Dear colleagues,
We are ready to go back to work again! In today's newsletter, we will announce the timeline of our next webinar series and October’s webinar, the opening of the call of our editorial mentoring programme, the call of our PhD symposium, and the call for travel awards for the next SFRR-I meeting in Galway. At the end of the newsletter, as always, you can also find a collection of upcoming events with important deadlines and some suggestions of interesting redox reads recently published so you will be ready for “back to school”.
Next Webinar series “Emerging leaders in redox biology”
We have great news to share with you, our webinars will be back! Our next webinar series will begin on 8th October with a very important topic for ECRs: the peer review process.
Other topics during this series will be on redox methods, H2S signaling and chaperones in redox biology. We haven’t forgotten that some of you work in the plant field so we also have a special webinar about redox in photosynthetic organisms. For people interested in redox biology and health we have one webinar about environmental stressors in cardiovascular diseases and another one on nutrition and exercise. And in May 2025, the mental health awareness month, we will have a special webinar on this very important topic.
More information will follow in the next newsletters, stay tuned!
Our next webinar will be on 8th October 2024 at 15:00 CET on the topic “Peer review process” featuring Mike Davies.
Insights into the peer review and publication of scientific papers
Mike Davies, Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Michael (Mike) Davies has worked in the UK (University of York and Brunel University), Australia (The Heart Research Institute, Sydney) and Denmark (University of Copenhagen - his current position) during his career.
He was previously Editor-in-Chief of 'Free Radical Research' for 10 years, and is currently Co-Editor-in-Chief of 'Redox Biochemistry and Chemistry' and an Editor for 'Biochemistry and Biophysical Research Communications' and a long-standing editorial board member of 'Redox Biology' and 'Free Radical Biology and Medicine' amongst others. He also acts as Scientific Integrity and Ethics Editor for a group of Elsevier journals including 'Redox Biology'. He has previously served as President of SFRR-Australasia, Secretary-General and President of SFRR-International, and President of SFRR-Europe. His research group examines the mechanisms and consequences of protein oxidation and extracellular matrix modification, the detection and quantification of post-translational modifications (e.g. by LC-MS proteomics), the role of redox processes in human pathologies and particularly cardiovascular diseases.
ECR Editorial Mentoring Programme: call opened on 23rd September!
We are happy to announce the first edition of the new Editorial Mentoring Programme.
It is a programme that aims to offer ECRs the opportunity to increase their engagement with scientific publishing (SFRR-Europe official journals) and gain experience in editorial board work and manuscript handling. The programme will run over the year 2025 for 12 months. Selected participants will be paired with one of the Editorial Board members of one of SFRR-Europe's official journals and will receive 1 to 1 training and mentoring.
Further information about the application process and selection criteria can be found in the member’s intranet of the SFRR-E website: https://intranet.sfrr-europe.org
The call opened on the 23rd September and the deadline is on the 18th October.
We believe it’s an incredible opportunity for ECRs and hope that many of you will apply!
Second Edition of the PhD Redox Relay Online Symposium - call opens in October!
We are preparing the second edition of the PhD symposium. If you are a PhD student and would like to show the results of your project to the redox community, you can’t miss this call.
The format consists of online flask-talks of 5 minutes for presentation and 2 minutes for Q&A.
The call will open in the beginning of October, the deadline will be on the 15th October. Selected participants will be notified by the 25th October. The PhD Symposium will take place online on the 19th November.
It’s a great opportunity for PhD students to present their work and get valuable feedback.
Travel awards to attend the SFRR-I Galway Meeting 2025 - call already open!
If you enjoyed SFRR-E Meeting this year in Istanbul as much as we did, you can’t miss next year’s meeting! It will be a great opportunity for sharing your work and for networking because next year, the SFRR-E will be organising the SFRR-I biennial meeting, which means a lot of researchers from outside Europe will be attending.
Who can apply?
Students or postdocs members of SFRR-E.
To which awards can I apply?
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- Travel awards of 400€ each for PhD students
- Travel awards of 400€ each for postdocs (less than 5 years after your PhD and not in permanent academic positions).
- Travel awards of 900€ for non-European students or postdocs who require transoceanic or long-distance travel to attend the meeting. (You can also apply to this if you are a member of a SFRR Regional Society).
How to apply?
