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The European Calcium Society, past present and future
TThe start of our society followed the organization of various European Symposia on Calcium Binding Proteins in Normal and Transformed Cells, initiated under the visionary impulsion of Roland Pochet, Claus Heizmann, Jacques Haiech and Rosario Donato. In 1997 the “European Calcium Society” (ECS) was officially created, a web site was launched, newsletters started to be published on a regular basis, and the ECS grew. Subsequent scientific meetings were now organized every two years: Munster, 1998; Paris, 2000; Brussels, 2002; Cambridge, 2004; Strasbourg, 2006; Leuven, 2008 and Warsaw, 2010. More recently, it was decided to organize between the meetings also more focused workshops, allowing for more contacts (Seix, 2007; Smolenice, 2009). The next workshop is scheduled again in Seix (June 2011) and the next meeting (the 12th meeting already!) will be in Toulouse (September 2012). The aim of the ECS was and is to develop and sustain relationships between the different generations of scientists working in the field of calcium binding, calcium signalling and the study of the various proteins thereby involved (the "calcium toolkit"). The ECS is therefore proud to have a large number of young members, and to support attendance of junior researchers to its meetings, by attributing travel grants and poster prizes. To further foster the communication between its members the ECS has recently started to use Facebook in addition to the other communication means. The ultimate goal of the ECS hereby is to create and sustain a large, vivid community of all scientists from European countries (and even from the whole world), interested in and even enthusiastic about the calcium ion, willing to share information, to meet and to discuss results and to do this in an open and warm atmosphere of friendship. Before ending, it is also as secretary-general my duty to acknowledge here Jacques Haiech and Rosario Donato that in the past months retired from the ECS Board, and to thank them in name of the ECS for all the work they performed and that contributed to the present success of the ECS. At the last General Assembly (Warsaw, 2010), a reorganization of the Board took place and it is therefore now composed of:
Finally, I will conclude by wishing the ECS and all its members the best of success in all their endeavors!
Jan Parys,
Secretary-General (Leuven, November 16th, 2010) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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