2020 Meeting Report
July 9-15, 2020
Full Abstracts with Author Index
The Numbers
Total attendance was 2486 people from 44 different countries. There
were 668 faculty/staff, 407 postdoctoral fellows, 763 graduate students/postbacs, 648 undergraduates and 30
exhibitors. 733 abstracts were submitted, of which 601 were poster
presentations.
2020 SDB Awards
FASEB Excellence in Science Lifetime Achievement Award - Brigid Hogan, Duke University | |
Society for Developmental Biology Trainee Science Communication Award - Cagney Coomer, University of Kentucky | |
Elizabeth D. Hay New Investigator Award - Celina Juliano, University of California, Davis | |
Edwin G. Conklin Medal - Claude Desplan, New York University | |
Society for Developmental Biology Lifetime Achievement Award - Ray Keller, University of Virginia | |
Viktor Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize - Jo Handelsman, University of Wisconsin | |
John Doctor Education Prize - Aaron Alcala, University of Georgia | |
Lauren Walker, University of Pennsylvania. Prize-
Travel Award to Meeting/Course of Choice sponsored by the Society for Developmental Biology. Identification of extrinsic cues promoting target-selective axon regeneration
(Abstract #32)
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Undergraduate Winners
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Amina Hussein, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Prize - $150 sponsored by Aquarius Fish Systems. Characterization of the spatiotemporal expression pattern of Dispatched-3 during chick cranial neural crest development. (Abstract #83)
Lauren Limbach, Kenyon College. Prize - $150 sponsored by Aquarius Fish Systems. A novel zebrafish mutant, stl159, exhibits defects in sensory axon and glial patterning. (Abstract #131)
Gabriella Voit, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Prize - $150 sponsored by Aquarius Fish Systems. The Identification of Maternal-Effect Genes in Zebrafish by a Maternal Crispant Screen. (Abstract #130)
Graduate Winners
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Rachel Keuls, Baylor College of Medicine. Prize- $300 sponsored by Aquarius Fish Systems. Neural crest development is temporally regulated by miR-302. (Abstract #227)
Denise Rebello, University of Toronto. Prize- $300 sponsored by Aquarius Fish Systems. The role of collagen 11a2 in zebrafish vertebral development. (Abstract #356)
Mengyi Song, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. Prize- $300 sponsored by Aquarius Fish Systems. Deeply conserved enhancer regulates heart and gut looping in vertebrates. (Abstract #590)
Special Interest Symposium: Confronting Bias in Scientific Culture (July 9, 2020) Chairs: Nicole Theodosiou (Union College) and Graciela Unguez (New Mexico State University) Presenters: Mary Alice Scott (New Mexico State University), Scott Gilbert (Swarthmore College) |
Workshop: Strategies to Lessen Biases in Science (July 11, 2020) Chair: Crystal Rogers (University of California, Davis) Moderators: Nicole Theodosiou (Union College) and Graciela Unguez (New Mexico State University) Panelists:Carmen Domingo (San Francisco State University), Barbara Lom (Davidson College), Mary Alice Scott (New Mexico State University), Scott Gilbert (Swarthmore College) |
Facilitators: Nicole Theodosiou (Union College) and Michael Barresi (Smith College) |