ISDP 2025: 58th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology

November 12-14 at the Catamaran Resort Hotel, A San Diego Beachfront Resort
(immediately preceding SfN Neuroscience 2025)

Program Chairs:

Marion van den Heuvel, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands

Bridget Callaghan, University of California, Los Angeles

Moriah E. Thomason, NYU Langone Neuroscience Institute

Conference Coordinator:
Christopher Harshaw, University of New Orleans

Conference Coordinators-Elect:
Elisabeth Conradt, Associate Professor in Psychiatry at Duke University
Helena Rutherford, Associate Professor in the Child Study Center, Yale Child Study Center

Important Dates

The International Society of Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP), is an international organization founded in 1968 for the purpose of encouraging research on the development of behavior in all organisms including man, with special attention to the effects of biological factors operating at any level of organization. ISDP 2025, the 58^th Annual Meeting of the ISDP, will bring together a multidisciplinary group of over 325-350 international researchers from all areas of developmental psychobiology ranging from clinical psychiatrists to ethologists to molecular biologists with a common interest in promoting translational research by emphasizing the integration of basic and clinical research approaches. Symposium sessions will cover cutting-edge interdisciplinary data and novel methods relevant to longitudinal and translational models of development with special emphasis on how environmental factors, such as early adversity, alter developmental trajectories. Research promoting both human and animal models highlighting complementary or translational work across species will be presented in Oral and Poster Sessions over three days with ample opportunity for networking and scientific discussion. ISDP’s annual meeting provides a unique opportunity for advanced researchers, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and undergraduate students who share a common interest in developmental processes share their science in a scholarly and collegial atmosphere with no competing sessions which facilitates interactions across disciplines and levels of expertise.

Sponsors

For information about exhibiting and sponsorship opportunities, please click here.

Thanks to our 2025 Sponsors as of today:

Institute for Developmental Sciences at Columbia University

Funded, in part, by a grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health (R13HD070625)