Ethel Browne Harvey
Postdoctoral Seminar Series

About

The Society for Developmental Biology Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series was established to highlight the work of our outstanding postdoctoral members, providing a platform for those members who will soon be going on the job market. Speaker selection will represent the breadth of diversity in the Society, including gender, race, ethnicity, type of institution, geographic location, and research organism. Preference will be given to applicants who did not speak at the annual meeting.

The one-hour virtual seminars will be held the Second Friday of the month at 3:00 pm ET.  It will feature two postdoc speakers giving 20-minute talks followed by 10 minutes of Q&A. All seminars will be recorded and available on the SDB website. Recordings will be posted the following week.

Check out the 2024-2025 Full Speaker List.

Application

SDB Postdoctoral Members (2025 dues paid) may apply to present in the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series. Not a current SDB member? Renew or Join SDB before applying.

Deadline: Friday, August 1, 2025 (11:59 PM ET)

Upcoming Seminar

Speakers TBD

The next Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar will be held Friday, September 12 at 3 pm Eastern Time

Society for Developmental Biology Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series Friday, May 9, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time; 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;Rui Yan (Harvard Medical School) Flow-dependent mesenchymal force drives epithelial tube constriction and splitting

Latest Seminar

Rui Yan and Taylor Medwig-Kinney

Past Seminars

The Society for Developmental Biology Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series was established in 2020 to highlight the work of our outstanding postdoctoral members. Check out our past speakers!

VIEW PAST SEMINARS

2024-2025 Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series Speaker Headshots of speakers: Sassan Ostvar, Sarah Light, Leah Greenspan, Ben Cox, Yu-Chieh David Chen, Ceri Weber, Ashley Libby, Silas Boye Nissen, Suresh Damodaran,  Natasha Shylo, Yinan Wan, Keng Ioi Vong, Joshua York, Diana Fulmer, Talia Hatkevich, Gerrald Lodewijk, Rui Yan, Taylor Medwig-Kinney