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About EPSO
EPSOpedia - EPSO's own Wikipedia
EPSO membership
EPSO observers
Links with other organisations
EPSO mission
EPSO bylaws
EPSO
strategy
Who we are
How to reach us
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EPSO MEMBERS
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Australia |
Australian Centre for Plant
Functional Genomics (ACPFG)

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Austria
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Vienna Plant Science Cluster ( University Cluster with:
University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna
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Max F.Perutz Laboratories,
University of Vienna -Vienna
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Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Vienna
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Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural
Hazards and Landscape, BFW
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Austrian Research Centers GmbH, Seibersdorf
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Belgium |
Flanders Institute for Biotechnology ,VIB, Gent 
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Bulgaria |
AgroBioInstitute, Kostinbrod
(New
Member State Cluster with:
Soil Science Institute N. Pushkarov - Sofia;
State Agricultural Institute, Gen. Toshevo ; Institute of
Plant Genetic Resources - Sadovo
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Institute of Maize - Kneja
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Cyprus |
Cyprus University of Technology
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Czech Republic |
Institute of Experimental Botany,
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Praha
(New Member State Cluster with: Mendel University – Brno
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Crop Research Institute – Prague
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Department of Plant Physiology, Charles University – Prague
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Institute of Plant Molecular Biology AS CR – Ceske
Budejovice
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Denmark |
Plant Biotech Denmark (University
Cluster with: Dep. of Plant Biology and Biotechnology , Dep. of Agriculture and Ecology and Dep. of Biology, Copenhagen University ;
Dep. of Genetics and Biotechnology and Dep. of Molecular
Biology, University of Aarhus
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Dep. of Biochemistry and Nutrition of the BioCentrum and Biosystems Department Riso, Technical University of Denmark
(Lyngby)
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Dep. of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Environmental
Egineering, University of Aalborg
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Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University
of Southern Denmark
)
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Estonia |
Tallinn University of Technology
(New Member State cluster with: Jõgeva Plant Breeding Institute
; Estonian University of Life Sciences – Tartu
;
University of Tartu
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Finland |
Helsinki/Turku/Oulu/Joensuu Cluster
( University Cluster with:
Viikki Research programme in Plant Biology, University of
Helsinki ; Department of Biology, Turku University
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Department of Biology, Oulu University
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Department of Biology and Faculty of Forest Sciences , Joensuu University
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VTT
Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo

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MTT Agrifood Research Finland, Jokioinen
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France |
CNRS (National research
organization with institutes in Bordeaux, Cadarache,
Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, Evry, Gif sur Yvette, Grenoble,
Ivry, Lille, Lyon , Marseille, Montpellier, Orsay, Paris,
Perpignan, Poitiers, Roscoff, Rouen, Sophia-Antipolis,
Strasbourg and Toulouse)

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INRA (National research
organisation with institutes in Angers, Antibes, Antilles-Guyane,
Avignon, Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Colmar, Corse, Dijon,
Jouy-en-Josas, Lille, Montpellier, Nancy, Nantes, Orleans,
Paris, Poitou-Charentes, Rennes, Toulouse, Tours,
Versailles-Grignon)

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CIRAD,
Montpellier 
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Germany |
Max Planck Institute
for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Max Planck Society 
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Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
(University Cluster with: Centre for Plant Molecular Biology
– Tübingen University
and Institute for Biology II – Freiburg University
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Max Planck Institute
for Molecular Plant Physiology, Golm,
Max Planck Society 
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Fraunhofer
Institute for Molecular Biotechnology, Aachen, Fraunhofer
Society 
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Gemeinschaft
zur Förderung der privaten deutschen Pflanzenzüchtung
e.V., Bonn

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Leibniz Institute for Plant
Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben

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Institute Phytosphere
Research; Research Center Jülich

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Leibniz Institute of Plant
Biochemistry, Halle (Saale)
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Technische Universität
München

