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Remember your first meeting? Remember the nervous waiting, standing beside your first poster as your mentors and idols wander between the display boards, reviewing and criticising and questioning the work of your peers?

Poster sessions have always been a hallmark of any scientific conference. The opportunity to present work to an audience of one’s peers is invaluable to anyone starting out in their career, and so it helps shape the future of science and medicine. It also provides an opportunity to review and refine research findings in advance of publication.

Which is why ECE 2013 is moving the poster sessions to the middle of the day; bringing them to the heart of the meeting.

So when you go to grab a bite during the lunchtime break, think of your junior colleagues and how you once were in their position, waiting next to your data, secretly hoping that some clever Professor would ask his difficult question and crack the puzzle you’ve been trying to solve and secure once and for all your passion for science.

Dedicated poster sessions will be taking place between the hours of 1300 and 1400 in the poster hall on the Sunday, Monday and Tuesday of the conference. Please consider taking some time to visit our early-career delegates at their posters and help them to grow as scientists. Who knows, you may stumble across the future of endocrinology on your way round, or find a new and exciting direction for your own work.

And poster presenters mustn’t forget to use the popular e-poster feature to place your poster in full online for perpetuity – delegates can upload a PDF of their poster to the e-poster tool on the ECE 2013 website.