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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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The course is aimed at graduate students and other researchers in the life sciences who would like to learn good practices in data management and analysis.
During this course participants will gain theoretical insight in the structure of sequencing and proteomic data, and will receive training in data analysis using various computational tools.
Abstracts are due on October 31, 2019
Exploring how recent advances in chemical biology help expanding the druggable proteome and enhancing our understanding of disease biology with three themes:
This course is designed for molecular biologists & geneticists seeking to introduce 10x Genomics Single Cell Immunology applications into their labs/research.
November 1, 2019 – Abstract submission
November 15, 2019 – Notification of abstract acceptance (talk or poster)
December 15, 2019 – Early registration
January 15, 2020 – Late registration
This conference provides a forum for scientists interested in applying systems and mechanistic approaches to understand evolution. Target audience: researchers at the interface of evolution, quantitative genetics, and systems biology.
This meeting aims to present the most recent advances in the mechanistic understanding of DNA metabolic processes at the single-molecule level, using both in vivo and in vitro approaches.
Applications for this meeting must be submitted by January 26, 2020
Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Dr Ruben Perez-Carrasco and Dr Berta Verd.
Bringing together leading figures in nuclear receptor research, to discuss emerging roles and their implications for health and disease in an intimate meeting that will generate meaningful idea exchange to further shape this influential field.
Talks will cover a broad range of topics, including chromosome organisation, long-range interactions, chromatin assembly, stem cell regulation/differentiation, RNA-based mechanisms, transcription regulation, DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation.
This theoretical and practical course will present techniques for the dissection and dissociation of different subpopulations of both mouse and human mammary, including stem/progenitor, cells.
Progress in biological analyses at both a single scale and across scales, have allowed us to further understand organisms in the context of dynamic environments. We will address how genotype and the environment bring about phenotypes at the population level.
Applications for this meeting must be submitted by February 2, 2020
1. Get a clear understanding of the image analysis pipeline
2. Understand how to prepare images ready for analysis
3. To use ImageJ and Fiji more effectively to analyse your data
4. Gain an understanding of machine learning and neural networks
This meeting will bring together academic and industry scientists and clinicians working on developing and implementing gene therapy and cell-based therapy for a wide variety of conditions.
Registration deadline: December 6, 2019
Topics to be discussed:
Origin of life
Protein/RNA self-assembly
Intracellular organelle formation
Cell assembly and organ formation
Brain function and its underlying principle
1. Understand and generate a data analysis pipeline
2. Identify when programming is useful for analysis and/or further experiments/comparisons (e.g. modelling)
3. Become familiar with 2 programming interfaces (e.g. Python and MATLAB)
4. ‘Choose your language’
This meeting will bring together experts and pioneers in studying neuroepigenetics and epitranscriptomics to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive picture of epigenetic and epitranscriptomic mechanisms in neural development, reprogramming and cell identity, plasticity, neuronal function and dysfunction.
We will discuss:
The course is aimed at clinical scientists, molecular pathologists and industry researchers who would like to learn about possible applications and to gain hands-on experience in the field of liquid biopsy from sample acquisition, target enrichment, analysis and interpretation.
The VIBes in Bioscience PhD conference is an initiative from VIB that takes place in Belgium. Selected speakers are renowned in different Life Sciences fields such as inflammation & immunology, plant biology, cancer biology, structural biology, neuroscience and microbiology.
This two-week laboratory course offers early career researchers advanced training in the use of zebrafish as a powerful experimental tool in biomedicine.
This course precedes the VI LAZEN Joint Zebrafish and Medaka Conference.
Deadline for applications: 15 December 2019
During this course the participants will learn to validate the cellular localisation of candidate genes from transcriptome studies through conventional ISH and, the recent cutting-edge, smFISH (Single Molecule Fluorescent ISH) and HCR-ISH (Hybridization Chain Reaction), based RNA ISH hybridisation methods.
This symposium provides a high visibility platform to scientists who use modern molecular genetic tools to discover inter-organ communications, and therefore to illustrate how much our molecular and genetic understanding of whole-organism physiology has progressed in the last 20 years.
