Review
Signal Transduction in the Footsteps of Goethe and Schiller
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* Corresponding author: Karlheinz Friedrich khf@mti.uni-jena.de
1 Institute of Biochemistry, University of Jena Medical School, Jena, Germany
2 Institute of Molecular and Clinical Immunology, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
3 Instute of Immunology, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany
4 Department of Molecular Pathology, Institute of Pathology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
5 Institute of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of the Saarland, Homburg, Germany
6 Department of Gene Vectors, Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany
7 Internal Medicine I, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
8 Institute of Molecular Virology, Westfälische-Wilhelms University, Münster, Germany
9 Molecular Oncology, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
10 Institute of Anatomy, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
11 Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
12 Institute of Immunology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany
13 Medical University of Hannover, Dept. of Gynecology, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Tumor Biology, Hannover, Germany
Cell Communication and Signaling 2009, 7:2 doi:10.1186/1478-811X-7-2
Published: 4 February 2009Abstract
The historical town of Weimar in Thuringia, the "green heart of Germany" was the sphere of Goethe and Schiller, the two most famous representatives of German literature's classic era. Not yet entirely as influential as those two cultural icons, the Signal Transduction Society (STS) has nevertheless in the last decade established within the walls of Weimar an annual interdisciplinary Meeting on "Signal Transduction – Receptors, Mediators and Genes", which is well recognized as a most attractive opportunity to exchange results and ideas in the field.
The 12th STS Meeting was held from October 28 to 31 and provided a state-of-the-art overview of various areas of signal transduction research in which progress is fast and discussion lively. This report is intended to share with the readers of CCS some highlights of the Meeting Workshops devoted to specific aspects of signal transduction.