Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting

August 24-28. 2026

University of California, Santa Cruz

Biomedicine, Biomechanics, and the Biosphere

Organizers:

Chris Lowe – Stanford
Rashmi Priya – Francis Crick Institute
Shelbi Russell –  UCSC
John Wallingford – UT Austin

https://scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu/

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Join us for the Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting!

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Keynote Speakers:

Ondine Cleaver - UT Southwestern

Irene Miguel-Aliaga - The Francis Crick Institute

Bo Wang - Stanford University

Aaron Zorn - Cincinnati Children's

Invited Speakers:

Phillip Cleves | UC Berkeley

Carl-Philipp Heisenberg| ISTA

Taija Mäkinen​ | Wihuri Research Institute and University of Helsinki

Chema Martin-Duran | University of London

Asako Shindo | The University of Osaka

Mansi Srivastava | Harvard

José Dinneny | Stanford

Amy Herbert​ | University of Chicago

Lisa Manning | Syracuse University

Shelbi Russell | UCSC

Yanlan Mao | University College London

Dolf Weijers | Wageningen University and Research

Lillian Fritz-Laylin​ | University of Massachusetts Amherst

Mustafa Khokha | Cedars Sinai

Binyam Mogessie | Yale

Ben Steventon | Cambridge

Ken Poss | Morgridge Institute for Research

Will Ratcliff | GeorgiaTech

Kaelyn Sumigray | Yale