Conference Description:

This symposium aims to provide a high visibility platform to scientists from multiple disciplines who use molecular genetic tools to probe inter-organ communication signals that maintain homeostasis. By bringing together scientists interested in various aspects of vertebrate and invertebrate animal physiology, we will foster interactions between them that will accelerate the discovery of novel physiologies. This meeting will also directly address a fundamental and long-term goal of the study of physiology: how can recent developments in whole-organism physiology pave the way to novel, adapted and efficient therapies for multiple degenerative diseases? Picking up from where the virtual 2022 EMBO | EMBL Symposium ‘Inter-organ communication in physiology and disease’ left off, the 2024 event will bring together a new generation of scientists face-to-face, to contribute critically to engaging in this emerging cross-disciplinary field.