Last June, I went to the conference of the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology, or EuroEvoDevo. It’s a meeting that I’ve been going to every edition for the past decade. This year it was hosted in Helsinki, Finland.
The venue and organization were impeccable, and I thoroughly enjoyed the program overall. My feeling is that there was a greater diversity of topics compared to earlier editions. More ecology, more (actual) evolution, more theory. Or, maybe, it was just me attending more diverse subjects. Not sure. But there were many new participants attending EuroEvoDevo for the first time, which probably contributed to this feeling. And, of course, it was wonderful to see friends and colleagues again. I liked it very much.
I gave a talk in the “Evolution of Morphogenesis” symposium. It was about how mechanical forces can influence the evolution of developmental processes. I showed some of the latest updates of our cephalic furrow paper, which now has more comparative gene expression data from different fly species.
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