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7th Melanoma Meeting, Nice, France, June 16-18, 2010

The 7th Melanoma Meeting, entitled “Emerging Concepts in Melanoma Biology. Pave the Road to New Therapies” will be held in Nice, France, on June 16-18, 2010.

This meeting is organized by Corine BERTOLOTTO, INSERM U895, Nice; Véronique DELMAS, Institut Curie, Orsay; Robert BALLOTTI, INSERM U895, Nice; Lionel LARUE, Institut Curie, Orsay; Jean-Paul ORTONNE, CHU, Nice; Alain SARASIN, IGR, Villejuif and the meeting pre-program includes, in addition, as invited speakers: Colin GODING, Friedrich BEERMANN, Alain MUAVIEL, Dot BENNETT, Marisol SOENGAS, Daniel PEEPER, Bernard WEHRLE-HALLER, Nathalie LABARRIERE, Richard MARAIS, Caroline ROBERT, Owen SANSOM, Luisa LANFRANCONE, Irwin DAVIDSON, Eirikur STEIMGRIMSSON, Eric GILSON, Marie-Dominique GALIBERT and Keith HOEK.

Registration fee is 70 Euros. Interested participants should contact Robert Ballotti.

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2010 ESPCR registration awards for the 16th ESPCR annual meeting

Dear ESPCR members,

Following a well established tradition, The European Society for Pigment Cell Research will provide SEVEN REGISTRATION  AWARDS  for attendance at XVI ESPCR meeting to be held at Hinxton-Cambridge (United Kingdom), on September 4-7, 2010.  Awards will cover exclusively conference registration and accommodation costs (in twin bed rooms), according to the ESPCR 2010 meeting web site. Applicants, typically  PhD student or junior scientists, may obtain full details at the ESPCR web site.  Awards will be made by the ESPCR Registration Awards Committee on a competitive basis.

Deadline for receiving applications: April 30, 2010

All the best,

Alessandra Napolitano, Chair, ESPCR Travel Awards Committee

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PAYPAL

Happy New Year!. Starting today, ESPCR can receive payments by credit card through a specific and secure ESPCR account established in PAYPAL. Currently, three forms of payment are available at the ESPCR for its members, to pay the corresponding annual fees: (1) bank wire transfer, (2) credit cards (via PAYPAL) and (3) cheques. Payments by cheques are surcharged whereas bank wire transfers and paypal payments are not. We hope this will greatly facilitate the registration and renewal administrative tasks, for registering members and for ESPCR Officers. Thanks for your patience, collaboration and understanding.

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The new ESPCR Society, “ESPCR AISBL“, has just established a brand new bank account where we will be processing all your membership payment requests. However, at the moment, unfortunately, we can’t accept payments by credit card. We will try to have this option operative as soon as possible. Therefore, currently, ESPCR AISBL can only accept payments by Bank Wire Transfer or by Cheque.

Payment through BANK WIRE TRANSFER using IBAN and BIC bank account codes is the preferred form of payment. Payment by Bank Wire Transfer is not surcharged. Payment by Cheque is surcharged with 15 Euros.

Deadline for receiving your application for 2010 ESPCR Membership is December 31st, 2009. We have established this early deadline to fulfill our compromises with the Publisher of PCMR, the scientitic journal associated to IFPCS, where ESPCR is part of the Federation. Please proceed to apply for 2010 ESPCR Membership following the provided indications in this web site.

If you have any question, please contact the ESPCR Treasurer by email: treasurer@espcr.org.

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2010 Welcome Letter from the ESPCR President (Lionel Larue)

The registration process for 2010 ESPCR Membership is ready. To become an ESPCR Member you have to pay the annual subscription, which presently is 105 EUR for regular members, or 70 EUR for PhD students, including mandatory on-line subscription to PCMR through the IFPCS website. In addition, if you would like to receive the printed version of the PCMR journal you should add 70 euros to these amounts, thus resulting in 175 EUR or 140 EUR, for regular or student members, respectively. DEADLINE for joining/renewing your 2010 ESPCR membership: December 31st, 2009. This early deadline is due to the link we have now with PCMR and the required and associated administrative agreements with the Publisher.
The annual membership fee can be paid by credit card, cheque or bank transfer. Since 2009, we accept payments of ESPCR Membership for up to 3 years in advance (up to 2012). Therefore, if you wish to pay for 3 years in a row and secure your 2010, 2011 and 2012 ESPCR Membership you are entitle to do so now. Simply select the appropriate field in the electronic registration form.
Should you have any question or problem, you might wish to ask the President, the Treasurer, or the Secretary or the ESPCR webmaster for additional help.

