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 Suzhou, China, located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. The conference will begin at 7:00pm on the evening of Monday September 22, and will conclude after lunch on Friday September 26, 2025.

The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in developmental biology, embryology and human stem cells. Many talks will be selected from the openly submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.

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:

Cantas Alev, Kyoto University

Thorsten Boroviak, University of Cambridge

Joshua Brickman, University of Copenhagen

Alain Chedotal, INSERM

Amander Clark, University of California, Los Angeles

Laurent David, Nantes Universite

Bernadette de Bakker, Amsterdam UMC

Peng Du, Peking University

Mo Ebrahimkhani, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Misao Fujita, Kyoto University

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

Idse Heemskerk, University of Michigan

Zhen Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Nicolas Plachta, University of Pennsylvania

Jie Qiao, Peking University

Peter Rugg-Gunn, Babraham Institute

Guojun Sheng, Kumamoto University

Jose Silva, Guangzhou National Laboratory

Thorold Theunissen, Washington University

Margherita Yayoi Turco, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research

Hongmei Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Shigehito Yamada, Kyoto University

Leqian Yu, Chinese Academy of Sciences

And more...

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials.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 at Suzhou in September, 2025.