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Julius Kuhn Institute, Federal
Research Centre for Cultivated Plants (JKI)
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Greece |
Agricultural University of Athens (University Cluster with:
University of Crete; National Hellenic Research Foundation
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Hungary |
Biological
Research Centre, Szeged, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
(New
Member State Cluster with: Agricultural Research Institute
HAS – Martonvásár
; Agricultural Biotechnology Centre -
Institute of Plant Biology - Gödöllö
; Wheat Genetics and
Breeding Department - Cereal Research Non-profit Company -
Szeged
; University of Szeged
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Dept. of Plant Physiology and Molecular Plant Biology Eotvos
University – Budapest
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Ireland |
BioResearch
Ireland, BRI, Dublin 
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Plant Science Group, School of Biological and Environmental
Science, University College Dublin

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Israel |
Zamir,
Wolf, Ori, Weiss and Adam Laboratories, The
Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The
Hebrew
University of Jerusalem

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Italy |
Italian Plant
Molecular Biology Consortium
(University Cluster with: University La Sapienza Roma, Dpt Genetica e Biologia Molecolare
; Univ of Siena, Dpt Biologia
Ambientale
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Centro Interdipartimentale
Ricerche Biotecnologiche (CIRB), Bologna

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Università degli Studi
di Milano

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Agro-Food Department of CNR (Plant
science groups from IBBA
,
IBIMET
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IGV
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IPP
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ISA
, ISAFoM
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ISPA
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ISPAAM
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IVV
and IBAF
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IBP
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IC
, IGB
,
IVALSA
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Japan |
RIKEN Plant Science Center |
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Netherlands |
Wageningen
University / EPS (University
Cluster of units from Wageningen University, Radboud
University, Utrecht University, Leiden University,
University of Amsterdam, Free University of Amsteradm, CBS-Knaw,
NIOO-KNAW)
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Plant Research International, Wageningen

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New Zealand |
CRI cluster
(consisting of: Scion
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Plant & Food Research
; AgResearch Limited, Hamilton
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Norway |
Department
of Plant and Environmental Sciences – Norwegian University
of Life Sciences, Ås

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Bioforsk Norwegian Institute for
Agricultural and Environmental Research, Ås
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Poland |
Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics,
Warsaw, Polish Academy of Sciences
(New Member States Cluster with: Department of Plant
Genetics Breeding and Biotechnology - Warsaw University of Life Sciences
; Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- University of Wrocław
; Department of Physiology and
Biochemistry - Research Institute of Pomology and
Floriculture – Skierniewice
; Department of Biochemical
Genetics - Institute of Plant Genetics, PAS – Poznań
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Poznan University Cluster ( New Member
State Cluster with: Faculty of Biology, Adam
Mickiewicz University
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Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Science
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Department of Genetics and Plant Molecular Biology and
Biotechnology, University of Lodz
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Faculty of Biology and Environmental protection, University
of Silesia
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Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology,
Jagiellonian University
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Portugal |
Institute
for Biological and Chemical Technology (ITQB),
New University of Lisbon
(University Cluster with:
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (IBET),
Instituto Gulbenkian de CIência (IGC),
Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA) - Universidade Técnica
de Lisboa,
Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade
de Lisboa (FCUL))
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Serbia |
Institute of Molecular
Genetics and Genetic Engineering, Belgrade
(New
Member State Cluster with: Faculty of Agriculture
and
Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade
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Molecular genetics and breeding,
Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops -
Novi Sad
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Slovakia |
Institute
of Plant Genetics and Biotechnology, Nitra, Slovak Academy
of Sciences
(New Member State Cluster with: Faculty of Natural Scieces,
Dept. Plant Physiology, Comenius University – Bratislava
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Botanical Institute, SAS – Bratislava
; Institute of Forest
Ecology, SAS, Zvolen
; Institute of Landscape Ecology, SAS –
Bratislava
; Faculty of Plant Genetics and Breeding, The
Slovak Agricultural University – Nitra
; Research Institute
of Plant Production – Piešťany
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Slovenia |
National Institute of Biology,
Ljubljana
( New Member State Cluster with: Biotechnical
Faculty, University of Ljubljana - Ljubljana
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Slovenian Forestry Institute - Ljubljana
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Agricultural Institute of Slovenia - Ljubljana
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Spain |
Spanish National Research Council, CSIC, Madrid 
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Laboratory of Plant Genetics, CSIC-IRTA, Barcelona
and Boronat Laboratory

