36th Head Group Meeting

The Meeting will take place on Monday 10th June 2024 in the Kennedy Lecture Theatre, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and will conclude with the Peter Thorogood Memorial Lecture.

Please see further information about this event below:

Background of the Meeting

Following the 1987 BSDB Meeting on "Craniofacial Development" organized by Peter Thorogood and Cheryll Tickle, the organizers and other colleagues (Andrew Lumsden, Mark Ferguson, Gudrun Moore, Alisdair Ivens, Julian Lewis and Gillian Morriss-Kay) decided to start holding annual informal meetings to increase communication between laboratories working on various aspects of the development of the head, to offer the opportunity to young scientists to present their work in a friendly and stimulating environment and promote collaborative research. 
The group has met annually since 1989, and the initial number of participants, about 20 people, rose very rapidly through word of mouth with more groups asking to be included in the mailing list. Over the last few years there have always been over one hundred people attending the Meeting.

Oral Presentations

If you wish to present your work (20 minutes slot, 15 minutes presentation plus 5 minutes discussion), please complete the Oral Presentation Form by 27th May 2024. All presenters are required to register on the event; please see registration options available below. 
Please remember that slots are allocated on a "first come first served basis". Hence, early registration is recommended.

Registration

The registration fee for the 2024 meeting is £35 and includes a programme, refreshment breaks, lunch and event administration. Payment to be made in advance either by IDT (for UCL members only) or by credit/debit card. 
Payments can cover the contribution for all the participants from the same laboratory, but full names of all registrants must be provided. 

IDJ/IDT payments
If you would like to pay using an IDT/IDJ (UCL members only), please complete the IDJ/IDT Registration Form

Credit/Debit payments
To pay using a credit/debit card, please on the link below. Receipts of payments will be available to print at the end of the purchase. Please make sure you do this as we will not be able to resend receipts. 

The Peter Thorogood Memorial Lecture

Prof. Angela Nieto
Miguel Hernández University, Spain

Past Head Group Meetings

Copies of the programmes of previous Head Group meetings:

35th HGM Programme (2023)

34th HGM Programme (2022)

34th HGM Programme (2022)

33rd HGM Programme (2021)

33rd HGM Programme (2021)

32nd HGM Programme (2020)

31st HGM Programme (2019)

31st HGM Programme (2019)

This meeting is sponsored by:

Alpha Laboratories	Avantor (VWR)	Thermo Fisher Scientific

New England Biolabs	Starlab	Novogene