Announcements

Conference: The 45th Congress of the Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM 2023)
Date: 5–8 September 2023
Place: University of Zaragoza Faculty of Medicine, Zaragoza, Spain
Booth: #30

MDPI journals will be attending the 45th Congress of the Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM 2023) as an exhibitor. This meeting will be held in Zaragoza, Spain, from 5 to 8 September 2023.

SEBBM contributed significantly to the creation of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) in 1964, represents Spain in the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB), is one of the founding members of the Confederation of Spanish Scientific Societies (COSCE) and belongs to the Spanish Association of Biocompanies (ASEBIO), which develops activities in the field of biotechnology in Spain.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Genes;
• Cells;
• Biomolecules;
• IJMS;
• Biomedicines;
• Applied Biosciences;
• CIMB;
• Biomedinformatics;
• DNA;
• Biology;
• Medicina;
• BioTech;
• Biologics;
• Diagnostics;
• JMP.

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to start a conversation with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following website: https://www.acs.org/meetings/acs-meetings/fall-2023.html.

MDPI will be attending the 2023 National Plant Biology Congress as an exhibitor. This meeting will be held in Lanzhou, China, from 2 to 6 August 2023.

The conference is jointly organized by the Chinese Society of Genetics, Chinese Society of Cell Biology, China Crop Society, Chinese Society of Botany, and Chinese Society of Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology. The conference is scheduled to be held in Lanzhou, Gansu, China. Domestic experts, scholars, and outstanding young scientists who have made outstanding achievements in related fields of plant biology will be invited to give academic reports. The conference aims to promote exchanges and cooperation among plant scientists, promote the transformation and application of plant scientific research achievements in agricultural production practice, and help the revitalization of the seed industry.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Plants;
• IJMS;
• Agriculture;
• Agronomy;
• Horticulturae;
• Cells;
• Physiologia;
• Metabolites;
• Antioxidants;
• Taxonomy;
• Epigenomes;
• Genes;
• Diversity;
• Data.

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to start a conversation with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions you may have. For more information about the conference and our booth, please visit the following link: http://www.ncpb.net/home/index/index.html.

MDPI will attend the 12th International Congress of Plant Pathology. This event will be held from 20 to 25 August 2023 in Lyon, France, and is hosted by the International Society for Plant Pathology.

Plant pathologists and plant health researchers from around the world will meet to discuss their latest research as well as the current and future issues facing plant health experts. The host, the French Phytopathological Society, has set an exciting and challenging theme for the congress: “One Health for all plants, crops and trees”. This topic promises to provide a broad platform for talks, posters, and discussions that consider the integral nature of plant health with human, animal, and environmental health. In addition to an excellent program of keynote talks, concurrent sessions, poster presentations, and networking opportunities, there will be a number of satellite events before the meeting dates to provide opportunities for deeper discussions on a number of topics.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Agriculture (leading);
• Plants;
• Horticulturae;
• Viruses;
• IJMS;
• Life;
• Seeds;
• Crops;
• Forests;
• JoF.

If you plan on attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth and start a conversation with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit https://www.icpp2023.org/.

The webinar aims to explore the fascinating topic of apoptosis and its underlying mechanisms, significance, and roles in different fields of biology and health.

Keywords: apoptosis; programmed cell death; apoptotic pathways; apoptotic signaling; cell survival; cell death mechanisms; apoptosis inhibitors; caspases; mitochondria; death receptors; cytochrome c; DNA damage
Date: 17 July 2023 at 4:00 p.m. CEST | 10:00 a.m. EDT
Webinar ID: 826 6729 7174

Register now for free!

Program:

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information on how to join the webinar. Registrations with academic institutional email addresses will be prioritized.

Unable to attend? Register anyway and we’ll let you know when the recording is available to watch.

Webinar Chair and Keynote Speaker:

• Ioana Berindan-Neagoe, Research Center for Functional Genomics, Biomedicine and Translational Medicine, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania;
• János G. Filep, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada.

Relevant Special Issue/Topics:

IJMS:
1 "Mitochondrial Medicine: Pharmacological Targeting of Mitochondria in Disease"
2. "Programmed Cell Death and Apoptosis"

Cells:
1. "Programmed Cell Death and Neurodegenerative Diseases"
2. "Mitophagy, Autophagy, Apoptosis and Senescence—the Roles of These Processes in Invasive Cancer Growth"

With the first issue released in June 2023, five new MDPI journals disseminating multi-disciplinary science are due to launch, which will cover the subjects of medicine & pharmacology, biology and physical sciences.

The newly launched journals will be overseen by professional Editorial Board Members and Editors to ensure an accurate and rapid publication, rigorous peer review and broad visibility.

Please feel free to browse and discover more about the new journals below.

Journal	Founding Editor-in-Chief	Journal topics (selected)
	Prof. Dr. Jun Ma, Peking University, China| Editorial | view inaugural issue	growth and development; diet and nutrients; school health promotion policies and practices; child health and care; adolescent health and wellbeing | view journal scope | submit an article
	Prof. Dr. Bernd Rehm, Griffith University, Australia | Editorial | view inaugural issue	DNA and gene synthesis; synthetic transcription factors; protein engineering; viral engineering; metabolic engineering | view journal scope | submit an article
	Prof. Dr. Varsha Gandhi, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA | Editorial | view inaugural issue	lymphatics; cancers associated with lymphocytes and lymphoblasts; lymphatic tissues; lymphoma; lymphoid leukemia | view journal scope | submit an article
	Dr. Bradley Turner, University of Melbourne, Australia | Editorial | view inaugural issue	multiple sclerosis; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; primary lateral sclerosis; atherosclerosis; systemic sclerosis | view journal scope | submit an article
	Prof. Dr. Clemens Burda, Case Western Reserve University, USA | Editorial | view inaugural issue	Gamma ray, X-ray, and UV–Vis spectroscopies; NIR/mid-infrared/Raman spectroscopy; microwave and THz spectroscopy; high-resolution gas-phase atomic, molecular, and cluster spectroscopy; MS, NMR, and EPR spectroscopy | view journal scope | submit an article

We wish to thank everyone who has supported the development of open access publishing. You are welcome to submit an application to the New Journal Committee (newjournal-committee@mdpi.com) if you would like to create more new journals.

