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11th ETS Special Issue of Reproductive Toxicology
Reproductive Toxicology 56 (2015) xxi
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Reproductive Toxicology journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/reprotox
Editorial
11th ETS Special Issue of Reproductive Toxicology Welcome!
A warm welcome to the 11th Special Issue of Reproductive Toxicology, published to accompany the 43rd annual meeting of the European Teratology Society that takes place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. This Special Issue includes the full meeting program and abstracts. In addition, the invited speakers and all ETS members were requested to contribute original full-length manuscripts on topics related to the scientific program of the meeting. The manuscripts were submitted to the usual peer-review process of the journal. Since 2000, I have been to fourteen ETS meetings: Ferrara (2000), Budapest (2001), Hannover (2002), Elsinor (2003), Thesaloniki (2004), Haarlem (2005), Abano Terme (2006), Bratislava (2007), Edinburgh (2008), Barcelona (2010), Gent (2011), Linz (2012), Stresa (2013) and Hamburg (2014), and I can reminder all of them lively as they always made a big impression on me. The meetings are always great, both scientifically and socially. Getting the pleasure to organize the 43rd meeting has been feeling unreal, but now it is really getting there! Together with the council and officers we succeeded to put together a broad and interesting conference. The symposium topics are: • Inflammation in pregnancy, and effects on fetal development and health • Pulmonary Hypertension and its relation to fetal development • The zebrafish embryo: fit for all purposes? • Mouse models The ETS is honored this year to host a workshop on the new FDA Pregnancy and Lactation Labeling Rule that was recently implemented. In addition, the education course (developed together with ENTIS) will discuss the labelling requirements for pregnancy and
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0890-6238(15)00257-9 0890-6238/© 2015 Published by Elsevier Inc.
lactation in Europe, and will include the industry, clinical and pharmacovigilance perspectives. To encourage our young scientist we will have a Young Scientist free communication session and a Young Scientist roundtable on innovative techniques. We would like to ask the more senior scientists to welcome the young scientists into our open society and make them feel at home, so they will become enthusiastic and can provide the future of our society. During my first meeting (in Ferrara) I had the pleasure when going by bus to the welcome reception, to sit next to Frank Sullivan. And on top of that I ran into Aldert Piersma who had been my internship mentor. I am sure it needs no further explanation that this first impression was a great one. Even though it is a full scientific program there is always plenty of time to interact socially. On Sunday, the welcome reception will take place at the Vrolik museum. I feel so pride to show my ETS colleagues this great Dutch collection of teratogenic specimens; it holds the world’s largest collection of human birth defects. On Tuesday, the conference dinner will take place in Saint Olof’s chapel built in the 15th century. The chapel is located in the center of Amsterdam which gives the possibility to extent the evening till late for the young ones. Thanks to our sponsors and exhibitors we are able to provide this meeting at low registration cost including lunches, a rich social agenda and prestigious speakers. Please, spend some time in the exhibition area and interact with our sponsors to show our gratitude for their invaluable support. Putting together this special issue was a great experience, and I wish Shay as many joy putting together the ETS meeting for 2016 in Dublin. Good luck! With warm regards, Manon Beekhuijzen WIL Research Europe, The Netherlands
Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
Reproductive Toxicology journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/reprotox
Editorial
11th ETS Special Issue of Reproductive Toxicology Welcome!
A warm welcome to the 11th Special Issue of Reproductive Toxicology, published to accompany the 43rd annual meeting of the European Teratology Society that takes place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. This Special Issue includes the full meeting program and abstracts. In addition, the invited speakers and all ETS members were requested to contribute original full-length manuscripts on topics related to the scientific program of the meeting. The manuscripts were submitted to the usual peer-review process of the journal. Since 2000, I have been to fourteen ETS meetings: Ferrara (2000), Budapest (2001), Hannover (2002), Elsinor (2003), Thesaloniki (2004), Haarlem (2005), Abano Terme (2006), Bratislava (2007), Edinburgh (2008), Barcelona (2010), Gent (2011), Linz (2012), Stresa (2013) and Hamburg (2014), and I can reminder all of them lively as they always made a big impression on me. The meetings are always great, both scientifically and socially. Getting the pleasure to organize the 43rd meeting has been feeling unreal, but now it is really getting there! Together with the council and officers we succeeded to put together a broad and interesting conference. The symposium topics are: • Inflammation in pregnancy, and effects on fetal development and health • Pulmonary Hypertension and its relation to fetal development • The zebrafish embryo: fit for all purposes? • Mouse models The ETS is honored this year to host a workshop on the new FDA Pregnancy and Lactation Labeling Rule that was recently implemented. In addition, the education course (developed together with ENTIS) will discuss the labelling requirements for pregnancy and
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0890-6238(15)00257-9 0890-6238/© 2015 Published by Elsevier Inc.
lactation in Europe, and will include the industry, clinical and pharmacovigilance perspectives. To encourage our young scientist we will have a Young Scientist free communication session and a Young Scientist roundtable on innovative techniques. We would like to ask the more senior scientists to welcome the young scientists into our open society and make them feel at home, so they will become enthusiastic and can provide the future of our society. During my first meeting (in Ferrara) I had the pleasure when going by bus to the welcome reception, to sit next to Frank Sullivan. And on top of that I ran into Aldert Piersma who had been my internship mentor. I am sure it needs no further explanation that this first impression was a great one. Even though it is a full scientific program there is always plenty of time to interact socially. On Sunday, the welcome reception will take place at the Vrolik museum. I feel so pride to show my ETS colleagues this great Dutch collection of teratogenic specimens; it holds the world’s largest collection of human birth defects. On Tuesday, the conference dinner will take place in Saint Olof’s chapel built in the 15th century. The chapel is located in the center of Amsterdam which gives the possibility to extent the evening till late for the young ones. Thanks to our sponsors and exhibitors we are able to provide this meeting at low registration cost including lunches, a rich social agenda and prestigious speakers. Please, spend some time in the exhibition area and interact with our sponsors to show our gratitude for their invaluable support. Putting together this special issue was a great experience, and I wish Shay as many joy putting together the ETS meeting for 2016 in Dublin. Good luck! With warm regards, Manon Beekhuijzen WIL Research Europe, The Netherlands