The brainstorming meeting held in Saint-Malo in 2022 (see below) encouraged us to broaden our vision and establish an official foundation for this organization
An enlarged version of the ARBIOCOM Steering Committee met on the occasion of the 12th International Workshop on the CCN Family of Genes, which took place in Oslo from June 20-23 (see Bernard Perbal and Ralf Weiskirchen Association for Research on Biosignaling and Communication (ARBIOCOM) First World Conference on Cellular Communication and Signaling. First published 13 August 2024, Journal of Cell Communication and Signaling Wiley.
Since then, the Steering Committe has been restructured and is presently composed of Håvard Attramadal (Oslo, Norway), Raymond B. Birge (New Jersey, USA), Brahim Chaqour (Pennsylvania, USA), Gary Fisher (University of Michigan, USA), Milos Marinkovic (San Antonia, USA), Csaba Matta (Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Debrecen Hungary), Ralf Weiskirchen (Aachen, Germany), Bernard Perbal (Nice, France) and Annick Perbal (Nice, France).
This committee will make proposals for the organization of the ARBIOCOM, and specifics regarding the participation of all societies in social and scientific events that might be of common interest.
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NICE brainstorming meeting of 2022
This meeting was aimed to discuss proposals of the ICCNS to organize joint meetings and foster interactions with other scientific and medical societies sharing our interest in all aspects of cellular communication.
The major goal of the non-profit ARBIOCOM (Association for Research on Biosignaling and Communication) is to foster the reunion of scientific societies members interested in cellular signaling at all levels, including: cellular signal transduction, intercellular communication, communication with the microenvironment, but also remote communication involving soluble circulating factors, hormones, extracellular vesicles, and communication between cells and organs in response to bacterial and viral infection.
The brainstorming meeting members examined the possibility of sharing our views and take this unique opportunity to join our efforts and develop new comprehensive approaches, in a friendliness environment.
Thanks to the very productive intellectual blending and positive personal interactions that occurred during this meeting, it was agreed that the ARBIOCOM would provide the ground for a federation of societies and their journals into a “network”, where each society remains independent entities, in order to promote collaborative research in cell signaling and communication, in healthy and pathological processes and disseminate new research findings via publication and via formal and informal meetings.
A provisional steering Committee was set
Chair : Bernard Perbal, Carlo Croce, Ali Mobasheri Representatives from: the Bristish Society of Matrix Biology, and the International Society of Matrix Biology Editors in chief of JCCS and CCS