Chromatin and epigenetics

Time (Berlin/Europe)	Speaker	Location
12:30 – 14:30	Arrival and Registration	ATC Registration Desk
13:00-14:00	Pre-conference workshop: “Single molecule biology: democratizing optical tweezers to enable your breakthrough discoveries in chromatin biology and epigenetics” by LUMICKS B.V. (registration required)	Courtyard room
14:30 – 16:50	Session 1: Chromatin Regulation Chairs: Yang Shi and Wendy Bickmore
14:30 – 14:45	Opening remarks Nicola Iovino – Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Germany	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
14:45 – 15:10	Genome-wide mapping of chromatin dynamics Steven Henifkoff – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
15:10 – 15:25	Repair of double strand breaks in Drosophila polycomb bodies Aniek Janssen – University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
15:25 – 15:40	A regulator of RNA Polymerase III embedded in the tDNA chromatin proteome Fred van Leeuwen – Netherlands Cancer Institute, The Netherlands	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
15:40 – 16:05	Epigenetic dynamics during plant reproduction Mary Gehring – Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, USA	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
16:05 – 16:50	Coffee Break & Meet the Speakers of Day 1 Steven Henikoff, Mary Gehring, Gary Karpen, Robin Allshire, Marc Bühler	Auditorium Foyer
16:50 – 19:05	Session 2: Heterochromatin Chairs: Yehudit Bergman and Alexander Stark
16:50 – 17:15	New insights into formation, organization and function of heterochromatin condensates Gary Karpen – University of California, Berkeley, USA	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
17:15 – 17:30	Coordination of chromatin functions and genome stability by the nuclear membrane protein Lem2 Sigurd Braun – Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
17:30 – 17:45	The bromodomain inhibitor JQ1 is a molecular glue targeting BRD4 to centromeric chromatin Samuel Corless – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
17:45 – 18:10	Epigenetic Regulation, Heterochromatin and Antifungal Resistance Robin Allshire – University of Edinburgh, UK Not available on demand	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
18:10 – 18:25	VIRTUAL Linker histone H1 differentially impacts the Polycomb chromatin landscape at genes and telomeric repeats in Arabidopsis Fredy Barneche – Ecole Normale Supérieure, France **remote speaker**	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
18:25 – 18:40	DiMeLo-seq: mapping protein-DNA interactions and DNA modifications on single chromatin fibers using long-read sequencing Nicolas Altemose – Stanford University, USA	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
18:40 – 19:05	The ChAHP complexes Marc Bühler – Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland Not available on demand	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
19:05 – 20:30	Dinner	EMBL Canteen
20:30 – 22:00	Drinks and poster preview	ATC Foyer and Helix A&B

Time (Berlin/Europe)	Speaker	Location
8:30 – 9:00	Coffee and light refreshments	Auditorium Foyer
9:00 – 12:30	Session 3: Developmental epigenetics Chairs: Gary Karpen and Raffaella Santoro
9:00 – 9:25	Epigenetic regulation by the MSLs: old complex, new facts Asifa Akhtar – Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Germany Not available on demand	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
9:25 – 9:50	Mechanism and function of PRC1 and PRC2 in mouse gastrulation Yi Zhang – Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital, USA Not available on demand	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
9:50 – 10:05	The Tbx factor Eomes instructs global chromatin dynamics during pluripotency exit to initiate first lineage specification Sebastian Arnold – University of Freiburg, Germany	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
10:05-10:20	Signal decoding at the Xist locus Edda Schulz – Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
10:20 – 11:05	Coffee Break & Meet the Speakers of Day 2 Asifa Akhtar, Yi Zhang, Nicola Iovino, Rong Fan, Yehudit Bergman, Ibrahim Cissé, Efrat Shema	Auditorium Foyer
11:05 – 11:30	Epigenetics of early development Nicola Iovino – Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Germany Not available on demand	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
11:30 – 11:45	Molecular timetable of differentiation in human pluripotent stem cells Maria Rostovskaya – Babraham Institute, UK	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
11:45 – 12:00	Uncovering how the genome directs development – mother to daughter cell regulation of chromatin and gene expression in C. elegans embryogenesis Julie Ahringer – University of Cambridge, UK	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
12:00 – 12:15	Soma-to-germline small RNA transfer promotes intragenerational survival to environmental stress Germano Cecere – Institut Pasteur, France	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
12:15 – 12:30	RNA pol I shapes the large-scale chromatin architecture in response to nutrients in C. elegans Daphne Cabianca – Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Germany Not available on demand	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
12:30 – 14:30	Lunch	Auditorium Foyer
13:30 – 15:30	Poster Session I (odd numbers)	Helix A & B
15:30 – 18:25	Session 4: Single cell genomics and microscopy Chairs: Asifa Akhtar and Cornelis Murre
15:30 – 15:55	Epigenetic programming of allelic extinction Yehudit Bergman – Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
15:55 – 16:10	Genome-wide profiling of DNA repair detects higher-order coordination in single cells Jop Kind – Hubrecht Institute, The Netherlands	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
16:10 – 16:40	Coffee Break & Meet the Editors Tiago Faial, Linda Koch, Sara Osman, Sabrya Carim, Lavinia Arseni, Vitor Sousa	Auditorium Foyer
16:40 – 17:05	Spatial Epigenome Sequencing of Mouse and Human Brain Rong Fan – Yale University, USA	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
17:05 – 17:30	Single-molecule and single-cell epigenetics: Decoding the epigenome for cancer research and diagnostics Efrat Shema – Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
17:30 – 17:55	Super-resolution imaging of transcription in living cells Ibrahim Cissé – Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Germany	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
17:55 – 18:10	TET activity propagates cellular memory through embryonic dormancy Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu – Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
18:10 – 18:25	The Drosophila acetyltransferase chameau (chm) promotes starvation resilience at the expense of a shortened life span Axel Imhof – Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
18:25 – 20:00	Dinner	EMBL Canteen
20:00 – 22:00	Pub quiz with after dinner drinks	EMBL Canteen