Applicatoins should be submitted online through the SFRR-E intranet (https://intranet.sfrr-europe.org, Call for Travel Awards in the menu on the left) as a single PDF containing:
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- CV (max 2 pages, include date of PhD award if applicable).
- Supporting letter writteng by the aplicant (outlining your interest and motivation for attending the meeting)
- Abstract for the communciation to be presented at the conference.
Important dates:
The deadline to recive submissions is on 10th January 2025.
Announcement of the awardees: before early-bird registration.
Applicant must submit their abstracts online thought the conference website (https://www.sfrrgalway2025.com) before 10th February 2025.
If you need further information, you can contact
More information about the ECR Subcommittee can be found on the SFRR-E website ( ECR Committee (sfrr-europe.org ), while regular updates can be found on Twitter (@SFRR_Europe), Instagram (@sfrr_ecr) and LinkedIn (SFRR-E). For any question or suggestion you might have, you can contact us via email:
Hope to see you online for our next Webinar Series appointment,
The ECR subcommittee
Upcoming events:
HNE Club Meeting
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- Lipid Oxidation: New Biochemical Insights and Clinical Applications
- 10 - 12 October 2024
- Location: Genoa, Italy
- Further information: https://www.sfrr-europe.org/media/attachments/2024/03/07/new_hne_flyer.pdf
11th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Free Radical Research-Asia (SFRR-Asia 2024) Club Meeting
“The new era of precision redox biology and medicine: from basic research to the intervention of aging and diseases”
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- 21 - 23 October 2024
- Location: Beijing, China
- Deadlines:
- Abstract submission: already closed
- Early registration: 15 September 2024
- Further information: https://sfrr-asia2024.tiemeeting.com/EN
SfRBM 2024 Conference
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- 31st Annual Conference
- 20 - 23 November 2024
- Location: Savannah, Georgia, USA
- Deadlines:
- Abstract and Awards Deadline: already closed
- Early Registration Deadline: 15 October 2024
- Further information: https://sfrbm.org/meetings/sfrbm-2024/
22nd SFRRI Biennial Meeting
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- The New Era of Redox Biology: from Basic Biochemistry to Redox Omics
- 3 - 6 June 2025
- Location: Galway, Ireland
- Deadlines:
- Travel Grant Applications: 10 January 2025
- Abstract Submission: 10 February 2025
- Early Bird Registration: 31 March 2025
- Further information: https://www.sfrrgalway2025.com
Interesting Redox Papers:
Asantewaa, G., Tuttle, E.T., Ward, N.P., et al. Glutathione synthesis in the mouse liver supports lipid abundance through NRF2 repression. Nat Commun (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50454-2
Esteban-Collado, J., Fernández-Mañas, M., Fernández-Moreno, M., et al. Reactive oxygen species activate the Drosophila TNF receptor Wengen for damage-induced regeneration. EMBO J (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44318-024-00155-9
Schwab, A., Rao, Z., Zhang, J., et al. Zeb1 mediates EMT/plasticity-associated ferroptosis sensitivity in cancer cells by regulating lipogenic enzyme expression and phospholipid composition. Nat Cell Biol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41556-024-01464-1
Bonetti, L., Horkova, V., Grusdat, M., et al. A Th17 cell-intrinsic glutathione/mitochondrial-IL-22 axis protects against intestinal inflammation. Cell Metab (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmet.2024.06.010
Lorito, N., Subbiani, A., Smiriglia, A., et al. FADS1/2 control lipid metabolism and ferroptosis susceptibility in triple-negative breast cancer. EMBO Mol Med (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44321-024-00090-6
Insightful Redox Reviews:
Furrer, R. & Handschin, C. Molecular aspects of the exercise response and training adaptation in skeletal muscle. Free Radic Biol Med (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2024.07.026
Berndt, C., Alborzinia, H., Amen, V.S., et al. Ferroptosis in health and disease. Redox Biol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.redox.2024.103211
Akaike, T., Morita, M., Ogata, S., et al. New aspects of redox signaling mediated by supersulfides in health and disease. Free Radic Biol Med (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2024.07.007
Nakamura, T. & Conrad, M. Exploiting ferroptosis vulnerabilities in cancer. Nat Cell Biol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41556-024-01425-8
Mialet-Perez, J. & Belaidi, E. Interplay between hypoxia inducible Factor-1 and mitochondria in cardiac diseases. Free Radic Biol Med (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2024.04.239