Edinburgh Gallus Genomics and Embryonic Development Workshop (EGGED 2024)

Registration includes:

• En suite accommodation at Pollock Halls Estate, central Edinburgh

• Transport between accommodation and workshop venue (Easter Bush Campus)

• Breakfast and lunch

• Poster session with refreshments

• Sandpit event “The Future of the Chicken Model” with refreshments

• Dinner and Scottish cèilidh

• Laboratory consumables, lab coats, fertile transgenic eggs, dissection and manipulation tools

• Online abstract and protocols book

Payment

Selected participants will be sent payment details of ePay, the University of Edinburgh's Online Store that allows departments to take payments for products and conferences & events online. Most variations on Visa credit and debit cards, and MasterCard credit and debit cards can be accepted, i.e. MasterCard, Visa, Visa Debit, Delta, Maestro (UK and International) and American Express.

Card details are securely passed to RBS WorldPay, who handle the actual process of taking money from one account and paying it into another.

Selection criteria

Attendance is limited to 25.

You will need to submit your CV and motivation letter via the registration system.

Selection will be based on

1. Scientific need e.g. is the researcher planning to or currently undertaking work using the chicken embryo.
2. While ensuring that there is opportunity primarily for postgraduate students, post-docs and early career researchers priority will be given to scientists of any career stage who are thinking of adopting the chicken embryo to support a current research programme. For example to approach questions that cannot be answered using other animal models. In the EGGED programme we highlight other ERC who have made this transition.
3. Unless here is space, where multiple applications come from one laboratory only one will be accepted.
4. Gender balance, inclusion of participants who might not otherwise be able to access a Workshop like EGGED due to personal factors (accessibility needs, caring responsibilities etc) will be taken into consideration and weighted.

Abstract guidelines

200 words maximum

Brief description of your current research. Highlight how your current or future use of the chicken embryo, advances your scientific question.

Poster specifications

A0 (33.11 x 46.81 inches, 841 x 1189 cm) – Portrait orientation only.

Travel grants and registration fee waivers

Travel grants and registration fee waivers are available for participants.

Selection of awardees is handled directly by the organizers. EMBO travel grants and registration fee waivers are allocated on the basis of the quality of the submitted abstract.

Applicants do not need to apply separately for these but should indicate on the registration form if they wish to be considered.

Additional travel grants are available for EMBC Associate Member States Chile, India, Singapore and Taiwan.

Special travel grants and registration fee waivers

A limited number of travel grants and registration fee waivers are availablefor scientists working in Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Slovenia and Turkey. Grants are allocated on the basis of the quality of the submitted abstract.

A maximum of 700 Euros per participant are available to cover registration fees, travel, and accommodation (no additional subsistence costs can be covered). To apply, please indicate the itemized amount requested in the travel grants section of the registration form.

Child care grants

EMBO Courses and Workshops offers grants to offset additional childcare 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 childcare grant and specify the sum that you will need.

Sustainability measures at the meeting

UK invited speakers will only be reimbursed for sustainable train by train, bus, car-share or EV use, except for accessibility reasons. We will provide a bus from accommodation (central Edinburgh) to the Easter Bush Campus to encourage participants not to drive. Participants who cycle to the conference will be offered servicing of their bicycle during the conference to underpin the ethos that we value and reward sustainable travel.

Venue: Meeting Notes and Information will only be provided online in advance to avoid printing. We will not provide conference ‘extras’, i.e. plastic pens, bags etc. Equipment used in the Workshop will be re-used in future Workshops (e.g. forceps). One-use disposable plastics will be replaced where possible with glass wear- a sustainability initiative already active at R(D)SVS. Fertile eggs will be sourced from NARF, limiting transport of this resource and using eggs which would otherwise often be disposed of during summer holidays. The Poster session catering will use a Spanish tortilla chef who uses locally sourced organic eggs and potatoes. The majority of food will be vegetarian.

All advertising will be electronic. We will highlight measures we have taken to reduce CO2 in our online information and will assess the impacts these measures had on participants in the post-workshop questionnaire. We will collect optional donations from participants for donation to Carrifran Wildwood – a local reforestation initiative.

Code of conduct

Anti-harassment and non-discrimination policy

At EMBO, we believe that harassment and discriminatory behaviour are unacceptable in any setting. EMBO's code of conduct is applicable for all participants of this EMBO meeting and can be found here.