BSDB Meetings
Biologists @ 100 Meeting
Celebrating 100 years of the Company of Biologists
- Dates: 24th-27th March 2025
- Primary location: ACC Liverpool, UK
Upcoming one-day Focus meetings
Bridging Mechanics and Genetics in Early Development
- 30th of June 2025
- IBRB, University of Warwick
- Organisers: Tim Saunders (University of Warwick), Erik Griffin (University of Warwick), Paul Riley (University of Oxford)
- Register here
This event unites perspectives from the fields of mechanobiology and genetics to deepen our understanding of morphogenesis. We focus on bringing multidisciplinary interactions to bear on questions related to how complex form emerges during development. We encourage a broad range of attendees, with most talks to be given by Early Career Researchers.
The Northern(ish) England Developmental Biology Meeting 2025
- 10th of July 2025
- Firth Hall, University of Sheffield
- Organisers: Kyra Campbell (University of Sheffield), Raman Das (University of Manchester), Shane Herbert (University of Manchester), Anestis Tsakiridis (University of Sheffield)
- Register here
This BSDB sponsored one day meeting being held at The University of Sheffield will showcase all the exciting Developmental Biology research being carried out in the Northern(ish) parts of England. A great chance to experience all the feels of a BSDB meeting crammed into just one fun day!
Previous one-day Focus meetings
Mechanisms of Septation and Tissue Fusion in Development and Disease
- 4th of November 2024
- Guys Campus, King’s College London
- Organisers: Jeremy Green (King’s College London) and Joe Rainger (Roslin Institute)
This short format meeting will bring together those working on the mechanisms of tissue fusion and septation in a range of organs and models systems, in both normal development and disease contexts. We welcome delegates from any disciple with interest in this area. The aim of the meeting is to share new results and emerging themes and to foster new collaborations to expedite progression in the field and to build links across the tissue fusion and septation community, including developmental biologists and clinical researcher communities.
Confirmed speakers:
- Jeffrey Bush (UC San Francisco)
- Tanya Whitfield (Sheffield)
- Deborah Henderson (Newcastle)
- Gabriel Galea (UCL)
- Cerys Manning (Manchester)
- Aaron Zorn (Cincinnati)
- Joe Rainger (Roslin Institute)
Scottish Developmental Biology Group Meeting 2024
- 14th of June 2024
- Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee
- Organiser: Jens Januschke
After a long pause the Scottish Developmental Biology Group (SDBG) meeting resumes at the University of Dundee!
This one-day event will celebrate Developmental Biology with student and postdoc presentations and one keynote speaker. The SDBG is grateful for the BSDB to support this event, put it in your calendars!
Further details to follow.
Building and Rebuilding Complex Tissues
- 18th of July 2024
- Organisers: Mekayla Storer, Sumru Bayin, Ben Steventon
Development is a breathtaking process whereby a single cell gives rise to all of the body’s specialised tissues. How would you reverse engineer parts of this process to re-create tissue if it’s lost or damaged? This meeting will bring together both developmental and regenerative biologists to discuss the latest research in developmental and regenerative biology, with a particular focus on the similarities and differences between the normal developmental processes and the molecular and cellular mechanisms of regeneration.
Ideas for future Focus meetings?
- You have the opportunity to propose a Focus meeting (usually in the Autumn) on a subject of your choice; contact meetings@bsdb.org
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Tips about further meetings/courses
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Meeting calendar
- for a comprehensive list of field-relevant meetings and courses, please visit The Node’s Events Calendar – all relevant meeting information passed on to us will be published on that calendar
Meeting sites of other organisations or for model organisms:
- other Dev. Biol. Societies: see the listing of The Node
- Drosophila Meetings
- Plant Meetings
- C. elegans Meetings
- Xenopus Meetings
- Zebrafish Meetings
- MBL Woodshole
- EMBL Symposia
- Keystone Symposia
- Gordon Conferences
- Cold Spring Harbor Lab. Meetings & Courses
Past BSDB meetings
- European Developmental Biology Congress 2023: A distributed meeting across Oxford, Barcelona and Paris
Dates: 25th-28th September 2023
Primary location: Keble College, Oxford, UK
BSDB organisers: Sally Lowell, Paul Martin and Shankar Srinivas
Interlinked one day meeting organisers: Sigoléne Meilhac, Nicola Festuccia, Tanya Foley, Tom Cumming & Guillaume Frasca (Paris) and Alejo Rodriguez-Fratelli (Barcelona). - Spring focus meeting 2023: Cellular Plasticity in Morphogenesis
Dates: 17th-19th April 2023
Location: Sheffield, UK.
