Upcoming events: Finnish and international meetings and conferences
PALS Summer School in Transcriptomics in Sweden, on 23-26 June 2026.
https://www.trippus.net/summerschool2026 – Registration will close on April 15 – Limited spots available
Among many other things, you will benefit from hands-on-computational sessions on:
– Single-cell multiome Data Integration & workflow management and reproducibility
– Combination of ATAC-seq and 3D-genomics
– Non-coding variants Prioritization & advanced Transcription Factor motif analysis
– Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks from large-scale epigenomics
– Visium HD Spatial Transcriptomics
The 5th Nordic Meeting on Development, Stem Cells and Regeneration, Uppsala, Sweden, 26-28 August, 2026.
Programme and registration link is found HERE: https://www.swedbo.se/the-5th-nordic-meeting-on-development-stem-cells-and-regeneration/
The call for the Best Thesis award
The FSDSCB has a tradition of selecting the best thesis published within the field of stem cell and/or developmental biology.
If you wish to nominate a thesis defended in 2023, 2024, or 2025, please send your suggestions by email to elisa.narva@utu.fi before 30th April 2026. The email should be titled: Best Thesis Award FSDSCB, have a PDF file of the PhD thesis attached, and include a short justification for the award (max. 150 words). To be eligible for the best thesis award, the author needs to be a member of FSDSCB. Please register at https://www.fsdb.fi/membership/
50th Birthday Meeting of the FSDSCB
50th Birthday Meeting of the FSDSCB will take place in 17-18th September 2026, in TIETEIDEN TALO
(Kirkkokatu 6, 00170 Helsinki). The program will be announced soon.
Development Journal Meeting 2026 – Human Development: Stem Cells, Models, Embryos
7 – 9 September, 2026 – in 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.
Early-bird deadline – 8 May 2026 | Abstract deadline – 12 June 2026 | Final registration deadline – 24 July 2026
Workshop Tracing Evolution through Cell Lineages
12–14 October 2026 in the MPI for Evolutionary Biology in Plön (Germany)
This workshop aims to bring together researchers at the interface of evolutionary, developmental, and stem cell biology to explore how evolutionary change is mediated through cell lineages. While phenotypic evolution is often studied at the level of whole organisms, this symposium focuses on the cellular processes—cell states, lineage architecture, fate decisions, and dynamics—that ultimately generate morphological and functional diversity. Particular emphasis will be placed on how changes in lineage topology, timing, and spatial deployment contribute to the emergence of novel cell types and to phenotypic diversification across and within taxa.
See program and register here: https://workshops.evolbio.mpg.de/event/145/overview
Registration deadline: May 29th, 2026
