LINE Symposium 2026 coming soon!
Our fourth LINE symposium will be held on the 22nd June 2026 at the Francis Crick Institute in London.
This free one-day symposium is a celebration
of ECR-led infection research and open to all scientists from students to PIs.
Just to give you a flavour of how the event is structured, please see the agenda from last year's LINE symposium 2025 below:
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Beyond ECR-talks selected from submitted abstracts, we are always joined by two invited speakers, which last year were Prof. Amaya Bustinduy (LSHTM, London) and Dr. Joe Grove (CVR, University of Glasgow).
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To discuss career paths both inside and outside academia we always hold a careers panel, which in 2025 was composed of Dr. Henry Blest, Dr. Tina Chowdhury, Dr. Cat Gale, Dr. Peter Hill, Aimé Palomeras and Dr. Catrin Beetham.
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Finally, we aim to give space to talk about subject close to ECRs' heart and daily lifes outside of the bench. Last year, we invited the Carers in STEMM network, which advocate for equitable and accessible support for those balancing caring and career.
The aim of our annual symposiums are to help early career researchers to: (i) foster knowledge and technical exchange, (ii) increase collaborations, (iii) present their work to a bigger, like-minded critical audience, (iv) expand networking opportunities, (v) advertise opportunities for career development, (vi) raise and discuss career related issues, and (vii) strive for a positive and inclusive research culture.
You can read about our previous events in our blog articles:
If you would like to know more about mental wellbeing and other options available at your institutions to take care
of your well-being, we have put together a document you can access here.
Our Code of Conduct applies to all of our seminars and meetings.
Agenda 2025
