Book of Abstracts EUVEN 2021 - 1st International Congress of the European Venom Network

The First International Congress of the COST Action European Venom Network (EUVEN 2021) took place on September 14 th -16 th 2021, in a virtual format.

The COST Action CA19144 EUVEN was launched in October 2020 to promote synergistic interactions among different stakeholders and foster venom research at the European level. Members of the network actively cooperate to improve scientific connection in this
multidisciplinary field, favor knowledge exchange and consolidation of best practices in venom research, and offer interdisciplinary training to young researchers.

Since the Action was launched in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemics, this was the first occasion for the EUVEN scientific community to gather together and share their research results: a strongly felt need, reflected in the high number of abstracts submitted to this conference.

A total of 93 contributions submitted by authors representing 39 countries were featured at EUVEN 2021, including invited keynotes, contributed talks and posters, and organized in three sessions: Diversity of Venom and Venomous Organisms, Novel Approaches to Venom Research, and Applications and Biomedical Implications of Venom.

All accepted abstracts are included in this book, and organized by type of contribution (keynotes, talks and posters) and alphabetically by first author’s last name. Some of the abstracts were edited to conform to the meeting format, but the content originally submitted
by the authors was not modified. When there are multiple authors, the name of the presenting author is underlined.

This publication is based upon work from COST Action CA19144 EUVEN – European Venom Network, supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology - www.cost.eu)