Human Development: Stem Cells, Models, Embryos

Organisers: Paula Alexandre, James Briscoe, Emily Calderbank, Claudio Cortes Rodriguez, Muzz Haniffa, Paul Riley, Liz Robertson, Peter Rugg-Gunn, John Russell, Ben Simons, Shankar Srinivas and Pilar Vazquez Arango

Date: 7 - 9 September 2026

Location: University of Warwick, UK

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.

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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.

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