The Netherlands Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NVBMB) was established in 1927 and represents students and professionals working in the area of biochemistry and molecular biology. The society aims to stimulate the field of biochemistry and molecular biology at a high professional level. See here for more information about the NVBMB. 

Are you looking to make the next step in your career and do you want to know more about the current labour market? Visit BCF Career Event on May 24th in Amsterdam RAI.  This is the largest career event for Life Sciences, Chemistry, Food and Pharma. On this day you can meet about 100 employers and expand your professional network. Take part in the program with presentations and workshops and talk to a career coach about Your Next Step.

As a member of NVBMB, you will receive a discount on the registration fee. To receive this discount,  enter the promotional code in the registration form: NVBMB12
Register now at www.bcfcareerevent.nl  

H.G.K. Westenbrink prize 2011 awarded to Dr Charlotte Uetrecht

The H.G.K. Westenbrink prize 2011 has been awarded to Dr. Charlotte Uetrecht for her thesis “Analysing macromolecular structures with native mass spectrometry: Insights to virus structure and assembly" (promotor Prof. Dr Heck, University of Utrecht). The H.G.K. Westenbrink prize was established by the Stichting Stimulering Biochemie Nederland (SSBN) and is awarded each year to the best thesis in the area of biochemistry and molecular biology of the previous academic year. The prize will be handed out during this year’s NVBMB fall symposium (see below). 

NVBMB fall symposium                                                October 28, 2011, LUMC Leiden 

Theme: Exploring post-translational modifications 

This year's fall symposium will be jointly organized by two subsections of the NVBMB, the Netherlands Proteomics Platform and the Dutch Society for Glycobiology. The topic of the morning session is protein post-translational modifications in general, and the afternoon session is focused on glycomics/glycoproteomics.

One of the keynote speakers will be Dr. D. Kolarich from the Max Planck Institute in Berlin. The full program can be found here.

For registration, please send an email to P.Hensbergen@lumc.nl

Speaker of the year 2011: J. Craig Venter

The NVBMB is proud to announce J. Craig Venter as the 2011 NVBMB Speaker of the Year.

Dr. Venter founded The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), where in 1995 he and his team decoded the genome of the first free-living organism, the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae, using his new whole genome shotgun technique. In 1998, he founded Celera Genomics to sequence the human genome using new tools and techniques he and his team developed. The successful completion of this research culminated with the February 2001 publication of the human genome. Currently he leads the J Craig Venter Institute, a research organization of 400 scientists focusing on several challenges in the fields of life sciences including synthetic biology and global ocean sampling to identify millions of new genes. 

The NVBMB lecture will be given during the Life Science Momentum on November 22nd 2011 at the WTC in Rotterdam. See here for the complete program

NVBMB prize 2010 awarded to Antoine van  Oijen

The 2010 NVBMB prize for the most promising young biochemist or molecular biologist has been awarded to biophysicist Prof. Dr A. M. van Oijen (University of Groningen). Antoine van Oijen obtained his PhD Cum Laude in Leiden working on single molecule spectroscopy of photosynthetic proteins. He next moved to Harvard (Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology) where after 3 years he established his own research group as an assistant professor and pioneered the application of singe molecule approaches to study DNA replication and membrane fusion. Since 2009 he is full professor in molecular microscopy and spectroscopy at the University of Groningen where he continues his work on single molecule biochemistry to study the dynamic properties of complex enzyme systems.

NVBMB newsletter: please provide your e-mail adres!

The NVBMB regularly sends out newsletters with useful information for NVBMB members on upcoming events, grant opportunities and prizes. If you are an NVBMB member but do not reveive our newsletter, please provide the KNCV membership administration  with your (proper) e-mail address. 

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