FEBS Letters

🏆 FEBS Letters is celebrating the 60th anniversary of FEBS with a writing competition! ✍️ 'Blueprints for the scientific society of tomorrow' will award €500 and publication for the best entry imagining the utopian scientific society 60 years from now. What are the needs of future molecular life scientists? How can they be sustainably met by a scientific society? We are open to creative submissions of essays, short stories, poems, cartoons, and more responding to these questions until 30 September 2024. Full guidelines may be found below: ➡️ https://bit.ly/3Uu8NNy

Are you a researcher in #metabolism? Read the Review article ‘Molecular mechanisms of perilipin protein function in lipid droplet metabolism’ from our new Special Issue: Lipid Droplets: Metabolic Hubs in Health and Disease, edited by renowned biochemists Maria Bohnert and Bianca Schrul. Authored by Elena Griseti, Abdoul Akim BELLO et al. See the link in comments. #OpenAccess

There's still time to enter our writing competition on the future of scientific societies! If you'd like a chance to win €500 and have your article published in the journal, submit your entry to [email protected] by 30th September 2024. Full guidelines here: https://rb.gy/tbxznp #writingcontest

Our July issue is online now! Featuring an OA review on #miRNAs in the #hypothalamicpituitaryaxis, and research articles on glutathione depletion in #Alzheimers disease mice, nitrate metabolism in #Salmonella, and more. Read the issue online here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gQqEVkED

Are you a researcher in membrane biology or trafficking? Zoom into #lipid droplet #biology through the lens of electron #microscopy – read the Review article from our new Special Issue: Lipid Droplets: Metabolic Hubs in Health and Disease, edited by renowned biochemists Maria Bohnert and Bianca Schrul. Authored by Wioleta Dudka, Julia Mahamid, and Veijo Salo. See the link in comments. #OpenAccess

Did you know our new Special Issue, Lipid Droplets: Metabolic Hubs in Health and Disease, features Graphical Reviews as well as traditional Review articles? Graphical Reviews are a unique article type which visually and conveniently summarise innovative research on one-page – explore below. 🖼️ The role of lipid droplet associated proteins in inherited human disorders Xiaowen Duan, David B. Savage https://bit.ly/3xmUOQq   🖼️ Lipid Droplets in Virus Replication Eva Herker https://bit.ly/3zf9aCV   Collection edited by renowned biochemists Maria Bohnert and Bianca Schrul.    #virology #metabolism #health #disease #openaccess

Our June issue is online now! Featuring a Scientists' Forum article with tips for #sustainablescience, a free Review on #inflammasomes & immunity, and research on stem cell memory T cells, protein engineering, #cytochrome b, and more. Read the issue here: https://rb.gy/65aaxq

🆕 Special Issue: Lipid droplets – Metabolic hubs in health and disease We are pleased to introduce FEBS Letters’ new Special Issue comprising 16 comprehensive and expertly authored review articles that explore lipid droplets and metabolic hubs in health and disease. The reviews cover a diverse range of topics including #membranebiology and trafficking, synthetic #biology, and more. Edited by renowned biochemists Maria Bohnert and Bianca Schrul. See the link in comments to explore the collection. 

🧬 In this new perspective article, Joana Frobel and Robert Hänsel-Hertsch discuss the link between G-quadruplexes and #genomeinstability in #ageing 👴 Read it here: ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e5acPYtz

♻️ Is your lab using too much plastic? In our latest Scientists' Forum article, Patrick Penndorf provides advice on how to save costs and the environment by minimising the use of disposable plasticware ➡️ https://lnkd.in/ee8QebFy #sustainablescience #greenlab #sustainability