Conferences/Workshops

EMBO Workshop Enhancer Mechanics and Enhanceropathies – 2025

Join us for the highly anticipated third EMBO workshop on Enhancer Mechanics and Enhanceropathies! Building on the success of our previous meetings in Santander (2021) and Marseilles (2023), this event continues to explore groundbreaking advancements in our understanding of transcriptional enhancers and their critical roles in human health and disease.

The workshop will bring together leading experts focusing on the basic mechanisms of transcriptional enhancers and chromatin structure, and experts focusing on how the dysregulation of enhancer function contributes to human diseases.

Participants: Hannah J (poster)

Epigenetics-2025, from mechanisms to disease

This international conference will bring together leading experts to foster dynamic discussions on the latest breakthroughs in epigenetics. It will cover mechanisms of epigenetic regulation across various fields and explore how these mechanisms are deregulated in disease states. The Epigenetics-2025 conference will also provide a platform for early-career and senior scientists to collaborate, exchange ideas, and present their most recent scientific findings.

Participants: Hannah (talk), Kasia (flash talk and poster)

GRS and GRC Neural Crest and Cranial Placodes 2025

The Neural Crest and Cranial Placodes 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scientific conference focused on advancing the frontiers of science through the presentation of cutting-edge and unpublished research, prioritizing time for discussion after each talk and fostering informal interactions among scientists of all career stages.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.

Participants: Ewa (talk and poster), Kasia (talk and poster)

Hidden Cell, Dark Genome 2025

This international conference is inspired by the combined aims of the Wellcome Discovery Research Platform for Hidden Cell Biology and MRC Human Genetics Unit at the University of Edinburgh in uncovering currently hidden areas of genetics, cellular and structural biology.

It will provide a forum to present cutting-edge researchand discuss how novel approaches and methodologies will make substantial breakthroughs in these critical areas of biology. Specifically, it will focus on the following challenge areas: regulatory functions of the dark genome, Uncharted proteins and RNA complexity, atomic structures at the cellular scale, and Cellular diversity.

Organisers: Wendy Bickmore,Adele Marston, Shipra Bhatia, Owen Davies, Georg Kustatscher, Hannah Long

Participants: Hannah, Kirsty (talk), Kasia (flash talk and poster), Hannah J (flash talk and poster), Ewa (poster)

BSDB/BSCB Biologists @100

The conference will incorporate the Spring Meetings of the British Society for Developmental Biology (BSDB) and the British Society for Cell Biology (BSCB).

Participants: Ewa (poster)

EGGED – Edinburgh Gallus Genomics and Embryonic Development Workshop 2024

EGGED will bring together the world’s chicken embryology experts to share their skills and showcase the exceptional resourcefulness of the chicken embryo.

Participants: Hannah, Kasia, Ewa

Scottish Developmental Biology Group (SDBG) meeting 2024

We have an exciting programme with 30 posters, 8 talks and the fantastic plenary speaker Prof Marysia Placzek.

Participants: Kasia and Ewa

Developmental Biology at the Forefront of Congenital Anomaly Prevention and Regenerative Approaches

The Craniofacial Morphogenesis and Tissue Regeneration 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.

Participants: Hannah

Pre-clinical Modelling of Human Genetic Disease and Therapy

At this meeting, we will present the very latest advances in modelling human genetic disease, from rare disease, cancer and immune disorders through to genetic modifiers. 

Participants: Hannah and Kasia (Poster)

BSDB/Genetics Society joint spring meeting 2024

Session topics will range from the role of Epigenetics and the Environment to Hormones, not only in Development but also in tissue Remodelling and Regeneration.

Participants: Hannah (talk), Kasia (poster), Ewa

European Human Genetics Conference 2023

The annual ESHG conference is the major scientific and professional event in human genetics which brings together European and international geneticists. Our field is developing extremely fast with important implications for basic science, medicine and society.

Participants: Hannah (talk)