What better way to usher in the month of July than to attend the Gordon Research Conference on Developmental Biology in Barga, Tuscany? The conference is running from June 30^th to July 5^th and this beautiful setting will no doubt help to stimulate interesting and productive discussions in key areas such as the evolution of morphological diversity, stem cell biology,  regulatory networks of gene expression during development, and organogenesis.

BMC Developmental Biology is very much looking forward to attending this conference and getting involved in some of the discussions. If you would like to discuss any aspect of open access publishing – particularly if you are currently a member of a BMC-series journal Editorial Board – please do get in touch with Journal Development Manager Genevieve Horne. We would love to meet you and chat about your work and the journals you have been involved with.