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National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology, INIA, Madrid

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University Castilla la Mancha
(University Cluster with: University of Malaga
and University of Salamanca
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Sweden |
Umea Plant Science
Centre
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(Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
and Umeå
University
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Switzerland |
Zurich-Basel Plant Science
Center
(University Cluster of units from ETH Zurich, University of
Zurich and University of Basel)
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University
of Lausanne
(University
Cluster with: Institute of Plant Sciences -
University of Bern
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Department of Molecular Biology – University of Geneva
; Institute of Botany and Plant Physiology – University of
Neuchâtel
; Institute of Plant Biology – University of Fribourg
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Agroscope

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UA |
Institute of Food Biotechnology
and Genomics
(New Member State Cluster with: Institute of
Botany, Natl. Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Institute of
Plant Physiology and Genetics, Natl. Academy of Sciences of
Ukraine; National Botanical Garden, Natl. Academy of
Sciences of Ukraine; Kiev Natl. University)
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UK |
John
Innes Centre, Norwich, BBSRC

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University of Warwick

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Centre
for Plant Sciences (CPS), Faculty of Biological Sciences,
University of Leeds

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Scottish
Crop Research Institute, SCRI, Dundee

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Rothamsted Research,
Harpenden

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Plants and Environment Research Group, Lancaster University

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The Sainsbury
Laboratory

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EPSO observers:
NGO
Pieter De Corte, ELO (European Landowners' Organization)
Martin Frid, AEC (Association of
European Consumers)
Industry
Nathalie Moll, EuropaBio (The European
Association of BioIndustries)
Ralf-Michael Schmidt, BASF
Alain Murigneux & Georges Freyssinet, BIOGEMMA
EPSO has links to:
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Learned national societies or similar national scientific organisations
EPSO offers learned national societies and similar scientific organisations to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to join forces on policy issues.
Organisations interested in signing the MoU are welcome to contact EPSO.
As of October 2009, the following learned national societies signed the MoU:
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| SSPP |
Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society |
| SEB |
Society for Experimental Biology (representing the UK under the terms of the MoU) |
| DBG |
German Botanical Society |
| CSEBR |
Czech Society for Experimental Plant Biology |
SFBV
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Sociétés de Biologie végétale (FR)
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European Organisations |
| EFB |
European
Federation of Biotechnology |
| ELSF |
European Life Sciences Forum |
| ESF |
European Science Foundation |
| COST |
European Cooperation in Science and Technology |
| EUCARPIA |
The European Association of
Plant Breeders |
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FESPB
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Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology
Memorandum of understanding between EPSO and FESPB (Dec 2008) |
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ISE |
Initiative for Science in Europe |
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International organisations |
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ACRI |
New Zealand Association of Crown
Research Institutes |
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ASPB |
American
Society of Plant Biologists |
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ASPS |
Australian Society of Plant Scientists |
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CSPP |
Canadian
Society of Plant Physiologists / Plant Canada |
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JSPP |
Japanese
Society of Plant Physiologists |
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NZU |
New Zealand Universities |
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EPSO is a member of the Initiative for Science in Europe (ISE)
and has links
to the other ISE members: |
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ISE |
Initiative for Science in Europe |
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ELSF |
European Life Sciences Forum |
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EMBL |
European Molecular Biology
Laboratory |
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EMBO |
European Molecular Biology
Organization |
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EPS |
European Physical Society |
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ESF |
European Science Foundation |
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EUA |
European University Association |
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EUROSCIENCE |
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FEBS |
Federation of European Biochemical
Societies |
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Group of European Nobel Laureats |
contact:
Tim Hunt |
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Stifterverband für die
Deutsche Wissenschaft |
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EPSO is a member of the ELSF and has links to the other ELSF
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EAS |
European
Atherosclerosis Society |
| ELSO |
European
Life Scientist Organization |
| EMBO |
European Molecular Biology Organisation |
| EMBL |
European
Molecular Biology Laboratory |
| FEBS |
Federation
of European Biochemical Societies |
| FENS |
Federation
of European Neuroscience Societies |
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