Muscle formation, maintenance, regeneration and pathology

In-person registration includes:

• conference material
• electronic abstract book
• coffee break beverages and snacks
• meals (lunch, dinner)
• farewell dinner
• social activity (visit of nearby castle and town)
• accommodation and breakfast at the conference venue (except for the preferential, low-fee registration category of students and post-docs)

Virtual registration includes:

• access to all the in-person sessions
• ability to ask questions to speakers using a dedicated forum
• opportunities to engage in conversation with others attending virtually

Conference registration starts on Sunday 24th April at 3pm. Rooms will be available around 5pm.

Non-attendees guests: If you are sharing the room with a guest not attending the conference, please register for a single-room fee and inform the Organizer at embo.muscle.2022@gmail.com. The room will be equipped to host the participant and 1 non-attending guest. The non-attending guest that would like to be provided with breakfast, lunch and dinner at the conference site should pay a 550€ fee that will include all the meals from Sunday 24th April to Friday 29th April.

Payment

Payment can be made through this link.

Selection criteria

Scientific excellence will underlie all decisions as well as gender and geographical origin balance, with special emphasis on inclusion of female and early-stage researchers.

1-page CV and 500-word cover letter should be included if the participant wishes to apply for the available "travel grants" or "young researcher participation grants"

The participants that have not been notified of a short talk presentation and are included in the programme have the opportunity to present their research work as a poster.

Abstract guidelines

Abstracts should include information on the project background, methodology, results, and conclusions in under 200 words.

Title, author list, and affiliations do not count in the word limit.

Poster specifications

Posters should be structured in:

1) first row: title-authors-affiliations

2) main body: background, methodology, results, conclusions

3) last row or bottom right corner: logos of funding agencies

4) 90cm wide X 120cm height

Travel Grants and Registration Fee Waivers

A limited number of travel grants and registration fee waivers are available for participants.

In order to be evaluated, kindly provide with:

• justification letter (submitted via your profile until 24 Feb 2022 and to embo.muscle.2022@gmail.com)
• 1-page CV sent to embo.muscle.2022@gmail.com
• registration/payment via this link
• abstract (submitted via your profile until 15 Feb 2022)

Selection of awardees is handled directly by the organizers. Priority is given to participants of any nationality working in laboratories in Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Turkey, as well as from EMBC Associate Member States Chile, India, Singapore and Taiwan. More information is available on the EMBO Travel Grants' page.

Child care grant

EMBO Courses and Workshops offers grants to offset additional child care costs incurred by participants or speakers when participating at any EMBO Courses and Workshop funded meeting. Eligible costs include fees for a caregiver or child-care facility, travel costs for a caregiver, or travel costs for taking the child to the meeting etc. Please indicate on the registration form whether you would like to be considered for the grant. Please also describe how you intend to use the child care grant and specify the sum that you will need.