The Company of Biologists’ Sustainability Initiative (formerly known as the Sustainable Conferencing Initiative) – funded events
See below for the events we have funded through our Fund for Innovations in Sustainable Conferencing.
November 2023 – Sustainable Conferencing Grants awarded to organisers of 20 events in 13 countries
Sustainable Conferencing Grants were awarded to organisers of the following events in Austria, Azerbaijan, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the UK and the USA:
- Strathclyde Optical Microscopy Course 2024
- World Immune Regulation Meeting
- Skeletal Muscle Stem Cells in Development, Regeneration, and Adaptations
- Matrix Biology Europe
- 10th Asia-Pacific C. elegans meeting
- Amphiclub 2024
- Cerebellar development and disease at single-cell resolution
- 2024 MBL Embryology Course: Concepts & Techniques in Modern Developmental Biology
- Northeast Society for Developmental Biology Regional Meeting
- Progressive Palaeontology 2024
- 29th European Meeting for PhD students in Evolutionary Biology Conference (EMPSEB29)
- Young Embryologist Network Conference 2024
- International Student Congress Of (bio)Medical Sciences
- Emerging Bioacousticians Days
- 63rd Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Zoologists
- 4th Transatlantic ECI GPCR Symposium
- ModestR: a tool for environmental information management and biological modeling
- MBW9. Mexican Bioimaging Workshops: Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy
- Motor neuron diseases: understanding the pathogenetic mechanisms to develop therapies
- 1st Azerbaijan Neuroscience School
September 2023 – Sustainable Conferencing Grants awarded to organisers of 11 events in eight countries
Sustainable Conferencing Grants were awarded to organisers of the following events in Argentina, Austria, Azerbaijan, Chile, France, India, Poland and the UK:
- 1st Azerbaijan Neuroscience School
- Perspectives on Speciation
- 3rd annual meeting of the IRN i-GPCRnet
- GDR AQV (approche quantitative du vivant)
- International Course “Optics, Forces & Development”
- The dynamic matrix: ageing, repair and mechanics
- 43rd Annual Indian Association for Cancer Research (IACR) Conference
- Student Conference of Plant Biology
- XXV conference and XLIII annual meeting of the Biology Society of Rosario – Biology Challenges and applications. A perspective towards sustainable development
- Neuronus 2024 Neuroscience Forum
- International Symposium on Plant Photobiology (ISPP)
August 2023 – Sustainable Conferencing Grants awarded to organisers of two events in two countries
Sustainable Conferencing Grants were awarded to organisers of the following events in India and Poland:
- 43rd Annual Indian Association for Cancer Research (IACR) Conference
- Neuronus 2024 Neuroscience Forum
May 2023 – Sustainable Conferencing Grants awarded to organisers of ten events in eight countries
Sustainable Conferencing Grants were awarded to organisers of the following events in Argentina, Cameroon, Germany, Israel, Italy, Nepal, the UK and the USA:
- XXXVIII SAN Anual Meeting
- In pursuit of healthy brain aging: unveiling the biology of novel age-related mechanisms leading to dementia
- Gutenberg Workshop “Longitudinal Cohorts in Healthy Ageing and Disease Prevention”
- Genome Sequencing Bioinformatics Africa
- Neural Circuits and Behavior in Fish
- Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Science Form 2023
- 10th Strategic Conference of Fish Investigators 2024
- The endoplasmic reticulum in life, death and disease (the 16th ER-Redox meeting)
- 4th International Conference on Infectious Diseases and Nanomedicine-2023 (ICIDN-2023)
- 58th Inner Ear Biology Workshop
March 2023 – Sustainable Conferencing Grants awarded to organisers of 17 events in 11 countries
Sustainable Conferencing Grants were awarded to organisers of the following events in Belgium, Chile, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Nigeria, Poland, Spain, the UK and the USA:
- DivIDE: Spindle Structure From protein to Architecture
- Advanced Molecular Diagnostic technologies: CRISPR technologies training workshop
- Ciliate Molecular Biology 2023
- ECS2023 workshop: The Ca2+ signaling toolkit in cell function, health and disease
- Sanfilippo syndrome: love fights for a cure
- 11th Latin American Developmental Biology Conference
- 2023 European Developmental Biology Congress – Paris Mini-hub at Institut Pasteur
- European Summer School on Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
- FEBS-IUBMB-ENABLE 2nd International Molecular Biosciences PhD and Postdoc Conference. “The emerging challenge: environmental impacts on human health”
- Trailblazers in Cancer Research: The Next Generation
- The UK Cellular Microbiology Network Meeting 2023
- CTR Annual Meeting
- Internation PhD Student Cancer Conference
- European Developmental Biology Congress: Barcelona 2023
- One Health and Eco-Immunology at Manchester
- 12th European Zebrafish Meeting
- The Gastrointestinal Epithelium: Interface with the Outside World
November 2022 – Sustainable Conferencing Grants awarded to organisers of 12 events in eight countries
Sustainable Conferencing Grants were awarded to organisers of the following events in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Mexico, Switzerland, the UK and the USA:
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European Meeting for PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology 28
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International Student Congress Of (bio)Medical Sciences
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Fibrosis, inflammation and the extracellular matrix
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Young Embryologist Network Conference 2023
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Progressive Palaeontology 2023
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Advances in Skeletal Muscle Biology In Health and Disease Conference
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iPSZürich Symposium 2023
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2023 Embryology: Concepts & Techniques in Modern Developmental Biology Course
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Bone Marrow Adiposity Society Summer School 2023
