25th Jubilee Meeting on Signal Transduction

Workshops 2022

Planned Workshops:

• A: Immune Cell Signaling

• B: GPCR-Mediated Signaling

• C: Hot Topics in Signal Transduction

• D: Differentiation, Stress, and Death

• E: Tumor Cell Biology

• F: Infection and Inflammation

• G: Bench-to-Bedside: Signaling Facets

Program

Each Workshop/Session (except Workshop G) 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. 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.

Special Event

The New Bauhaus Museum Weimar – MACH MIT / JOIN IN

On the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the STS-Meeting, we would like to invite all participants to visit the Bauhaus Museum Weimar on Thursday, November 3, 1 to 4 pm. The museum highlights the early phase of the most influential school of art and design of the 20th century. The New Bauhaus Museum Weimar was opened in April 2019, showcasing the treasures of the world’s oldest Bauhaus collection. The Bauhaus Museum reveals how crucial processes of change at the start of the 20th century with respect to society, new forms of coexistence, new technologies, material studies were initiated by the Bauhaus.

We have arranged guided tours in English and German of 30 min for you and you will have the chance to stroll around by yourself and enjoy our special event. Transfer from the hotel to the museum and back is arranged.

More information on the Bauhaus museum can be found here.

Poster Sessions

All accepted poster contributions will be on display (poster format: DIN A0, upright, 84,1 cm x 118,9 cm) throughout the Meeting in an assigned poster area together with the sponsors’ exhibition. This comfortable area can be used for vivid discussions at the posters during the coffee breaks. Ample time will be reserved for poster viewing and discussion.

“My Poster in a nutshell" presentations

In addition, all accepted posters can be presented to the plenum in one of the Short Talk Sessions as a concise One-Minute-Short talk. Please prepare one PowerPoint Slide containing key aspects of your scientific contribution to attract participants to your poster. After the short talk presentation it will be possible to meet at the posters for further scientific disussions.

Prizes and Travel Grants

STS Science Award 2022

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 2022, the STS Science Award will be donated with a sum of 1500,- Euro.

The jury board consisting of the STS council and STS advisory board members will evaluate the applicants’ scientific achievements and background in general and discuss the meeting contributions in detail in order to finally take their decision on the awardee.

GBM-Innovation-Award for Young Scientists 2022

Each year on the occasion of the STS Joint Meeting “Signal Transduction - Receptors, Mediators and Genes”, the Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology/Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie e.V. (GBM) announces the GBM-Innovation-Award for Young Scientists, donated with EUR 500,–.

The prize will be granted to a young scientist (diploma, master, MD or PhD student or post doc within their first years) who is developing or has developed a novel and innovative method, which might be attractive for all of us. The work has to be submitted as an abstract to the STS-Meeting and must be presented also as a poster, even if the abstract is selected for oral presentation. The awardee will be announced at the Award ceremony. Awards can only be received personally.

The award jury consisting of the speakers of the GBM-Study Groups “Biochemical Pharmacology and Toxicology” and “Receptors and Signal Transduction” will select appropriate candidates.

STS travel stipends

In 2022, the STS decided to award ten young scientists travel stipends (300 EUR each).

For more details, please also refer to the Prizes / Travel grants section of our website.

Poster Prizes

Five poster prizes will be awarded during the meeting. The candidates will be selected by the chair people of the different sessions.

Awards will be made payable by cheque and must be cashed latest by December 31st 2022 (expiration date of the cheque).

STS Honorary Medal 2022

The STS honorary medal represents the most prestigious award of the STS. In 2017 the International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS) became the co-sponsor. The medal is presented every year to an outstanding scientist who inspired scientists all over the world to work on receptors, mediators or genes involved in signal transduction processes. The Medal Ceremonies with informative Laudations and the Medal Award Lectures are meanwhile established highlights of the conference.

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

Covid-19 Information

Closely following the development of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, we would like to inform you about the currently valid regulation for the meeting and your stay at the Leonardo Hotel. Of course this regulation will be adapted according the pandemic’s development and the rules provided by the local authorities. If necessary, we will inform you at short notice.

In order to guarantee a safe and enjoyable meeting

• we strongly recommend all participants to be either vaccinated or recovered, and to be currently tested.

• we strongly recommend all participants to wear a medical mask indoors, if the minimum distance of 1.5 meters between persons cannot be kept.

• in case of symptoms such as fever, cough, sore throat, a lack of smell or taste, shortness of breath, or a runny nose, please stay at your hotel room and ask the reception to contact a physician.

• please follow the basic hygiene rules.

• meeting rooms will be ventilated on a regular basis.

The Covid-19 pandemic guidelines of the Leonardo-Hotel can be found at https://www.leonardo-hotels.com/coronavirus-statement.

Congress Venue

The 25th STS Meeting will again take place in the Leonardo Hotel Weimar, located in the world heritage city of Weimar, Germany.

Registration and Fees

The STS aims at making the meeting attractive and affordable especially for young scientists.

As in recent years, the regular meeting fees cover lunches, dinners (without beverages) and catering during coffee breaks and poster sessions throughout the meeting. Moreover, the traditional personalized STS coffee mug are also included in the registration fees.

Please note that accomodation costs are not included in the meeting fee, so you are free to arrange bookings by yourself.

We would like to stress that the fees for STS members do not even cover the effective costs for individual participants.

Sponsors of the STS Meeting 2023

The industrial exhibition of sponsoring companies will take place in an approximately 400 square meter area together with the poster exhibition in order to concentrate and facilitate interactions between the conference participants and the industry.

We are very grateful to all companies who want to support the STS Meeting.

If you are interested in sponsoring the meeting, please contact Katharina Hieke-Kubatzky.

Sponsors of the meeting as of 9.10.2023 are:

Committees

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), the German Society for Pharmacology (DGP), and the Collaborative Research Center "Structural Dynamics of GPCR Activation and Signaling" (SFB1423). This year, we are delighted to welcome the Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies (CIBSS) as new co-organizer of the meeting.