Jointly organized by the Michael Sars Centre at the University of Bergen and the Swedish Developmental Biology Organisation (SWEDBO), the Nordic Developmental Biology Societies & Michael Sars Symposium Joint Meeting aims to generate an interactive and dynamic atmosphere to foster interactions between developmental biologists in the Nordic countries and the wider international community. The meeting has an exciting lineup with two keynote speakers, twenty-three invited speakers and fourteen contributed talks ranging from developmental biology, and stem cell biology to regeneration in a large diversity of research organisms and systems.