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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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Abstract submission deadline May 3, 2019
EMBO-FEBS Lecture Course
Registration & Abstract deadline = 15 April
The Tooth Morphogenesis and Differentiation Conference will be held in Oxford from the 1-6th September 2019.
The conference brings together researchers with interests in Stem Cells and Regeneration, Disease models, Evolution, and Development and Morphogenesis with a focus on the tooth.
This course integrates omics approaches to understand the principle of chromatin operation and its biological relevance. We will analyse the composition and variation of chromatin components, and the “epigenetic landscape” at key time points following the induction of cellular differentiation.
Abstract submission deadlines:
– for talks 15 June
– for posters 30 June
Translational control focus of attention extends to many fields, including developmental biology, neurobiology, cell physiology, disease, synthetic and systems biology, among others. Besides messenger RNA translation, the conference features advances in epitranscriptomics and non-coding RNAs that influence the translation process.
Growth Factors, Gametes and Gonads is a two-day (5th-6th Sept) Society for Endocrinology scientific meeting exploring growth factor signalling in the formation, development and (dys)function of the mammalian gonads.
For registration and programme information, visit: https://www.symposia.org.uk/gfa/home.html
The aim of this Society for Endocrinology themed scientific meeting is to bring together experts working on different aspects of growth factor signalling in the formation, development and function of the mammalian gonads.
The aim of the course is to allow participants to experience modern cell biology at work: not only to see but also to try out how cutting-edge technologies can be used to answer questions at the frontiers of cell biology.
International Symposium on quantitative plant morphodynamics
Organised by DFG FOR2581
This conference will bring together leading researchers from computational biology, various omics fields and technology development to present their latest work and discuss applications, future ideas and the challenges for integrating large-scale biological data across different biological technologies and disciplines.
Abstract submission deadline: April 30th, 2019
Early Registration Deadline
25th July 2019
Engineering Life explores cells from origins to engineering, and application. Join us September 11-13th, 2019.
Included: selected & flash talks, academic networking (steamboat on the Elbe!), Register here
Organiser: James Saenz and BCUBE
Application deadline = 31 March
Abstract Deadline: June 28, 2019
Organizers: Anne Grapin-Botton, Marius Wernig, Ken Zaret
Abstract submission deadline June 7, 2019
Most engineered systems in biology are inspired by natural systems. We have prepared a program with four themes that are geared toward basic research while being at the forefront of synthetic biology.
This course provides hands-on experience in the common techniques to detect and analyse circulating tumor cells, cell free tumor DNA and/or extracellular vesicles while also bringing in clinical aspects. Learning from proper sampling through error free sequencing to data analysis.
deadline for pre-registration: Jan. 31
Exploring the developmental origins of health and disease
Audience: scientists working on foetal programming, ecologists and evolutionary biologists interested in the effects of the parental environment on offspring.
This first EMBO|EMBL Symposium on systems genetics will focus on the central questions of when and how do changes in genotype result in changes in phenotype.
This meeting is organised by the journal Disease Models & Mechanisms and curated by Monica Justice, Nancy Speck, Paresh Vyas and Leonard Zon. It will bring together diverse front-line researchers, stimulating discussions across basic and clinical research, and fostering collaborative links.
Conference topics:
– Stem cells and fate decisions
– Enteroendocrine lineage specification
– Gut hormone production and secretion
– Interactions between gut epithelium and microbiota
– Engineering stem cell niches
Self-organization in multicellular systems is a five-day interdiscplinary workshop designed to foster new collaborations and exchange about a wide range of topics in life science (cell biology, biophysics, developmental biology, neuroscience and immunology).
More information: http://centuri-livingsystems.org/csm2019/
Abstract Deadline: July 12, 2019
Organizers: Kate O’Connor-Giles, Scott Waddell
A Scientific Discussion Meeting from The Royal Society
Connecting leading developers of imaging methods with cutting edge applications that illustrate how imaging can answer biological questions. We emphasise on methods that capture the dynamics of life, spanning the whole range from molecular resolution to imaging of whole organisms.
The Brain Mosaic aims to bring together leaders in this emerging discipline to discuss how it is advancing our knowledge of CNS function and disease. Speakers at this neuroscience meeting on ‘single cell’ will emphasize the multi-disciplinary nature of the field.
This workshop belongs to the series “Current Trends in Biomedicine”, organized by the Universidad Internacional de Andalucía (UNIA) at the “Sede Antonio Machado” of Baeza (Andalusia, Spain).
