About us

Young Embryologist Network (YEN) is an academic body founded in 2008 as a platform for Early Career developmental biologists. We have since organised a conference annually reaching a wide audience of scientists across the UK and Europe.

Improving science

Our conferences and perspective talks focus on a variety of scientific and social issues for the benefit of the wider Dev Bio community.

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Meet the YEN Committee

Our team is mainly composed of PhD students and early post-doctoral researchers based in London

Irina Balaguer Balsells

PHD STUDENT AT MRC LONDON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES

Developmental Epigenomics
ib1618@ic.ac.uk

Toby Andrews

Postdoctoral fellow at the Francis Crick Institute

Organ morphogenesis and biomechanics

Foteini Papaleonidopoulou

PHD STUDENT AT THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE

Developmental signalling

Jeremie Subrini

PHD STUDENT AT THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE

Y chromosome biology
jeremie.subrini@crick.ac.uk

Ferran Garcia Llagostera

PHD STUDENT AT MRC LONDON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES

Chromatin and Development
ferran.garcia18@imperial.ac.uk

Luca Zanieri

PHD STUDENT AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

Development of oesophageal epithelium
luca.zanieri@crick.ac.uk

Matyas Bubna-Litic

PhD Student at University College London

Mechanobiology and fate determination during early morphogenesis
m.bubna-litic@ucl.ac.uk

Christos Kalaitzis

PhD Student at MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences

Regenerative medicine, stem cells, and single-cells genomics

Ana Alex

BBSRC LIDo PhD Student

Mechanical and metabolic control of limb morphogenesis; Neural crest migration.

Anita Bichisecchi

Visiting Scientist at The Francis Crick Institute

Epithelial Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine Lab
anita.bichisecchi@crick.ac.uk

Helen Kiik

PhD student at The Francis Crick Institute

Sex chromosome biology

YiXuan Low

PhD Student at MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences

Interplay of Chromatin and Metabolism in Development
y.low@lms.mrc.ac.uk

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