Virtual Cell and Developmental Biology Festival Week

March 18-21, 2024, Cyberspace

For talk abstracts and the event schedule, click here.

In March 2024, we held our first virtual Cell and Development Festival. This interdisciplinary mini-conference was hosted by the SMB Cell and Developmental Biology (CDEV) Subgroup and featured a week of virtual minisymposia highlighting research in our community, plenary presentations, panels, and dicussions. Times were selected to capture a wide range of timezones. Thank you to all our presenters and to all those who participated!

Recordings of the presentations are available on YouTube here:

• Session 1: Veronica Ciocanel, Amanda Alexander, Tracy Stepien, Leah Edelstein-Keshet
• Session 2: Marc Roussel, Bradly Alicea, Elizabeth Trofimenkoff, Robyn Shuttleworth, Steven ten Holder
• Session 3: Ander Movilla Miangolarra, Adam MacLean, Shibashis Paul, Ruth Baker
• Session 4: Raj Hossein, Eleni Papafilippou, Diana Khoromskaia, Katerina Kaouri, Thomas Woolley
• Session 5: Gonca Erdemci-Tandogan, Andrew Krause, Maria Abou Chakra, Nika Shakiba, Golnaz Karoubi, David Romero Torres

Sincerely, Your CDEV Subgroup Officers

Invited plenary speakers:

• Ruth Baker (University of Oxford)
• Leah Edelstein-Keshet (University of British Columbia)
• Gonca Erdemci-Tandogan (Western University)
• Katerina Kaouri and Thomas Woolley (Cardiff University)

Panels and discussions:

• Careers in Industry (featuring Robyn Shuttleworth and Steven ten Holder)
• Future of Models and Platforms (featuring Gonca Erdemci-Tandogan, Nika Shakiba, Maria Abou Chakra, and Andrew Krause)

Minisymposium speakers:

• Amanda Alexander (University of Houston)
• Bradly Alicea (OpenWorm Foundation)
• Maria Abou Chakra (University of Toronto)
• Veronica Ciocanel (Duke University)
• Raj Hossein (University of Sheffield)
• Golnaz Karoubi (University of Toronto)
• Diana Khoromskaia (Francis Crick Institute)
• Andrew Krause (University of Durham)
• Adam MacLean (University of Southern California)
• Ander Movilla Miangolarra (John Innes Centre)
• Eleni Papafilippou (University of Cambridge)
• Shibashis Paul (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
• Marc Roussel (University of Lethbridge)
• Nika Shakiba (University of British Columbia)
• Tracy Stepien (University of Florida)
• David Romero Torres (University of Toronto)
• Elizabeth Trofimenkoff (University of Lethbridge)

CDEV Subgroup Officers:

• Alessandra Bonfanti (Secretary)
• Maria Abou Chakra (Committee Member)
• Carina Dunlop (Committee Member)
• Tian Hong (Committee Member)
• Alexandria Volkening (Chair)