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This page lists events that are of interest to the global community of developmental and stem cell biologists: conferences, meetings, training courses, workshops. If you’re looking for webinars, check out our dedicated page.

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March 2025

RIKEN BDR Symposium 2025

other
3 March 2025 — 5 March 2025
Kobe, Japan

Abcam Digital Cell Cycle Club: Free Virtual Meeting

Conference Webinar
4 March 2025
Online

2025 RIKEN BDR-CuSTOM Joint Organoid Symposium

Symposium
5 March 2025 — 7 March 2025
Kobe, Japan

GRC Glial Biology: Functional Interactions Among Glia and Neurons

Conference
9 March 2025 — 14 March 2025
California, United States

SY-Stem 2025

Conference
12 March 2025 — 14 March 2025
Vienna

Hubrecht Symposium 2025 Developmental Biology and cell fate decisions

Symposium
13 March 2025
Utrecht, the Netherlands

Genetic Tools for New Model Organisms

Conference
16 March 2025 — 19 March 2025
Janelia

66th Annual Drosophila Research Conference

Conference
19 March 2025 — 23 March 2025
San Diego, CA

Gastruloid meeting Barcelona

Conference
20 March 2025 — 21 March 2025
Barcelona Biomedical Research Park

GRC Cartilage Biology and Pathology

Conference
23 March 2025 — 28 March 2025
California, United States

Biologists @ 100 conference

Conference
24 March 2025 — 27 March 2025
Liverpool, UK

Evolution of Plant Reproduction | ICIPS Symposium

Conference
25 March 2025 — 28 March 2025
Berlin

International Dutch Embryo Model Meeting

Conference
27 March 2025 — 28 March 2025
Nijmegen, The Netherlands

GRC Developmental Biology

Conference
30 March 2025 — 4 April 2025
California, United States

Epigenetics in Development and Disease | Keystone Symposia

Conference
30 March 2025 — 2 April 2025
Fairmont Banff Springs, Banff, AB, Canada

Qlife Quantitative Biology Spring School “Cell Dynamics in Developmental Systems”

Course
31 March 2025 — 4 April 2025
ENS, Paris

April 2025

Genetics Society – Communicating Your Science workshop

Workshop
2 April 2025 — 4 April 2025
Chicheley Hall, UK

Neural Stem Cells: Capturing Complexity and Plasticity from the Cell to the Organism

Symposium
3 April 2025 — 4 April 2025
Athens, Greece

Gene Regulatory Networks for Development | Marine Biological Laboratory

Course
6 April 2025 — 18 April 2025
The Marine Biological Laboratory

GRC: Neural Crest and Cranial Placodes

Conference
6 April 2025 — 11 June 2025
Lucca, Italy

GRC Functional Genomics of Human Brain Development and Disease

Conference
6 April 2025 — 11 April 2025
California, United States

Wild frontiers of model organisms

Conference
8 April 2025 — 11 April 2025
EMBL Heidelberg and Virtual

3rd International Symposium: Developmental Processes in CNS Plasticity and Pathogenesis

Symposium
9 April 2025 — 11 April 2025
Max-Planck-Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany

Regenerative Biology of the Female Reproductive System | Keystone Symposia

Conference
10 April 2025 — 12 April 2025
Wylie Center and Tupper Manor at Endicott College, Beverly, MA, United States

GRC Germinal Stem Cell Biology

Conference
27 April 2025 — 2 May 2025
Barcelona, Spain

May 2025

GRC Fibronectin, Integrins and Related Molecules

Conference
4 May 2025 — 9 May 2025
Lucca, Italy

Developmental timing across species: From mechanisms to evolutionary insights | EMBO workshop

other
6 May 2025 — 9 May 2025
Paris

Metabolic and Nutritional Control of Development and Cell Fate | Keystone Symposia

Conference
7 May 2025 — 9 May 2025
Wylie Center and Tupper Manor at Endicott College, Beverly, MA, United

