2015 Gordon Conference – Developmental Biology

The Developmental Biology Gordon Conference is held every two years and this year it was held in the picturesque Mount Holyoke, MA, USA. This conference’s mission is to bring together people from research institutions all across the globe who are studying developmental biology which lies at the cross roads of all the Life Science, integrating investigations at molecular, cellular and tissue and organismic levels. The 2015 Gordon Conference on Developmental Biology presented the most recent, cutting-edge research in the field.

It was a great conference with a fantastic line up of speakers which kept us engaged through all days of the conference. It was a superb learning experience with wonderful interactions and discussions. The highlight of the conference were two talks by Dr. Victor Ambros and Dr. Gary Ruvkun both co-recipient of 2015 breakthrough prize for discovery of microRNAs using worm C. elegans as the model system. A predominant number of speakers (>50%) at the conference were using C. elegans as their model system and a large subsection of the research presented dealt with genomic level events many of which directly or indirectly involved microRNAs. It goes to show how much the field of microRNAs has evolved in the past couple decades and many researchers are working to understand the role of microRNAs.

All and all it was a wonderful conference. Given that it was a Developmental Biology conference, I went home still yearning for a broader exposure of different model organisms (in addition to C.elegans) and studies that span the breadth of developmental biology at the cellular, tissue and organismic levels in addition to genomic level.

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