We are pleased to announce that the RIKEN BDR Symposium 2026 "Biological Horizons: Innovative Explorations into Life’s Mechanisms and Dynamics," will be held on March 2 to 3, 2026 at RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Japan.

We encourage the submission of abstracts for the poster session to facilitate a lively and informative exchange of ideas. A small number of poster abstracts will be selected for oral presentations. Travel grants and Poster awards are available to encourage young researchers from around the world.

We look forward to welcoming you to our Center in March 2026.

The symposium is jointly hosted by Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) "Establishment of pH-responsive Biology" "Integration of Extracellular Information by Multimodal ECM Activity" "Mechanical Self-transformation of Living Systems".

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URL:https://www2.bdr.riken.jp/sympo/2026/
Date:March 2 (Monday) - 3 (Tuesday), 2026
Venue:RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Japan
Registration fee: FREE (Banquet and lunch fee required separately)
Deadline:Sunday, November 30, 2025 (JST)
- Abstract submission for oral presentations
- Registrations from overseas
- Travel grant application
Sunday, February 1, 2026 (JST)
- Abstract submission for poster presentations
- General registration
Confirmed Speakers:https://www2.bdr.riken.jp/sympo/2026/speakers-e.html
Contact:RIKEN BDR Symposium 2026 Secretariat
E-mail:bdr-sympo2026@ml.riken.jp

Registration| https://forms.gle/hi917Zajb4frGPGk9
Detail| https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/event/event-symposium/19586/

We are delighted to host the ASHBi Symposium 2025 – Human Early Development: in vivo and in vitro, on September 18–19, 2025, at Kyoto University.

The earliest stages of human development hold vital clues for understanding health, disease, and the fundamental biology of our species. Recent advances in imaging, genomics, and especially the development of sophisticated in vitro models of embryonic development and organogenesis have fueled growing interest and transformative renaissance in human embryology research. These models offer unprecedented, ethically guided windows into processes once hidden within the womb, complementing traditional in vivo studies and opening new frontiers in this field.

Fourteen leading experts (9 international, 5 from Japan) will present pioneering research in developmental biology, stem cell science, and human/primate embryology. We look forward to seeing you at this two-day inspirational scientific event.

ASHBi Worishop Symposium 2025 – Human Early Development in vivo and in vitro

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Detail| https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/event/event-symposium/19586/

Date & Time| Thursday, September 18 – Friday, September 19, 2025
Venue| Nitori Hall, Center for Cancer Immunotherapy and Immunobiology (CCII), Kyoto University
[NOTE] On-site participation will be closed when capacity of 100 is reached.
Language| English
Eligibility| All Academic Researchers and students

Speakers|
Cantas Alev (Kyoto University, JP)
Laurent David (Nantes Université, FR)
Du Peng (Peking University, CN)
Masatsugu Ema (Shiga University of Medical Science, JP)
Mingxia Gu (University of California, Los Angeles, US)
Jingtao Guo (Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN)
Idse Heemskerk (University of Michigan, US)
Mo Li (KAUST, SA)
Tomonori Nakamura (Kyoto University, JP)
Ryuichi Nishinakamura (Kumamoto University, JP)
Peter Rugg-Gunn (Babraham Institute, UK)
Mitinori Saitou (Kyoto University, JP)
Mijo Simunovic (Columbia University, US)
Leqian Yu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN)

Organizer| Cantas Alev (Kyoto University)

