The 2019 Cell Cycle Meeting in Trieste, Italy, will highlight the 'diversity in cell cycle control mechanisms’, exploring cell cycle control in different organisms, focusing on the similarities and differences in fundamental properties, to elucidate the wiring of cell cycle control networks in health and disease. This meeting will be the first of a biannual European meeting to alternate with the well-established Salk Cell Cycle meetings in California, USA. By coordinating with the Salk Cell Cycle meetings and inviting a large number of speakers from outside Europe the Cell Cycle Meeting in Trieste will draw a truly global attendance from the international cell cycle community (see our program). This will provide a larger international community with an opportunity to merge and share ideas.