Conference: 2023 China Redox Biology and Medicine Conference
Date: 10–13 August 2023
Place: Xiamen, China 

MDPI will be attending the 2023 China Redox Biology and Medicine Conference, which will be held from 10 to 13 August 2023 in Xiamen, China.

The theme of the conference is "Oxidation Reduction and Life and Health". Redox is the most basic reaction in the life process and plays an important role in regulating the function of biological macromolecules, cell signal transduction, physiological and pathological processes, and coping with stress. This meeting will focus on the basic research of redox in life process and the relationship between redox balance and disease and the intervention strategy in the following seven aspects: redox state detection method, endogenous redox active molecules, redox molecule production and metabolism, redox modification and regulation of biological macromolecules, redox regulation and cell fate and quality control, redox regulation and pathophysiological processes (aging, tumors, cardiovascular diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, etc.), redox precise intervention and transformation application. 

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Antioxidants;
• Oxygen;
• IJMS;
• CIMB;
• Life.

Please do not hesitate to reach out (antioxidants@mdpi.com) if you plan on attending this conference. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you might have.

For more information about the conference, please visit the following website: https://meeting.bsc.org.cn/SFRRC2023/.

The conference is the 50th annual conference of the Controlled Release Society. The annual CRS conference is the most important conference in the pharmaceutics field. The main topics of the conference include drug delivery and controlled release, nanomedicine and nanotechnology, and biopharmaceutics. The conference organizer has a full program for the duration of the conference with highly prominent plenary talks, technical sessions covering a wide scope of topics, industry-led workshops, and technical forums.

Pharmaceutics (ISSN: 1999-4923) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal on the science and technology of pharmaceutics and biopharmaceutics, and is published monthly online by MDPI. Pharmaceutics will participate in this event as an exhibitor together with eleven other MDPI journals.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Pharmaceutics (leading journal);
• Pharmaceuticals;
• Biomedicines;
• Vaccines;
• Biomimetics;
• IJMS;
• Future Pharmacology;
• Polymers;
• Nanomaterials;
• BioMedInformatics;
• Scientia Pharmaceutica;
• Biomolecules.

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to start a conversation with us at our booth #409. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have.

For more information about the conference, please visit https://www.eventscribe.net/2023/CRSAnnualMeeting or contact the Pharmaceutics Editorial Office at pharmaceutics@mdpi.com.

The 2022 citation metrics have been released in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), and we’re pleased to announce the following results for MDPI journals:

We are thrilled to announce that 90% of our ranked MDPI journals, specifically 86 out of 96 (captured in the table below), are performing above average in Q1 or Q2. This year, Clarivate has expanded its Impact Factor (IF) awards to include journals in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), providing greater transparency for the full set of journals indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection. As a result, 111 of MDPI journals have received their first IF in 2023, with 37 journals surpassing an IF of 3.0. In total, 208 MDPI journals have been honored with an IF.

Clarivate explains that by "expanding the coverage but holding to highly selective standards, the [Impact Factor] is now a reliable indicator of trustworthiness, as well as a measure of scholarly impact, at the journal level."

Please visit our blog post where we discuss the release of the latest citation metrics with our Indexing Manager, Dr. Constanze Schelhorn, to find out what's different this time around and how to make use of different metrics available.

Note: The Journal of Personalized Medicine's Impact Factor was omitted in the original release and will be assigned separately. Please find the data on the journal webpage in due course.

Source: 2022 Journal Impact Factors, Journal Citation Reports ^TM (Clarivate, 2023)

A range of MDPI journals will be attending the 2023 National Polymer Academic Paper Conference of the Chinese Chemical Society as exhibitors. This meeting will be held in Wuhan, China, from 13 to 17 October 2023. 

The National Polymer Academic Paper Conference of the Chinese Chemical Society, which has been held every two years since 1954, is the most important, largest and most influential academic conference in the field of polymers in China. The 2023 National Polymer Academic Paper Conference of the Chinese Chemical Society will be held in Wuhan from 13 to 17 October. It will be sponsored by the Polymer Science Committee of the Chinese Chemical Society and Huazhong University of Science and Technology. 

The conference will take the important function of polymer science and technology in the new era of national economy and society as the entry point. It will focus on showing the research results and development trends of our country’s polymer science and materials field in recent years. It provides a broad academic and technical exchange platform for those sci-tech, education, and industry workers and young students who conduct research and development in the field. The aim is to promote the sustainable development and innovation of polymer science, improve the level of interdisciplinary and cutting-edge research of polymer-related disciplines, connect with the major national needs, overcome the core and key technical problems, and promote the transformation of scientific research results. 

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Polymers;
• IJMS;
• Molecules;
• Gels;
• Membranes;
• Crystals;
• Polysaccharides;
• Symmetry;
• Fibers. 

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to start a conversation with us at our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have. 

For more information about the conference, please visit https://www.bagevent.com/event/8282755/p/504954.