EURRECA MEETING REPORT AND ACTIONS

Final. 08/12/2014
Zn-Net COST Action TD 1304
Management Committee Meeting
3rd November, 2014, School of Ophthalmology, University College, London
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Meeting:
3rd Management Committee Meeting
Document for:
X
Approval/Comment
Discussion
Decision
MEETING REPORT AND ACTIONS
ACTIVITY GROUPS INVOLVED:
MC members
PURPOSE OF MEETING:
Management Committee Agenda
ATTENDEES:
MC Members (Appendix N°1)
DATE:
3rd November, 2014
TIME / DURATION:
1 hour
PLACE / TELE / VIDEO:
Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL, London,
United Kingdom
REPORTER:
Marisol Warthon-Medina
Agenda
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Welcome to participants (Nicola Lowe)
Adoption of agenda
Approval of minutes and matters arising of last meeting
Update from the Action Chair (Nicola Lowe)
a.
Status of Action, including participating countries
b.
Action budget status/update from Grant Holder
Formal MC approval of Budget flexibility (Whether MC would approve money
between budget headings) will be requested
c.
Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) status
Promotion of gender balance and of Early Stage Researchers (ESR)
Update from the COST Office
Follow-up of MoU objectives
a.
Progress report of working groups (WG leaders: WG1 Prof. Mike Watkinson;
WG2 Prof. Elena Planells; WG3 Prof. Arie Moran; WG4 Dr Gündoğ Yucesan; WG5
Dr Imre Lengyel)
Scientific planning
a. Scientific strategy- Manifesto and Logical framework (Nicola Lowe)
b. Action Budget Planning- Year 2 draft plan for approval by MC
c. Long-term planning (including anticipated locations and dates of future activities:
Lothar Rink, proposal for joint conference in 2016 with ISZB for approval by MC)
d. Dissemination planning (Publications and outreach activities) )- VIZIBI (Imre
Lengyel and Elisa Bollomo)
Location and date of next meeting: Granada, 14-17 April, 2015
a.
Plans for conference and MC meeting for year 2 (2015) (Elena Planells/Irina
Korichneva). MC approval of Venue, dates and preliminary programme will be
requested.
Requests for new members
a.
Nominations of country representatives and additional substitutes for all
countries (List of countries) (Lothar Rink)
AOB
Summary of MC decisions
Closing
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Minutes
1. Meeting was opened at 8. 00 am. Participants were welcome by NL
2. Agenda was adopted.
3. Approval of minutes and matters arising of last meeting: The minutes were approved
and all matters arising will be covered by the agenda, including the action grid.
4. Update from the Action Chair (Nicola Lowe)
a. Status of Action, including participating countries: NL gave an update
of the ACTION and showed that the ACTION now has 26 partners and
43 MC members and emphasized a reminder for countries where there is
one MC to find two MC members and substitutes. See presentation slide
(Appendix N°2).
b. Action Budget Status: An update on 1 year budget was given and it was
noted that year 1 is on a target to meet on a budget of 152 000 euros.
However, final expenditure from London Meeting is not yet known. MC
members are encouraged to submit claim before the end of November.
NL asked the MC for approval to have the flexibility to move up to 5000
euros between budget headings. This approval was given.
c. Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) status: PG was unable to attend.
NL presented summary of STSM for year 1. See presentation (Appendix
N°3). It was noted that in year 2 we will be looking to support 20 STSMs.
5. Promotion of gender balance and of Early Stage Researchers (ESR)
NL presented gender balance. For the STSM gender balance, see presentation (Appendix
N°2). NL indicated that questionnaires will be handed out to MC members, conference
and workshop participants to ask about participation in the Mentoring Scheme and to
look for candidates willing to be ESR Rep. IL nominated EB to be ESR rep. then we will
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also seek a deputy ESR rep through the questionnaire, in order to promote sense of
community among ESRs and add their presence in the website. MC committee formally
approved the appointment of Elisa Bellomo as the ESR rep.
NL also mentioned the mentoring scheme and there was a proposal for collaboration
between COST actions TA1201 gender STE and Zinc-Net TD1304,
6. Update from the COST Office: See Maria’s presentation (Appendix N°4), this was
presented by Anja, who took questions and answered MC member’s queries. Anja
reminded us of the importance to attract Industry under the new Horizon 2020 objectives.
