Celebrating 100 years
2025 will mark the 100-year anniversary of The Company of Biologists. We will be celebrating this important milestone with a community conference and other activities throughout the year.
Sharing scientific knowledge and discoveries has always been at the heart of The Company of Biologists. The Company was set up in 1925 to save The British Journal of Experimental Biology, currently known as Journal of Experimental Biology. During 2025 we will share content with you from the five journals that we publish today: Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open. We are diving into the archives, but will also publish new and original material that is related to our anniversary.
100 years into our existence, we do much more than publishing journals. We provide support to societies, conference organisers and individual researchers through our charitable grants and have a keen interest in supporting early-career researchers. We bring people together on our three community websites: the Node, preLights and FocalPlane.
We also organise our own Meetings and Workshops, providing biologists with networking opportunities and a platform to share their latest research. In 2025 we will be organising a unique conference that brings all our communities together.
We can’t wait to unveil more of our plans as we get closer to 2025. If you want to stay up to date on our 100-year anniversary activities, sign up to our newsletter and follow us on social media. We look forward to celebrating with you.
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You can register your interest in our anniversary activities, including our conference Biologists @ 100, via the form below.
Biologists @ 100
Venue: ACC Liverpool, UK
Date: 24-27 March 2025
We are excited to invite you to a unique scientific conference, celebrating our 100-year anniversary and bringing together our different communities.
We are striving to deliver a conference that is inclusive – providing an opportunity to meet old friends and make new ones, build bridges and enrich your network, regardless of your background or career stage. We invite all attendees to explore the programme, which offers a unique opportunity to attend a diverse range of talks across the full scope of our journals, including developmental biology, cell biology, comparative animal physiology, and disease biology.
This anniversary conference will incorporate the Spring Meetings of the British Society for Cell Biology (BSCB) and the British Society for Developmental Biology (BSDB). It will further include the JEB Symposium ‘Sensory perception in a changing world’, a one-day DMM-hosted programme ‘Interdisciplinary approaches to combatting antimicrobial resistance’, and a one-day meeting organised by the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB).
Our plenary lectures will consider topics of importance to the whole biological community: biodiversity and climate change, health and disease, and emerging technologies. The themes and speakers were selected by the organising committee – Sarah Bray, Steve Clapcote, Craig Franklin, Steve Royle, Holly Shiels and Jim Smith – whom we thank for their input and advice.
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