FEBS Letters

The latest Special Issue of FEBS Letters, “Inositol phosphates and phosphoinositides — functions and cellular dynamics”, brings together 15 complementary review articles by renowned experts. To accompany this issue, FEBS Letters is holding a free webinar on Oct 21, 2026, 09:00 AM BST.

The latest issue of FEBS Letters is out now! Featuring research and review content on membrane biology and the cytoskeleton, together with our latest The Scientists’ Forum article — where we speak with AIProSaB, a patient advocacy group for people living with progeria. 🔗 tinyurl.com/FEBSL20

📣 Congratulations to Zuzana Koskova (@zuzanakoskova.bsky.social ), winner of the FEBS Letters Poster Prize at the EMBO | EMBL Symposium: The complex life of RNA, held in Heidelberg, Germany. Poster Title: A two-step chromosome-retention mechanism enables pre-rRNA inheritance through mitosis #RNA

📬 FEBS Letters is pleased to announce the publication our 19th issue of 2026. Our latest issue is focused on for human health, with articles focused on cancer biology and human viral and bacterial pathogens. 📡 #Research, #Biochemistry, #Publishing 🔍 Take a deeper dive: lnkd.in/eK--Gmgd

🔔 Our new issue is live! Featuring: Reviews on Argonaute proteins, intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs), and cell surface proteins; Original research on plastic-degrading enzymes, parasite survival, and more; A Scientists’ Forum article on combating predatory publishers. tinyurl.com/FEBSL18

📣 Shoutout to Nikol Gelman (Technion), winner of a FEBS Letters Poster Prize at the EMBO Workshop: Autophagy: Foundations, Functions and Physiology. Poster Title: Phase Separation of ER-Phagy Receptors as a Signal-Integrating Mechanism in Cellular Quality Control and Disease @events.embl.org

🔔 Our latest Special Issue is live! 🎰 This issue features 15 review articles by experts, highlighting how soluble inositol phosphates, inositol pyrophosphates, and phosphoinositides form an interconnected signalling network with fundamental and translational relevance. 🔗 tinyurl.com/2s3fawaa

📣 Congratulations to Calina Muresan, winner of a FEBS Letters Poster Prize at the FEBS Advanced Course: Biochirality Across Scales, held in Nice, France Poster Title: Trace analysis of D-amino acids in dried blood specimens by LC-MS/MS 📡 #PosterPrize, #Biochirality, #FEBSAdvancedCourse, #Research

📨 You've got (𝘍𝘌𝘉𝘚) 𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴! 📬 Our latest The Scientists' Forum piece proposes an accreditation system to stop predatory publishing — raising standards and restoring public trust in science. 📡#ResearchIntegrity, #ScholarlyPublishing, #Science 📝 @paulbrainey.bsky.social 🔍 tinyurl.com/4vkt923p

Stop paying predatory publishers of academic journals - A policy proposal to restore scientific integrity and transparency (via @febsletters.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1002/1873...

📬 Issue 16 is live! Featuring: 🔬 Review content on iron ion chelators and epigenetics 🦠 Plus: Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, SMN antisense oligonucleotides, metabolic health, Homer1, cholinergic nerve terminals, and a call for unified ARS gene nomenclature. 🔍 Read it here: tinyurl.com/FEBSL16

📣 Shoutout to Casidhe Hughes (Brown University), winner of the FEBS Letters Poster Prize at the International Retinoids Conference VIII, held in Niagara Falls, NY. Poster Title: A Genome-to-Function Framework to Identify and Characterize Bacterial Retinoid Metabolism. 📡 #PosterPrize, #Retinoids

📣 Congratulations to Emily Megill (Temple University), winner of the FEBS Letters Poster Prize at the International Retinoids Conference VIII, held in Niagara Falls, NY. Poster Title: Investigating Vitamin A Dysregulation in Human Heart Organoids. 📡 #PosterPrize, #Retinoids, #Research

FEBS Letters is excited to be attending the 'Biochirality across scales' FEBS Workshop at the Université Côte d'Azur Grand Château in Nice, France! Looking forward to a fascinating multidisciplinary course discussing chirality from the level of molecules to organisms. #biochirality #chirality

📬 Issue 15 of 2026 is now live! Featuring: 🔬 Review content on the Xkr protein family. 🧠 Original research on ethyl viologen, mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation, the plant mitochondrial OrfX protein, and much more! 📡 #Biochemistry, #Research 🔍 Read the issue here: tinyurl.com/FEBSL15

