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2nd ESSB Meeting Heidelberg · 14-17 October 2025

We are delighted to organize the 2nd ESSB Meeting in collaboration with EMBL in Heidelberg in October 2025. With support of the experienced EMBL Conferences Team, we are aiming to offer an exciting and comprehensive meeting that will showcase cutting-edge research in spatial biology and foster vibrant scientific exchange.

Our Scientific Organizing Team (Sean Bendall, Leeat Keren, Arutha Kulasinghe, Sinem Saka & Denis Schapiro) has assembled an exceptional line-up with plenty of slots for selected talks across 6 themes:

Tumor microenvironment and cancer
Spatial immunology
New advances in spatial biology
Data analysis for spatial biology
Subcellular spatial biology
Spatial pathology: new insights for disease

We are looking forward to a very exciting program with great talks, poster presentations, panel discussions, social events and ample networking opportunities!

How to Benefit from ESSB Member-only Registration Fee Subsidy Awards

Thanks to generous donors, ESSB members can receive up to €350 off registration (50% subsidy). To qualify:

Apply for ESSB membership on our website before submitting your abstract.
Note your new Member ID.
Enter that ID when you submit your abstract.
You will be automatically considered for the Subsidy Awards. We will award subsidies to the top 100 abstracts received.
After submission of the abstract, you will get an email from ESSB in a few weeks with the results of your subsidy application. If qualified, you will receive a reimbursement of €350 after the conference.

We thank our Gold Supporting Members 2025

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Miltenyi Biotec

Standard Bio Tools

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Session 7

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September 7, 2024

Sesion 6

Curious how spatial molecular profiling works in 3D? On December 13, Harsharan S. Bhatia, PhD. will explain in Session 6 of the Hashtag#ESSB conference how “Clear-Omics” enables deep insights into tissues! Hashtag#lightsheetmicroscopy

September 3, 2024

That was the Inaugural conference of the European Society for Spatial Biology (ESSB e.V.)

The year 2024 has seen many great developments - just to name a few:

The ESSB was founded, Spatial Proteomics was named Method of the Year 2024 and our ESSB founding conference took place in Berlin with over 500 participants – a great success! You can see some impressions on our website.

We have now created the basis for anyone who wants to become a member of the ESSB to register.

Do not hesitate to contact us if you would like to help shape the ESSB, e.g. if you have ideas for working groups within the society. We are also looking for applications for the position of “Young Researcher Representative” on the ESSB Steering Committee/Board. Please send us your full curriculum vitae, a 1-page CV (including your 3 most important publications of the last 5 years) and a letter of motivation. After an internal pre-selection of candidates by the Board, there will be an official electronic election by all members.

We are looking forward to the further activities of the ESSB and to the 2nd ESSB conference in Heidelberg from October 14 to 17, 2025!