More information and application at https://www.unia.es/biomedicine
Exploring the diverse, dynamic and multifaceted roles of RNA across a spectrum of cellular processes. Interdisciplinary discussion of the roles of non-coding RNAs in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes, with the aim of enhancing our understanding of gene regulation and function.
Computation is an integral part of today’s research as data has grown too large or too complex to be analysed by hand. Training in several key tools, focusing on good development practices that encourage efficient and reproducible research computing.
Discussion topics will include:
Abstract submission deadline: May 13, 2019
The NYSCF Conference is the leading scientific meeting on translational stem cell research, convening over 500 participants from academia, industry, government, non-profits, and patient groups.
In this meeting we will explore the role of narrative in the communication of science. What does narrative in contemporary fiction have to say about the human dimension of science? Are its practitioners villains or heroes, stereotypes or multidimensional characters?
Come join CamBioScience for this exciting practical course. Learn from the scientists who created gastruloids so you can reproduce them in your lab!
Instructors: Dr Peter Baillie-Johnson, Dr David Turner, Mr Stefano Vianello
The 10th meeting of the Latin American Society for Developmental Biology
This workshop belongs to the series “Current Trends in Biomedicine”, organized by the Universidad Internacional de Andalucía (UNIA) at the “Sede Antonio Machado” of Baeza (Andalusia, Spain).
More information and application at https://www.unia.es/biomedicine
20% of the course programme covers lectures and tutorials on microinjection and corresponding microscopy techniques by experts in the field. 80% focuses on hands on practical work organised in small groups.
This course covers conceptual and technical classes on human stem cell transplantation and immune reconstitution, infections with human-specific pathogens, in vivo modelling using patient-derived xenografts (PDX) of solid tumours and leukaemia models as well as regenerative approaches for the liver.
This conference covers presentations from cancer genome projects, the areas of cancer functional genomics, systems biology, cancer immunogenomics and epigenomics, cancer mouse models and the translation and clinical impact of scientific results obtained.
Submission deadline: September 29
Registration deadline: October 18
This year’s conference will cover a broad spectrum of epigenomic discoveries, opportunities, and also challenges, in human normal biology and in disease and discuss and discuss epigenomic approaches in common human diseases.
A Workshop from the Company of Biologists, organised by Mustafa Khokha, Karen Liu and John Wallingford. Funded early career places available – deadline = 10 June.
This course on the fundamentals of high-end cell sorting enables scientists to properly use the global upstream technology of cell sorting with high confidence.
Epithelial-mesenchymal-transition (EMT) research bridges development and cancer. TEMTIA9 will be held on Nov.11-14, 2019 (Kumamoto, Japan). We have exciting speakers and many open oral presentation slots, with support from the Company of Biologists. For details please visit http://www.emtmeeting.org.
This workshop belongs to the series “Current Trends in Biomedicine”, organized by the Universidad Internacional de Andalucía (UNIA) at the “Sede Antonio Machado” of Baeza (Andalusia, Spain).
More information and application at https://www.unia.es/biomedicine
Abstract Deadline: August 23, 2019
Organizers: Nancy Allbritton, Scott Fraser Junhyong Kim
Celebrating 100 years of genetics in Edinburgh and the Genetics Society in the UK
This conference addresses the promises and challenges of precision health, the molecular insights necessary to enable a maintenance of wellness and prevention of disease and the new technologies needed to apply those insights in the clinic.
Annual Fall conference, featuring undergraduate DevBio research: DBNY2019. Along with talks & posters, will have a keynote speaker and a career panel discussing options after college.
This workshop belongs to the series “Current Trends in Biomedicine”, organized by the Universidad Internacional de Andalucía (UNIA) at the “Sede Antonio Machado” of Baeza (Andalusia, Spain).
More information and application at https://www.unia.es/biomedicine
The symposium will focus in particular on how metabolites and metabolic networks impact gene regulation, on recently discovered roles of metabolites in disease and how this open novel therapeutic avenues.
This meeting will unite researchers from the plant and animal kingdoms to discuss the common goal of understanding the molecular basis of carbon dioxide detection.
Organised by Professor Martin Cann, Dr Vicki Linthwaite and Dr Eoin Cummins.
See webpage for further details.
This meeting connects researchers based in academia and industry to focus on the opportunities and challenges for genomics in drug discovery. Covering multi-omics, epidemiology, molecular biology and computational approaches, focusing on the contributions of these methods to target validation.
Abstract Deadline: September 27, 2019
Organizers: Guo-li Ming, Sergiu Pasca
Exploring how recent advances in chemical biology help expanding the druggable proteome and enhancing our understanding of disease biology with three themes:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Addressing:
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.
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.
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.
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.
