Core Technologies for Life Science Congress 2025
Brno, Czech Republic, 10-12 June 2025
Welcome to CTLS 2025
We are thrilled to invite you to the CTLS 2025 Congress in the picturesque city of Brno! This premier event offers an exceptional opportunity to unite core facility administrators, managers, researchers, and professionals from around the globe. Together, we’ll explore, discuss, and collaborate on the pivotal role core facilities play in advancing science and innovation. Mark your calendar—this is a gathering you won’t want to miss!
Meet Brno Genius Loci
After an intellectually stimulating programme, you will have the opportunity to taste Brno, explore its culture and historical charm, follow in the footsteps of Gregor Johann Mendel or just soak up the atmosphere of Brno innovation ecosystem – know that Brno is the Mecca of electron microscopy, a cybersecurity hub, becoming the capital of the European gaming industry and the centre of the Czech space industry.
CTLS2023
CTLS2023, the 5th CTLS Congress was hosted in Dublin, Ireland from June 27th to 29th, 2023. Dublin is a friendly, historic, and lively city where delegates are sure to enjoy the location as well as the Congress itself. The CTLS Congresses are international events that provide opportunities for networking as well as current updates on emerging technologies, best practices and career development in shared resource/core facility settings.
Dublin City University worked with universities and organisations across Ireland to organise this event. The full list of co-organisers is Dublin City University, Trinity College Dublin, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, University College Dublin, University College Cork, University of Limerick, National University of Ireland in Galway, Maynooth University, Queens University Belfast and University of Ulster.
Past CTLS Congresses
CTLS has held four congresses to date, face-to-face in 2014, 2016 and 2018 and online in 2021. These have all successfully brought together scientists, technical and administrative staff working across the world in core facilities, research infrastructures and other shared resource laboratories, giving them the opportunity to learn and network together.
2014: Inaugural Congress at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France
2016: Congress at the EMBL in Heidelberg, Germany
2018: Congress at the VIB in Ghent, Belgium
2021: Online Congress from the Gulbenkian Institute in Lisbon, Portugal
