About the Conference Series

This conference aims to bring together top-level researchers in the fields of regeneration, tissue repair, stem cells, and wound healing in an interactive and multi-disciplinary series of meetings.

This is a unique conference among those on tissue repair, being the only one to focus on the basic biology of regeneration, using a wide variety of experimental model organisms. 

The conference also deals with related topics such as patterning, tissue growth and wound healing, thus providing opportunities for discussion and interaction between scientists working in fields that do not often come together.

By inviting researchers representing various fields and model systems, the goal is to interlink the mechanisms of wounding response, subsequent generation of relevant precursor populations, patterning and morphogenesis to create missing structures. 

By encompassing organisms spanning hydra, planaria, Drosophila, zebrafish, amphibians and mammals, the conference also addresses the evolution of regenerative traits and why they have been lost to a large extent in some species.

The comparison of regeneration-specific genetic networks at work in vertebrate and invertebrate model systems will lead to a better understanding of the common mechanisms that regulate regeneration.

Furthermore, identifying those common mechanisms altered or lost in species with limited regenerative capacities could be of utmost interest when designing novel strategies for improving human's ability to regenerate lost or damaged tissues in the future.