Contact | ashbi-event[*]mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp
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★Glyco-Core Symposium 2025 - Registration Now Open We are pleased to invite you to the Glyco-Core Symposium 2025, organized by the Institute for Glyco-core Research (Nagoya University & Gifu University).
This event will highlight the latest advances in glycoscience and foster interdisciplinary collaboration across biology, medicine, chemistry, engineering, and informatics.
Details and Registration:
https://igcore.thers.ac.jp/symposium/2025/
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Glycans, often called the “third chain of life” after DNA and proteins, play essential roles in biological systems.
This symposium offers an opportunity to explore recent research and connect with scientists across disciplines through poster presentations and networking sessions.
The poster session will also feature the activities of J-GlycoNet, encouraging future collaborative research.
Explanations in Japanese will be available at the poster session.
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Event Information
* Dates: September 24 (Wednesday) - September 25 (Thursday), 2025
* Venue: Toyoda Auditorium, Nagoya University
* Participation Fee: Free (Banquet: \8,000)
* Capacity: 500 participants
* Language: English
Program: https://igcore.thers.ac.jp/symposium/2025/program/
Registration (by August 24): https://igcore.thers.ac.jp/symposium/2025/registration/
Contact: glyco-core2025@igcore.nagoya-u.ac.jp

20th ICDB
SDB 84th Annual Meeting
12th LASDB Meeting
https://www.sdbonline.org/2025icdb

Program Co-Chairs
Marianne Bronner, International Society of Developmental Biology
Carole LaBonne, Society for Developmental Biology
Juan Riesgo, Latin American Society for Developmental Biology

Upcoming Deadlines
Abstract Deadline: March 12, 2025
Registration Deadline: April 16, 2025
Housing Deadline: May 25, 2025

This PLANT EVO DEVO symposium will take place near the botanical garden of Berlin (Germany) between March 25th and 28th, 2025.
Future participants can register using our DFG-ICIPS homepage: https://dfg-icips.org/berlin2025/
or directly using: https://conferencecentral.org/32
The purpose of this 3-day international ICIPS symposium is to bring together researchers from around the world interested in exploring the evolution and development of land plant sexual reproduction.

The symposium will be divided in eight successive sessions focusing on the evolution of pollen and their reception/rejection systems, of multicellular embryos and endosperm, of carpels and fruits, of ovules and seeds, of fertilization mechanisms in plants, of (ROS) signalling systems and gene regulatory networks in plant development and reproduction as well as finding bioinformatics solutions to harness EvoDevo challenges.

ICIPS is a research unit funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) studying the „Innovation and Coevolution In early-land Plant Sexual reproduction“. This academic organization is composed by seven research groups from five different German universities (JLU Gießen, UR Regensburg, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, FSU Jena, OU Osnabrück) including six DFG-funded research projects conducted by six Ph.D. students and two postdoctoral researchers.
International invited Speakers:
• Madelaine Bartlett (University of Cambridge – UK)
• James Clark (University of Bath – UK)
• Lucia Colombo (University of Milano – Italy)
• Noni Franklin-Tong (University of Birmingham – UK)
• William Friedman (Harvard University – USA)
• Tetsuya Higashiyama (Nagoya University & University of Tokyo – Japan)
• Gwyneth Ingram (French National Centre for Scientific Research CNRS – France)
• Kerstin Kaufmann (Humboldt University of Berlin – Germany)
• Claudia Köhler (Max Planck Institute in Potsdam – Germany)
• Isabel Monte (Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen – Germany)
• Andrew Plackett (University of Birmingham – UK)
• Hughes Renault (University of Strasbourg – France)
• Uwe Scholz (Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research – Germany)
• Sebastian Schornack (University of Cambridge – UK)
• Charlie Scutt (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon – France)
• Meng-Xiang Sun (Wuhan University – China)
Organizing Committee:
• Annette Becker (Justus-Liebig-University Gießen JLU)
• Thomas Dresselhaus (University of Regensburg UR)
• Duarte Figueiredo (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology MPI)
• Alexander Goesmann (Justus-Liebig-University Gießen JLU)
• Stefanie Müller-Schüssele (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau RPTU)
• Stefanie Sprunck (University of Regensburg UR)
• Günter Theißen (Friedrich Schiller University Jena FSU)
• Sabine Zachgo (Osnabrück University OU).
Thanks to our sponsors, different prices and travel grants are available:
• one price for the best Poster, and
• one price for the best Talk (only for early-career researchers).
Both prices will be awarded at the end of the conference.