Time (Berlin/Europe)	Speaker	Location
8:30 – 9:00	Coffee and light refreshments	Auditorium Foyer
9:00 – 17:25	Session 5: Transcription and chromatin and diseases Morning Chairs: L. Stirling Churchman and Robin Allshire Afternoon Chairs: Steven Henifkoff and Julie Ahringer
9:00 – 9:25	Chromatin regulation in immuno-oncology Yang Shi – Ludwig Cancer Research, UK Not available on demand	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
9:25 – 9:40	Transcription restart stimulates chromatin reassembly following DNA replication Constance Alabert – University of Dundee, UK	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
9:40 – 9:55	Nucleosomal Asymmetry Regulates Reader Recruitment and Poising at Bivalent Domains Philipp Voigt – Babraham Institute, UK	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
9:55 – 10:20	Decoding regulatory networks in human development: one cell at a time Sarah Teichmann – Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
10:20 – 11:05	Coffee Break & Meet the Speakers of Day 3 Yang Shi, Paola Scaffidi, L.Stirling Churchman, Sarah Teichmann	Auditorium Foyer
11:05 – 11:30	Epigenetic dysregulation and cancer evolution Paola Scaffidi – Francis Crick Institute, UK	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
11:30 – 11:45	Intrinsic transcription factor cooperativity in reconstituted naïve embryonic chromatin Peter B. Becker – Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
11:45 – 12:00	H4K16ac activates the transcription of transposable elements and contributes to their cis-regulatory function Pradeepa Madapura – Queen Mary University of London, UK	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
12:00 – 14:00	Lunch	Auditorium Foyer
13:00 – 15:00	Poster Session II (even numbers)	Helix A & B
15:00 – 15:25	RNA Polymerase II pausing temporally coordinates cell cycle progression and erythroid differentiation L. Stirling Churchman – Harvard Medical School, USA Not available on demand	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
15:25 – 15:40	An RNA-dependent and phase-separated active subnuclear compartment safeguards repressive chromatin domains Raffaella Santoro – University of Zurich, Switzerland	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
15:40 – 15:55	Chromatin ubiquitylation in development and disease Peter Verrijzer – Erasmus University Medical Center, The Netherlands	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
15:55 – 16:20	Epigenetic mechanisms of microglia‑driven neurodegeneration Anne Schäfer – Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Germany **remote speaker**	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
16:20 – 16:35	Chem-map profiles drug binding to chromatin in cells Zutao Yu – University of Cambridge, UK	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
16:35 – 16:50	The Sex-specific Factor SOA Establishes X Chromosome Dosage Compensation in Anopheles Mosquitos Claudia Keller Valsecchi – Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB Mainz), Germany	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
16:50 – 17:00	Poster Prize Announcements	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
17:00 – 17:20	Coffee Break	Auditorium Foyer
	Free evening

