cancer (DZIF)

2. Cytokines, Growth factors, and Receptors

3. Differentiation, Stress, and Death

4. Tumor Biology and Immunity

5. Signaling from intracellular organelles

6. Tumor Biomarker

7. Immune Cell Signaling and Cancer

8. Calcium Signaling

Each Workshop/Session will start with introductory keynote presentations of 30 minutes (including discussion) given by invited speakers who have contributed significantly to the development of specific areas of signal transduction research. Keynote speakers are nominated by STS members and contributing consortia.

All presentations will be given as plenary lectures in the main conference hall. There will be no parallel workshop sessions. Oral presentations will be selected from the submitted abstracts (abstract submission deadline: September 1, 2025).

A limited number of abstracts will be selected for oral presentation of 10 minutes plus 5 minutes of discussion. The oral presentations are thematically related to the Workshop topics. They will be selected by the organizing committee on the basis of scientific quality and consistency with the scientific program.

STS Honorary Medal 2019

The 2019 “STS Honorary Medal Award Lecture“ entitled

“Ras Drug Development and Ciliary Trafficking: what is the Connection?”

was given by Alfred Wittinghofer, Dortmund (DE).

Alfred Wittinghofer was honored for his long-standing and influential work on structure-function relationships of GTP-binding proteins and their involvement in physiological and pathophysiological processes.

The laudation was given by Gudula Schmidt
Freiburg (DE)

In 2019, the “STS Honorary Medal“ was again supported by the “International Journal of Molecular Sciences” published by MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute).

A list of Past Recipients of the STS Honorary Medal is available.

STS Science Award 2019

In 2019, the STS announced the 15th STS Science Award was awarded to Dr. Claudia Stäubert.

This prize is meant to honor outstanding research by a post doc or a junior principal investigator being member of the Signal Transduction Society. In 2019 the STS Science Award was donated with a sum of 1500,- Euro.

The applicants presented their work both as an oral presentation (which requires the contribution to be selected as a talk by the respective chair people) and as a poster. The jury board consisting of the STS council and STS advisory board members evaluated the applicants’ scientific achievements and background in general and discussed the meeting contributions in detail in order to finally take their decision on the awardee.

STS travel stipends

The STS General Assembly decided to continue to distribute a maximum amount of 2,500.- EUR as STS travel stipends. With this money, the Society keeps on supporting up to ten young STS members (diploma/master or doctoral students) by a travel grant of 250.– EUR each.

In 2019, the following young scientists were awarded travel stipends: Julia Feder (Kiel), Rebekka Gerloff (Gießen), Sevinc Sultanli (Heidelberg, sponsored by Jackson ImmunoResearch), Simone Tazoll (Borstel), and Julia Wehmeyer (Hannover, sponsored by Biomol).

Poster Prizes

At the 2019 Meeting, the following poster prizes have been awarded during the Award ceremony on November 6th:

1st prize (250 €) - Aneri Shah (Magdeburg)

2nd prize (200 €) - Anna Riebisch (Braunschweig)

3rd prize (150 €) - Dr. Gernot Posselt (Salzburg, AT)

4th prize (100 €) - Karin Taxauer (München)

5th prize (50 €) - Paul Jung (Jena)

The candidates had been selected by the chair people of the different sessions.

Awards were be made payable by cheque and must be cashed latest by December 31st 2019 (expiration date of the cheque).

The 23rd STS Meeting took place in the Leonardo Hotel Weimar, located in the world heritage city of Weimar, Germany.

We are very grateful to all companies that have supported the STS Meeting.

Sponsors of the Meeting 2019 were:

The STS is a non-profit organization that currently represents around 350 scientists. Over the past years, we have developed a fairly efficient and cost-saving routine for the Meeting organization. The Meeting is organized as a Joint Meeting of the STS with signaling study groups of the German Societies for Immunology (DGfI) and Cell Biology (DGZ), the Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM) and the German Society for Pharmacology (DGP).