title: The more we know, the more we have to discover: an exciting future for understanding cilia and ciliopathies.
abstract: The Cilia 2014 conference was organised by four European networks: the Ciliopathy Alliance, the Groupement de Recherche CIL, the Nordic Cilia and Centrosome Network and the EU FP7 programme SYSCILIA. More than 400 delegates from 27 countries gathered at the Institut Pasteur conference centre in Paris, including 30 patients and patient representatives. The meeting offered a unique opportunity for exchange between different scientific and medical communities. Major highlights included new discoveries about the roles of motile and immotile cilia during development and homeostasis, the mechanism of cilium construction, as well as progress in diagnosis and possible treatment of ciliopathies. The contributions to the cilia field of flagellated infectious eukaryotes and of systems biology were also presented.
authors.affiliation: INSERM U1163, Laboratoire des Maladies Rénales Héréditaires, 24 boulevard du Montparnasse, 75015 Paris, France ; Institut Imagine, Université Paris Descartes-Sorbonne Paris Cité, 24 boulevard du Montparnasse, 75015 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Alexandre
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Benmerah
authors.affiliation: Centre de Génétique et de Physiologie Moléculaires et Cellulaires, CNRS UMR 5534, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 16 rue Dubois, Villeurbanne, Lyon, F69622 France.
authors.forename: Bénédicte
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Durand
authors.affiliation: Department of Nephrology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, 100 Heidelberglaan, Utrecht, 3584CX The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Rachel H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Giles
authors.affiliation: The Ciliopathy Alliance, 91 Royal College St, NW1 0SE, London.
authors.forename: Tess
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Harris
authors.affiliation: UMR7245 CNRS/MNHN, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kohl
authors.affiliation: Developmental Biology Laboratory UMR7622, UPMC Univ Paris 06, Sorbonne Université, 9 Quai Saint Bernard, F-75005 Paris, France ; Developmental Biology Laboratory UMR7622, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris Seine (IBPS), 9 Quai Saint Bernard, F-75005 Paris, France ; INSERM, ERL1156, 9 Quai Saint Bernard, F-75005 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Laclef
authors.affiliation: Department of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Institut Pasteur, 25 rue du docteur Roux, 75015 Paris, France ; CNRS URA2578, 25 rue du docteur Roux, 75015 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Sigolène M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Meilhac
authors.affiliation: Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Institute of Child Health, University College London, 30 Guilford Street, London, WC1N 1EH UK.
authors.forename: Hannah M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Mitchison
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 13, 2100 Copenhagen, OE Denmark.
authors.forename: Lotte B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Pedersen
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Geert Grooteplein 25, P.O. Box 9101, 6525 Nijmegen, GA The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Ronald
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Roepman
authors.affiliation: Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institute, Hälsovägen 7, S-141 83 Huddinge, Sweden.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Swoboda
authors.affiliation: Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tübingen, PO 2669, D-72016 Tübingen, Germany ; Research Unit of Protein Science, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, D-85758 Neuherberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Marius
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ueffing
authors.affiliation: Trypanosome Cell Biology Unit, Institut Pasteur and INSERM U1201, 25 rue du Docteur Roux, 75015 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bastin
keywords: Basal bodies; Centrioles; Cilia; Ciliopathies; Development; Flagella; Hedgehog; Intraflagellar; Signalling; Transport