We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on “Human Development - from embryos to stem cell models” which will be held in Awaji, Japan, located approximately 60 km west of Osaka city. The conference will begin in the evening of Sunday March 5, 2023, and will conclude in the early afternoon of March 10, 2023.

There will be seven oral sessions and one poster session covering recent findings in research related to human development. About twenty oral presentations will be selected from submitted abstracts. Posters will be up for viewing and discussion throughout the conference. Social events will be organized to promote informal interactions among conference participants.

Conference Venue & Accommodation

Cold Spring Harbor Asia conferences in JAPAN are arranged in Awaji Yumebutai International Conference Center http://www.yumebutai.org/english/, Awaji is a beautiful, rural island situated in Japan’s Seto inland sea, connecting the Honshu and Shikoku islands. The Yumebutai International Conference Center was designed by architect Tadao Ando and is located in the northeastern part of the island.

Major Topics:
1. Human development from perspective of comparative embryology 
2. Pre- and peri-implantation stage human development
3. Primate models of human development
4. In vitro 3D reconstitution of human tissues and organs
5. In vitro 3D models of human diseases
6. Novel tools for in vitro reconstitution and analysis of human development

Keynote Speakers:
TBA 

Invited Speakers:

Martin Blum, University of Hohenheim

Grayson Camp, University of Basel

Susana Chuva de Sousa Lopes, Leiden University Medical Center

Jianping Fu, University of Michigan

Shaorong Gao, Tongji University

Ge Guo, University of Exeter

Anne Grapin-Botton, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

Nick Hopwood, University of Cambridge

Weizhi Ji, Kunming University of Science and Technology

Karl Koehler, Harvard University

Fredrik Lanner, Karolinska Institutet

Naomi Moris, The Francis Crick Institute

Stephane Nedelec, INSERM

Ryuichi Nishinakamura, Kumamoto University

Olivier Pourquie, Harvard University

Giorgia Quadrato, University of Southern California

Nicolas Rivron, The Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna

Mitinori Saitou, Kyoto University

Eric Siggia, Rockefeller University

Mijo Simunovic, Columbia University

Lilianna Solnica-Krezel, Washington University

Yasuhiro Takashima, Kyoto University

Christoph Viebahn, University of Göttingen

Aryeh Warmflash, Rice University

Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, California Institute of Technology

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials. The abstracts must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers. Status (fellow's talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers. 

Fellowship: 
We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. A certain number of presentations by graduate students and postdocs in this conference will be selected as fellowship (USD $100-$500) awards. For more details, please visit Stipends

We look forward to seeing you in Awaji in March, 2023.

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