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Markus Böhm and Tanja Böhm

The 15th ESPCR meeting, held in Münster (Germany) during September 20-23, 2009, has just finished. Markus Böhm, his wife Tanja Böhm, and all the members of his lab and collaborators of the University that contributed to the success of this conference must be commended for a fantastic job, bringing together in a charming univeresity city, more than 200 scientists interested in Pigment Cell Biology. All the delegates will remind with sweet memories their participation in the ESPCR 2009 meeting.

Mauro Picardo and Lionel Larue

In Münster, there was a change in the Officers of the ESPCR. Most importantly, Lionel Larue (Institut Curie, Orsay, France) took the seat of the President of the Society, following the excellent work developed by Mauro Picardo (San Gallicano Research Institut, Rome, Italy) in the previous three years. The new Secretary is Alain Täïeb and the new Treasurer is Lluís Montoliu. Marie-Dominique Galibert, Rosalie Luiten and Robert Kelsh also joined the ESPCR council.

Ghanem Ghanem

Finally, in Münster also, the ESPCR was formally refounded, after the official registration of the Society as a not-for-profit International Scientific Association, according to the Belge law. This very important event would have not been possible without the most generous, instrumental and crucial work of Ghanem Ghanem (Univ. Libre Brussels), who systematically followed all the administrative path and eventually managed to achieve this long-awaited goal, namely, the official registration of our Society.

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ESPCR 2009 meeting booklet available to download

The “meeting booklet” of the next ESPCR 2009 meeting (to be held in Münster (Germany), September 20-23, 2009, organized by Markus Böhm) with the entire scientific and social program, plus a number of additional interesting and helpful information has been uploaded and made available from the ESPCR 2009 meeting web page.

Please note that the preregistration deadline for the ESPCR 2009 Meeting will end on September 15, 2009! Please note that on-site registration for the meeting will be more expensive and can be paid cash only (no credit cards or cheques possible).

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Today, June 23rd, 2009, the new ESPCR constitution has been registered in Belgium, thanks to the generous and dedicated work of Ghanem Ghanem, who acted as the ESPCR delegate before the Belgium Government, and to that of present and previous ESPCR council members, that pepared and reviewed the document eventually filed.

For this historic date, 11 ESPCR Members gathered in Brussels (10 members physically in Brussels: Mauro Picardo, Ghanem Ghanem, Alain Taïeb, Alessandra Napolitano, Jo Lambert, Lionel Larue, Dot Bennett, Lluís Montoliu, Patrick Riley and Stan Pavel, as shown in the attached picture, plus José Carlos García-Borrón, represented by a proxy), before a notary, to approve and register the new ESPCR constitution, in order to become an officially registered non-profit international association, according to the Belgian law of June 27th, 1921, on non-profit organizations, non-profit international associations and foundations.

The registration process is expected to finish by September 2009 when the newly founded ESPCR will receive an official number, as approved international non-profit association, and its corresponding tax identification number (VAT). Additional details will be communicated by ESPCR Officers in due time. The new ESPCR constitution will be presented in Münster, at the ESPCR 2009 meeting.

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ESPCR 2009 meeting

Dear colleagues, Dear friends,

Upon request from several members of our society, I am happy to inform you that the abstract deadline for the 15th Meeting of the ESPCR, to be held in Münster, Germany, September 20-23, 2009, will be extended to June 10th, 2009.

Until now we have received a very promising number of abstracts indicating that our ESPCR 2009 Meeting will become a stimulating and successful international meeting. By slightly extending the deadline, I hope that this will create more relaxation to all of us for preparation of an abstract. Please note that there
will be also an extra slot for “fresh from the bench abstracts”. These abstracts – although printed the ESPCR 2009 Meeting booklet – however, will be posters only, and they will not be printed in the October 2009 issue of PCMR.

I look forward for your special contribution to the ESPCR 2009 Meeting and to welcome in Münster, Germany, in September 2009!

Best wishes,
Markus Bohm, MD
-Organizer of the ESPCR 2009 Meeting-

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PCMR access through IFPCS web site

Members-Only Area of IFPCS WEB SITE

Registered IFPCS Members are entitled to access full online contents of the scientific journal Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research (PCMR), through the MEMBERS-ONLY area of the IFPCS web site. Exclusive access requires unique (personal) username and password combinations, available for each registered IFPCS member. These parameters can be easily requested to the system, which will send an automatic reminder to the email address associated to the corresponding registered IFPCS Member.

If you are a registered IFPCS Member and fail to access the MEMBERS-ONLY area of the IFPCS web site, please contact the IFPCS webmaster who will fix the problem and inform you what to do.