Jont with the meeting on Higher-Order Chromatin Architecture in Time and Space (X3)
Abstract Deadline: Dec 11, 2019
Joint with the meeting on Skirting Mendel: Non-Classical Mechanisms of Phenotypic Variation, Inheritance and Disease
Joint with the Genetics Society
Abstract and Housing Deadline: March 1
Registration Deadline: March 10
Inaugural meeting of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology at Kyoto University.
A symposium focusing on the next generation of stem cell researchers
This symposium will bring together latest advances in the fields of genomics, microscopy and modelling to foster their integration towards a comprehensive spatial and temporal understanding of the functional four-dimensional organisation of the eukaryotic genome.
Sixth meeting of the Latin American Zebrafish Network.
Early registration deadline: 31 December 2019
Abstract submission deadline: 29 January 2020
Pre-Conference Practical Course: 14 – 27 March 2020, Lima, PERÚ
Abstracts for Posters and Registration Deadline: January 31, 2020
This course will give a solid practical and theoretical grounding in evaluating how a small molecule interacts with its biological target in cells or in vitro, and its role in drug discovery.
The London Stem Cell Network will host it’s 3rd annual one-day symposium at The Francis Crick Institute on 31st March 2020. Registration is free to LSCN members (free sign-up) and abstract submission closes on Friday 31st January for talks/posters.
Scholarship Deadline: Dec 5, 2019
Discounted Abstract Deadline: Dec 5, 2019
Abstract Deadline: Jan 9, 2020
Discounted Registration Deadline: Feb 5, 2020
Registration deadline: 5 March 2020
Abstract deadline: 5 February 2020
The DBSUMI meeting attracts a diverse group of scientists using marine invertebrates as experimental systems to ask fundamental questions in cell, developmental, and evolutionary biology in a broad phylogenetic context.
Abstract and Travel Award Deadline: February 1, 2020
Abstract submission deadline: January 17, 2020
The course focuses on the highly interdisciplinary topic of metagenomics. During the course, participants will receive an overview of state-of-the-art genomic technologies and bioinformatic tools.
This meeting aims to explore all aspects of this emerging topic, from methods development to molecular mechanism. Most importantly, the meeting will place an emphasis on the contribution of RNA modification to mammalian development, tissue homeostasis and disease.
This unique conference brings together multiple international research communities around common topics, including developmental genetics. Share your work with the C. elegans, Drosophila, mammalian, yeast, Xenopus, zebrafish, population, evolutionary, and quantitative genetics communities, along with those researching humans and plants.
Stowers Research Conferences are biennial meetings that bring together researchers, faculty, and graduate students to inspire creative thought and collaboration in the basic sciences.
Abstract deadline: January 17, 2020
Registration deadline: February 8, 2020
We will invite Dr. Masatoshi Takeichi as a keynote speaker, and along with invited lectures, there will be opportunities available for oral and poster presentations.
Abstract Deadline: Friday, March 20, 2020
Registration Deadline: Friday, April 10, 2020
BioS(T)EM aims to:
The conference will provide a comprehensive backdrop to the basic principles behind Epigenetic and cross-reference to their relevance to disease. Sessions include; Chromatin, RNA and DNA regulatory pathways and a separate session on recent developments in drug discovery from Pharma.
This practical course will combine theoretical sessions with hands-on experimentation and computation emphasising the key steps of the protocol and computational quality control.
This workshop highlights the many important functions of microglia to nervous system physiology and function, the newest and most exciting literature and brings together researchers using state-of the art imaging, genomics, and molecular biology to study these enigmatic cells.
Applications for this meeting must be submitted by April 12, 2020
This course will provide the participants with an overview about the basics of microscopy (light and optics, contrast techniques and imaging).
Liquid phase separation is emerging as a common biophysical basis underlying many important cellular functions. This conference will bring together scientists from soft matter polymer physics, molecular “un” structural biologists, and biologists working in cell, developmental and neurobiology.
Co-organized by the French Society of Developmental Biology and the Institute of Developmental Biology of Marseille.
