Venue

The symposium opens on Wednesday evening in the Konrad-Cohn Lecture Hall Konrad Cohn (1866–1938) was a Jewish physician and dentistry instructor at the Charité who was dismissed from his position on 12 May 1933 under the Nazi racial laws. The lecture hall bears his name as a memorial to those persecuted during this period. Wikipedia ↗ , part of the Physiology Institute at Virchowweg 24 on the Charité Campus Mitte. The opening event begins at 18:00.

The Konrad Cohn Lecture Hall is a well-equipped auditorium that will host the symposium's welcome reception and the first scientific contributions of the evening programme. It is located directly within the Friedrich-Busch building on the historic Campus Mitte.

Address: Virchowweg 24, 10117 Berlin

From Thursday, the scientific programme continues in the Oskar-Hertwig Lecture Hall Oskar Hertwig (1849–1922) was a German embryologist and zoologist who first demonstrated that fertilisation results from the fusion of sperm and egg cell nuclei (1876), observing this in sea urchins. He later served as Professor of Anatomy at the University of Berlin. Wikipedia ↗ , where all oral presentations will be held. Breaks and poster sessions take place in the adjacent Wilhelm-Waldeyer-Building Wilhelm von Waldeyer-Hartz (1836–1921) was a German anatomist at the University of Berlin who coined the terms "neuron" (1891) and "chromosome" (1888), making fundamental contributions to neuroscience and cell biology. Wikipedia ↗ .

Address: Philippstraße 11, 10115 Berlin

These historic buildings are part of the Institutes of Anatomy and are embedded within a larger green space that used to house the University of Veterinary Medicine but is now primarily used by the Faculty of Life Sciences of the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.