About the Workshop
Meiosis is an essential cell division for sexual reproduction and fertility across eukaryotes. It involves a series of tightly regulated processes, including entry into meiosis, pairing of homologs, recombination, and segregation of chromosomes to gametes through two successive divisions. This leads to the generation of shuffled gametes allowing the inheritance of novel combinations of alleles. Understanding meiosis as a biological process is not only fascinating, but also has practical applications in e.g., human fertility, or manipulation of recombination in breeding programs, as well as conservation and biodiversity. While meiosis is broadly conserved across eukaryotes, fascinating and informative variants across the tree of life provide novel insights and understanding. This EMBO Workshop has two main objectives: First, it will promote interdisciplinary dialog on cutting edge research into key aspects of meiosis, and second, will focus on a theme of intertwining mechanistic studies in model systems with a theme of evolution and variation to broaden the scope of discussion. There will also be a section on technical and methodological advances.
Image credits: Drosophila egg chamber, courtesy of Rene Huynh lab.
About EMBO Courses and Workshops
EMBO Courses and Workshops are selected for their excellent scientific quality and timelines, provision of good networking activities for all participants and speaker gender diversity (at least 40% of speakers must be from the underrepresented gender).
Organisers are encouraged to implement measures to make the meeting environmentally more sustainable.