Abstract submission deadline: March 12th, 2020
Early bird and Presenting authors registration deadline: April 3rd, 2020
Abstract submission deadline = March 27
Early Registration = April 10, 2020
Conference Topics
Organized by DanStem and by The Novo Nordisk Foundation
Abstract deadline = 4 Feb 2020
Addressing:
The meeting will explore bacterial pathogens and pathogenesis from multiple perspectives, from cellular mechanisms to interbacterial interactions and community behavior, as well as pathogenesis in the complex milieu of the microbiota.
This practical course will cover advanced light microscopy techniques and participants will learn how to derive qualitative and quantitative insights on molecular mechanisms in cells and developing organisms.
Flow Cytometry is one of the most powerful single cell analysis methods used throughout the life sciences and medicine. We will cover the theory of Flow Cytometry and corroborate this information with the practical issues of the most frequent assays.
Applications for this meeting must be submitted by May 3, 2020
Applications for this meeting must be submitted by May 3, 2020
Application Deadline: January 16, 2020
Abstract submission deadline: February 21, 2020
Impaired microtubule function can lead to human diseases including cancer and neurodegenerative disorders. In recent years, interdisciplinary approaches embracing cell biology, genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry, biophysics, structural biology and mathematical modelling have made a tremendous impact on the microtubule field.
Joint with the meeting on Immunity in Early Life: From the Maternal to the Microbial Environment
Joint with the meeting on Maternal-Fetal Crosstalk
Applications for this meeting must be submitted by May 10, 2020
Over the course of three days small interdisciplinary teams will co-create innovative healthcare solutions for chronic disease management. Each team will take on a specific pre-defined challenge from the fields of precision health and data driven medicine.
This course will teach the biological researchers to analyse biological data using open-source software. The analysis will be performed with docker4seq package, which was developed to facilitate the use of computing demanding applications in the field of NGS data analysis.
This course offers the opportunity to acquire a portfolio of cutting edge EM methods; allowing the participants to integrate EM tools and readouts into the workflow of their own cell biological research projects.
Participants will learn the principles of current methodologies including SILAC and TMT as well as targeted proteomics, and they will be trained in the use of bioinformatic tools for data analysis.
One of the course objectives is to educate and inspire the next generation of scientists, by providing an up-to-date overview of both contemporary and classic topics, spanning state-of-the-art techniques in Drosophila genetics and genomics.
Bringing together microbiologists and immunologists to obtain a global view of host-pathogen interactions. Focusing around common processes, rather than a particular infectious agent or host cell. Analysing the strategies of all types of pathogens, commensals and different host cells.
Applications for this meeting must be submitted by May 31, 2020
8th Meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology
Bring together top researchers in the field to spark scientific exchange. Presenting the latest Lab-on-a-Chip technologies and applications, which should be of major interest for experts as well as scientists looking for a first glance at this exciting new technology.
This conference will provide a forum for discussion on the past, present, and future of animal models for cancer, in particular the role that these models will play in the era of precision medicine.
Abstract Deadline: May 1, 2020
This meeting will bring together a diverse group of investigators to discuss their understanding the role that dysregulated ISC behavior plays in the etiology of disease, and conversely, the impact of intestinal disease on proper ISC function.
This course will bring together early career researchers in the fields of geology, planetary science, micro- and molecular biology for an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of Geobiology.
This symposium will cover emerging key concepts of latent metastasis and dissemination of tumour cells including evolution and genetic diversity of metastasis, circulating tumor cells, stemness, dormancy and stromal reprogramming, transcriptional and epigenetic control, motility and invasive signaling.
Applications for this meeting must be submitted by June 21, 2020
Focusing on the study of functional roles of the ubiquitin system, how it works to ensure normal signal transduction, what are the pathological consequences when it is perturbed and how we harness our knowledge for more efficacious treatment of diseases.
Looking to the future: open questions in developmental biology
Applications for this meeting must be submitted by July 12, 2020
Applications for this meeting must be submitted by July 12, 2020
Applications for this meeting must be submitted by July 12, 2020
Applications for this meeting must be submitted by July 19, 2020
This course provides the theoretical and practical training covering the full breadth of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) techniques in order develop novel image processing approaches.
The meeting brings together leading experts covering all aspects of transcription from cis-regulatory function, long range regulation, 3-dimensional looping, the basal transcriptional machinery, RNA polymerase regulation and function, nucleosome positioning, chromatin modifications, chromatin remodelling, and epigenetic inheritance of transcriptional silencing.