Action: Include Industry involvement in our meetings next year (GY)
Anja also stated that the COST office is going through changes and that she will no longer
be our COST administrative officer for next year, Ms Milena Stoyanova
[email protected] will take over.
Prof Jaap Keiger and Prof Judit Ovadi queried the measurement of the ACTION success.
This is measured by the number of meetings, workshops/symposia/training schools,
number of STSMs, number of participating countries/participants, percentage of female,
percentage of ESR, joint publications (numbers and impact), website, joint workshops
with other actions, developed resources, funded resources. See selected slide from
Budapest Minutes (Appendix N°5).
Anja also stated that rapporteurs will no longer be invited to meetings. Dr. Ioanna
Stavridou remarks: “The mandate of the COST Domain Committees will end on 30
September 2014. After this date the role of the DC Rapporteur ceases to exist and DC
Rapporteurs must not be invited to attend Action activities. Any funds paid to DC
Rapporteurs for Action activities taking place after 30 September 2014 will be
considered ineligible expenses and will not be accepted by COST”.
7. Follow-up of MoU objectives
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NL reminded MC Members the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) objectives of the
action.
a.
Progress report of working groups (WG leaders: WG1 Prof. Mike Watkinson;
WG2 Prof. Elena Planells; WG3 Prof. Arie Moran; WG4 Dr Gündoğ Yucesan; WG5 Dr
Imre Lengyel).
All working group leaders: MW, EP, AM, GY and IL gave a summary of year 1.
(Appendix N°6)
Action: All MC members to acknowledge our COST Action in publications, either in a) any
article where the author is an MC member or b) if the publication is a direct result of COST
funding.
Action: MWM to circulate statements to use in both scenarios. Send to all MC members. (this
is done, see the action grid for the statements)
GY mentioned the preparation of the workshop in Antalya and to get industry on board.
NL clarified that WG2 EP and WG5 IL will be speaking later in the agenda.
Action: GY to draft a letter of invitation for Industry for the Antalya meeting, to be sent by the
MC Chair.
8. Scientific planning
a. Scientific strategy- Manifesto and Logical framework (Nicola Lowe)
The manifesto and logical framework has been circulated and it is a working document
that will be updated periodically and will be placed in the VIZIBI. NL welcome
contributions and suggestions.
Action: All to input in logical framework
b. Action Budget Planning- Year 2 draft plan for approval by MC. See Slide (Appendix
N°7). MC gave approval for the Year 2 workplan and budget.
c. Long-term planning (including anticipated locations and dates of future activities:
Lothar Rink, proposal for joint conference in 2016 with ISZB for approval by MC).
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MC approved in principle. Further discussions with the ISZB and its membership was
necessary before final decision can be made.
d. Dissemination planning (Publications and outreach activities) - VIZIBI (Imre Lengyel
and Elisa Bollomo). IL gave us an update on the VIZIBI website. VIZIBI was improved
and showed new features, explained log in, forum and sharing box documents for MC
members. IL highlighted the 2 day Zinc-NET Workshop 4-5th November, 2014:
Measuring Zinc at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology.
Other dissemination events that have highlighted the launch of Zinc-Net in 2014 include:
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LR presented Zinc-Net at TEMA (Trace Elements in Man and Animals) in
Orlando, USA 22-26th June, 2014.
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NL presented Zinc-Net at ISZB (International Society for Zinc Biology) in
Asilomar, US from the 14-19th September, 2014.
9.
Location and date of next meeting: Granada, 14-17 April, 2015
a. Plans for conference and MC meeting for year 2 (2015) (Elena Planells/Irina
Korichneva). EP presented both planned Granada 14-17 April, 2015 and
Metallothionein Czech Republic 15-16 June, 2015 Meeting.
Action: MC members to volunteer to speak at the Granada meeting and contact
EP.
There was a discussion whether ESRs will be invited to this meeting, but NL
explained that this was not a priority because the concept of the meeting was to
have “high level” discussions in the form of the “think-tank” rather than a
conference style meeting with presentations from ESRs. A meeting specifically
for ESRs is planned in Antalya later in 2015.
EP also gave a positive reflection on the 1st year.
The CG will be discussing by skype details of the Metallothionein meeting which
will be circulated.
10. Requests for new members
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a. Nominations of country representatives and additional substitutes for all countries (List
of countries) (LR). This was covered by the chair’s presentation.
11. AOB
It was noted that MC members should put a link of the Zinc-Net in their professional
profile.