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3rd International Student Symposium on Animal Behaviour and Cognition
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EMBO Practical Course: Extracellular vesicles: from biology to biomedical applications
- ImmunoBiophysics: from fundamental physics to understanding the immune response
September 2022 – Sustainable Conferencing Grants awarded to organisers of six events in four countries
Sustainable Conferencing Grants were awarded to organisers of the following events in the Cameroon, Germany, Italy and the UK:
- International Fair for young African Researchers
- ETOX23: European Workshop on Bacterial Protein Toxins
- Have your mental health a merry little Christmas
- Microbiome Virtual International Forum 12 – October
- LEUKOLABS Inaugural Meeting
- Visualizing Biological Data (VIZBI)
June 2022 – Sustainable Conferencing Grants awarded to organisers of 12 events in nine countries
Sustainable Conferencing Grants were awarded to organisers of the following events in Brazil, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Italy, South Africa, Spain and the UK:
- XXXVII Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Society of Protozoology
- BraYn Conference
- The Matrix in Development
- Student Conference of Plant Biology
- Course in Sustainable Processes based on Microalgae
- 3rd Indian C. elegans Meeting
- Decolonising and Diversifying Biosciences Education
- Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar 2022: New Horizons
- 3rd Biannual African Bioacoustics Community Conference 2022
- Human Cell Atlas 2022 Developmental and Paediatric Cell Atlas Meeting
- EMBO I EMBL Symposium: Plasticity across scales: from molecules to phenotypes
- FEBS-IUBMB-ENABLE 2022 International Molecular Biosciences PhD and Postdoc Conference. “The perfect tandem: How technology expands the frontiers of biomedicine”
March 2022 – Sustainable Conferencing Grants awarded to organisers of 13 events in eight countries
Sustainable Conferencing Grants were awarded to organisers of the following events in Canada, France, Germany, India, Mexico, Slovenia, Spain and the UK:
- 5th International Chromosome Stability meeting
- 1st Cellular Ageing and Metabolism Symposium
- Illuminating hot topics in experimental biology: A meta-analytic approach to understanding biological phenomena
- Congreso Panamericano de Arrecifes Coralinos
- International Society for Experimental Hematology 51st Annual Scientific Meeting
- 61st Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Zoologists
- Zebrafish Infection and Immunity VI
- Plant Proteases 2022
- Stemness, Regeneration and Immunity: from development to therapy
- 17th International Zebrafish Conference (IZFC)
- Evolution of terrestrial locomotion – how ecology shapes morphology
- NCRI Prime
- Biology in the Media
December 2021 – Sustainable Conferencing Grants awarded to organisers of 22 events in nine countries
Sustainable Conferencing Grants were awarded to organisers of the following events in Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, India, Mexico, the Netherlands, the UK and the USA:
- International Student Congress Of (bio)Medical Sciences (ISCOMS)
- The fatty matrix:biochemistry and clinical relevance of lipids/matrix interactions
- Emerging Concepts in Cell and Developmental Biology Conference
- Developmental Biology of the Sea Urchin and other Marine Invertebrates (DBSUMI)
- Weinstein Cardiovascular development and regeneration
- Fast Movements, Impacts and Deformations: Nature, Robotics and Materials
- Pushing the frontiers of cell adhesion and invasion – 8th Invadosome Consortium Meeting
- Molecular Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders: From Lab to Clinical (Symposium with Hands on Training)
- NeuroFly-2022
- 12th EWCD: Cell Death, Inflammation and Cancer
- An Immunological Lens For Cancer
- International Congress Of (bio)Medical Sciences
- 3rd Zebrafish Italian Meeting
- The Second Crick/Beddington Symposium
- 6th British Bat Research Symposium
- The evolutionary significance of variation in metabolic rates
- International Dictyostelium Conference
- Embryology: Concepts & Techniques in Modern Developmental Biology
- Midwest Zebrafish Conference
- Stem Cells for disease modelling and regeneration – Winter School 2022
- New Frontiers in Developmental Biology, Celebrating the diversity of Life, 3rd Joint meeting of the Japanese Society for Developmental Biology and the French Society for Developmental Biology
- IV Neurobiology Meeting of the Mexican Society for Biochemistry
September 2021 – Sustainable Conferencing Grants awarded to organisers of 14 events in seven countries
Sustainable Conferencing Grants were awarded to organisers of the following events in Austria, Australia, France, Nigeria, Spain, the UK and the USA:
- 2nd Platynereis Virtual conference
- World Wide Biology (Online Platform to disseminate Online Science Talks)
- Annual Conference of the Australian Society of Plant Scientists (ASPS)
- Annual Conference of the Australian Society of Plant Scientists (ASPS)
- Abercrombie Meeting 2022
- Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Science Forum 2021
- 1st Barcelona Single Cell Genomics Symposium
- Fossils, phylogenies, genomes and embryos and the evolution of the deuterostomes
- Integrating ecology and biomechanics to investigate patterns of phenotypic diversity: Evolution, development, and functional traits
- African Basic School on Neural Stem Cells: The Biology and the Therapeutic Applications
- SymBLS21
- AQV 2022
- Edinburgh Gallus Genomics and Embryonic Development (EGGED) Workshop 2022
- Preclinial and Experimental Research in Thoracic Tumors (PrETT) EMBO Workshop: Cancer Immunometabolism
March 2021 – Sustainable Conferencing Grants awarded to organisers of five events in three countries
Sustainable Conferencing Grants were awarded to organisers of the following events in France, the Netherlands and Singapore:
- 12th European Meeting on Intermediate Filaments
- 33rd Colloquium of the Société Francophone de Primatologie
- Cepa 5
- 16th International Hibernation Symposium 2021
- Materials, Mimics, and Microfluidics: Engineering Tools for Mechanobiology
