23-27 August 2024 | University of California, Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting

Unifying Principles of Organismal Development

Cell-Cell Communication | Convergent and Divergent Morphogenesis | Information Processing and GRNs | Cellular Transitions and Plasticity | Active Matter and Mechanics |  Theory and Modeling of Development | New Technologies and Synthetic Approaches

Organizers: Zev Gartner, UC San Francisco | Lucy Erin O’Brien, Stanford University  | Ali Shariati, UC Santa Cruz

Keynote speakers

Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz

Claude Desplan

Margaret Gardel

Michael Elowitz

Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis

Confirmed speakers

Wallace Marshall | UCSF

Prisca Liberalli | FMI

Flora Rutaganira | Stanford

Lea Goentro | Caltech

Romain Levayer | Institute Pasteur

Keiko Torii | UT Austin

Adrian Jacobo| CZ Biohub

Amy Shyer | The Rockefeller University

Manu Prakash| Stanford

Nikta Fakhri | MIT

Berna Sozen | Yale

Iswar Hariharan | UC Berkeley

Anne-Lise Routier-Kierzkowska | University of Montreal

Plus short talks to be selected

from abstracts

James Ferrell | Stanford

Matthias Lutolf | EPFL

David Van Valen | Caltech

Alex Hughes | Upenn

Arthur Lander | UC Irvine

Sebastian Streichan | UCSB

Registration

Abstract Deadline: June 28, 2024

Registration Deadline: August 2, 2024

Follow this link to register, apply for travel awards

 and the SCDB Young Investigator Award

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