Time (Berlin/Europe)	Speaker	Location
8:30 – 9:00	Coffee and light refreshments	Auditorium Foyer
9:00 – 16:40	Session 6: Nuclear architecture Morning Chairs: Ibrahim Cissé and Paola Scaffidi Afternoon Chairs: Nicola Iovino and Yi Zhang
9:00 – 9:25	Enhancer-promoter contacts – depends how you look at it Wendy Bickmore – The University of Edinburgh, UK	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
9:25 – 9:40	Chromosome-scale organization of the regulatory genome in the Drosophila nervous system Maria Cristina Gambetta – University of Lausanne, Switzerland Not available on demand	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
9:40 – 9:55	In vitro reconstitution of chromatin domains Marieke Oudelaar – Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Germany	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
9:55 – 10:20	Decoding transcriptional regulation Alexander Stark – Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria Not available on demand	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
10:20 – 11:05	Coffee Break & Meet the Speakers of Day 4 Wendy Bickmore, Alexander Stark, Cornelis Murre, Haruhiko Koseki, Genevieve Almouzni	Auditorium Foyer
11:05 – 11:20	Structural basis of H3K36 trimethylation by SETD2 during chromatin transcription Lucas Farnung – Harvard Medical School, USA	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
11:20 – 11:35	Recycling of modified H2A-H2B provides short-term memory of chromatin states Valentin Flury – University of Copenhagen, Denmark	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
11:35 – 11:50	Poster Prize Short talk 1: Alternative splicing decouples local from global PRC2 activity Niccolò Arecco, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Spain	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
11:50 – 12:05	Poster Prize Short talk 2: Histone divergence in Trypanosoma brucei results in unique alterations in nucleosome structure Gauri Deak, University of Edinburgh, UK	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
12:05 – 13:35	Lunch	Canteen
13:35 – 14:00	Molecular Mechanisms that Instruct Nuclear Shape Cornelis Murre – University of California, San Diego, USA Not available on demand	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
14:00 – 14:15	DNA elements tether Polycomb Repressive Complex 1 to translate histone methylation into chromatin folding Yuri Schwartz – Umeå University, Sweden	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
14:15 – 14:30	Genome access is transcription factor specific and defined by nucleosome position Ralph Grand – Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Germany	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
14:30 – 14:55	SKP1A links Polycomb-repressed genes with proteasome Haruhiko Koseki – RIKEN, Japan	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
14:55 – 15:25	Coffee Break	Auditorium Foyer
15:25 – 15:40	Nucleosome sliding in condensed chromatin Felix Mueller-Planitz- Institute for physiological chemistry TU Dresden, Germany	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
15:40 – 15:55	Chromosome structure regulated by a transcription-dependent RNA polymer gel Nick Gilbert – The University of Edinburgh, UK	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
15:55 – 16:40	Histones variants and friends, a state of play for shaping chromatin and cell fate Keynote speaker: Geneviève Almouzni – Institut Curie, France Not available on demand	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
16:40 – 17:00	Closing remarks	Klaus Tschira Auditorium
17:00 – 18:00	Apéritif	ATC Foyer
18:00 – 20:30	Conference Dinner	EMBL Canteen
20:30 – 00:00	Conference Party – Live DJ and drinks	Auditorium Foyer

On-site registration fees include admission, conference materials, COVID-19 safety measures, meals and coffee breaks. Participants are expected to book and pay their own accommodation and travel expenses.

Virtual registration fees include access to all of the talks (live streamed and on demand) and the facility to submit questions.

On-site Academia	€775
On-site PhD Student	€675
On-site Industry	€975
Virtual Academia	€200
Virtual PhD Student	€150
Virtual Industry	€250

NO visa support letters will be issued until payment of the registration fee is confirmed.

Accredited journalists may be eligible to register for complimentary press registration. Registrants may be required to provide accreditation or equivalent proof of press membership after registration. Please contact Charlotte Courtney for more information. Please note that we do not offer complimentary registrations for editors of scientific journals.

Confirmation and payment

Registration will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Your place can only be confirmed after payment of the registration fee. If you are added to our waiting list, please consider taking advantage of our offerings to participate virtually.

On-site participants: Types of payments accepted are international bank transfers and credit card payments. 

