Registration includes:
- Access to all scientific sessions and social activities included in the program.
- 3 nights’ accommodation (shared rooms for students and post-docs), including breakfast.
- Full board, including meals and 2 daily coffee breaks.
- Welcome cocktail with Open-Bar
- Transport from/to airport or train station
- Wi-Fi
*The tourist tax of 1,32€ per person per day is not included.
Payment
The registration fee can be paid by bank transfer or by credit card. After reviewing the registration request, the Technical Secretariat will send you the confirmation along with the link to the form to process the corresponding payment.
Cancellation Policy
Cancellation of registration must be submitted in writing or via email and is valid only with acknowledgement of receipt.
Cancellation fees are dependent on the notice given.
General cancellation fees
If cancellation occurs less than 7 days prior to the start of the event, the cancellation fee is 100% of the registration fee.
If cancellation occurs between 7 days and 6 weeks prior to the start of the event, the cancellation fee is 75% of the registration fee.
If cancellation occurs earlier than 6 weeks prior to the start of the event, a full refund of the registration will be issued.
Cancellation due to lack of travel visa
If payment has been made by the payment deadline of the event and a visa is not awarded in time to travel to the event, the full registration fee will be reimbursed. In this case, the visa rejection letter or proof that the visa application process has been initiated on time is required before reimbursement is processed.
Selection criteria
Participants will be selected based on the relevance of their abstracts to the meeting Gender, career status and place of work will also be taken into account during the selection process, in order to actively increase the diversity of participants.
In the event of the workshop being oversubscribed, the organizing committee will select participants based on the following criteria:
- Scientific content of the abstract
- Scientific relevance of the abstract to the conference
- Number of participants from the same lab
- Date of application
Abstract guidelines
The selected participants will be requested to present a poster. In addition, a number of abstracts will be selected for a short talk. Please indicate whether you would like your abstract to be considered for an oral presentation during submission.
Abstracts are limited to 300 words, excluding title, authors and affiliations. Abstracts should not include any references. All abstracts must be submitted online and in English.
Applicants are welcome to submit abstracts on these topics (but not limited to):
- Genetic mechanisms of pancreatic and/or liver metabolic disease
- Gene regulation in the context of pancreatic and/or liver physiology and disease
- In vitro modeling of disease
- Therapeutic avenues for MASH or diabetes
- Pancreas and liver development and cell differentiation
- Spatial and multiomic approaches to study disease processes
- High-content & high-throughput functional assays
Poster specifications
The dimensions for the poster should be A0 size (841mm width x 1189mm height, absolute maximum is 950 mm width x 1750 mm height).
Each participant presenting a poster will give a brief oral presentation (details will be communicated in due time).
There are no poster printing facilities on site, so please check with your airline how poster rolls can be transported.
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.
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.
Code of conduct
Anti-harassment and non-discrimination policy
At EMBO, we believe that harassment and discriminatory behaviour are unacceptable in any setting.
Media and communications policy
Recording or communication of the presented data needs to be agreed upon by all concerned.
EMBO's code of conduct is applicable for all participants of this EMBO meeting and can be found here.
