47th Annual David W. Smith Workshop on Malformations and Morphogenesis

August 21-26, 2026

Skamania Lodge

Stevenson, WA

We are pleased to announce that the David W. Smith Workshop on Malformations and Morphogenesis for 2026 will be held at Skamania Lodge in southern Washington state.

Participants should plan to arrive the afternoon of Friday August 21st with registration and a welcome reception that evening. The meeting will conclude late Tuesday with departures planned for Wednesday August 26th.

The lodge is located on the Washington side of the Columbia Gorge. Participants are advised to fly into Portland International Airport (PDX). The lodge is about an hour drive east. There is a shuttle service from PDX to Skamania and back (https://www.portlandexpressshuttle.com/service-areas/shuttle-service-to-skamania-lodge). There is also plenty of parking at the lodge for those who drive or who rent a car from the airport.

2026 workshop themes include:

•Interventional genetics

•Prenatal therapies

•Disorders of the epigenetic machinery

•Syndromes not diagnosed through sequencing

•Ophthalmology genetics

Your 2026 DWS Planning Committee:

Margaret Adam, Julie Kaplan, Omar Rahman, and Tara Wenger