Virtual participants: We are only able to accept card payments. In exceptional cases, we can accept bank transfers. Please contact events@embl.de for details.

Abstract submission

Only participants registering to attend the on-site event are eligible to submit an abstract. Abstracts will not be accepted from virtual participants.

After registration you can submit your abstract via a separate link that will be provided in the email confirmation. Alternatively, you can access the link on the confirmation page directly after registering. The same login credentials are used for both processes.

Please note:

Abstract body: The limit of 2000 characters refers to manually typed text and excludes spaces. If an error occurs try using a different web browser (preferably Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox).

If you copy-paste the text into the form, hidden formatting might still be included which may cause the text to exceed the 2,000 character limit resulting in an error message. We recommend you clear all formatting before pasting in the text.

If you have special symbols in your text, make sure you are using Unicode characters, otherwise these will not be recognised.

Title: The title should not exceed 20 words. Only the first word of the title should start with a capital letter and the rest should be lowercase.

Authors and affiliations: Please fill in the author’s details as requested in the online form. The compulsory fields are: First Name, Last Name, Organisation Name (Affiliation or Company), Country and Email.

Kindly mark only one author in the role of First Author and please don’t forget to indicate who will be the Presenter.

Please enter your co-authors correctly via the system by adding accounts together with their organisation/institute. Do not copy-paste them into the body of the abstract text, as they will not be indexed in the abstract book.

Presentation types: When submitting your abstract, you can apply for an oral or poster presentation. A selection process will take place with the results announced 2-3 weeks after the abstract submission deadline.

For detailed instructions on how to submit a conference abstract, follow the instructions provided in this video.

Please check our FAQs pages for further information on how to submit an abstract.

Financial assistance

Limited financial assistance is provided by the EMBL Advanced Training Centre Corporate Partnership Programme and EMBO in the form of both registration fee waivers and travel grants. These are available for on-site participants at EMBL Conferences and EMBO|EMBL Symposia, and for on-site and virtual participants at EMBO Workshops. We are currently working on securing funding for all virtual participants, and ask that you please apply for financial assistance for both on-site and virtual participation. 

Your place in the meeting is only confirmed by paying the registration fee, which is mandatory even when receiving a fee waiver.

Registration fee waiver

The fee waiver will cover the registration sum that you have paid to attend the course or conference.

Travel grant

The travel grant will cover the cost of travel to an on-site event (airfare, train, bus, taxi, accommodation, visa, and/or registration fees*) and is provided up to specified caps which are normally as follows:

–up to €400 for participants travelling to an EMBL Conference or EMBO|EMBL Symposium from within Europe.

–up to €1000 for participants travelling to an EMBL Conference or EMBO|EMBL Symposium from outside Europe.

–up to €500 for any participant travelling to an EMBO Workshop.

–up to €1000 for any participant working in Chile, India, Singapore or Taiwan travelling to an EMBO Workshop.

–up to €700 for any participant working in Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Slovenia, and Turkey travelling to an EMBO Workshop.

*Registration fees are only covered for EMBO Workshops

The organisers may reduce the grant cap to accommodate more participants. Recipients will be notified of their travel cap amount when they are informed of the outcome of their application. Original receipts must be provided with your signature for all costs incurred within two months of completion of travel. Scanned copies cannot be accepted.

Childcare grant (EMBO Workshops only)

For EMBO Workshop participants with children, there is the possibility to apply for a childcare grant to offset child care costs incurred by participants or speakers when participating at a conference. Eligible costs include fees for a baby-sitter or child-care facility, travel costs for a caregiver, or travel costs for taking the child to the meeting etc. Please note that priority will be given to early stage researchers. A maximum amount of €500 can be awarded per participant applying for an EMBO childcare grant. In order to apply for this grant for EMBO Workshops, you must be registered by the abstract submission deadline.

Application

On-site participants

You may apply for financial assistance when submitting your abstract. In your application you will be asked to answer questions regarding why your lab cannot fund your attendance and how your attendance will make a difference to your career. Application for financial support will not affect the outcome of your registration application.

Virtual participants

If you are attending virtually, you can apply for financial assistance in the submission portal by the abstract deadline. Read the instructions on how to apply for financial assistance. Only submissions for financial assistance will be accepted. Presentation abstracts cannot be submitted here and will be declined. 

