Half a year ago, the very first morphological symposium in the Czech Republic was held at the Second Faculty of Medicine of the Charles University, and Motol University Hospital, under the auspices of the Ministry of Health, the Rector of Charles University, the Dean of the Second Faculty of Medicine, and the Director of Motol University Hospital – XXVIth International Symposium on Morphological Sciences.
It was the first international conference which took place in the newly opened lecture halls, from 5 July to 7 July 2018, with 205 registered experts from 33 countries (22 of them from the Czech Republic and 8 from Slovakia) and 271 contributions, 105 of them oral and 166 posters (24 of them from the Czech Republic and 9 from Slovakia). The main topics comprises a lot of scientific fields: systemic, topographic, clinical and surgical anatomy, histology, molecular and cell biology, developmental biology and embryology, anthropology, neurosciences, digitized morphology, education, imaging and comparative anatomy.
At the same time, four Executive Committee meetings were held: the International Federation of Association of Anatomists (IFAA), the European Federation for Experimental Morphology (EFEM), the International Committee of Symposium on Morphological Sciences (ICSMS) and the International Symposium on Clinical and Applied Anatomy (ISCAA). The entire symposium was organized by the Department of Anatomy of the Second Faculty of Medicine (the President of the Congress was Prof. David Kachlík) and AMCA, with the help of our students.
Part of the symposium, which circulates around the world in the annual cycles, was the first presentation of the English version of Memorix Histology, which was co-authored and edited by staff of the Department of Anatomy and the Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine of the Second Faculty of Medicine of the Charles University and Faculty Hospital Motol.
More information about the conference is available on its website.
