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EMBO Workshop

Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila

21 – 27 June 2026 | Kolymbari, Greece

  • Registration Deadline
  • 3 November 2025
  • Abstract Submission Deadline
  • 3 November 2025
  • Chosen Participants Will Be Notified By
  • 2 February 2026
  • Payment Deadline
  • 13 February 2026

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About the Workshop

The principal theme of the EMBO Workshop is the Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila. Supported by EMBO over four decades, this will be the 24th biennial “Crete meeting”.

With the aim to promote exchange of ideas and foster interdisciplinary collaboration, this EMBO Workshop brings together established and junior group leaders using Drosophila to understand principles of development, cell biology, neurobiology, physiology, behavior, genetics, evolution and population genetics.

The meeting format provides the time and atmosphere to promote informal, open dialog. Limiting attendance to about 100 participating Principal Investigators helps to foster close interactions between leading Drosophila research labs. The aim is to promote open sharing of data and ideas and to provide a rich forum for discussion of new research findings and conceptual breakthroughs.



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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.

 

Programme

All participants are required to present a short talk on their work and to provide electronic abstracts summarizing ongoing work in their laboratories. Both the talk and the abstracts would usually focus on recent and unpublished research findings.

There are no posters and all participants attend all of the talks.

Topics:

  • Cell Biology
  • Neurobiology & Behaviour
  • Omics and Infrastructure
  • Patterning
  • Tissue Development, Organogenesis
  • Gene Expression
  • Germline
  • EvoDevo
  • Population Biology and Variation
  • Systems and Modeling
  • Energy, Growth and Homeostasis
  • Disease Models
 

Registration

  • Registration Deadline
  • 3 November 2025
  • Abstract Submission Deadline
  • 3 November 2025
  • Chosen Participants Will Be Notified By
  • 2 February 2026
  • Payment Deadline
  • 13 February 2026

 

  • Academic EUR 490

Please select the “I have never registered Sign Up” option to proceed with your application.

Registration includes:

  • Admission
  • Conference materials
  • All meals, coffee breaks

Participants are expected to book their own travel. Accomodation is not included in the fees.


In order to maximize interaction amongst participants the Organizing Committee strongly encourages on-site lodging.

  • 260 EUR for a twin room from Sunday 21 – Saturday 27 June 2026 (6 nights)
  • 490 EUR for a single room (if available) from Sunday 21 – Saturday 27 June 2026 (6 nights)

Payment

Payment will be due once acceptance letters have been send. You will receive payment instructions via e-mail closer to the time.

Selection criteria

IMPORTANT: This EMBO Workshop is traditionally heavily oversubscribed (with two- to three-times as many applicants as spaces). Selection of eligible applicants (Principal Investigators only) is made by a democratic vote of the Organizing Committee. Thus, two very important elements of the application are:

  1. Details of three recent and relevant publications
  2. A short letter outlining your motivation for attending the meeting, research areas and interests.

Travel grants and registration fee waivers

Travel grants and registration fee waivers are available for participants.

Selection of awardees is handled directly by the organizers. EMBO travel grants and registration fee waivers are allocated on the basis of the quality of the submitted abstract.

Applicants do not need to apply separately for these but should indicate on the registration form if they wish to be considered Additional travel grants are available for EMBC Associate Member States Chile, India, Singapore and Taiwan.

Child care grants

EMBO Courses and Workshops offers grants to offset additional childcare costs incurred by participants or speakers when participating at any EMBO Courses and Workshop funded meeting. Eligible costs include fees for a caregiver or child-care facility, travel costs for a caregiver, or travel costs for taking the child to the meeting etc. Please indicate on the registration form whether you would like to be considered for the grant. Please also describe how you intend to use the childcare grant and specify the sum that you will need.

Accessibility grants

EMBO offers accessibility grants to support participants at EMBO Courses & Workshops with any access needs. These grants cover up to 500 Euros for any additional costs e.g. to adapt the conference environment, or to be accompanied by someone to assist them where necessary.

Participants with access needs may apply for a grant via the registration system of the related EMBO event, or by emailing the organizers of the related EMBO event directly.


Code of conduct

Anti-harassment and non-discrimination policy

At EMBO, we believe that harassment and discriminatory behaviour are unacceptable in any setting.

Media and communications policy

Recording or communication of the presented data needs to be agreed upon by all concerned.

EMBO's code of conduct is applicable for all participants of this EMBO meeting and can be found here.

 

Contact

Karo Wolkersdorfer
Email: karoline.wolkersdorfer@embl.de

 

 

Venue

Workshop venue & accommodation:

Orthodox Academy of Crete
Kolymbari Kissamos
Post Code 730 06
Chania – Crete

Accommodation

In order to maximize interaction amongst participants the Organizing Committee strongly encourages on-site lodging.

  • 260 EUR for a twin room from Sunday 21 – Saturday 27 June 2026 (6 nights)
  • 490 EUR for a single room (if available) from Sunday 21 – Saturday 27 June 2026 (6 nights)

* Note: Eileen Furlong, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany acts as a co-organizer in an advisory non-voting role and is the local liaison with EMBO, which provides support to this meeting.

** Note: Christos Delidakis, University of Crete, Greece acts as a co-organizer in an advisory, non-voting role and is the local liaison with the OAC.

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