Human Development: Stem Cells, Models, Embryos
Date: 7 – 9 September 2026
Location: University of Warwick, UK
Organisers: Paula Alexandre, James Briscoe, Emily Calderbank-May, Claudio Cortes Rodriguez, Muzz Haniffa, Paul Riley, Liz Robertson, Peter Rugg-Gunn, John Russell, Ben Simons, Shankar Srinivas and Pilar Vazquez Arango
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
Registration fees
The meeting will start with registration and lunch on Monday 7 September and will finish on the afternoon of Wednesday 9 September.
The fees will include;
- Registration and meeting cost
- All meals (Monday lunch to Wednesday afternoon) including dinners, lunches, coffee breaks and reception drinks each evening throughout the meeting
It is expected that all attendees will stay for the duration of the meeting.
With accommodation
Also includes
- Two nights’ bed and breakast (Monday to Wednesday) in an en-suite room with single occupancy.
| PhD students /postdocs | Academia | Industry | |
| Until 8 May 2026 | £465 | £615 | £765 |
| From 9 May – 24 July 2026 | £515 | £665 | £815 |
This is a Tour Operators Margin Scheme supply. No VAT will be applied.
Without accommodation
| PhD students | |
| Until 8 May 2026 | £340 |
| From 9 May – 24 July 2026 | £390 |
VAT is not applicable
| Postdocs | Academia | Industry | |
| Until 8 May 2026 | £340 | £490 | £640 |
| From 9 May – 24 July 2026 | £390 | £540 | £690 |
Subject to VAT at the applicable rate.
Please email hdbidev26@biologists.com if you have any questions.
Key dates
Early-bird deadline – 8 May 2026
Abstract deadline – 12 June 2026
Final registration deadline – 24 July 2026
Accommodation
Bed and breakfast accommodation will be in one of the central campus student accommodation blocks. All rooms are en-suite with free wifi and are a short walk through the campus to the meeting venues.
Venue
The University of Warwick is a campus university located on the outskirts of Coventry. The university was established in 1965 and is now part of the Russell Group and a top UK and Global University.
Birmingham Airport is the closest international airport and is a short taxi or bus ride away. There are a number of train stations near to the campus. Coventry is four miles away and is the nearest mainline station, Canley and Tile Hill stations are closer but have less frequent trains.
Image credit: Susanna Narkilahti,Tampere University, Finland
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