Conference Description
The Developmental Biology GRC is a premier, international scientific conference focused on advancing the frontiers of science through the presentation of cutting-edge and unpublished research, prioritizing time for discussion after each talk and fostering informal interactions among scientists of all career stages. The conference program includes a diverse range of speakers and discussion leaders from institutions and organizations worldwide, concentrating on the latest developments in the field. The conference is five days long and held in a remote location to increase the sense of camaraderie and create scientific communities, with lasting collaborations and friendships. In addition to premier talks, the conference has designated time for poster sessions from individuals of all career stages, and afternoon free time and communal meals allow for informal networking opportunities with leaders in the field.
The 2025 Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar in Developmental Biology will bring together an international community focusing on mechanisms that govern development and disease across diverse cell and animal systems with a special focus on the latest concepts and paradigms on acquisition of shapes and patterns in developmental systems from in vitro to in vivo systems, integrating physics, mathematics, and biological fields. 2025 GRC and GRS has been designed with an emphasis on exploring cell identity and acquisition of tissue shape, and pattern to govern organ function and organization in a wide variety of organisms and systems. The opening session will start with special lectures on gene regulation and fate specification designed to highlight the established paradigms and discuss emerging models that counter some of the paradigms in the field. Other sessions are on stem cell models, cell fate determination, metabolism, mechanics morphogenesis, developmental timing, evolution and developmental disorders in organoids as well as in vivo systems, and feature various technical approaches and investigations in vertebrate, and invertebrate systems.
The topics, speakers, and discussion leaders for the conference sessions are displayed below. The conference chair is currently developing their detailed program, which will include the complete meeting schedule, as well as the talk titles for all speakers. The detailed program will be available by November 30, 2024. Please check back for updates.
Keynote Session: Gene Regulation in Development
Discussion Leaders
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Xiaohua Shen (Tsinghua University, China)
Speakers
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Denis Duboule (College de France, Paris, France)
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Joanna Wysocka (Stanford University School of Medicine, United States)
Stem Cell Models
Discussion Leaders
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Igor Adameyko (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
Speakers
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Jacob Hanna (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
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Olivier Pourquie (Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Women's Hospital, United States)
Cell Fate Decisions
Discussion Leaders
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Olivier Pourquie (Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Women's Hospital, United States)
Speakers
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Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis (Sloan Kettering Institute, United States)
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Xiaohua Shen (Tsinghua University, China)
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Igor Adameyko (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
Morphogenesis
Discussion Leaders
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Carl-Philipp Heisenberg (IST Austria, Austria)
Speakers
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Peter Lwigale (Rice University, United States)
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Pulin Li (Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research / MIT, United States)
Mechanics in Development
Discussion Leaders
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Peter Lwigale (Rice University, United States)
Speakers
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Ewa Paluch (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
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Carl-Philipp Heisenberg (IST Austria, Austria)
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Sara Wickstrom (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Germany)
Timing in Development
Discussion Leaders
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Ertugrul Ozbudak (Northwestern University School of Medicine, United States)
Speakers
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Christopher Hammell (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, United States)
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Nancy Papalopulu (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
Disorders in Development
Discussion Leaders
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James Turner (The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom)
Speakers
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Mina Gouti (Max Delbrück Center, Germany)
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Shinya Yamamoto (Baylor College of Medicine, United States)
Metabolic Control of Development
Discussion Leaders
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Nancy Papalopulu (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
Speakers
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Marcos Simoes-Costa (Harvard University, United States)
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Mu He (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China)
Evolution
Discussion Leaders
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Sara Wickstrom (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Germany)
Speakers
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James Turner (The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom)
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Michel Milinkovitch (Laboratory of Artificial and Natural Evolution (LANE), University Geneva, Switzerland)
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Christian Mosimann (University of Colorado School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, United States)
The GRC Power Hour™
Organizers
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Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis (Sloan Kettering Institute, United States)
