MEDIA,
JOURNALISTS
Members of the press should register to get
accreditation to the Conference. For this a proof of journalist status has to be presented
to our staff at the Information Desk in Building A. Please note that this press badge is
not available for scientists working in professional scientific journals. We will have
a Press Conference at 13:00 on Friday, August 24th, before the Hans Selye centennial
session (see below). If you are a journalist, or a freelancer planning to write about
the Conference, for the location of the Press Conference and a continuous offer of
programs please contact our staff at the Information Desk. We suggest your
participation especially at the Opening Ceremony with László Sólyom, President of the
Hungarian Republic (August 23rd, 16-17) and the Hans Selye Centennial
Exhibition and Celebration (August 24th, 14-17), the detailed programs see
below. If you need further information, please contact Ms. Klaudia Kovács (
sajto@stress07.com ).
PRESS RELEASE
The Hungarian version downloadable from HERE.
The English version downloadable from HERE.
Opening Ceremony (Thursday 23 August, 16-17 Room A)
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Opening of the Congress by László
Sólyom, President of the Hungarian Republic |
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Welcome message of Sylvester E. Vizi,
President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
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Address of Gabriella Multhoff,
President of the Cell Stress Society International |
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Welcome message from the Rector of the
hosting Eötvös Loránd University, Ferenc Hudecz |
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Welcome message by Péter Csermely,
Chairman of the Congress |
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Address of Katalin Sulyok,
Managing president of the Hungarian Research Student Association on behalf of the high
school student researchers helping the Congress |
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Three songs about the different aspects of
the human stress by Csaba Bede Fazekas, famous Hungarian
baritone |
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The Opening Ceremony will be hosted by Tamás
Korcsmaros, secretary of the organizing committee |
Special session and fine arts exhibition to commemorate Hans Selye – (Friday
24 August 14-17, Level 1 Building A)
When stress meets art: A fine art exhibition called
"STRESS" is organized in cooperation with the Downtown Artists Society (www.downtownartists.hu) and the Hans Selye Hungarian
Society of Behavioral Science to commemorate Hans Selye. Well-known Hungarian artists are
invited to create and present their oeuvres inspired by the Stress topic.
The program of the session:
14:00 Opening ceremony of the fine arts exhibition
Opening speech by Lóránd Bertók (Frédéric Joliot-Curie” National
Research Institute for Radiobiology and Radiohygiene, Budapest, Hungary): Stress at
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14:20-15:30 Commemorative talks and round table discussion
MULTITALENTED HANS SELYE: AN ORIGINAL GENERATOR AND A
LEGENDARY COMMUNICATOR OF SCIENCE
Árpád Somogyi, European Affairs of the Toxicology Forum, Berlin, Germany
THE SCIENTIFIC LEGACY OF HANS SELYE
István Berczi Department of Immunology at the Faculty
of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
WHY SELYE DID NOT GET THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR STRESS OR THE
CLASSIFICATION AND NOMENCLATURE OF STEROIDS?
Sandor Szabo, VA Medical Center & School of Medicine, University of
California-Irvine, Long Beach, CA, USA
Are macrophages the body's alarm cells?
George Lázár, Institute of Pathology, Science
University of Szeged, Hungary
Moderator:
Adrienne Stauder, Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Semmelweis
University Budapest, Hungary
15:30-17:00 Informal round table discussion with the
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