Germ Cells 2026

The meeting is held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor, New York.

Scientists studying molecular, cellular, and genetic aspects of germ line and gamete development.

Sessions were scheduled to cover germline evolution, sex determination, germline stem cells and their niche, meiosis and chromosome mechanics, gamete and fertilization biology, epigenetics, environmental control, and post-transcriptional regulation.

Melina Schuh from the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences was scheduled to deliver the keynote address.

It is most useful for researchers working on germline biology, since the program spanned meiosis, germline stem cells, epigenetics and gamete development, and the organizers included Swathi Arur, Mitinori Saitou and Allan Spradling. Scientists or clinicians from unrelated fields would get less from it.

Researchers at academic laboratory meetings like this one usually dress casually, in jeans or slacks with a shirt or sweater, and bring a light jacket for cool autumn evenings outdoors in New York.