About London Evo-Devo
London Evo-Devo brings together researchers from all career stages interested in evo-devo questions (broadly defined!). Our aim is to provide a regular venue to share recent discoveries and forge new relationships and collaboration.We organise a rotating meeting twice a year that typically last a half-day and continues on in pubs afterwards.
Info on the next meeting
Our next meeting will take place on Friday November 7th on UCL's Bloomsbury campus from 12:30 - 18:30.Register with this /LINK/
Upcoming meeting's schedule
| Date | Location | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 7 2025 | UCL, Bloomsbury campus, Bedford Way (26) LG04 | 12:30 - 18:30 | Venue Location |
Schedule
| Time | Speaker | Title | University |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13:15 | Ferdi Marlétaz | Welcome | UCL |
| 13:30 | Madeleine Carruthers | Cis-regulatory divergence and heritable plasticity underlie seasonal adaptation in a tropical butterfly | QMUL |
| 13:50 | Lucas King | The Cidaroid Genome: Filling the gap in Echinoid Evolution | UCL |
| 14:10 | Nadine Randel | Effects of food availability on resource allocation in a marine annelid | Cambridge |
| 14:30 | Sophie Kraunsoe | How to build a placenta from scratch: novel organ evolution in Poeciliid fish | The Crick Inst. |
| 14:50 | Break | - | - |
| 15:35 | Lan Xu | The role and inheritance of gene body methylation in an invertebrate | QMUL |
| 15:55 | Uri Weill | Heterologous Tissue Transplants Reveal Competition Amongst the Somatic Pluripotent Stem Cells of Planarians | Northeastern |
| 16:15 | Alicia Boyd | Regrowing the growth zone: metamorphosis kickstarts regeneration in the annelid, Capitella teleta | Exeter |
| 16:35 | Dana Fakhreddine | Investigating the evolution of vertebrate early telencephalon patterning: from cartilaginuos fish to mammals | KCL |
| 16:55 Closing remarks | - | - |
Past Meetings
| Year | Location | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| November 8 2024 | Queen Mary University | 12:30 - 18:00 | - |
| July 11 2025 | Queen Mary University | 10:00 - 18:30 | Joint UK Evo-Devo |
Organisers
Roman Arguello, Queen Mary University of London
Margarida Cardoso Moreira, Crick Institute
James Difrisco, Crick Institute
Ferdi Marlétaz, University City London
Chema Martin, Queen Mary University of London
Alex de Mendoza, Queen Mary University of London