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This page lists events that are of interest to the global community of developmental biologists: conferences, meetings, training courses, workshops.
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Topics include establishment of cohesion, DNA double-strand breaks, formation of cross-overs, movement of chromosomes during meiotic prophase, spindle assembly, kinetochore attachment, error-correction mechanisms, and consequences on fertility and aneuploidy.
Registration deadline: 15 May, 2017
This two-day scientific meeting will highlight exciting new advances in eye development, physiology, disease and therapies.
Topics include: Histone modifications, Modifications of DNA, Noncoding genome, Chromatin remodeling, Function of distal regulatory elements, Nuclear organization, Single cell transcriptome and epigenome, Systems biology, Novel mechanisms, molecular tools and approaches.
Abstract submission deadline = 28th April
Registration deadline = 10 May
The NHM will host a 1 day symposium with invited and contributed talks, posters and catering.
This annual scientific meeting reunites the Portuguese scientific community that uses the Drosophila melanogaster model system
This conference seeks to bring together leading researchers in key areas of lifecourse research and give them an arena in which to interact and develop crosscutting understanding of one another’s fields of research
Symposium celebrating the many contributions of Professor Michael Akam to the study of Animal Development and Evolution
Jointly hosted by the Florey Institute and the EPSRC sponsored Sheffield Antimicrobial Resistance Network (SHAMROK), this 2-day symposium will highlight recent advances in bacterial pathogenesis and host-pathogen interactions, with a focus on antimicrobial resistant pathogens Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pneumoniae.
The EDRC covers the whole breadth of Drosophila research, from evolution and development through to neurobiology, immunology, metabolism and cancer research.
Abstract deadline: Tuesday 9th May, 2017
The meeting will cover a wide variety of topics centered on eukaryotic gene expression, with a strong focus on global approaches for the study of gene regulation and function.
In this conference, world experts will describe how advances in developmental neurobiology, stem cell biology and genetics are offering new insights into the mechanisms controlling the development and evolution of the cerebral cortex across vertebrates.
The meeting will focus on the basic biology of stem cells and the dynamic interactions between stem cells and their microenvironment or niche.
Organizers: Fiona Watt, Marius Wernig, Ken Zaret.
Abstract Deadline: 07 July, 2017
Topics include: Brain, Behavior and Evolution,
Neural Development, Mechanisms of Neurological Disease, Glial Biology and
Neural Circuits.
Organizers: Heather Broihier, J. Troy Littleton
Abstract deadline: 14 July, 2017
Registration will open shortly
Abstract Deadline: July 11, 2017 (for Short Talk consideration)
Discounted Registration Deadline: August 10, 2017
The meeting goal brings together researchers from diverse disciplines who investigate maternal-fetal factors shaping pregnancy outcomes by exploring how these systems work together or are at odds.
We welcome the submission of abstracts for original contributions in the following topics (deadline July 31st):
Travel Award Deadline: June 13, 2017
Scholarship Deadline: June 15, 2017
Discounted Abstract Deadline: June 15, 2017 (for Short Talk consideration)
Abstract Deadline: July 13, 2017
Discounted Registration Deadline: August 15, 2017
The symposium will focus on recent advances and state-of-the-art techniques directed at understanding functionalities found in biological systems that stem from the morphology and the form of the constituents.
A limited number of travel fellowships will be made available to younger scientists fro abroad.
Registration Deadline: Thursday, August 31, 2017
The symposium focuses on understanding functionalities found in biological systems that stem from the morphology and the form of the constituents, emphasizing the different length scales: from the molecular, to cellular, to tissue level and evolutionary aspects of morphogenesis.
Organisers: Megan Davey (BSDB), Ruth Palmer, Sara Wilson, Shristos Samakovlis & Andras Simon (SWEDBO), Satu Kuure (FSDB), Elke Ober & Palle Serup (Denmark)
Registration will open shortly
Deadlines:
Scholarship/Discounted Abstract: July 11, 2017
Abstract: August 10, 2017
Discounted Registration: September 12, 2017
Serotonin plays extra-cerebral roles in adults and development. This symposium aims to reveal insights into serotonin’s role in peripheral tissues in disease diagnosis, prevention and treatment.