CRC 1348 Meeting: “Cellular interfaces across scales: from molecules to tissue dynamics“

Conference
7 May 2025 — 9 May 2025
Münster, Germany

2nd Recombination Mechanisms Conference

Conference
10 May 2025 — 14 May 2025
Chania, Crete

Organoids: Engineering Innovative Approaches for Basic and Translational Insight | Keystone Symposia

Conference
11 May 2025 — 14 May 2025
Fairmont Chateau Whistler, Whistler, BC, Canada

Single Cell Biology: Unique Cells to Tissue Ecosystems | Keystone Symposia

Conference
11 May 2025 — 14 May 2025
Fairmont Chateau Whistler, Whistler, BC, Canada

EMBL Conference | Chromatin and epigenetics

Conference
13 May 2025 — 16 May 2025
EMBL Heidelberg and Virtual

2025 Weinstein Cardiovascular Development and Regeneration Conference

Conference
14 May 2025 — 16 May 2025
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Modelling Plant Stem Cells: Evolution, Development and Regeneration

Workshop
18 May 2025 — 21 May 2025
Hertfordshire, UK

Choanoflagellates & friends

Conference
19 May 2025 — 22 May 2025
Paris, France

Young Embryologist Network Conference 2025

Conference
19 May 2025
The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom

Actin Assembly for Intracellular Functions

Conference
21 May 2025 — 24 May 2025
Szeged, Hungary

Cortical Development Conference 2025

Conference
25 May 2025 — 28 May 2025
Giardini Naxos, Sicily, Italy

12th Canadian Developmental Biology Conference

Conference
25 May 2025 — 28 May 2025
University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Kelowna, Canada

June 2025

Embryology: Concepts and Techniques in Modern Developmental Biology | MBL course

Course
1 June 2025 — 14 July 2025
MBL

GRC Epithelial Differentiation and Keratinization

Conference
1 June 2025 — 5 June 2025
California, United States

SAFE Labs Workshop 2.0

Workshop
1 June 2025 — 4 June 2025
Barcelona Riviera

Shaping Life 3| French Society for Developmental Biology meeting

Conference
3 June 2025 — 6 June 2025
Cassis, France

2025 Cell Contact and Adhesion Gordon Research Conference

Conference
7 June 2025 — 13 June 2025
Les Diablerets Conference Center, Switzerland

GRC Mammary Gland Biology

Conference
8 June 2025 — 13 June 2025
Maine, United States

GRC Myogenesis

Conference
8 June 2025 — 13 June 2025
Lucca, Italy

EMBO Workshop Beyond the standard: Unconventional vertebrate models in biomedicine

Workshop
9 June 2025 — 13 June 2025
Edinburgh, UK

ISSCR 2025 Annual Meeting

Conference
11 June 2025 — 14 June 2025
Hong Kong

GRC Genome Architecture in Cell Fate and Disease

Conference
15 June 2025 — 20 June 2025
California, United States

Origin of metazoans

Conference
16 June 2025 — 20 June 2025
Roscoff

Fertility – Contribution of the maternal inheritance

Conference
16 June 2025 — 17 June 2025
Online

20th International Congress of Developmental Biology | SDB 84th Annual Meeting | 12th LASDB Meeting

Conference
18 June 2025 — 22 June 2025
San Juan, Puerto Rico

Mechanometabolism Unleashed: The Interface of Cell Mechanics and Metabolism

Workshop
22 June 2025 — 25 June 2025
Buxted Park, East Sussex, UK

Advances in Stem Cell Biology (ASCB) course (Institut Pasteur, Paris)

Course
23 June 2025 — 4 July 2025
Institut Pasteur, 25-28 rue du docteur roux, 75015 Paris, France

