The thirteenth annual workshop of the European Network for Breast Development and Cancer (ENBDC) Laboratories Annual Workshop took place on the 28-30 April 2022 in Weggis, Switzerland and focused on methods in mammary gland biology and breast cancer. Sixty scientists participated in the ENBDC annual workshop which had not been held in person since 2019 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Topics spanned the mammary gland biology field, ranging from lactation biology and embryonic development, single cell sequencing of the human breast, and stunning cutting-edge imaging of the mouse mammary gland and human breast as well as breast cancer research topics including invasive progression of the pre-invasive DCIS stage, metabolic determinants of endocrine therapy resistance, models for lobular breast cancer, and how mutational landscapes of normal breast during age and pregnancy determine cancer risk. The latest findings from participating researchers were presented through oral presentations and poster sessions and included plenty of unpublished work.

Department of Biomedicine University of Basel University Hospital Basel Basel Switzerland

Department of Histology and Embryology Faculty of Medicine Masaryk University Kamenice 3 625 00 Brno Czech Republic

Department of Pharmacology University of Cambridge Cambridge UK

Laboratory of Genetics and Developmental Biology Institut Curie INSERM U934 CNRS UMR3215 Paris France

Sorbonne Université Collège Doctoral F 75005 Paris France

The Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre The Institute of Cancer Research London UK

Wellcome MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute Cambridge UK

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