Developmental Disorders: From Mechanism to Treatment (Virtual Meeting)

General Information

This Meeting, a collaboration between the Development and Disease Models & Mechanisms journal teams, aims to bring together developmental biologists, human geneticists and clinical researchers who are united in the goal of understanding and treating developmental disorders. The underlying causes of developmental disorders – genetic or environmental – are often not understood. Moreover, there is a disconnect between researchers working on animal models of developmental disorders, geneticists trying to identify the genomic lesion responsible, and clinicians hoping to treat affected patients. Given the resulting urgent need to improve communication between these groups, to promote basic research into congenital anomalies and to invest in translating this research to the clinic, this Meeting will focus specifically on building bridges from bench to clinic.

For more information and to register, please visit the event webpage.

Meeting organisers:

Phil Beales University College London, UK
James Briscoe The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Monica J. Justice The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Lee Niswander University of Colorado, USA

Speakers:

Jeanne Amiel Institut Imagine, France
Han Brunner Maastricht University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Brian Ciruna The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Dagan Jenkins University College London, UK
Nicholas Katsanis Rescindo Therapeutics Inc., USA
Karen Liu King’s College London, UK
Stefan Mundlos The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany
Emily Noël University of Sheffield, UK
Eric Olson UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Álvaro Rada-Iglesias IBBTEC, Spain
David Rowitch University of Cambridge, UK
Ian Smyth Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Australia
Lilianna Solnica-Krezel Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, USA
Xin Sun University of California San Diego, USA
Lori Sussel University of Colorado, USA