Inaugural conference of the European Society for Spatial Biology (ESSB)
- 12 – 13 December 2024, Berlin, Germany
- Venue: Hotel & Conference Center Titanic Chaussee Berlin
Dear Friends of Spatial Biology,
Next week the time has finally come: the founding conference of the ESSB will take place! We are delighted about the great interest in our event – 550 participants from 26 countries have confirmed their attendance!
We have put together an exciting program with talks, poster presentations and time for networking- please have a look at our program and abstract book link! In addition to the scientific program, there will be the opportunity to join the ESSB as a member.
We are also pleased that a number of satellite symposia have been organized in the run-up to the ESSB:
https://spatialhackathon.github.io/
https://indico.dkfz.de/event/1112/overview
ESSB turns Berlin into a hotspot for spatial biology next week!
We look forward to welcoming you here!
Anja Hauser
ESSB Conference President
The conference is supported by
Meet our Speakers
Here we introduce you to our speakers one by one.
News
Travel Grants with the support of EFIS
Winners of the travel grants have already been informed! We are happy to announce that we are able to offer travel grants to the Hashtag#ESSB conference through the generous support
Abstract submission is closed, but …
We are thrilled about the great response to our Hashtag#ESSB inaugural conference: over 300 registrations and more than 250 abstracts! Looking forward to discussing science with all these Hashtag#spatialbiology enthusiasts!
Do you need childcare during the conference? We’ve got that arranged.
The countdown is on: Only one week left until the ESSB conference abstract deadline! Submit your abstract now and become part of the ESSB community! Did you know that ESSB
Session 7
Why is immunotherapy effective among some patients but not others? In Session 7 of the ESSB conference, Raza Ali https://www.ali-lab.co.uk/ will present how understanding spatial dynamics of the tumor microenvironment
Meet the editors
Chiara Anania
Nature Genetics
Chiara obtained her Ph.D. at the Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB) in the laboratory of Darío Lupiañez, where she studied the role of chromatin boundaries in developmental gene regulation. She joined Nature Genetics as Associate Editor in April 2023 and is based in Berlin, Germany. She handles papers in 3D genomics, molecular biology and functional genomics.
Nadja Bakocevic
European Journal of Immunology, EJI
Nadja obtained a PhD degree supervised by Reinhold Förster at Hannover Medical School (Hannover, Germany), where she examined the role of DCs for the induction of tolerance and immunity in the airways. She moved to Singapore for postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Lai Guan Ng at Singapore Immunology Network, focusing on immune responses and cellular dynamics of host response to Plasmodium spp. Nadja joined the EJI team in 2016, where she oversees the peer review, scientific content and EJI’s strategic development.
Iris Marchal
Nature Biotechnology
Iris covers the full breadth of Nature Biotechnology’s scope by handling Reviews, News and Commentary. She is keen to discuss the latest developments in Spatial Biology with the ESSB community, and to talk about your manuscript, scientific publishing and related topics.
Ilse Ariadna Valtierra Gutierrez
Nature Communications
Ilse has been at Nature Communications since 2020. She is a senior editor with the Cancer Team, where she handles manuscripts on cancer genomics with a special focus on basic cancer biology, cancer evolution and heterogeneity, and related computational analyses or approaches. She frequently handles papers using spatially resolved omics techniques to study cancer, or introducing tools to analyse spatial omics data.
Our conference sponsors
Abstract submission is closed
We would like to thank you for your great input. 199 posters are waiting to be reviewed and discussed on Thursday, 12.12.2024 from 7 pm.
