5th European B cell Forum 2024

It is a pleasure to invite you to the 5th European B cell Network (EBCnet) Forum in the Netherlands organized by Stijn Vanhee (VIB-UGent), Carl De Trez (VUB) and Charles Pilette (UC Louvain), Belgium. The local organizer will be Rudi Hendriks, Erasmus MC Rotterdam.

REGISTRATION

Please register by no later than May 15, 2024.
Once you have registered, we will send you an e-mail with payment instructions.    

To keep the Forum to about 80 - 95 participants, we decided to invite only group leaders from European countries. The registration rate is 500 Euros, which includes full accommodation (including tax).

DETAILS

TIMING

July 8th – 10th, 2022

We will start on Monday, July 8th at 2pm and finish on Wednesday July 10th around lunch time. Therefore, many of you can travel on Monday in time and catch an outbound flight/train on Wednesday.

CONGRESS VENUE

Hotel Zuiderduin, Egmond aan Zee, the Netherlands (https://www.zuiderduin.nl/en)

We made single-room reservations for all participants. We only have a limited number of rooms at Hotel Zuiderduin. The number of participants is, therefore, limited to about 95. Please understand that we need to assign the hotel on a first-come first-served basis.

If you wish to arrive earlier (105 Euros per night, including breakfast and taxes) or to stay for additional nights after the meeting (160 Euros per night, including breakfast and taxes) if you wish to bring your partner and book a double-room instead (additional ~40 Euros per night, including breakfast and taxes) please contact the venue (sales@zuiderduin.nl) and you will pay upon arrival directly to the hotel.

HOW TO GET TO EGMOND AAN ZEE

By train

The train station that is nearest to Egmond aan Zee is Heiloo (at ~6 km distance). There is a frequent (every 30 minutes) direct train service from Amsterdam Central station to Heiloo. This train journey takes about 30 minutes.

A shuttle service from Heiloo train station to Egmond aan Zee (10 minutes) will be arranged.

By plane

The distance from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport to Egmond aan Zee is 50 km.

• There is a frequent (every 30 minutes) train service from the airport to Heiloo train station. This train journey takes about 50 minutes and you will have to change trains at Zaandam.

• A shuttle service from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport to Egmond aan Zee (40 minutes) will be arranged.

KEY ACTIVITIES

1. Oral Research Presentations

Approximately 30 talks of 20 minutes, including discussion. If you are interested to give a research talk, please include a brief abstract (maximum: 350 words) with a title in the registration form. Please understand that we cannot give everyone the opportunity to present. We will consider that the number of speakers from each country is reflected by the total registrations for this country. The oral presentations will be selected by the organizers.  

2. Networking event

We have again included a poster session to stimulate interaction between participants, given that this part of the program was highly appreciated at our previous network meeting. In strong contrast to regular conference posters that show detailed recent research findings, we propose an informal poster session in which the overall research topics, research lines and method overviews from the individual group leaders are presented. This session will balance the oral presentations that focus on recent specific research findings. Please indicate whether you wish to present such a poster in the registration form.

3. General Assembly

In this meeting we will discuss the activities over 2023-2024, our webpage, the date and place of the next EBCnet Forum meetings and the EBCNet Summer School.