Internal LS² lingo

• AM: Annual Meeting
• EC: Executive Committee
• DA: Delegates' Assembly
• GA: General Assembly

LS² (inter)sections

• CVB: Cardiovascular Biology
• MCB: Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, formerly Swiss Society for Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (SSMCB)
• ICMT: Ion Channels and Membrane Transporters

Partners, Affiliations and Collaborators

• ASCB: American Society for Cell Biology
• EBSA: European Biophysical Societies' Association
• EuPA: European Proteomics Association
• FEBS: Federation of European Biochemical Societies
• FEPS: Federation of European Physiological Societies
• IUBMB: International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• IUPAB: International Union for Pure & Applied Biophysics
• IUPS: International Union of Physiological Sciences
• SAMS: Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (Schweizerische Akademie der Medizinischen Wissenschaften [SAMW]; Académie Suisse des Sciences Médicales [ASSM])
• SCNAT: Swiss Academy of Sciences
• SCS: Swiss Chemical Society
  • DMCCB: SCS Division of Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology
• SGV: Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Versuchstierkunde (Swiss Laboratory Animal Science Association)
• SIB: Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
• SKB/SCCB: Schweizerischer Koordinationsausschuss für Biotechnologie (Swiss Coordination Commitee for Biotechnology)
• SPSW: Swiss Plant Science Web
• SSAHE: Swiss Society for Anatomy, Histology and Embryology
• SSEP: Swiss Society of Experimental Pharmacology
• SSM: Swiss Society for Microbiology

Others

• USGEB: Union of Swiss Societies for Experimental Biology, the former LS²