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YEN 2024 – save the date!
The next YEN Conference will be held on the 28th May 2024. More information and registration comming soon to this website. Follow our Twitter (@YEN_community) too keep up to date.
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YEN2022 Image Competition Winner Announced!
Congratulations to Justina Yeung, winner of our YEN2022 Image Competition! Justina wowed us with this beautiful watercolour. She said of her winning image: “This abstract watercolour painting captures various elements of the research in developmental biology: from zebrafish model to cell culture, from in-situ hybridisation to single-cell sequencing, from live-imaging to computational modelling. The dynamic composition of the painting conveys the synergistic efforts of the different strands of research to achieve a greater understanding of Read more…
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YEN2022 IMAGE COMPETITION
**PLEASE NOTE THE YEN2022 IMAGE COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED** We are running a competition to find an incredible scientific image/artwork to feature on our YEN2022 poster. All you have to do is send us an image (a photo, drawing, an artistic composition…) related to developmental biology. Don’t forget to include a title and a brief description of the image, and only send your own work. Send your image to youngembryologistnetwork@gmail.com before June 15, noon BST. Read more…
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YEN does it again!
Thanks to Katherine Exelby and Vicki Metzis for writing a review of our YEN 2017 conference on The Node! If you want to have a look at it, follow this link: http://thenode.biologists.com/yen-does-it-again/events/
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Registration for the 10th YEN conference is now open
We have finalised the conference programme and we are now open for abstract submission for poster or oral presentation. If you’re coming from outside of London or outside of UK and presenting a poster or an oral presentation, you’ll be considered for a travel grant of up to 100£. See you on Monday 14th of May!
YEN Meeting
Registration for the 9th YEN Conference is open
Registration for the 9th Young Embryologist Network Conference is now open, aiming again to bring together developmental biologists from across the UK (and beyond) to discuss their work. This year, Dr Darren Gilmour from EMBL Heidelberg will present The Sammy Lee Memorial Lecture. In addition, this year YEN conference will host Dr. Karen Liu (King’s College, London), and Prof. Michael Stumpf (Imperial College, London) as invited speakers, as well as a Q&A panel on the Read more…
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Final Programme of the 8th Annual YEN Conference
Final Programme of the 8th Annual YEN Conference can be downloaded here. 9.30 Registration 9.55 Welcome Address First Session: Cell Fate Determination Chair: Sara Pozzi 10.00 Teresa Rayon (The Francis Crick Institute) Distinct mechanisms regulate Cdx2 expression in the blastocyst and in trophoblast stem cells 10.20 Sarah Bowling (Imperial College London) mTOR mediates fitness sensing during cell competition in the early mammalian embryo 10.40 Sarah Harrison (University of Cambridge) Organoids of mouse embryonic and extra-embryonic Read more…
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Eighth Young Embryologist Network Conference
27th May 2016 09:15-18.00 UCL Institute of Child Health Registration and abstract submission are now open! The 8th Young Embryologist Network Conference aims to bring together developmental biologists from across the UK (and beyond) to discuss their work. This year, YEN is honoured to have Professor Paul Martin from the University of Bristol present The Sammy Lee Memorial Lecture. As well as three talk sessions and a poster break, we will also have imaging session Read more…
Seminar
April Seminar at KCL
We are pleased to invite you to this month’s evo-devo themed YEN Seminar hosted by King’s College London on the 27th April at 4.30 pm. Speakers: Dr Thomas Butts (Queen Mary, University of London) – “The complex developmental (and evolutionary) history of the trigeminal sensory system” and Dr Neal Anthwal (King’s College London) – “Breakdown of Meckel’s cartilage provides clues to the evolution of mammals” Location: King’s College London, Tower Wing, Guy’s Hospital, SE1 9RT, Tower Lecture Theatre, 30th Floor Read more…
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March Seminar at UCL
University College London is hosting YEN Seminar on the 16th March. Professor Jeremy Brockes is giving a lecture on “Mechanisms and evolution in vertebrate limb regeneration”. Travel: University College London, Gower St, London, WC1E 6XA By tube: the nearest tube stations are Euston Square (Circle, Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City lines), Euston (Northen & Victoria lines), Warren Street(Northen & Victoria lines), Goodge Street (Northen line), Russell Square (Piccadilly line). By bus: UCL’s Gower Street Read more…