The complex life of RNA EMBO | EMBL Symposium is taking place 13 - 16 Oct 2026 in Heidelberg AND virtually! Register by 1 September for on-site attendance here: www.embl.org/about/info/c... #RNA #RNAbiology @events.embl.org @embo.org @embl.org

📬 Issue 14 of 2026 is now live! Featuring: 🔬 Review content on α-synuclein aggregation and CFTR stability. 🧠 Original research on tau, TDP-43, structural instability in hUXS1, and more! 📡 #Biochemistry, #Research, #Neuroscience 🔍 Read the issue here: tinyurl.com/FEBSL14

The recording of our free webinar on circadian clocks with hosts Carrie Partch and Emery Usher, Ph.D. is now available to watch online! ➡️ febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/... Featuring talks by Jerome Menet , Priya Crosby, and Emery Usher, Ph.D.

There's still time to submit your abstract for the "DNA replication and genome maintenance: from basic biology to human health" EMBO | EMBL Symposium in Heidelberg 20 - 23 Oct 2026! 📝Submit abstract by 28 July tinyurl.com/4ep5v678 🎫Register by 8 Sep 2026 🌎🛜Heidelberg, Virtual @embo.org @embl.org

How do you track thousands of cells in complex systems, in 3D & over time? We are launching a Kaggle challenge to push the frontier of AI-powered cell tracking, building on advances like Ultrack & the DaXi lightsheet microscope from the @loicaroyer.bsky.social lab. bit.ly/4bfdzWE

📣 Congratulations to Jasper van Schelt, winner of the FEBS Letters Poster Prize at the EMBO | EMBL Symposium — Microtubules: from atoms to complex systems. Poster Title: MAP7D1 Senses Microtubule Lattice Expansion to Direct Kinesin-1 to Stable Microtubule Subsets. @events.embl.org

📬 Issue 13 of 2026 is now live! Featuring: 🔬 Review content on atomic force microscopy and cellular proteostasis 🦠 Original research glycosomes, centrosomes, lysosomes, and cellular mechanisms that enable cancer progression 📡 #Biochemistry, #Research 🔍 Read the issue here: tinyurl.com/FEBSL13

The 2026 FEBS Letters Award was presented to Peter Brzezinski, Professor of Biochemistry at Stockholm University. Peter is an outstanding researcher, and we are truly honoured to have attended his plenary lecture at the 2026 FEBS Congress in Maastricht! @febspress.bsky.social #FEBSCongress2026

🏆 Congratulations to Theresa Hommel from University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, for winning the FEBS Letters Poster Prize on day 4 of the 50th FEBS Congress, held in Maastricht, The Netherlands! #FEBSCongress2026 @febspress.bsky.social @febsjuniorsection.bsky.social

🏆 Congratulations to Tizibt Ashine Bogale from Trinity College Dublin, for winning the FEBS Letters Poster Prize on day 3 of the 50th FEBS Congress, held in Maastricht, The Netherlands! #FEBSCongress2026 @tcddublin.bsky.social @febspress.bsky.social @febsjuniorsection.bsky.social

🏆 Congratulations to Tetiana Strutynska from University of Helsinki, for winning the FEBS Letters Poster Prize on day 2 of the 50th FEBS Congress, held in Maastricht, The Netherlands! #FEBSCongress2026 @febspress.bsky.social @febsjuniorsection.bsky.social

📫 The 50th FEBS Congress starts today in Maastricht, The Netherlands! 📨 At our booth, we will be giving away magnets and graphical review posters. You can also sign up for one of our "Meet the Editors" sessions on Monday and Tuesday. We would love to see you at our sessions! #FEBSCongress2026

📨 The FEBS Congress starts tomorrow! 📣 Swing by the FEBS booth to register for one of our "Meet the Editor" sessions, which will be held on Monday and Tuesday, if you want to speak to one of our (very friendly!) FEBS Letters editors about our journal and their work. #FEBSCongress2026

📨 It is almost time for the 50th FEBS Congress — held in Maastricht, The Netherlands. We are looking forward to seeing you there! If you are not able to make it, we have recently published a special issue to celebrate. 🔗 Check out the issue here: febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

📣 Shoutout to @dobrawaamiri.bsky.social, winner of the FEBS Letters Poster Prize at the 28th Annual Meeting of the French Exocytosis-Endocytosis Club, held in Aussois, France. Congratulations! Poster Title: Dynamics of lipid transfer protein VPS13A at ER-endosome contact sites in stress response.

