Dear Friends of Spatial Biology,
We are overwhelmed and thrilled by the positive feedback we received for our inaugural conference!
A big thank you to all the speakers for their great presentations. It was a pleasure to see lively discussions at the posters the entire time, and also the industry booths were busy throughout.
Great science embedded in a collaborative and positive atmosphere inspired us all – and despite the packed program, we also found time to celebrate ESSB together!
Check this page from time to time for more ESSB news. Below you will find some impressions from the conference and soon more information about ESSB membership.
That was the
Inaugural conference of the European Society for Spatial Biology (ESSB e.V.)
- 12 – 13 December 2024, Berlin, Germany
- Venue: Hotel & Conference Center Titanic Chaussee Berlin
With the photo of the decorated tree from the venue of the ESSB conference, we wish you Happy Holidays and all the best for 2025!
The past year has seen many great developments - just to name a few:
The ESSB was founded, Spatial Proteomics was awarded Method of the Year and our ESSB inaugural conference took place in Berlin with over 500 participants – it was a great success! You can see some impressions on our website below.
We have registered the names of the ESSB members at the conference and are currently in the process of setting up a registration form. All members will receive information on how to access it to enter their data in the next few weeks. Of course it will also be possible to register as a new member directly from the website, so feel free to spread the word.
Do not hesitate to contact us if you want to help shape the ESSB, for example if you have ideas for working groups within the society. Also, we are looking for applications for the post of „young researchers representative“ in the ESSB steering committee / board. Please send us your full CV, a 1-page CV (that includes your 3 most important publications from the past 5 years) and a motivation letter. After an internal shortlisting of the candidates by the board, there will be an official electronic election by all members.
We are looking forward to further activities of the ESSB and to the 2nd ESSB Conference in Heidelberg from the 14th to the 17th of October 2025!
Impressions
Photos: Beata Siewicz, Ute Hoffmann, Jacqueline Hirscher
The conference is supported by
Meet our Speakers
Here we introduce you to our speakers one by one.
News
Session 4
Next highlight on day 1 of the ESSB conference (Dec 12-13, Berlin) will be Session 4: a Keynote from imaging mass cytometry pioneer Bernd Bodenmiller. Plus 2 talks from abstracts.
Session 3
The 3rd session of the ESSB conference will be dedicated to spatial multi-omics, featuring Leeat Keren and Oliver Stegle as speakers. Again, there will also be presentations of selected abstracts!
Session 2
Session 2 is all about image analysis, and we are pleased that we could win @CarolinaWahlby as speaker! There is also the opportunity to present your data in short talks: submit
Session 1
Great speaker line-up at the ESSB conference! Register and submit abstracts for short talks and posters until August 31st! Session 1 on December 12th: @joalunatkthse and Nicole Strittmatter #spatialbiology #spatialtranscriptomics #spatialmetabolomics
We offer traval awards
Don´t forget to register for the founding conference of the European Society of Spatial Biology #ESSB #spatialbiology #spatialTranscriptomics #imageanalysis #multiplex #microscopy
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.
