Dear ISPNE Community,

I am very excited about our annual meeting in New Orleans this September. After our virtual meeting last year, I’m really looking forward to meeting in person. This year, the meeting is being held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA organized by our very own Elizabeth (Birdie) Shirtcliff (PNEC journal editor in chief), Shannin Moody, Helen Nti, Juliana Talarico, and Chelsea Lavassani. 

Many people, including myself, consider ISPNE to be their intellectual “home”, and the annual meeting serves as our “home base” – a place where we all gather, share our latest scientific ideas and contributions, receive feedback from our peers, and reconnect with colleagues who have become familiar faces and even friends over the years.

It’s that place where, over the years, new scholars from around the world are welcomed, and become seasoned and award-winning advanced scholars, perhaps ultimately joining the ISPNE Executive Committee or even becoming President of the Society!

It’s that place where new findings, new methods, new concepts and sometimes even whole new subfields are “dropped” for the first time. (For example, ISPNE is where I first learned about the impact of early experience on epigenetic markers over 20 years ago).

It is also a meeting that alternates between North America and Europe, offering chances to see exciting new places and meet scholars who are outside of your regular academic and sociocultural circle. We hope to make ISPNE meetings even more international in the future.

For the 2025 meeting, we are still accepting abstracts for symposia (deadline extended to Apr 15) and for individual abstracts (deadline extended to May 1st).  See the attached flyer for more details on conference registration and submission. Feel free to circulate the flyer among your networks. 

In order to assist with our space and program planning, please let us know if you are planning to organize a symposium or submit an individual abstract by responding to this email with the words, “symposium” or “abstract”.

We hope to see you this year in New Orleans, and hopefully every year thereafter! 

Warmly,

Emma Adam

ISPNE President, on behalf of the Executive Committee and Conference Committee