For meeting in November, 2015 the venue was confirmed to be in Antalya
Anja also emphasized for claims, that taxi fares will not be reimbursed without prior
consent from the COST office and can only be used when there are no other options.
Public transport should be used whenever possible. She also mentioned that COST
Vademecum will be updated therefore we should check the COST website:
http://www.cost.eu/participate/networking
Action: EB to link to the new COST Vademecum in our VIZIBI website.
12. Summary of MC decisions
NL gave a summary of approved items:
MC Approval of budget flexibility 
MC Approval of year 2 workplan and budget 
MC committee formally approved the appointment of Elisa Bollomo as the ESR rep. 
MC Agreement in principle of joint conference in 2016 with ISZB 
MC Approval of venue, dates and preliminary programme of scheduled meetings in
Granada, Czech Republic and Turkey .
13. Closing
Meeting was closed at 10.00 am.
Action
Date for
completion
All MC members to acknowledge our COST Continuous
Person responsible
All MC Members
Action in publications
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Three acknowledgement types:
1.
For works at least partially inspired by
exchanges fostered by an Action or benefiting
from the coordination provided by an Action,
regardless of the number or the status of
authors, use the following text:
The author(s) would like to acknowledge the
contribution of the COST Action <Action id>.
2.
For works co-authored by at least two
WG/MC members from at least two different
countries participating to the Action:
The author(s) would like to acknowledge
networking support by the COST Action
<Action id>.
3.
For outputs of Short-Term Scientific
Missions:
This work was supported by a STSM Grant from
COST Action <Action id>.
To engage Industry with the Antalya meeting Continuous
GY/ALL
and other meetings taking place in 2015
GY to draft a letter of invitation for Industry for March 2015
GY
the Antalya meeting, to be sent by the MC Chair.
To circulate acknowledgment statements to use Dec 2014
MWM- Done, see above
in both scenarios.
To contribute to the Logical Framework (this is Before June
located in the share folder in VIZIBI)
All MC Members
2015
MC members to come forward / volunteer as January 2015
MC Members
speakers and to contact EP regarding Granada
and Metallothionein programme meeting.
To link to the new COST Vademecum in our January 2015
EB
VIZIBI website.
To send publications to EB/IL to be added to our Continuous
All
VIZIBI website
Complete Expertise slide template (if not Nov
MC Members
already done so) and forward to MWM
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Appendix N°1: Attendees:
Chair and Vice-Chair
Name
Nicola Lowe
Lothar Rink
Category/Position
MC Chair
MC Vice-Chair
Country
United Kingdom
Germany
Management Committee Members
Name
Category/Position
Country
1. Radostina Alexandrova
MC Member
Bulgaria
2. Antje Biesemeier
MC Member
Germany
3. Vesna Dragutinovic
MC Member
Serbia
4. Tamas Gajda
MC Member
Hungary
5. Jasenka Gajdos Kljusuric
MC Substitute
Croatia
6. Claudio Gomes
MC Member
Portugal
7. Hector Gonzalez-Iglesias
MC Member
Spain
8. Ivo Grabchev
MC Member
Bulgaria
9. Michal Hershfinkel
MC Member
Israel
10. Joanna Kaluza
MC Member
Poland
11. Jaap Keijer
MC Member
Netherlands
12. Renata Kobetic
MC Member
Croatia
13. Irina Korichneva
MC Member
France
14. Agnete Larsen
MC Member
Denmark
15. Imre Lengyel
MC Member
United Kingdom
16. Fernando Lidon
MC Member
Portugal
17. Nicola Lowe
MC Chair
United Kingdom
18. Saulius Marcinkonis
MC Member
Lithuania
19. Ladislav Mensik
MC Member
Czech Republic
20. Maarten Merkx
MC Member
Netherlands
21. Arie Moran
MC Member
Israel
22. Danina Mirela Muntean
MC Member
Romania
23. Judit Ovadi
MC Member
Hungary
24. Katarina Pavsic Vrtac
MC Substitute
Slovenia
25. Elena Planells
MC Member
Spain
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26. Lothar Rink
MC Vice-Chair
Germany
27. Pal Rongved
MC Member
Norway
28. Anna Tomas
MC Substitute
Portugal
29. Giovanni Tosi
MC Member
Italy
30. Robert Gabriel Tripon
MC Substitute
Romania
31. Mike Watkinson
MC Member
United Kingdom
32. Gundog Yucesan
MC Member
Turkey
Administrative Officer of the Action:
Name
Anja Van Der Snickt
Category/Position
Country
Action Administrative Officer
Belgium
Apologies:
Science Officer: Dr Maria Moragues Canovas
Apologies from Management Committee Members:
Name
Category/Position
Country
1. Melih Aksoy
MC Substitute
Turkey
2. Mustafa Atalay
MC Member
Finland
3. Ovidiu Bedreag
MC Member
Romania
4. Philipp Gerber
MC Member
