Program Committee:

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

Executive Committee:

Koraly Pérez-Edgar, The Pennsylvania State University

Heather Brenhouse, Northeastern University

Tania L. Roth, University of Delaware

Conference Staff:

Joan Oefner, Managing Director, ISDP email

Hannah Oefner, Conference Manager, ISDP email

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 2026, the 59^th Annual Meeting of the ISDP, will bring together a multidisciplinary group of over 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

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Thanks to our 2025 Sponsors:

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)

Sponsors of the The Brain and Environment Best Student Poster Award in Human Developmental Psychobiology and Best Student Poster Award in Non-Human Animal Developmental Psychobiology