📣 Huge congratulations to Nathaniel Deimler, winner of the FEBS Letters Poster Prize at the recent EMBO Workshop: Telomere function and maintenance in health and disease, held in Lazise, Italy Poster Title: The TARPON Shoal: Telomere Analysis Pipelines for Humans and Model Organisms 📡 #PosterPrize

📣 Congratulations to Shamayita Roy, winner of the FEBS Letters Poster Prize at the recent EMBO Workshop: Telomere function and maintenance in health and disease, held in Lazise, Italy Poster Title: TERRA–TRF1 Interactions at Damaged Telomeres 📡 #PosterPrize, #EMBOTelomereMaintenance, #Research

Our free webinar on Circadian Clocks is taking place TODAY at 17:00 BST/18:00 CEST! Hosted by Carrie Partch and Emery Usher, and featuring talks by Jerome Menet, Emery Usher, and Priya Crosby. 📹 Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

📬 Issue 12 of 2026 is now live! Featuring: 🧠 A review on neurodevelopmental disruption in primary mitochondrial disorders. 🔬 Original research into development, signalling, mitochondria, and more. 📡 #Biochemistry #Neuroscience #Development #Mitochondria 🔍 Read the issue here: tinyurl.com/FEBSL12

📨 Register now for the next FEBS Letters free webinar: Circadian Clocks. 🧑‍🔬 Speakers include Jerome Menet, Emery Usher, and Priya Crosby. 🔍 Check out the special issue here: febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/18733468... 📹 And register for free for the webinar here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

📣 Congratulations going out to Aditi Kakkad (University of Groningen, Netherlands), winner of the FEBS Letters Poster Prize at the EMBO | EMBL Symposium: Cellular mechanisms driven by phase separation, held in Heidelberg, Germany. 📡 @events.embl.org, #EESPhaseSeparation

🔔 Issue 11 of 2026 is now live! Featuring: 📑 A review of innovative surface labelling strategies at the host–pathogen interface 📚 Original research into bacterial secretion systems and terpene synthases, crystallographic screening, fission yeast, and sake strain mutations 🔗 tinyurl.com/3b44z3ab

📣 Congratulations to Fanny Nobilleau (Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Canada), winner of the FEBS Letters Poster Prize at the 4th Canadian Zebrafish Research Community (CZRC) meeting, held in Montréal, Canada. 📡 #PosterPrize, #Zebrafish, #CZRC, #Research

📣 Huge congratulations to Elizabeth Jones (Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, USA), winner of the FEBS Letters Poster Prize at the 4th Canadian Zebrafish Research Community (CZRC) meeting, held in Montréal, Canada! 📡 #PosterPrize, #Zebrafish, #CZRC, #Research

📣 Congratulations to Harriet Smith (Francis Crick Institute, London, UK), winner of the FEBS Letters Poster Prize at the EMBO Workshop: Building networks: engineering in vascular biology, held in Barcelona, Spain. 📡 #EMBOBuildNetworks, @events.embl.org, @harrietasmith.bsky.social

🔔 Register for the next FEBS Letters free webinar! Featuring three talks on advances in circadian clocks. ⏰️ Thursday 25th June 2026 at 18:00 CEST ⌚️ Hosted by Carrie Partch (@partchlab.bsky.social) and Emery Usher (@idpemery.bsky.social) 🔗 For information and registration: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🔔Our latest special issue, guest edited by Dr. Panagiotis L. Kastritis, is now live! 🧊 Eight reviews explore the role of cryo-EM in understanding diverse complexes, painting a picture of a field moving toward greater understanding of metabolic architecture. ❄️ tinyurl.com/FEBSCryoEM

🧬Work on #transcription and/or #chromatin? 📙The abstract submission deadline for the EMBL ‘Transcription and chromatin’ conference in Heidelberg, 25-28 Aug 26 is next Tuesday (26th May)! 📝Register online here: www.embl.org/about/info/c... @embl.org @embo.org

🎉We congratulate 🌟Olivér Závoti🌟(Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary), winner of the FEBS Letters #PosterPrize at the EMBO/FEBS Lecture Course on #IonChannels and transporters, held in Erice, Italy! 🎊🎉👏👏👏