Since 1989 IGB organizes a yearly interdisciplinary international workshop on genetics, molecular and cellular biology.  The workshop is held on the delightful island of Capri. The topics are always related to areas covered by the IGB research and range on a variety of subjects, such as molecular evolution, X chromosome, neural development, MHC genes, plant development, ocular development and physiology, cell migration and their relationships with human diseases. The scientific level, the format and the quality are recognised by international funding organisations, like FEBS or EMBO, which provided funding for most of the recent workshops.