YEN 2025 Image Competiton

What is the YEN Image Competition about? We love amazing scientific images of development whether it is embryos or organoids, and we want to support PhDs and postdocs by showcasing their work at the YEN conference and online!  We will then use an online poll where you can vote on your favourites. The top 10 best images will be displayed at the YEN 2025 Conference! The YEN Committee and a representative from Nikon Instruments will Read more…

YEN 2025 Registration is open!

Please register or submit your abstract by following this link: forms.gle/fxtmNHjEziVTFprN6 Talk and poster abstract submission deadline is 13th April 2025. Read more about the event on The Node:https://thenode.biologists.com/yen-2025-conference-registration-is-open/ Follow us on our social media for updates: Instagram: @yen_networkBlueSky: @yen-network.bsky.socialTwitter: @YEN_community Poster art by Christophe Wirtz.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…