This course will introduce participants to a new generation of a spatially resolved transcriptomics assay provided by 10x Genomics.
The workshop sets the stage for the dissemination and exchange of new developments in diverse, hot fields within chemical biology, being the platform for inspiration, collaboration and networking for researchers in academia and industry.
The Visegrád Group Society
for Developmental Biology second meeting. Supporting excellence in Developmental Biology throughout Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.
The fourth in Development’s highly successful series of events focusing on human developmental biology
Genome Engineering & Synthetic Biology are revolutionizing Life Sciences. Driven by advances in the CRISPR-toolbox for rapid, cheap, multiplex modification of genomes & breakthroughs in DNA synthesis technologies, the progress enabled by these tools in last years has been breathtaking.
In conjunction with the British Society for Developmental Biology
Members Early Bird Registration Deadline: Midnight GMT, Friday 19 June, 2020
Pre-Registration Deadline: 5pm GMT, Tuesday 8 September, 2020
In this symposium, we bring together researchers from vascular biology and neurobiology to foster interdisciplinary exchange and new emerging concepts on how vascular and nervous systems crosstalk to maintain organ homeostasis and function.
This course will provide hands-on experience in the several techniques to detect and analyse circulating tumor cells (CTCs), cell free tumor DNA (ctDNA) and proteins.
Abstract Deadline: June 26, 2020
This symposium will focus on the molecular basis and evolution of sexual dimorphism across animals and other organisms, including the origins, evolution and biology of sex chromosomes.
Co-supported by The Company of Biologists and Yamada Science Foundation
The aim of SLS2020 is to synthesize the current knowledge on the architecture, dynamics and diversity underlying plant stem cell systems, based on a variety of experimental and theoretical approaches.
Joint meeting of the French and British Societies for Cell Biology
This course will teach the biological researchers to analyse biological data using open-source software. The analysis will be performed with docker4seq package, which was developed to facilitate the use of computing demanding applications in the field of NGS data analysis.
Abstract Deadline: July 10, 2020
This conference series has become known for exploring yeasts as models to study questions of general relevance to evolution and ecology. Experts will speak on a range of topics, including genetics, cell biology, genomics, systems biology, metabolic modelling and engineering.
This meeting will appeal to Molecular/Cell Biologists/Geneticists & Biochemists interested in genome stability. Researchers interested in the molecular basis of cancer, neurodegenerative diseases and ageing and those with an interest in high throughput genetic and pharmacological screening methods.
The EMBO | EMBL Symposium “The Complex Life of RNA” will bring leaders in the RNA field together with post-docs and students, to disseminate and discuss the most recent results.
This course provides training in several key tools, with a focus on good development practices that encourage efficient and reproducible research computing.
The aim of this meeting is to bring together researchers from different fields to enhance our understanding of how organoids can be formed and mantained and how we might eventually use them to regenerate and replace human organ tissue.
Course with Dr Madeline Lancaster:
Learn how to make cerebral organoids.
Learn how to use cerebral organoids in your research.
This conference aims to provide a gathering opportunity for researchers of all levels who are interested in how gene regulation participates in the development and function of the brain, with particular attention to the chromatin-based regulation of gene expression.
This conference aims to provide a gathering opportunity for researchers of all levels who are interested in how gene regulation participates in the development and function of the brain, with particular attention to the chromatin-based regulation of gene expression
This symposium aims to further strengthen a new, highly interdisciplinary community composed of scientists from very different fields and who share a common interest in oscillatory phenomena and biological dynamics.
The main objective of this conference is to bring people together from diverse disciplines to exchange ideas, promote cross-disciplinary collaborations and to form a synthesis of appropriate systems-level approaches.
This course will cover established techniques from sampling through sequencing, protein analysis and data analysis. Samples will be collected via flow cytometry, gene expression will be analysed by qRTPCR, and protein analysis will be performed by proximity extension assays.
This course will cover the basics, possibilities and limitations of different purification and characterisation techniques and will address strategies to understand their role in biomedical applications.
Deadline for Registration: October 23
Abstract Submission Deadline: September 1
This conference will bring together experts and early stage researchers from the separate fields