Bringing together researchers with a shared interest in design principle of living systems, to discuss the challenges and opportunities of engineering stem cell self-organization into tissues and organs in culture, ultimately with the efficiency and precision of an organism
Hosted by Ospedale San Raffaele and Nature, the meeting brings together key experts in the regeneration field working on different tissues and organs
A Barcelona BioMed Conference
Admission is free. Registration will open in fall.
Abstract Deadline: September 22, 2017
Organizers: Paola Arlotta &
Sergiu Pasca
Scholarship Deadline: September 25, 2017
Discounted Abstract Deadline: September 25, 2017
Abstract Deadline: October 23, 2017
Discounted Registration Deadline: November 21, 2017
Scholarship Deadline: September 25, 2017
Discounted Abstract Deadline: September 25, 2017
Abstract Deadline: October 23, 2017
Discounted Registration Deadline: November 21, 2017
Deadlines:
Scholarship/Discounted Abstract: October 5, 2017
Abstract: November 7, 2017
Discounted Registration: December 7, 2017
This symposium features workshops in specimen preparation and evaluation of suitability for cryo-EM, modeling of structures using cryo-EM data, and setting up a cryo-EM lab.
Chairs: Dr. Giacomo Cavalli (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) & Dr. Luciano Di Croce (Centre for Genomic Regulation)
This conference integrates the burgeoning field of epigenetics with the underlying processes of chromatin organization, transcription regulation and aspects of stem cell biology.
Chairs: Prof. Rodrigo Reyes Lamothe (McGill University), Dr. Piero Bianco (University at Buffalo), Prof. X. Sunney Xie (Harvard University)
Key Sessions:
Chair: Dr. Li-Huei Tsai (MIT)
Key Sessions include:
Scholarship Deadline: October 25, 2017
Discounted Abstract Deadline: October 25, 2017 (for Short Talk consideration)
Abstract Deadline: November 28, 2017
Discounted Registration Deadline: December 20, 2017
Scholarship & Discounted Abstract Deadline: Oct 26, 2017
Abstract Deadline: Nov 29, 2017
Discounted Registration Deadline: Dec 21, 2017
Joint with the conference on “Immunological Memory: Innate, Adaptive and Beyond”
Join scientific chairs Charlotte Bevan (Imperial College London), Karen Knudsen (Thomas Jefferson University) Simak Ali (Imperial College London) in Cancun for the Fusion Nuclear Receptors (New Roles for Nuclear Receptors in Development, Health and Disease) conference.
Join scientific chairs Mimoun Azzouz (The University of Sheffield) and Sherif El-Khamisy (University of Sheffield) at Cancun for Fusion’s Genomic Instability and Gene Therapeutics in Neurological Diseases (Neurodegeneration: From Causes to Therapy) conference.
Scholarship Deadline: November 28, 2017
Discounted Abstract Deadline: November 28, 2017
Abstract Deadline: December 20, 2017
Discounted Registration Deadline: January 17, 2018
This conference is being held jointly with “Chromatin Architecture and Chromosome Organization.”
Keynote Speaker: Randall Peterson, University of Utah, USA
Young FishMed Keynote Speaker: Benoit Vanhollebeke, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
The preliminary programme is available at the FishMed2018 webpage.
Registration starts on October 1, 2017.
Scholarship Deadline: December 12, 2017
Discounted Abstract Deadline: December 12, 2017
Abstract Deadline: January 10, 2018
Discounted Registration Deadline: February 13, 2018
Meeting topics:
The YTRB Network 2nd edition Symposium is an opportunity for cooperation and technology-exchange. Eminent Young Principal Investigators will give talks in the following sessions: Biotechnology, Genomics and Bioinformatics & Molecular/Cell Biology and Immunology
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