Journal Meeting archive
DMM2023: Infectious Diseases Through an Evolutionary Lens
17 - 19 October 2023, British Medical Association House, London, UK
Infectious diseases have exerted strong selective evolutionary pressure on humans and other hosts throughout history. There is growing appreciation of the use of evolutionary analyses to gain insight into the critical interactions between pathogen and host that lead to disease, tolerance or resolution for SARS-CoV-2, tuberculosis, HIV, malaria and other infectious diseases. Understanding these interactions provides insights into (i) the key host defences that ...Unconventional and Emerging Experimental Organisms in Cell and Developmental Biology - September 2023
17-20 September 2023, Wotton House, Surrey, UK
The aim of this meeting is to bring together researchers with expertise in unconventional experimental organisms to share their knowledge and exchange technical approaches. The increasing use of less well-studied systems allows us to tackle fundamental questions around the evolution of multicellular life, body plans and structures, to investigate conserved and divergent cell biological processes and to provide insight into the mechanisms responsible for developmental pattern formation, regenerat ...JCS2023: Imaging Cell Dynamics
14 - 17 May 2023, Pestana Palace Hotel, Lisbon, Portugal
This meeting will be the fourth instalment of our highly successful Cell Dynamics Meeting series, and will focus on ‘Imaging Cell Dynamics’. Emphasis will be placed on researchers addressing biological questions using the latest technologies rather than engineers and optical experts developing new microscopes to ensure the meeting still has a cellular focus. This meeting represents a unique opportunity to bri ...JEB 2023 - Developmental Plasticity: From Mechanisms to Evolutionary Processes
11-15 March 2023, Tenuta il Cicalino, Massa Marittima, Italy
Although the concept that conditions encountered during early development can shape an animal’s phenotype is not new, in recent years developmental plasticity has gained prominence in new fields for several reasons. Epigenetics has revolutionized our understanding of the mechanisms underlying developmental plasticity, providing insight into how environmental experiences translate into altered phenotypes both within and between generations. This development, coupled with recognition that plasticity can differ among ...From Stem Cells to Human Development - September 2022
11 - 14 September 2022, Wotton House, Surrey, UK
This meeting will be the fifth iteration of this highly successful Journal Meeting, which has been running every two years since 2014 (including virtually in 2020). Over the past four events, we have brought together a diverse group of researchers (both in terms of topic and demographics) united in their desire to better understand human development, and to do so using human cells and tissues. Since the first meeting in 2014, we ...Cell Dynamics: Host-Pathogen Interface - May 2022
8 - 11 May 2022, Wotton House, Surrey, UK
This meeting will be the third instalment of our highly successful Cellular Dynamics Meeting series, and will focus on ‘Host-Pathogen Interface’. Intracellular pathogens highjack and use the cellular systems of their unwilling hosts to ensure their continued survival, replication and spread. The relative simplicity of many pathogens and the ability to manipulate them genetically has made them ideal model systems to analyse fundamental ce ...JEB 2022 - Integrating Biomechanics, Energetics and Ecology in Locomotion
13-17 March 2022, Hotel Eiger, Mürren, Switzerland
The integration of biomechanics and energetics is challenging for all forms of locomotion, especially in the context of free-ranging movement in the natural environment. Traditionally, biomechanists focus on mechanics, physiologists on energy – usually in a laboratory context – and ecologists on field measurements, often using proxies of movement and energy use, such as accelerometry, because direct measurements in the field are often not feasible. Greater integration would improve the biological and scientific relevance of both field and laboratory measurements, while a shared conceptual framework would enable better experimental data and information flow at the interface of the disciplines. The aim of this symposium is to promote cross-disciplinary understanding and establish a common framework for studies that link energy consumption, muscle function and locomotor mechanics in ter ...Developmental Disorders: From Mechanism to Treatment - September 2021
14-17 September 2021, Online
This Meeting, a collaboration between the Development and Disease Models & Mechanisms journal teams, aims to bring together developmental biologists, human geneticists and clinical researchers who are united in the goal of understanding and treating developmental disorders. The underlying causes of developmental disorders – genetic or environmental – are often not understood. Moreover, there is a disconnect between researchers working on animal models of developmental disorders, geneticists trying to identify the genomic lesion responsible, and clinicians hoping to treat affected patients. Given the resulting urgent need to improve communication between these groups, to promote basic research into congenital anomalies and to invest in translating this research to the clinic, this Meeting will fo ...JEB 2020 - Predicting the future: species survival in a changing world
13-16 December 2020, Hotel Eiger, Mϋrren, Switzerland
Experimental biologists have the potential to play a significant role in assessing the susceptibility or resilience of species to future, human-induced environmental change, whether on a global scale such as climate change (e.g. effects of global warming, ocean acidification, increased UV-B radiation) or more locally (e.g. impacts of the damming of rivers, urban heat). Understanding how changing environmental drivers - including temperature, rainfall, salinity, oxygen levels, pH and UV radiation - affect physiological processes and whether organisms have the capacity to physiologically compensate is becoming more critical given the potential effects on biodiversity and ecosystem function, but also due to food security. Developing models to predict the future will require not only a mechanistic understanding of the effects of environmental drivers and their interactions on physiological homeostasis but also a greater understanding of the genotypic an ...Virtual Meeting: From Stem Cells to Human Development - September 2020
Tuesday 8 - Friday 11 September 2020, Online
