17th Spanish Society for Developmental Biology Meeting: New Trends in Developmental Biology

Abstract

The Spanish Society for Developmental Biology organized its 17th meeting in November 2020. The meeting, organized by CIC bioGUNE, the University of the Basque Country and the University of Cantabria, gathered about 280 registrants and received 132 scientific abstracts. Participants ranged from undergraduate to senior researchers, with a broad participation of Ph.D. students. The meeting was organized in 8 sessions: Growth and Scaling, Self-organization, Neurodevelopment, Genomes, Cell Biology, Development and Disease, Evo-Devo and Regeneration (Araújo et al., 2021). These sessions focused on the new tendencies in Developmental Biology research and, based on the science presented there, we organized this special issue on The 17th Edition of the Spanish Society for Developmental Biology Meeting: New Trends in Developmental Biology. This collection of articles gathers several scientific contributions in this area, featuring collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches among developmental biologists. With the focus on organogenesis and gene regulation, our selected content embraces novel discoveries on muscle development, regeneration and the transcriptional control and role of miRNAs in development, while highlighting advances in organogenesis and gonadal development.