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What is Developmental Biology?
Developmental biology seeks to understand how an organism develops from a single cell, coordinating processes that lead to tissue specialization and organization. This field studies how genes and environmental factors interact to guide the growth, differentiation, morphogenesis, and maturation of living beings. Furthermore, this knowledge allows us to understand both natural development and the alterations that can lead to diseases or abnormalities, including cancer. Together, these processes, ranging from fertilization to regeneration and aging, form a continuum governed by common principles that explain biological development.
Sources of interest:
NIH Intramural Research Program
Nature portfolio
ScienceDirect: Developmental Biology
Thematic areas of the speakers
Regeneration and repair through lineages
It refers to the cellular and molecular basis of tissue and organ regeneration in various animal systems, including echinoderms, salamanders, cnidarians, amphibians, and other vertebrates. Presentations will address how nervous systems and other tissues can rebuild themselves after injury, how regenerative capacity originated and diversified throughout evolution, and what these systems reveal about plasticity in developmental programs.
Development, organization and adaptation of plants
Plant developmental processes will be highlighted from multiple perspectives, including meristem dynamics, organ formation, flowering time, root and seed development, reproduction, and stress adaptation. This area connects fundamental developmental genetics in plants with its ecological and environmental relevance, for example, in tropical species, responses to abiotic stress, and root regeneration.
Gene regulation, cell fate, and pattern formation
This theme examines how gene regulatory networks, transcription programs, and signaling pathways control embryonic organization, organogenesis, and cell fate decisions. This includes stem cell-based models of early mammalian development, lineage specification, the formation of organ systems such as the nervous system, and the diversification of neuronal cell types across species.
Evolution and development (Evo-Devo)
This topic focuses on how developmental mechanisms change over evolutionary time to generate phenotypic diversity. Speakers will explore body organization, the development of sensory systems, and other related topics in both model and non-model organisms.
Mission
The meeting seeks to strengthen technical capacities, promote transnational collaboration and position Latin American research as a key player in the global dialogue on developmental and evolutionary biology.
Vision
The vision of this congress is to consolidate an inclusive, interdisciplinary space of scientific excellence, which allows discussion of the most recent advances in developmental biology and its intersection with evolutionary and molecular biology.
The III Colombian Congress of Developmental Biology will bring together researchers, teachers and students from Colombia, Latin America and the global scientific community.
