YEN 2025 Conference: Registration is open!

Register now for the Young Embryologist Network meeting – Monday 19 May 2025 at the Francis Crick Institute.

Are you an early career researcher in developmental and stem cell biology? Then come to the 17th Young Embryologist Network Conference! Registration and abstract submission for talks and posters can be accessed here: YEN 2025 Registration form. Abstract deadline is the 13 April 2025.

Check out our poster with art by Christophe Wirtz.

YEN has a long history of enabling PhD students and early career researchers to share their research and network [1,2], as well as supporting the developmental biology research community [3]. Each year, YEN conferences are organised by students and postdoctoral researchers based in the UK. In recent years, the scope and reach of the YEN conference has grown significantly. We are committed to providing an open and free networking opportunity for developmental and stem cell biologists.

For YEN 2025 we again have a great line-up of speakers, with Nicolas Rivron from the Austrian Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA, ÖAW) giving the Sammy Lee Memorial Lecture on his work on blastocysts and in vitro embryo models. We will also welcome Peter Rugg-Gunn, Group Leader in Epigenetics of Human Development and Head of Public Engagement at the Babraham Institute (Cambridge UK) and Maud Borensztein, Group Leader at IGMM-Montpellier (France), who is working on X chromosome reactivation during germline development.

We are also pleased to announce this year’s Scientific Perspectives talks, which will focus on ‘Embryology at the frontiers of technology’ with Rob Tetley from Nikon Instruments and Simon Hanassab from Imperial College London, who is working on how AI can improve decision making in IVF.

PhD students and postdocs who would like to give a short talk or present a poster are invited to submit an abstract. We welcome international applications and have secured some funding to support travel grants. Please register using the form at forms.gle/fxtmNHjEziVTFprN6.

As always, we are very grateful to our sponsors including The Company of Biologists, 10X Genomics and Azenta, The Crick for hosting us and to the participants for attending.

Visit our website for updates: youngembryologists.org

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References:

[1] Meeting report- 2023 Young Embryologist Network Conference: https://thenode.biologists.com/meeting-report-2023-young-embryologist-network-conference/meeting-reports/

[2] The Young Embryologist Network Conference 2019: Meeting Summary: https://thenode.biologists.com/the-young-embryologist-network-conference-2019-meeting-summary/news/

[3] Jack Darius Morgan; Disability and developmental biology. Development 15 August 2023; 150 (16): dev201905. doi: https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.201905

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