In your application you will be asked to summarise your current work,  answer questions regarding why your lab cannot fund your attendance, and how your attendance will make a difference to your career. Application for financial support will not affect the outcome of your registration application.

Selection

The scientific organisers will select the recipients of all financial assistance during the abstract selection process. Results will be announced approximately 6 – 8 weeks before the event start date, however for some events this may be delayed. Selection results do not impact your admission to the meeting. Selection is based on scientific merit, your current work or study location, the reasons for needing financial support, and the impact this event will have on your career.

Reimbursement

Costs will be reimbursed after the meeting only once a reimbursement form and original receipts (from travel costs) have been received.

Further details

View our list of external funding opportunities and information on attending a conference as an event reporter.

For further information about financial assistance please refer to the FAQ page.

Accommodation is not included in the conference registration fee.

As further changes in our events are possible due to COVID-19, you should book flights, trains and hotels with flexible options and favourable cancellation conditions.

The hotels below have rooms on hold for participants until 14th April 2023, in some cases at special rates. Please email the hotel directly, quoting the booking code CHR23-01  to confirm the exact price of the room.

Hotel Anlage	Hotel ibis Heidelberg	Premier Inn Heidelberg City
Hotel Bayrischer Hof	ISG Hotel	Staycity Aparthotel Heidelberg
B&B Hotel	Leonardo Hotel Heidelberg City Centre	Steffi’s Hostel Heidelberg
Exzellenz Hotel	Meininger Heidelberg	Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Heidelberg
Hotel Holländer Hof	Hotel Monpti

Conference shuttle buses

Conference shuttle buses are free of charge for participants, and depart from designated bus stops near the hotels to EMBL and back, mornings and evenings.

The bus stops for this conference are:

• Kurfürsten-Anlage (Opposite Main Train Station)
• Hotel Premier, Kurfürsten-Anlage 23
• Leonardo Hotel (Bergheimer Str.)
• Neckarmuenzplatz
• Peterskirche
• ISG Hotel
• Staycity Aparthotels

Here are the shuttle bus times for EMBL Conference: Chromatin and epigenetics.

View Conference shuttle bus stops and hotels on a larger map. Please note that not every bus stop will be used for every event.

Further details

Address: EMBL, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany. For further information on getting to EMBL Heidelberg visit Public Transportation to the Venue. For information about accommodation and local transportation please refer to the FAQ page.

Catering

All meals and coffee breaks are included in the registration fee. Our catering staff will prepare a wide variety of vegetarian meals, meat and fish dishes, soups, pasta, fresh fruit and vegetables, as well as a variety of desserts.

Please wear your badge at all times when serving yourself.

No food or drinks are allowed in the auditorium.

Charging lockers

There are lockers available next to the stairs leading down into the Auditorium. You will find some of those equipped with sockets to charge your smartphone/tablet etc.

Electricity and charging station

In most places the electricity is 220 volts AC (50 cycles). An adaptor and a plug that fits the German socket may be needed for your appliances/laptop (i.e. American, Japanese, etc.). A USB charging station for electronic devices is available at the registration desk.

EMBL merchandise

If you are interested in purchasing an EMBL souvenir (products presented in the glass display in the registration area), please ask at the registration desk for more information.

Health and safety notes

Please read EMBL’s COVID-19 safety policy for on-site events.
Do not smoke in any EMBL building.
Eating and drinking is prohibited in the Auditorium and all laboratories.
Do not enter any restricted areas or the laboratories unless instructed to do so.

If first aid is required …

• The first aid room is located next to the ATC Registration Desk (room 10- 205).
• Dial the Emergency number 222 from any EMBL internal phone only.
• Where is the accident? What happened? How many injured?
• Emergency number 06221-387 7821 from mobile phones.
• Please report all accidents to the conference officer at the registration desk.

In case of fire …

• Press the nearest fire alarm button or the Emergency number 222 from any internal phone.
• A loud fire alarm will go off if an evacuation is required. On hearing the alarm leave the building immediately following the escape route and fire wardens and head to one of the meeting points
• Do not use the lifts.

Beyond first aid…

Please remember to bring your own medication, if needed, to the conference. Note that the next pharmacy is a 4-minute drive from the EMBL, but for many medications you will be required to see a doctor to get a prescription.

Ensure in advance that your medical insurance will cover you during your visit in the event that you do need to see a doctor while in Heidelberg. In any case, the EMBL Course and Conference Office will assist you to get to the pharmacy and a doctor of your choice if necessary.

