The logo of the European Life Science Organisation ELSO

The European Life Scientist Organisation (ELSO) was created in 2000 to bring together life scientist from different fields. Its main goal is to organise scientific meetings similar to the meetings organized yearly by the American Society for Cell Biology. It is also a lobby group for science in the European Union (EU). Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote and develop the field of cell biology. ...

Description

The European Life Scientist Organization will work in parallel with the existing national and international societies. Its initial goal is to organize meetings in European cities that each year provide a high profile international forum serving the interests of the European scientific community. Its defining characteristic will be that it promotes the science and activities of biologists using molecular tools without regard to national interests. A European is primarily a person who was born into one of the countries within the continent of Europe. ...

The highlight of the meeting will be the poster sessions which will take place in the midst of the scientific exhibition. The scientific exhibition is planned to become the prime opportunity for the industry to present its products to the European scientific community. A major goal of the meeting is to stimulate and promote mobility and scientific collaboration in Europe. Another important function will be to promote the public understanding of new developments in the life sciences and to provide a critical forum for discussing their implications for society.

Structure

The nomination committee selects the president. It currently consists of:

• Paul Nurse (Rockefeller University, New York) - chair
• Julio Celis, Inst. of Medical Biochemistry, Aarhus
• Riccardo Cortese, IRBM, Pomezia (Rome)
• Frank Gannon, EMBO, Heidelberg
• Daniel Louvard, Institut Curie, Paris
• Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen
• Maya Simionescu, Inst. of Cell Biol. & Pathol. Bucharest

The committee selected Kai Simons as President for ELSO and a council representing different areas of biology. This council has set up the organization and is responsible for the ELSO activities. Sir Paul M. Nurse, FRS, (b. ... Founders Hall Rockefeller University is a private university focusing primarily on graduate and postgraduate education research in the biomedical fields, located between 63rd and 68th Streets along York Avenue, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan island in New York City, New York. ... An intermediate-range ballistic missile, or IRBM, is a ballistic missile with a range of 2750-5500 km or 1719-3437 miles. ... Embo (Scottish Gaelic: Eurabol) is a village in the Highland Council Area in Scotland. ... The Curie Institute is a private non-profit foundation operating a research center on biophysics, cell biology and oncology and a hospital (Hôpital Claudius Régaud) specialized in treatment of cancer. ... Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (born October 20, 1942 in Magdeburg) is a German biologist who won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1991 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995, together with Eric Wieschaus and Edward B. Lewis, for their research on the genetic... The Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology is located in Tübingen, Germany. ...

ELSO meetings

The first ELSO meeting called ELSO 2000 took place in Geneva, Switzerland from 2-6 September. Subsequent meetings are listed chronological below: Geneva (pronunciation //; French: Genève //, German:   //, Italian: Ginevra //, Romansh: Genevra) is the second most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich), and is the most populous city of Romandy (the French-speaking part of Switzerland). ...

• ELSO 2002 in Nice, France from June 29 - July 3
• ELSO 2003 together with the GBM in Dresden, Germany from 20-24 September
• ELSO 2004 in Nice, France from 4-8 September
• ELSO 2005 in Dresden, Germany from 3-7 September
• ELSO 2007 in Dresden, Germany from 1-4 September

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ELSO Gazette

An important activity of ELSO is its electronic magazine the ELSO Gazette. This medium will keep ELSO thriving between its annual meetings. Latest issue

ELSO career development committee

ELSO’s Career Development Committee (CDC) is a group of around a dozen members at all stages on the scientific career ladder. The group is working to improve the career opportunities for life scientists in Europe both through activities at the annual ELSO congress and through various projects running throughout the year. It organises an annual ELSO Early Career Award, which recognizes the outstanding achievement of a young independent researcher working in Europe. It also organises an open discussion session and small-group career lunches. CDC online

ELSO office

Ingeborg Fatscher
P.O. Box 1151
D-69199 Sandhausen, Germany
Phone: +49 6224 925613
Fax: +49 6224 925610,11,12

See also

• European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
• European Research Area (ERA)

The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) promotes bioscience in Europe through programmes and activities. ... The European Research Area is a system of scientific research programmes integrating the European Unions scientific resources. ...

External links

• ELSO homepage
• ELSO about ELSO
• Science article on the creation of ELSO, 2000
• ELSO's career development committee
• biology movies supported by ELSO