News

Enjoy these moments from October 2024's meeting, and find more at https://www.espcr.org/Marseille/ -> See you in 2025!

Assignments for postergrids and flash talks are forthcoming and should be in place by Monday. If possible, please bring extra large spring clips to attach to the supports (there will be some but perhaps not enough if your poster is heavy). We will notify you of your flash talk session (Wed or Thurs) and placement when you check in for your badge.

We are thrilled that the Ville de Marseille and the publishing cooperative The Company of Biologists have both decided to help support the financial burden of making our in-person meeting happen, along with the participation of each attendee and a number of other welcome sponsors. Please click through and see who's helping us network this year.

It's not too late to attend the conference dinner if you didn't reserve it initially. Either use a different e-mail address from your initial registration or talk to one of the organizers for us to help you out. Credit card payments only for the last-minute conference or dinner registrants. The dinner venue is limited in terms of places, so sign up today!

Click the link in the Program & Speakers tab to download a PDF of our latest version of the program. 57 speakers across four days!

Congratulations to the following society members for their travel awards to attend the 25th annual ESPCR meeting! - Yael Noy (Weizmann Institute, Israel) - Zahraa Fakih (University of Bordeaux, France) - Nicole Rachinger (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) - Akiko Omori (Osaka University, Japan, and Padova University, Italy) - Vinod Kumar (Department of Dermatology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India) - Joao Charneca (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal). They were selected from a competitive panel of applications. We thank all candidates for their submissions and look forward to seeing all of your presentations.

The scientific and organizing committee will be accepting late-breaking news to be presented in poster form, with or without an accompanying flash talk, until the early bird registration deadline. If you consider yourself an early-career researcher, you may also apply for a travel award (see the Awards tab) after submitting your abstract. Don't miss out!

Express your interest in being a candidate for a travel award at the link under About ESPCR2024 > Awards (but you must have submitted an abstract to apply).

The recent technical issues have been resolved, abstracts will be accepted until an extended deadline of July 8th, registration is also open until the conference starts - but don't miss the early bird deadline of July 19th for the best value.

The French Foundation for Cancer Research "Fondation ARC" has generously notified the organizing committee of their participation in sponsoring the ESPCR 2024 meeting. Merci du fond de nos cœurs.

We are thrilled to add "La Ligue contre le Cancer" as our top non-profit (Gold-level) sponsor of this year's ESPCR annual meeting. Un très grand merci de votre générosité !

Don't miss out on the opportunity to present your work to your colleagues at the ESPCR 2024. Abstracts will be printed in a special issue of Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research. Deadline for submission for consideration for talks and travel awards: July 1st

The French Society for Cell Biology offers registration and travel support twice a year (deadlines mid-March and mid-September) to Ph.D. students and postdocs presenting work in cell biology at international conferences. This ESPCR meeting is eligible. The application form is in French and joining the SBCF is required but free.

The ESPCR award recognizes and acknowledges scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the field of pigment cell research. The 2024 ESPCR Prize will go to Prof. Miguel Seabra, Principal Investigator at NOVA Medical School, Lisbon, Portugal.