Internet

Wi-Fi is available everywhere on the premises using the EMBL-Events network and the event specific password, which will be provided on site. The eduroam network (secure, world-wide roaming access service developed for the international research and education community) is also available.

Lost and found

‘’Lost and Found’’ are kept at the registration desk until the end of the conference.

Luggage

There are lockers available on-site to store your luggage, which require a 2 EURO coin to operate. There is another luggage room on level E0, which is free to use but remains unlocked during the conference.

Nursing room

There is a nursing room available in the ATC Rooftop Lounge on level A29.

Photography

During the conference an EMBL Photographer may be taking photographs. If you would not like to appear in these, please inform the photographer or a member of the Course and Conference Office.

Printing

We can help printing your boarding passes/train ticket. Please send it to events@embl.de and collect your print-outs at the registration desk.

Room for prayer, yoga and meditation

There is a room for prayer, mediation and yoga located on level E0 behind the Auditorium. Please be respectful of other participants using the room.

Sightseeing

A variety of activities in Heidelberg can be found on the website of Heidelberg Marketing.

Travel to and from the venue

During the event we provide conference shuttle buses to and from EMBL. In addition, there is the public bus 39A that serves the EMBL campus and taxis can be easily booked at any time. Information on the conference shuttle buses can be found on the individual event website and more detailed information on travelling to EMBL can be found on our Travel Information page.

Useful German expressions

Hello	Hallo
Goodbye	Auf Wiedersehen
Good morning	Guten Morgen
Good afternoon	Guten Tag
Good evening	Guten Abend
Good night	Gute Nacht
I’m sorry	Tut mir leid
Excuse me…	Entschuldigen Sie
How are you?	Wie gehts?
I’m fine thanks. And you?	Mir geht es gut , danke, und dir/Ihnen?
What is your name	Wie heisst du? Wie heissen Sie?
My name is	Ich heisse
Do you speak English	Sprechen Sie Englisch?
I don’t understand	Ich verstehe nicht
Please speak more slowly	Können Sie bitte langsamer sprechen
Thank you	Dankeschön
Where is the toilet?	Wo ist die Toilette?
Please call me a taxi	Bitte rufen Sie mir ein Taxi
How do I get to….?	Wie komme ich zum/zur…..?
A beer/two beers please	Ein Bier/zwei Bier bitte
A glass of red/white wine please	Ein Glas Rot/Weisswein bitte
The menu, please	Die Speisekarte, bitte
Is there a local speciality?	Gibt es eine Spezialität aus dieser Gegend?
I’m Vegetarian	Ich bin Vegetarier
It was delicious	Es war hervorragend
The bill, please	Die Rechnung, bitte
I have a headache	Ich habe Kopfschmerzen
I have a sore throat	Ich habe Halsschmerzen
My stomach hurts	Ich habe Magenschmerzen
I’m allergic to	Ich bin allergisch gegen
I need a doctor who speaks English	Gibt es einen Arzt, der Englisch spricht?

What’s included?

• Access to all the livestreamed talks
• Video library of the recorded talks during and after the event
• Facility to submit questions

Please note that only on-site participants are able to submit abstracts and participate in the poster sessions.

Event platform

We are using an event platform for this conference. More information about the platform will be shared ahead of the conference.

Guidelines

• Do not broadcast the conference to unregistered participants.
• You are encouraged to tweet and post about the event. Tweet unless the speaker specifically says otherwise, but be mindful of unpublished data. 
• Please do not capture, transmit or redistribute data presented at the meeting.

Additional information can be found in our Code of Conduct.

Health and well-being

It is important to stay healthy and move around, especially when you are attending an event virtually. We have put together a few coffee break stretches and yoga videos in the conference platform for you to enjoy during the event.

How to ask questions

Please use the Q&A function in the event platform.

If you have any other questions, you can go to the Help Desk in the event platform. Click on ‘more’ on the top menu and click Help Desk. 

Time zone

The programme is planned based on the Europe/Berlin time zone, unless otherwise stated. Please take your time zone into consideration when planning your attendance.

Please find additional information including FAQs, terms and conditions, COVID-19 safety policy and travelling to EMBL on our Information for Participants page.

COVID-19 information for on-site events at EMBL Heidelberg can be found in our COVID-19 FAQs.