Human Development: Stem Cells, Models, Embryos
Organisers: Paula Alexandre, James Briscoe, Emily Calderbank, Claudio Cortes Rodriguez, Muzz Haniffa, Paul Riley, Liz Robertson, Peter Rugg-Gunn, John Russell, Ben Simons, Shankar Srinivas and Pilar Vazquez Arango
Date: 7 - 9 September 2026
Location: University of Warwick, UK
Development has been organising regular meetings on human development for over a decade. For 2026, the journal has teamed up with the Wellcome-funded consortium the Human Developmental Biology Initiative (HDBI) to co-organise this event, which will bring together researchers from around the world, united by an interest in understanding human developmental biology. Topics covered will range from lineage specification, patterning and morphogenesis through to bioengineering and disease modelling.
Speakers
Anna Beaudin University of Utah, USA
Andrea Ditadi IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Italy
Jianping Fu University of Michigan, USA
Mina Gouti Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany
Parthiv Haldipur Seattle Children’s Research Institute, USA
Insoo Hyun Harvard Medical School, USA
Arnold Kriegstein University of California, San Francisco, USA
Prisca Liberali Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland
Melissa Little Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Australia
Jean-Léon Maître Institut Curie, France
Sigolène Meilhac Institut Imagine and Institut Pasteur, France
Sasha Mendjan Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, IMBA, Austria
Hanna Mikkola University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Naomi Moris The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Jenny Nichols The University of Edinburgh, UK
Jason Spence University of Michigan, USA
Purushothama RaoTata Duke University School of Medicine, USA
Hongmei Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Sean Wu Stanford University, USA
Register your interest
Registration will open in early 2026.
Please register your interest here.
Venue
The University of Warwick is a campus university located on the outskirts of Coventry. The university was established in 1965 and is now part of the Russell Group and a top UK and Global University.
Birmingham Airport is the closest international airport and is a short taxi or bus ride away. There are a number of train stations near to the campus. Coventry is four miles away and is the nearest mainline station, Canley and Tile Hill stations are closer but have less frequent trains.
Image credit: Susanna Narkilahti,Tampere University, Finland
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