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
Susana Chuva de Sousa Lopes Leiden University, The Netherlands
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
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 Rao Tata Duke University School of Medicine, USA
Hongmei Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Sean Wu Stanford University, USA

For all information: https://www.biologists.com/meetings/devhdbi26/#HumanDev26