Switzerland
5. Breda Jakovac Strajn
MC Member
Slovenia
6. Jozef Janda
MC Member
Czech Republic
7. Jozica Jezek
MC Member
Slovenia
8. Fridbert Jonasson
MC Member
Iceland
9. Theodore Karyotis
MC Member
Greece
10. Artur Krezel
MC Member
Poland
11. Snezana Mandic
MC Member
Serbia
12. Christos Noulas
MC Member
Greece
13. Peep Palumaa
MC Member
Estonia
14. Giuditta Perozzi
MC Member
Italy
15. Giulia Ranaldi
MC Substitute
Italy
16. Suzana Rimac Brncic
MC Member
Croatia
17. Kamille Smidt
MC Member
Denmark
18. Belma Turan
MC Member
Turkey
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Appendix N°2: Status of Action (Chair’s presentation)
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Note: Error on Slide. The meeting in Granada is proposed for April 2015
After CG discussion, the STSM conference in Antalya will take place in November 2105
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Appendix N°3 : Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) status (Summary by PG)
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Zinc-Net
The Network for the Biology of Zinc
Short Term Scientific Missions 2015
Call for travel grant applications
Deadline for applications: Friday 5 December
2014
Support of Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) is one of the core objectives of
Zinc-Net (http://www.cost.eu/domains_actions/fa/Actions/TD1304, http://zincnet.com, COST Action TD1304). Eligible scientists (see below for criteria) working
in the field of zinc biology are encouraged to plan visits at other eligible institutions
(see below for criteria) in order to expand their knowledge and research skills, to
strengthen international collaboration and to work on multi-institutional, multidisciplinary projects aligning with the remits of Zinc-Net. STSM support is a unique
opportunity to financially support young, early stage researchers (PhD students or up
to 8 years after PhD) to build collaborations and learn new methodologies. Advanced
stage researcher (over 8 years after PhD) may also apply to build collaboration
and/or write grant proposals with Zinc-Net members.
Details
Short Term Scientific Missions – what is supported?
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Financial support of scientific exchange visits of the applicant to a host institution
Duration of supported missions should be 5-90 days, or up to 180 days for early stage
researchers (ESR, PhD students and up to 8 years of experience after the PhD)
Visits should start on or after Monday 5 January 2015 but end before or on Friday 27
November 2015
Applicants – who will be supported?
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Applicants must be engaged in a research programme as a postgraduate student or
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postdoctoral fellow or be employed by or officially affiliated to an institution or legal
entity (=Home institution)
Applications from early stage researchers (as described above) will be prioritised
Home and host institutions
Home institutions must be:
a participating COST country
(http://www.cost.eu/domains_actions/fa/Actions/TD1304?parties)
- or an approved near neighbours country (NNC)
(http://www.cost.eu/about_cost/cost_countries/international_cooperation/nnc)
- or European RTD organisation (http://www.cost.eu/participate)
Host institutions:
- another participating COST country
- or a cooperation state
- or they must be approved as a host institution by the zinc-net STSM committee
([email protected])
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Financial support
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A STSM grant is a fixed, reimbursable contribution based on the budget requested
by the applicant and the evaluation of the application. The aim of this grant is to
support the costs associated with the exchange visit. This grant may not necessarily
cover all expenses; it is intended as a contribution to the travel and subsistence
costs of the participant.
IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT EXPENSES ARE REIMBURSED AFTER
THE EXCHANGE IS COMPLETED AND A REPORT IS SUBMITTED AND
ACCEPTED BY COST
The calculation of the contribution for an STSM is based on the following rules:
o Reimbursement rate per day is a maximum EUR 160
o up to EUR 500 may be attributed for the travel expenses;
o maximum amount that can be claimed is EUR 2 500 in general
o in case of early career researchers (up to 8 years after PhD) exchange visits
can be extended to up to 180 days, in which case the contribution can be
raised to a maximum of EUR 3 500.