Organisers: Kyra Campbell, Ben Steventon and Anestis Tsakiridis - 20th International Conference of the International Society of Differentiation
In conjunction with the BSDB 2022 Conference: 4th-7th September 2022 in Valetta, Malta; organizers: Liz Robertson, Sally Lowell and Josh Brickman. -
BSDB/BSCB Spring meeting 2022: 3rd-6th April 2022 in Warwick, UK; organisers: Raman Das, Jens Januschke, Alison Twelvetrees, Tom Nightingale, Susana Godhino, Sally Lowell.
- Spring BSDB/BSCB meeting 2019: 7-10 April 2019 in Warwick, UK; organisers: Rita Sousa-Nunes (BSDB), Tristan Rodriguez (BSDB), Victoria Sanz-Moreno (BSCB), Susana Godinho (BSCB)
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Autumn meeting 2018: Embryonic-Extraembryonic Interactions – from genetics to environment. 10-13 September 2018 in Oxford, UK (Corpus Christi College); organisers: Tristan Rodriguez (BSDB, UK), Shankar Srinivas (UK), Kat Hadjantonakis (US), Kristen Panfilio (UK/Germany), Susana Chuva de Sousa Lopes (Netherlands). [Poster].
- Spring meeting 2018 (70th anniversary meeting): 15-18 April 2018 in Warwick; organisers: Berenika Plusa, Sally Lowell, Alistair McGregor, Joshua Brickman –[poster] [abstract book][history rap]
- Joint autumn meeting 2017: together with Swedish, Finish, Norwegian and Danish Societies of Developmental Biology, 25-27 October 2017, Aula Medica, Stockholm, organisers: Megan Davey (BSDB) – Ruth Palmer, Sara Wilson, Shristos Samakovlis & Andras Simon (SWEDBO) – Satu Kuure (FSDB) – Elke Ober, Palle Serup (Denmark) — [LINK]
- Joint BSCB/BSDB/Gen Soc Spring Meeting 2017: 2-5 April 2017, University of Warwick, organisers: Andrew Oates & Henry Roehl (BSDB), Rebecca Oakly & Marika Charalamous (Gen. Soc.), Julie Welburn & Andrew Cartler (BSCB) — [LINK]
- Autumn meeting 2016: Using chimaeras to study developmental processes: 28-30 Aug 2016, Edinburgh, organisers: Jenny Nichols and Tristan Rodriguez – meeting report
- Joint BSCB/BSDB Spring Meeting 2016 : 10-13 April 2016, University of Warwick; organisers: Buzz Baum, Sally Lowell, Anna Philpott, Silke Robatzek
- Joint meeting of the BSDB with the Spanish and Portuguese Societies of Dev Biol: 7-10 Oct 2015, Algarve, Portugal – meeting report
- Joint BSDB-BSCB Spring Meeting – Celebrating the BSDB’s 50th anniversary: 12-15 April 2015, University of Warwick – meeting report
- Joint meeting of the BSDB with the BBSMB – “The Musculoskeletal System: from development to disease”: 1-3 Sept 2014, University of East Anglia, Norwich – meeting report
- Joint meeting of the BSDB with the International Society of Differentiation: Nov 2014, London – no meeting report
- Joint BSDB-BSCB Spring Meeting: April 2015, University of Warwick – no meeting report
- Autumn Meeting of the BSDB – ‘Axon Guidance and Regeneration’: 28–30 Aug 2013, University of Aberdeen – meeting report
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