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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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Postponed due to COVID-19
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.
The Genetics Society Arabidopsis Special Interest Group provides a platform for discussing fundamental research in this model organism. After a 10 year Hiatus, the Genetics Society Arabidopsis Meeting is back with a two-day meeting in Durham.
Due to COVID-19, this meeting is now going to be held virtually – visit the website for more information
Cancelled due to COVID-19
Cancelled due to COVID-19
A virtual mini-symposium to replace the cancelled in-person BSCB GenSoc UK Spring Cilia Meeting (now rescheduled for 2021)
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.
Postponed due to COVID-19
Cancelled due to COVID-19
This course will provide the participants with an overview about the basics of microscopy (light and optics, contrast techniques and imaging).
Postponed to 2022 due to COVID-19
Postponed due to COVID-19
Cancelled due to COVID-19
Postponed due to COVID-19
Cancelled due to COVID-19
Cancelled due to COVID-19
Keynote Speakers: Lucy O’Brien (Stanford) & John Wallingford (UT-Austin)
Organizers: Ken Poss and Frank Conlon
For information, and to register, please visit: https://sites.google.com/view/SESDB-2020
Registration deadline: May 6, 2020
Abstract deadline for consideration for a short talk is April 1, 2020
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.
Cancelled due to COVID-19
Cancelled due to COVID-19
Application Deadline: January 16, 2020
Postponed due to COVID-19
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.
Cancelled due to COVID-19
Cancelled due to COVID-19
Cancelled due to COVID-19
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.
Cancelled due to COVID-19
Rescheduled from 30 March due to COVID-19
The London Stem Cell Network will host its 3rd annual one-day symposium at The Francis Crick Institute.
This Human Cell Atlas (HCA) meeting will focus on creating maps of healthy human development and pediatric tissues. The goal is to energize and bring together multiple communities to develop the human development and pediatric atlas projects
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.
Due to COVID-19, this meeting will be held virutally, including oral sessions via Zoom, digital “poster sessions”, dedicated Slack channel for one-on-one discussions, and the Leading Strand archive after the conference
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.
Postponed due to COVID-19
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.
Cancelled due to COVID-19
The Developmental Biology Teaching Workshop introduces both senior faculty and our next generation of developmental biologists to a variety of easily implemented laboratory tools and a host of research organisms.
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
Cancelled due to COVID-19
Cancelled due to COVID-19
Cancelled due to COVID-19
Cancelled due to COVID-19
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
The Summer School provides intensive training in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine with emphasis on critical analysis. Field-leading scientists provide a week-long programme of lectures and discussion groups in a rigorous, but open and interactive format.
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.
Join us and our outstanding international speakers for a meeting focused on cell state transitions. Session themes include single cell insights into human development, genetic disease and cancer, and emerging approaches to biological/mechanistic follow up of single cell findings.
Joint meeting of the French and British Societies for Cell Biology
Deadline for registration: 10th August 2020
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.
Abstract deadline = 10 May
Registration deadline = 11 September
Scholarship Deadline: June 24
Abstract Deadline: July 8
Discounted Registration Deadline: August 5
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.
Early bird registration deadline 29 June 2020
Abstract submission deadline 13 July 2020
Standard registration deadline 22 September 2020
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.
An International Symposium from the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), French Society for Stem Cell Research (FSSCR), and Belgium Society for Stem Cell Research (BeSSCR).
A Workshop from The Company of Biologists.
Rescheduled due to COVID-19
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.
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.
Rescheduled due to COVID-19
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 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.
Rescheduled due to COVID-19
BioS(T)EM aims to:
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
Rescheduled due to COVID-19
Rescheduled due to COVID-19
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.
A Workshop from The Company of Biologists.
Rescheduled due to COVID-19
Rescheduled from March 2020 due to COVID-19
Abstracts for Posters and Registration Deadline: January 31, 2020
Rescheduled due to COVID-19
This meeting aims to explore all aspects of this emerging topic, from methods development to molecular mechanism, with an emphasis on the contribution of RNA modification to mammalian development, tissue homeostasis and disease.
Rescheduled due to COVID-19
8th Meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology
Rescheduled due to COVID-19
This workshop highlights the many important functions of microglia to nervous system physiology and function.
