Our Child and Family Studies (CFS) graduate students Lucia Miranda and Tobey Nichols and CFS Assistant Professor Julia Jaekel spent a productive and exciting 5-day Bavarian Longitudinal Study Team Retreat with Professor Dieter Wolke (University of Warwick, UK) and PhD student Katharina Heuser (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany) in San Francisco in May. During their time together, the team participated in the Adults born Preterm International Collaboration (APIC) meeting, successfully presented their research at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) Conference, socialized with many international research leaders, and did some sight seeing. Shown in the group dinner pictures below are Professor Peter Anderson (Monash University, Australia), Professor Eero Kajantie (National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland), Professor Erik Verrips (TNO, Netherlands) and Professor S. A. (Menno) Reijnefeld (University of Groningen, Netherlands).