To help early-career researchers (Master, PhD students or first year postdoctoral researchers) to come to Berlin and participate to this international symposium, a total of six “Travel” grants is also available:
• three “Travel/Accommodation” grants will be attributed to German early-career researchers, and
• three “Travel” grants will be attributed to early-career researchers affiliated to institutions located outside Germany (in Eastern/Central/Southern Europe, in Asia or Africa and in Northern/Central/Southern America).
If you would like to benefit from these “Travel” grants, please contact the conference organizer by email (Dr. Romain Scalone, email: romain.scalone@bot1.bio.uni-giessen.de) by sending him a short resume (CV) and a 100-word essay, explaining why you are a suitable candidate for the grant and how you intend to contribute to the symposium.

If you have any questions about the conference or the registration, please do not hesitate to contact the conference organizer by email: romain.scalone@bot1.bio.uni-giessen.de.

Hope to see you all in Berlin.

The international symposium, "The Mechanics of Life Across Scales", will be held as the 85th Fujihara Seminar with support from the Fujihara Foundation of Science. This symposium aims to accelerate progress in life-sciences through the integration of biology, physics, and mechanical engineering. The event will feature presentations by rising researchers at the forefront of their fields, who are leveraging interdisciplinary approaches to uncover the principles of designing the shape and function of living organisms across scales, from molecules to tissues. We warmly invite you to join us and be part of this inspiring conference.

Theme: The 85th Fujihara Seminar: The Mechanics of Life Across Scales
Date: From 25th May to 27th May, 2025
Venue: Awaji Yumebutai - Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Language: English
Registration: https://www.igm.hokudai.ac.jp/85th-fujihara-seminar/
Registration deadline: 28th February, 2025
Accommodation: Grand Nikko Awaji
* No participation and accommodation fees.
* Capacity of participants will be about 80 persons.

Organizers: Fumio Motegi (Hokkaido Univ), Li-Kun Phng, Yu-Chiun Wang, Tatsuo Shibata (RIKEN BDR), Asako Shindo (Osaka Univ), Satoru Okuda (Kanazawa Univ)
Organized by Transformative Research Area (A): Mechanical self-transformation of Living Systems
Sponsored by Fujihara Foundation of Science

Invited speakers
Speakers from overseas
• Yohanns Bellaiche (Institut Curie, France)
• Lance Davidson (University of Pittsburg, USA)
• Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich (TU Dresden, Germany)
• Nicoletta Petridou (EMBL, Germany)
• Rashmi Priya (The Francis Crick Institute, UK)
• Madan Rao (National Centre for Biological Sciences, India)
• Yusuke Toyama (Mechanobiology Institute, NUS, Singapore)
• Hervé Turlier (CIRB College de France, France)
• Fengzhu Xiong (University of Cambridge, UK)
Domestic speakers
• Takashi Hiiragi (Kyoto University)
• Fumio Motegi (Hokkaido University)
• Satoshi Sawai (The University of Tokyo)
• Tatsuo Shibata (RIKEN BDR)
• Asako Shindo (Osaka University)
• Kaoru Sugimura (The University of Tokyo)
• Hirokazu Tanimoto (Yokohama City University)
• Satoshi Toda (Osaka University)
• Fumiko Toyoshima (Institute of Science Tokyo)

We are pleased to announce that the 2025 RIKEN BDR-CuSTOM Joint Organoid Symposium "Integrated organoid science: Stem cells, Engineering, Medicine" will be held on March 5 to 7, 2025 at RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Japan.

Please visit the website for details:
https://www2.bdr.riken.jp/joint-organoid/2025/

We would also like to make know to you that the RIKEN BDR Symposium 2025 "Towards Redesigning Life Cycles" will be held right before this symposia on March 3 to 5 at the same venue. If you are interested, please schedule to join both events.
URL: https://www2.bdr.riken.jp/sympo/2025/

We look forward to welcoming you to our Center in March 2025.

HP: https://www.stemcell2022.org/