Sustainable Conferencing Initiative – funded events

See below for the events we have funded through our Sustainable Conferencing Initiative.

November 2022 – 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:

European Meeting for PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology 28
International Student Congress Of (bio)Medical Sciences
Fibrosis, inflammation and the extracellular matrix
Young Embryologist Network Conference 2023
Progressive Palaeontology 2023
Advances in Skeletal Muscle Biology In Health and Disease Conference
iPSZürich Symposium 2023
2023 Embryology: Concepts & Techniques in Modern Developmental Biology Course
Bone Marrow Adiposity Society Summer School 2023
3rd International Student Symposium on Animal Behaviour and Cognition
EMBO Practical Course: Extracellular vesicles: from biology to biomedical applications
ImmunoBiophysics: from fundamental physics to understanding the immune response

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September 2022 – Grants awarded to organisers of four events in three countries

Sustainable Conferencing Grants were awarded to organisers of the following events in the Cameroon, Italy and the UK:

International Fair for young African Researchers
ETOX23: European Workshop on Bacterial Protein Toxins
Microbiome Virtual International Forum 12 – October
LEUKOLABS Inaugural Meeting

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June 2022 – 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”

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March 2022 – 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

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December 2021 – 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

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September 2021 – 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