Registrations open: 2 April 2024

Abstract submission deadline: EXTENDED TO 9 August 2024

Payment with early bird discount: 12 July 2024

Registration deadline: 9 September 2024

Travel award application deadline: EXTENDED TO 5 July 2024

Online registrations are open from 2 April.

N.B. This meeting has a limited number of available slots - your are strongly encouraged to register and submit an abstract as soon as possible since the organisers will close registrations as soon as the meeting becomes oversubscribed.

Please note that all prices are indicated in EUR (not dollars).

The registration fee entitles participants to:

• access all scientific sessions and poster sessions
• breakfast
• morning/afternoon coffee breaks
• lunch
• welcome reception² (on Wednesday, 25 September)

² If you wish to take an accompanying guest to the welcome reception, please remember to add this option during the payment procedure. The cost for one guest is 25 EUR.

Payment is possible by credit card or bank transfer. Further details about the payment procedure is available through your personal myEBPS2024 area in this website, after you sign up here.

Cancellation policy

Cancellations with a refund request must be sent by e-mail to the secretariat and must be accompanied by a valid justification. Refunds will be decided case by case by the organising secretariat. If accepted, cancellations by 9 September 2024 will be refunded fully minus an administrative charge of 30 EUR plus the effective transaction costs of the refund; no refunds will be provided after 9 September 2024.

All attendees are strongly encouraged to submit an abstract. This can be done through your personal myEBPS2024 area in this website; you will need to have an account to have access to the latter.

The abstract should be submitted by the presenting author only.

Please note that payment of your registration fee is required before you can submit an abstract.

The abstract submission deadline is 9 August 2024.

Abstract format

Title
The title must start in uppercase and continue in lowercase, except for conventional terms (ATP, DNA, NFκB, etc). Example:
    This title is written correctly
     This Title is Not Properly Written
     ALSO THIS TITLE IS WRONG

Authorship
If more than one author (but only in that case), underline your name (the presenting author, in whatever position you appear in the author list) and use commas to separate the author names; do not use 'and' before the last author. Write your name and surname in full; for any other authors use initial(s) for the first name(s) followed by the surname. If more than one affiliation (but only in that case), use sequential superscript numbers to identify each institution. Example:
  Mario Rossi¹, J. Doe², F.C. Bloggs^1,2
  1Dept Biomembranes, Golgi & Veratti Univ., Pavia, Italy
  ²Dept Bioblast Analyses, Altmann Univ., Leipzig, Germany

Text
Keep the abstract text to within 1500 characters, spaces included (this is roughly equivalent to 200 words).

Eligibility criteria

All trainees (students, postdoctoral fellows, medical residents, etc) are able to apply for a travel award. Travel award recipients will be required to present a poster and may be provided an opportunity for a short oral presentation in a Data Blitz or Hot Topics session.

While all trainees are eligible and encouraged to apply, we are particularly interested in receiving applicants who fulfil the following criteria:

• Women, LGBTQIA+, non-binary individuals
• Individuals with a disability: defined as a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities
• Individuals from historically underrepresented racial, ethnic or caste groups in their country of origin
• Individuals living in a low- or lower-middle socio-economic area as defined by the World Bank

Application

When signing up for this workshop, indicate that you wish to apply for a travel award. Subsequently, through your personal myEBPS2024 area, the Travel Award section will enable you to provide additional data for the evaluation of your request:

• Current academic position
• ORCID ID
• A short text on how you have contributed to research teams, careers of others and/or communicating science to the community (Max 250 words)
• A short text with a personal statement that reflects your goals, motivations and details about your scientific career (Max 250 words)

Deadline: 5 July 2024.

To help the applicant:

Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) is a platform that creates a permanent ID for researchers and scholars. Any research output with a DOI and other activities (e.g., peer review) can be linked to it. Thus, it will work as an online academic CV.

The first question “How have you contributed to research teams, careers of others and/or communicating science to the community?” is meant to be space for the candidate to demonstrate your skills inside and outside the lab that, usually, are invisible in a regular academic CV (e.g., mentorship, engagement with the public, peer review, improvement of research integrity, creation of a public policy, event organization or participation in societies).

With the second question, “Give us a personal statement that reflects your goals, motivations and details about your scientific career.”, the candidate can explain not only their current goals and plans but also experiences that happened during the scientific career. Academic career pathways are diverse and conventional metrics (e.g., publications) are foten not able to completely grasp the invisible experience throughout a researcher’s life (e.g., parental leave or living in a low economic area with no scientific support).

EBPS is excited to offer meeting attendees the opportunity to partake in our Mentor-Mentee Program. This will serve as an opportunity for junior investigators and trainees to expand their networks and get to know more senior members of EBPS. There will be both informal and organized events to foster interactions between mentors and mentees. Please note that this program requires participation in a mentor-mentee meet-up on Day 1 of the workshop, prior to the welcome reception. If you would like to partake in this program either as a mentor or a mentee, please complete the information during the registration procedure.

A childcare service is available at the venue during the scientific sessions. If you are planning to make use of this service, you must contact the organisers beforehand, providing information about the number and age of the children who will accompany you.

Deadline: 9 August 2024.

Accommodation for all participants will be at Banff Centre which will also be the workshop venue. Payment for your accommodation is not included in the registration fee: you will be responsible for booking your room directly.

N.B. The room block has a limited number of rooms; it is recommended to book your room as soon as possible, before the room block fills up.

Unfortunately, there is an increasing number of fraudulent websites and email promotions claiming to offer registration and accommodation services. Please be advised that payment for your EBPS 2024 attendance can only be processed through this website, within your personal myEBPS2024 area, after you sign up for an account. Also, the EBPS 2024 Organisers have secured preferential rates only with the hotel mentioned above (using the method indicated) and are in no way responsible for arrangements that you make. Please be aware of possible scams.

All participants will be required to read, sign, and adhere to the Code of Conduct . Any experienced or witness violations can be submitted here (anonymously, if preferred).