We are pleased to announce the symposia for our fourth meeting that will be held in Lisbon in 2012

• Towards a theory of development
  Organizers: Alessandro Minelli, Rinaldo Bertossa
• Evolution of organs and cell types
  Organizers: Andreas Hejnol, Jean-Francois Brunet
• Evolution of stem cells and regeneration
  Organizers: Ram Reshef, Uri Frank
• Next generation models to understand animal phylogeny and regulatory evolution
  Organizers: Michel Vervoort, Florian Raible
• Evolution at the Plant-Animal interface
  Organizers: Beverley Glover, Sam Brockington
• Morphological misfits
  Organizers: Paula Rudall, Ronald Jenner
• Evo-Devo of homeotic transformations
  Organizers: Andre Pires da Silva, Frietson Galis
• Evo-Devo of arthropod appendages: the genes that matter
  Organizers: Patricia Beldade, Antonia Monteiro
• Evo-Devo in extreme environments
  Organizers: Didier Casane, Sylvie Rétaux
• Planarians to parasitism: Development and stem cells in flatworms
  Organizers Peter Olson, Bret Pearson
• Posterior elongation in bilaterians
  Organizers: Guillaume Balavoine, Ariel Chipman
• Regulatory protein changes in the evolution of plant body plans
  Organizers: Günter Theissen
• Theoretical contributions to Evo-Devo
  Organizers: Hans Metz
• 3D Imaging for EvoDevo
  Organizers: Brian Metscher, Gerd Mueller
• 3D Morphometrics for EvoDevo
  Organizers: Philipp Mitteroecker
• Heterospory: The Evolutionary Road to the Seed
  Organizers: Heather Sanders, Mike Frohlich
• How do you like your eggs?
  Organizers: Casper Breuker, Alistair McGregor
• The origin and fate of germ cells in animal evolution and development
  Organizers: Jeremy Lynch, Evelyn Schwager
• Evolution of sex determining pathways in insects
  Organizers: Daniel Bopp, Louis van de Zande, Lino Polito, Martin Beye