Advancing the Field of Developmental Biology
The Society for Developmental Biology fosters an inclusive, global community of scientists and educators dedicated to furthering the field of developmental biology.
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Society for Developmental Biology 85th Annual Meeting
July 23-26, 2026 • Planet Hollywood Las Vegas | Las Vegas, NV
The Society for Developmental Biology 85th Annual Meeting will be held July 23-26, 2026 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Latest News
The Backstory: An interview with Candy Lee on the discovery of microRNAs
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNAs. Rosalind (Candy) Lee has been a member of the Ambros lab since 1987. She is the co-first author of the 1993 paper describing the unusual product of the lin-4 locus in C. elegans, the first described microRNA.
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The Backstory: Padmanabhan Babu and the isolation of the e912 mutant (lin-4)
For many years there was only one lin-4 mutant allele (e912), and this single allele enabled the studies reported by Lee et al. (1993) from the Ambros lab, describing the first microRNA. The e912 mutant was first reported by Horvitz and Sulston (1980) - “lin-4 (e912) was obtained by P. Babu”. Who is P. Babu?
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Universities and the government: Which needs the other more?
An op-ed by Carole LaBonne
We frequently hear of late that universities are “dependent on federal money,” as though they were passive beneficiaries of government largesse. The reality is closer to the opposite: The federal government depends on universities to conduct the research that keeps our nation healthy, safe and economically competitive.
EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
WEBINAR
Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar - Rui Yan and Taylor Medwig-Kinney
May 9, 2025 • Virtual
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time
Rui Yan (Harvard Medical School)
Flow-dependent mesenchymal force drives epithelial tube constriction and splitting
Taylor Medwig-Kinney (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Understanding how developmental patterning coordinates localization of myosin activating machinery to drive cell shape changes
REGIONAL
2025 SDB Southeast Regional Meeting
May 19–21, 2025 | University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
REGIONAL
12th Canadian Developmental Biology Meeting
May 25–28, 2025 | University of British Columbia Okanagen Campus, Kelowna, BC
REGIONAL
2025 SDB West Coast Regional Meeting
August 14–17, 2025 | California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA
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Journal
Developmental Biology
Developmental Biology, the official journal of the Society for Developmental Biology, publishes original research on mechanisms of development, differentiation, and growth in animals and plants at the molecular, cellular, genetic and evolutionary levels.