Criteria for grant allocation
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Projects must comply with the aim of the COST initiative
Novelty and feasibility of the project
Scientific reputation of the host institution / group
Scientific record of the applicant
Applications – formal requirements
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Obtain written agreement of the host institution before submitting an application
Completion of the online application form (https://e-services.cost.eu/stsm)
The completed file as e-mail attachment together with the necessary supporting
documents (CV, full work plan, list of publications, motivation letter, letter of
support from the home institution etc.) should be sent to
[email protected]
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Deadline for applications: Friday 5 December 2014
For reimbursement:
o Submission of a short scientific report to [email protected] for
approval within 30 days after the end date of the STSM (Purpose of the
STSM; Description of the work carried out during the STSM; Description of
the main results; Future collaboration with host institution (if applicable))
o Foreseen publications/articles resulting from the STSM (if applicable) o
Confirmation by the host institution of the successful STSM execution o
Travel tickets and receipts
o Other comments (if any)
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Appendix N°4: Update from the COST Office (Summary by Maria presented by Anja,
selected slides)
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Appendix N°5: From Budapest Minutes: Giuseppe Lugano presentation
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From Budapest Minutes: Ilana Nathan Presentation:
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Appendix N°6: Summaries of Year 1
WORKING GROUP 1: CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, REPORT OF YEAR 1
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Key note talks were given at the Budapest meeting, including Wolfgang’s excellent
plenary lecture and the discussions that then followed.
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MW has spoken at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; The University of Lille, France
and at the IC3EM 2014 conference in Caparica, Portugal and highlighted the Action at
these.
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Significant contribution to the planning of the London training School- MW is one of
the speakers.
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MW organised a session on probes for zinc with speakers from the US, Australia, The
Netherlands and the UK- including the opportunity for a PhD student (female) to
present her work to the meeting.
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Publication: We don’t acknowledge the Action as we didn’t get any funding from it,
but it’s relevant to the mission and part of the ethos of the action (Chem. Sci., 2014, 5,
3528-3535).
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MM gave a lecture at the ISZB meeting in Asilomar discussing the use of genetically
encoded FRET sensors and will present in London on the 3rd.
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STSM exchanges in this area that I am aware of include Mrs Anne Hessels (PhD
student from my lab visiting Kathrin Taylor’s lab in Cardiff) and Mr Adam Pomorski
(PhD student form Krezel lab in Poland) visiting my group.
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Anne Hessels and MM have contributed tutorial reviews to the book edited by Fukada
and Kambe (Zinc Signals in Cellular Functions and Disorders) and Metallomics
(DOI: 10.1039/c4mt00179f). The latter acknowledges support by the COST action!
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WORKING GROUP 2: BIOMARKERS DISCOVERY
SUMMARY OF YEAR 1
From the beginning of the year 2014, our Working Group Zn- Biomarkers Discovery has
developed different activities based on the planned objectives.
In this first year, we have achieved the following objectives:
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In the meeting of Istanbul (January, 15th, 2014), we prepared the expected objectives for each
of the 4 years of our Network.
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We have recruited and registered 30 working group participants, but we hope to welcome
more.
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We have completed a database of researchers and groups interested in Zn biomarkers, available
in the web-based portal VIZIBI that permits the implementation of several channels to inform
and communicate our WG objectives and activities.
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Several presentations on biomarkers were given at the Budapest meeting, stimulating
discussions that have led to the proposal for a biomarkers discovery meeting in Granada in
2015. This was proposed at the last meeting in Budapest and discussed by skype by the WG2
Committee on the 1st October and the draft of the program was decided. We are going to
present it to the CG and MC in the Meeting in London on November 3rd.
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WORKING GROUP 3: CLINICAL COORDINATION, REPORT OF YEAR 1
The goals of WG3 for first year were to identify the interest and open questions as well as
searching for the people working on these subjects within Zinc Net. During the two MC
meetings, in Budapest and London, we had the opportunity to meet face to face and discuss the
issues in details. This was especially intensive during the Budapest meeting to which non MC
members of the zinc community were invited.
The speakers included Kathy Taylor, Mathieu Gautier, Andreas Grabrucker, Francesco
Piacenza, Ovadi.Judit and Zvezdana Jemuovic. Janet King was the key note speaker for WG3.
