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 Registration is open for the
72nd Annual SDB Meeting to be held
June 16-20, 2013 in Cancun, Mexico in conjunction with the 17th
International Congress of Developmental Biology! The
abstract submission deadline is
March 15 and the early
meeting registration deadline is
April 1.
The Hotel reservations deadline at the congress rate is
March 15.
Latin American-Caribbean Student/Postdoc and
Faculty
Scholarship
applications are due March
15. Travel award applications for
students,
postdocs, and
teaching
faculty are due March 15.
Renew your membership
today for
reduced registration rates, eligibility for
consideration for one of 80 short talk slots, and
application for travel awards!
SDB is sponsoring
Making
and breaking the left-right axis: Laterality in
development and disease, a Satellite Symposium
of the 72nd Annual Meeting,
June 15-16,
2013 in Cancun,
Mexico. Additional speakers will be selected
from submitted abstracts. Organizers
Marnie Halpern and
Oliver Hobert strongly
encourage students and postdocs to apply. Email
abstracts to:
sdbL–[email protected] by
March 15. Register
here for the satellite symposium and SDB/ISDB
meeting.
The SDB Board of Directors selected the following recipients for the
2013 SDB Awards. The
presentations and award lectures will take place at the 72nd Annual SDB Meeting in
Cancun.
Edwin G. Conklin Medal:
Marianne Bronner, California Institute of
Technology
Developmental Biology-SDB Lifetime Achievement Award:
John F. Fallon, University of Wisconsin
Viktor Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize:
William Wood,
University of Colorado,
Boulder
 The
NSF–funded Choose Development!
summer research training program is seeking mentors
committed to increasing the number of
underrepresented minorities and persons with disabilities entering doctoral programs in pursuit of research careers in developmental biology.
Apply to be an SDB Academic Mentor and host an SDB
Fellow in your lab. Encourage eligible
undergraduates to apply. Deadline for
Mentor and
Student applications is March 1.
Learn more
here.
Seven SDB regional meetings will be held throughout
the US this year (six this spring and one in the
fall). Regional
meetings are an excellent opportunity for students
and postdocs to present their research and give
short talks. See
upcoming events below for meeting dates and
locations.
 Sunjin
Lee and Elizabeth Rideout—winners of the 2012 Hilde
Mangold Postdoctoral Symposium at the SDB Annual
Meeting in Montreal—were awarded first-place prize
trips to the IX Spanish Society for Developmental
Biology (SEBD) Meeting held in Granada Spain,
November 12-14, 2012. Below, Lee and Rideout
share their reflections from the meeting. ...
continue reading
Applications are being accepted for the 2013
Embryology Course at the Marine Biological
Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
The 6-week course accepts 24 students from around
the world. Course directors
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado and
Richard Behringer
strongly encourage outstanding graduate students and
postdoctoral fellows to apply. Deadline is
February 8, 2013.
Learn more
here.
SDB is now accepting nominations for
President-elect, Junior Faculty Representative, and
Representatives for the Mid-Atlantic, Northwest, and
West Coast regions. Go
here for nomination
details. Deadline is
February 18, 2013.
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SDB
72nd Annual Meeting/17th International Congress
of Developmental Biology, June
16-23, 2013, Cancun, Mexico
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2013 SDB Southwest Regional Meeting,
February 15-16, 2013, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
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2013 SDB West Coast Regional Meeting,
March 14-17, 2013, Cambria Pines Lodge, Cambria, CA
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2013 SDB Northwest Regional Meeting,
March 20-23, Friday Harbor Labs, University of Washington, San Juan Island, WA
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2013 SDB Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting,
April 19-21, 2013, College of William & Mary,
Williamsburg, VA
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2013 SDB Northeast Regional Meeting,
April 19-21, 2013, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
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2013 SDB Southeast Regional Meeting,
May 13-15, 2013, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
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2013 SDB Midwest Regional Meeting,
September 26-28, 2013, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
more meetings
Did you know?
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SDB members can apply for
non-SDB meeting grants to fund
member-organized conferences central to
developmental biology. Deadline: May
1, 2013.
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SDB members are eligible for travel awards
through the
FASEB MARC Program.
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SDB will provide travel assistance for Latin
American investigators to visit a
host lab in the US or Canada to learn new
techniques or approaches in developmental
biology with the
SDB Latin American Short Visit Grant.
Proposal deadline: May 1,
2013.
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