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 rotating bi-annual meetings that typically last a half-day and continue on in pubs afterwards.
Info on the next meeting
The timing of our next meeting coincides with the broader UK Evo-Devo meeting. Instead of having both at the same time, we are joining forces.
Please join us for this larger event on July 11th on the campus of Queen Mary University of London. This will be a day-long (10 am to 6:30 pm) meeting with two exciting keynote speakers (Edwige Moyroud from the University of Cambridge and Chris Lowe from Stanford University) and plenty of opportunities for oral and poster contributions. Registration is £5 and will include coffee breaks, a light lunch and drinks for the poster session.Registration is now closed:
Upcoming meeting's schedule
| Date | Location | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jull 11 2025 | QMUL, Preston Lecture Theatre | 10:00 - 18:30 | Venue Location |
Schedule
| Time | Speaker | Title | University |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 – 10:10 | Opening Remarks | - | - |
| 10:10 – 10:45 | Christopher Lowe | Building the adult body plan by larval transformation in echinoderms and hemichordates | Stanford University |
| 10:40 – 11:10 | Coffee Break | - | - |
| 11:10 – 11:30 | Adria C. LeBoeuf | From digestion to communication: molecular evolution during the rise of a social fluid | University of Cambridge |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Rory L. Cooper | The mechanics of crocodile and tortoise head scale patterning | University of Sheffield |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Bassel Arnaout | Braids in the hourglass: developmental divergence in the evolution of Galloanserae Skulls | University of Cambridge |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Antonia Weberling | Exploring Pregastrulation Development and Epiblast Lumen Formation in the veiled Chameleon (C. calyptratus) | University of Oxford |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch (Provided) | - | - |
| 13:30 – 13:50 | Isabel Almudí | The gene regulatory network underlying the origin of the Turbanate eyes in mayflies | University of Barcelona/IRBio |
| 13:50 - 14:10 | Aleksandra Marconi | Deconstruction of the roles of lineage-specific transposable element insertions in nervous and sensory system diversification in Lake Malawi cichlid fishes | University of Cambridge |
| 14:10 - 14:30 | Yuanzhen Zhu | Whole genome duplication drove cell type evolution in the vertebrate brain | University of Oxford |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Elizabeth Williams | Neuropeptide signalling underlie larval settlement response to a microalgal environmental cue in a marine worm | University of Exeter |
| 14:50 – 15:10 | Coffee Break | - | - |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | Sergio Menchero | Developmental priorities: what marsupials teach us about time | The Francis Crick Institute |
| 15:30 - 15:50 | Zoë X. Schultz | An ancient gene is a novel regulator of cell proliferation in the spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum | Durham University |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | Diego Safián | A novel cell type enabled the transition from egg-laying to live-bearing and then to placentation in fishes | The Francis Crick Institute |
| 16:10 - 16:40 | Lucia L. Prieto-Godino | Cross-species comparative connectomics reveals the evolution of an olfactory circuit | The Francis Crick Institute |
| 16:30 – 16:40 | Brief Break | - | - |
| 16:40 - 17:15 | Edwige Moyroud | Eco-Evo-Devo of petal patterning in Hibiscus flowers | University of Cambridge |
Past Meetings
| Year | Location | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| November 8 2024 | Queen Mary University | 12:30 - 18:00 | - |
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