BaCell 3D

Conference
23 June 2025 — 25 June 2025
Basel, Switzerland

25th International Worm Meeting

Conference
28 June 2025 — 2 July 2025
UC Davis

Targeting the DNA Damage Response for Cancer Therapeutics Conference

Conference
29 June 2025 — 2 July 2025
Lisbon, Portugal

July 2025

8th Nucleic Acids Conference

Conference
4 July 2025 — 7 July 2025
Lisbon, Portugal

GRC Central Nervous System Injury and Repair

Conference
6 July 2025 — 11 July 2025
Lucca, Italy

Stem Cells, Cell Therapies, and Bioengineering in Lung Biology and Diseases Conference 2025

Conference Symposium Workshop
7 July 2025 — 11 July 2025
Burlington, Vermont (VT), USA

Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research Annual Meeting 2025 – The Placenta at Term

Conference
7 July 2025 — 8 July 2025
Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge CB3 0DS and Online

19th International Zebrafish Conference

Conference
9 July 2025 — 13 July 2025
Madison, WI, USA

The Northern(ish) England Developmental Biology Meeting 2025

Symposium
10 July 2025
Sheffield, UK

GRC Histone and DNA Modifications

Conference
20 July 2025 — 25 July 2025
Lucca, Italy

Zebrafish Development and Genetics | MBL

Course
24 July 2025 — 7 August 2025
MBL

GRC Angiogenesis

Conference
27 July 2025 — 1 August 2025
Rhode Island, United States

GRC Elastin, Elastic Fibers and Microfibrils

Conference
27 July 2025 — 1 August 2025
New Hampshire, United States

GRC Fertilization and Activation of Development

Conference
27 July 2025 — 1 August 2025
New Hampshire, United States

GRC Lung Development, Injury and Repair

Conference
27 July 2025 — 1 August 2025
Lucca, Italy

August 2025

GRC Epigenetics

Conference
10 August 2025 — 15 August 2025
Barcelona, Spain

International Society for Regenerative Biology 2025 meeting

Conference
11 August 2025 — 14 August 2025
Madison, Wisconsin USA

Mechanisms in Plant Development | FASEB

Conference
24 August 2025 — 28 August 2025
Southbridge, Massachusetts

September 2025

Visegrád Group Society for Developmental Biology Meeting 2025

Conference
5 September 2025 — 7 September 2025
Stará Lesná, Slovakia

Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research – Placental Biology Course 2025

Course
8 September 2025 — 12 September 2025
St John's College and PDN, Cambridge

European Drosophila Research Conference 2025

Conference
25 September 2025 — 28 September 2025
Alicante, Spain

Frontiers in Stem Cells & Regeneration | MBL

Course
27 September 2025 — 5 October 2025
MBL

October 2025

4th Neuroepigenetics & Neuroepitranscriptomics Conference

Conference
1 October 2025 — 4 October 2025
St. Julians, Malta

5th Interventions in Aging Conference

Conference
4 October 2025 — 7 October 2025
St. Julians, Malta

4th Chromosomal Instability as a Driver of Human Disease Conference

Conference
7 October 2025 — 10 October 2025
St. Julians, Malta

AI and Biology: Accelerating Discovery and Therapies

Symposium
9 October 2025 — 10 October 2025
Seattle, USA

Inter-organelle Stress Communication in Inflammation & Disease Conference

Conference
10 October 2025 — 13 October 2025
St. Julian's, Malta

Extrachromosomal Circular DNA Conference

Conference
31 October 2025 — 3 November 2025
Riviera Maya, Mexico

November 2025

Redox Biology in Health and Disease Conference

Conference
3 November 2025 — 6 November 2025
Riviera Maya, Mexico

Endogenous Retrotransposable Elements and Human Diseases Conference

Conference
3 November 2025 — 6 November 2025
Riviera Maya, Mexico

7th Congress of the French Society for Stem Cell Research

Conference
17 November 2025 — 19 November 2025
Lyon, France

December 2025

Accelerating PSC-Derived Cell Therapies: Starting with the End in Mind

Symposium
11 December 2025 — 12 December 2025
Boston, USA