The talks were followed by general discussion. The discussion pointed out that studies today are
usually focused on a single issue (zinc homoeostasis in a given tissue, a certain transporter or
channel, etc.). It was agreed that work investigating integration of several such subjects and their
interelationship are needed. In addition, the need for new interdisciplinary approaches for study
of zinc and zinc related protein and their functions in health and disease were discussed. The
feeling is that Zinc Net may provide a suitable platform to facilitate these needs.
Subjects and researchers affiliated in the Clinical coordination group attracted 6 of the 8 STSM
approved in the first year of Zinc-Net.
These included:
Dr Marco Malavolta Zinc homeostasis and cellular senescence in Dianne Ford laboratory
Ms Anne Hessels Zinc-Net: The network for the Biology of Zinc in Kathy Taylor laboratory.
Dr Trine Maxel Juul to work on Zinc metabolism in obesity: ZIP14 and its zinc transporting
functions in pancreatic beta cells inf. Irina Korichneva laboratory.
Ms Marianne Perriere TRPM7 and Zinc Homeostasis in Anti-Hormone-Resistant Breast Cancer
Cells in Kathy Taylor Laboratory
Dr Judit Olah Zinc and the tubulin polymerization promoting protein TPPP/p25 in eye health in
Imre Lengyel laboratory
Dr Robert Gabriel Tripon Zinc Biology in Retinal Physiopathology in Imre Lengyel laboratory
List of recent publication of WG 3 members will be collected later. We hope that in the future
members of Zinc Net will add and acknowledgment to their published papers as well as list the
paper on VIZIBI.
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WORKING GROUP 4: INDUSTRIAL LIAISON, REPORT OF YEAR 1
Istanbul Meeting was organized in collaboration with the Yıldız Technical University Office of
Technology Transfer.
The first workshop on intellectual property and commercialization was given by UCL office of
technology transfer during London Meeting. The second workshop about commercializing
intellectual property and patent laws will be given during the second year in Antalya meeting in
collaboration with TÜBİTAK and office of technology transfer at Yıldız Technical University.
The support letters will be available shortly.
During Budapest meeting, we’ve had invited industrial representatives from different areas from
zinc biosensors to agriculture. All of the industrial representatives gave their short talk in respect
to zinc-net. Prof. Chris Frederickson gave the planetary speech for the WG4. In addition, his
wife gave a talk about their success stories and product development based on their research. All
meeting participants had chance to talk to each of the invited industrial representatives during
the talk. We have developed the agenda for the WG4 based on the perspectives from the
industrial and academic representatives.
Major companies working on zinc-biology including Nestle, Unilever and Ülker have been
contacted. Canon and Olympos offered their support for the FRET workshop.
As the VIZIBI website is open and functioning now we will be able to promote zn-net and we
will be able to attract industrial partners into the network.
Letter of interest is now ready
All MC members were connected during the meeting in London to connect to their
corresponding office of technology transfers to spread our letter of interest
Workshops on intellectual property and commercializing was held during the London meeting.
These workshops were given by the office of technology transfer of UCL. Involvement of new
industrial members will be promoted through VIZIBI and local office of technology transfers
Open calls, involving the collaboration of academy and industry are planning to be announced
on VIZIBI web site and related e-mails about the open calls will be sent to the zinc-net academic
and industrial members,
We will invite the potential collaborators to the Antalya, Granada and Istanbul meetings
We will immediately start delivering the letter of interest to the office of technology transfers.
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Appendix N°7: Action Budget Planning- Year 2
Budget Heading
Length of meeting
Participants
Budget Request
Core Group, Management Committee, All working
groups meeting : Granada (April 2015)
Biomarkers “think tank”
2 days, 3 nights
45 (management
committee)
2 invited speakers
€34,800
Metallothionein Training school (June 2015)
Czec Republic
3 days, 4 nights
9 ESRS, 3 Trainers
€12,720
Core group meeting and STSM conference
(October 2015)
VENUE TO BE CONFIRMED
2 days, 3 nights
12 CG members
20 STSM
11 ESRs
€32,000
Meetings
Dissemination meetings
€1,000
STSMs N=20
€50,000
VIZIBI/Dissemination
€1,500
Sub total (scientific)
€132,020
Financial & Scientific Administration and Coordination (FSAC) (max 15% of above)
€19,803
TOTAL
€151,823
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