Onsite guide

Welcome to Goodbye Flat Biology 2025! This page brings together all the information you’ll need while attending this EACR conference. 

Quick Links

• Scientific programme
• Digital abstracts and posters (online from Friday 19 September 2025)
• Participant list (delegates have received the password by email on Friday 19 September)
• Venue map
• Solo travellers
• Code of conduct including photography and social media policy
• List of sponsors
• Lost your pocket programme? Download a PDF version here

Wi-Fi access

Free WiFi is available at Messe Essen with the following details.  

Network: EACR
Password: GFB2026!

Arrival at Messe Essen

Please enter through the main entrance of Messe Essen at Messehaus WEST, Messeplatz 1, 45131 Essen.

Follow the ‘EACR Conference’ signs as you enter the conference centre on the ground floor, and use the escalator to travel to the first floor. The EACR registration desk will be at the top of the escalator on the first floor.  You can register from 11:30 CEST on Tuesday 23 September. Once registered you will be given your conference badge and pocket programme. 

If you notified us of any dietary requirements, these will be listed on the back of your badge in both English and German. Please ensure you always wear your name badge while you're at the conference. 

You are welcome to leave your coat and luggage in the cloakroom located in the entrance foyer on the ground floor, but please note that this is an unsupervised area and personal items are left there at your own risk.

Poster presenters of poster numbers 1-68 can display their poster on their assigned board as soon as they are registered. The boards are 100 cm wide by 250 cm tall (portrait) and posters should be no larger than 90 cm wide by 150 cm tall (portrait). Please find your designated poster board (the correct poster number will be in the corner of each board) and attach your poster.

Poster presenters of poster numbers 69-135 can display their posters on their assigned boards from the morning coffee break on Wednesday 24 September (10:45-11:15). Materials to attach your poster will be provided for you. 

Click here to see a map of the venue

Above: Participants enjoying a Poster Discussion Session at a previous edition of the Goodbye Flat Biology conference in Berlin.

Solo travellers

If you are a solo traveller, attending the conference on your own, then please feel free to join us at the EACR Banner in the catering area during the afternoon coffee break on Day 1 (between 14:55 and 15:25) to connect with fellow solo attendees. Our friendly EACR staff and Ambassadors will be on hand to assist you, answer questions and offer insights into local dining spots and noteworthy attractions. 

Refreshments 

We will be providing refreshments during our designated Coffee Breaks as well as providing a selection of food during the lunch breaks on Day 1 and Day 2 of the conference.

Dietary requirements (by prior arrangement only): Please identify yourself to the serving staff. Confirmed dietary requirements will be detailed on the reverse of your conference badge.

Welcome Reception

Tuesday 23 September, 17:35-18:25 

Taking place on the first evening in the catering areas at the venue, our welcome reception will give participants the opportunity to meet new colleagues and reconnect with friends. A light buffet and welcome drinks will be served for all participants and exhibitors to enjoy.

Conference Dinner

Wednesday 24 September (19:30 CEST)

The Conference Dinner will be taking place on the final evening of the conference in the Kiepenkerl restaurant, a short distance away from the conference venue by public transport.

If you have already registered for the Conference Dinner, this will be listed on your conference badge. If you expected to attend Conference Dinner but this is not indicated on your badge, please come to the EACR registration desk during a coffee break.

It is important that you bring your participant badge with you to the Kiepenkerl otherwise you may not be permitted entry. 

Please arrive from 19:20 and no later than 19:30.

Above: The Kiepenkerl restaurant, Essen

Venue
KIEPENKERL, 
Teichstraße 1, 
45127 Essen

www.kiepenkerl-zu-essen.de

Local Printing

If you need to print out your poster during the conference, the following local printing companies are close by:

proud to print
Email: info@proudtoprint.de
URL: www.proudtoprint.de/#start
Tel: +49 201 201 21 0

Wagner Media
Email: info@wagnermedia.de
URL: www.wagnermedia.de
Tel: +49 201 6 15 16 17

Repro Team Ihrenberger
Email: a.ihrenberger@ihrenberger.de
URL: www.ihrenberger.de
Tel: +49 201 773282

akadpress
Email: info@akadpress.de
URL: www.akadpress.de
Tel: +49 201 43 55 41 00

Digital Abstracts and Posters

We’re working to reduce the environmental impact of our conferences, which is why we’re providing as much information as we can digitally. Please note that we are no longer providing notebooks at our conferences. 

The pocket programme you’ll receive contains the scientific programme and an index of poster titles. All the speaker and poster abstracts, as well as optional digital posters, are available in our searchable Digital Abstracts and Posters area (online from Friday 19 September 2025)

EACR onsite team

Hannah Barrs
Conference Officer

Claire Sanders
Corporate Engagement Manager

Kathryn Wass
Programmes Manager 

We aim to recycle as many badges as possible and so it would be really helpful if you could hand yours to the EACR staff after use.

Above: participants networking at previous EACR conferences.