On behalf of the European Zebrafish Society (EZS), we are delighted to welcome you to the 13^th European Zebrafish Meeting, which we are organizing in Wien/Vienna. It has been a wonderful tradition to host these large international meetings in different places across Europe, and Wien is of course a fantastic site to have this meeting. The organizing team is very much looking forward to the event, and to the opportunity to meet so many colleagues in person in Austria.

As the other meetings before, this meeting will have its own local flavor, but the unifying scheme over the years is the excellent and topically diverse science that is on display. As usual, we have a full program with plenary and parallel sessions, workshops and award lectures. There are additional measures to support PhD students, post-doctoral fellows and junior staff.

We would also like to thank the sponsors and exhibitors, who play a vital role at these meetings and continue to support our conferences.

It will be an intense few days of scientific and social interactions, and we hope you will enjoy this exciting meeting and a trip to Wien!

Very best wishes,