This meeting represented the fourth in our highly successful series of events focussing on human developmental biology. Since the initiation of this series of meetings in 2014, we have witnessed huge progress in the field, with more and more researchers turning to stem cell and organoid systems to investigate development and organogenesis in vitro, as well as increased analysis of human embryos and tissues to understand how these processes occur in vivo. Technological advances such as genome editing, single cell sequencing and improvements in tissue engineering now allow us to delve more deeply into the conserved and divergent processes underlying human development. Such knowledge is essential to underpin translational research into developmental disorders, to develop cell and tissue therapies, and to understand the origins and evolution of our own species. As previously, this meeting brought together researchers working on a diverse set of questions – from early cell fate ...Blood Disorders: Models, Mechanisms and Therapies - September/October 2019
29 September - 1 October 2019, Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, Boston, USA
Advancing basic research findings to the clinic remains a daunting task. Researchers in the field of hematopoiesis have made significant progress in this regard by taking discoveries from model organisms to the clinic. Such advances, including bone marrow transfers, stem cell replacements and immunotherapies, have also had a large impact on the treatment of non-blood disorders. This meeting on blood disorders and their treatment, organised by the journalCell Dynamics: Organelle-Cytoskeleton Interface - May 2019
19 - 22 May 2019, Pestana Palace Hotel, Lisbon, Portugal
Following on from our highly successful inaugural Cellular Dynamics Meeting in 2017, which focused on the membrane-cytoskeleton interface, the second in this series of meetings turned to organelles. Although organelles are a prominent area of research, studies into their dynamics tend to overlook the connection with the cytoskeleton. This meeting brought together scientists studying the interface between organelles and the cytoskeleton at d ...JEB 2019: Genome editing for comparative physiology
23-27 March 2019, Il Cicalino, Massa Marittima, Italy
For almost 100 years, biology has relied on a relatively small number of genetic model organisms in which to link mechanisms from the genetic to the organismal level. While providing fundamental breakthroughs, this past research has been limited to a handful of model organisms that are not representative of the rich diversity found in nature. In recent years, however, the use of gene editing tools such as CRISPR/Cas9 have made it possible to ask mechanistic questions in a w ...From stem cells to human development - September 2018
23 - 26 September 2018, Wotton House, Surrey, UK
This meeting represented the third in our highly successful series of events focussing on human developmental biology. Since the initiation of this series, in 2014, we have witnessed huge progress in this field, with more and more researchers turning to stem cell and organoid systems to investigate development and organogenesis in vitro, as well as increased analysis of human embryos and tissues to understand how these p ...JEB 2018: Linking brain and behaviour in animal navigation
24-28 March 2018, Cavo Olympo, Plaka Litochoro, Greece
Animals show impressive navigational abilities, whether returning to a close-by goal or migrating thousands of kilometres across entire continents and oceans. They move on their own or in large groups, and they can use visual landmarks, olfaction, magnetic maps, celestial cues and more, often integrated with internal cues for self-motion. Can we identify common navigational strategies used by animals? And how does the brain act as an animal's internal navigation system? Behavioural experiments o ...Cellular dynamics: membrane-cytoskeleton interface - May 2017
21 - 24 May 2017, Southbridge Hotel & Conference Center, Massachusetts, USA
Cell biology in its broadest sense aims to understand how a cell, the basic unit of life, converts information stored within its genome into form and function in both space and time. This includes understanding not only the inner workings of individual cells but also how they react and respond to each other and their environment. To achieve this end is a formidable task, as the different systems and organelles of the cell comprise complex prot ...JEB 2017: The biology of fat
25-29 March 2017, Wiston House, Steyning, UK
The synthesis, storage and breakdown of fats, the roles played by adipose tissue in thermogenesis, thermoregulation, migration, prolonged fasting and hibernation have been the subject of interest among comparative ecological physiologists for decades. In biomedical circles, there have been remarkable advances made in the understanding of the chemical and neural signalling mechanisms that regulate appetite, fat metabolism and body fat content. New information has be ...From stem cells to human development - September 2016
25 – 28 September 2016, Southbridge Hotel & Conference Center, Massachusetts, USA
Our understanding of human embryonic development is limited by the experimental inaccessibility of the system. Thus, we have been forced to make assumptions about how humans develop based on our knowledge of other mammals, especially the mouse. However, the recent explosion in stem cell research, particularly the generation of human pluripotent stem cells and the development of organoid culture systems, has provided new opportunities for investigat ...JEB 2016 - Evolution of Social Behaviour
20-24 March 2016, Eiger Hotel, Mürren, Switzerland
One of the great challenges in modern biology is to understand how the social behaviours of animals arise through a combination of genetic and environmental factors and how they are implemented by mechanisms of neural and endocrine control. Recent innovations in a wide variety of subfields from molecular techniques to machine vision make it possible to perform comparative studies on genomes and behaviours. These new approaches suggest novel ways for researchers to bridge gaps between the laboratory ...From stem cells to human development - September 2014
21 – 24 September 2014, Wotton House, Dorking, Surrey, UK
Our understanding of human embryonic development is limited by the experimental inaccessibility of the system. Thus, we have been forced to make assumptions about how humans develop based on our knowledge of other mammals, especially the mouse. However, the recent explosion in stem cell research, particularly the generation of human pluripotent stem cells, has provided new opportunities for investigating lineage choice, cell diff ...
