SLTB2025: 61st Meeting of the Society for Low Temperature Biology

Olsztyn, Poland, September 11-13, 2025


Dear colleagues and fellow researchers,

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to attend the upcoming 61st Meeting of the Society for Low Temperature Biology, to be held at the Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences on September 11-13, 2025. The meeting will start at 0900 on the 11/09/2025 and finish by 1400 on 13/09/2025. Please click the button below to register.

We welcome abstracts covering the full range of cryobiological topics including, but not limited to, fundamentals of cryobiology, reproductive cryobiology, plant cryopreservation, cryopreservation for cell therapies, cold adaptation, cryopreservation of blood products, whole organism cryopreservation, and cryosurgery. The meeting will have a particular focus on the history of the SLTB and sustainable biobanking.

Program in preperation

Travel and accomodation information to be updated shortly.

In case of questions please email olsztyn2025sltb@gmail.com

We hope to see you in Olsztyn in September 2025 for what promises to be a truly outstanding conference!

Sincerely,

The Organizing Committee


Please follow links below for information about the Student Travel Award and photo competition. We are particulalrly keen to support students travelling internationally.

Local organising committee

  • Prof. Dariusz Jan Skarżyński, DVM, Ph.D., Dr.Sci. (Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research in Olsztyn, Polish Academy of Sciences)

  • Taisiia Yurchuk, Ph.D.  (Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research in Olsztyn, Polish Academy of Sciences; Institute for Problems of Cryobiology and Cryomedecine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)

  • Beenu Moza Jalali, Ph.D. Dr. Sci. (Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research in Olsztyn, Polish Academy of Sciences)

  • Karolina Łukasik, M.Sc. (Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research in Olsztyn, Polish Academy of Sciences)

  • Rakesh Jalali, MD, PhD (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Department of Emergency Medicine)

Scientific Committee

Dr Tom Whale (University of Leeds)

Dr Peter Kilbride (University of Oxford)

Dr Iryna Buriak (Cytiva)