The Turkish Biochemical Society (TBS) was founded in 1975 in Ankara and aims to unite all biochemists and molecular biologists under the same umbrella. Over the years it has flourished to become one of the leading national societies in Turkey, with more than 2000 members and official branches in three major cities: Istanbul, Izmir and Adana. The Society has been a member of FEBS and IUBMB since 1978. Recent memberships include IFCC-LM (International Federation of Clinical Chemistry ND Laboratory Medicine, 1997), EFCC (European Federation of Clinical Chemistry, 1997) and BCLF (Balkan Clinical Laboratory Federation, 1996). Besides, The Turkish Biochemical Society is participated in the BBBD (Balkan Biochemical Biophysical Days) activities. TBS has organized twenty national congresses, three BBBD, one BAB (Balkan Association of Biosciences) and a FEBS meeting. The National Congresses which are held at 18-month intervals, are open to international participation, and many speakers from foreign countries have been invited to give lectures during national congresses. On an average of 500-900 scientists participates in national, BCLF, BBBD and BAB meetings. There were 2436 biochemists from 67 different countries, 1148 of whom being from Turkey, attending to the 31. FEBS Congress. The opening lecture of the meeting was given by the Nobel Prize (2004) winner Aaron Ciechanover. There were 150 esteemed colleagues from 24 countries as invited speakers. The Congress abstracts (1350) were published in “The FEBS Journal”. In the congress, there were given two open-public seminars in the scope of “Science and Society”, namely “Genetically Modified Organisms” and “Cancer, Obesity and Hearth Diseases”. Moreover, three workshops were organized on “Biochemistry Education”, “Women in Science”, and “Biological Sequence Analysis by the use of Instrumental Learning Techniques”. “FEBS Young Scientist Forum” was organized prior to the congress, and 118 young researchers, 18 of whom were from our country, were participated to this three-day-meeting. TBS organizes pre- and past-graduation educational meetings in the fields of basic sciences and medicine; in the past, four meetings in this type were organized with IUBMB in the years of 1989, 1992, 1998 and 2000. TBS aimed to play a pioneer role in the subjects of Clinical Biochemistry, too. In this scope, for the purpose of improving the quality of “Clinical Biochemistry Education”, 13 workshops were organized on the subjects of “External Quality Control and the Standardization of Clinical Laboratories”, “Accreditation of Clinical Laboratories”, “Analytical Quality Management in Clinical Laboratories” and internationally participated ones on “Evidence Based Laboratory Medicine” and “Molecular Biology Techniques”. “Evidence Based Laboratory Medicine” Workshop will be carried out on the date of 12-14th November 2009 in Izmir with international participation. XX. National Biochemistry Congress, which will be held on 29th October-1st November 2008, will accommodate three workshops on “Biostatistics”, “Project Development and Writing” and “Molecular Diagnostic Techniques”. TBS has hosted the “IFCC Conference” in Antalya on 12-15 April 2008. During the Conference, TBS has got the hosting of “IFCC WORLDLAB 2014” meeting by running a competition against Sweden, India and Mexico. IFCC Worldlab meetings which are organized in every three years, will be done in Fortaleza (Brasil) in 2008 and in Berlin (Germany) in 2011. This meeting will be organized in Istanbul, at The Istanbul Convention & Exhibition Centre (ICEC) on 23-29 June 2014. TBS is the owner of the Turkish Journal of Biochemistry, which publishes the original research papers and reviews on biochemistry and related subjects as four volumes in a year. It started its publication in 1979 and has been continuing on-line recently. Turkish Journal of Biochemistry, which has been indexed in “Chemical Abstracts” since 1979, is now, in the indexes of “Directory of Open Access Journals” and “Index Copernicus”, has been indexed in “Journal Citation Reports / Science Edition (SCIE)” since 2007. You can reach the journal at the web site http://www.turkjbiochem.com . The Society Headquarters are located at: Hirfanlý Sokak, Banu Apartmaný, 9/3, Gazi Osman Paþa 06700, Ankara / Turkey. Communication info: Phone: +90 (312) 4470997, +90 (312) 437 9819 Fax: +90 (312) 447 0963 Web site: http://www.biyokimya.org E-mail: info@biyokimya.org Office hours of the secretary at Society headquarters are between 13:00-18:00 hours, in five days of the week (from Monday to Friday).
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