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 The Society for Developmental Biology
78th Annual
Meeting will be held
July 26 - 30, 2019 at the
Marriott Copley Place in
Boston, Massachusetts.
Check out the
meeting program
for the latest speakers and sessions.
Renew your membership today
for reduced registration
rates and eligibility
for short talk consideration and travel
awards! The
abstract
submission deadline is
April 15.
Applications for the Student/postdoc
travel awards,
Teaching/Junior faculty travel
grants,
International
Student/Postdoc and Faculty
Scholarships,
and the
Paul D. Henion Graduate
Student Travel Award
are due
April 15. The early-discounted meeting
registration
deadline is May
13.
The SDB Board of Directors elected the following
recipients for the 2019 SDB Awards. The
presentations and award lectures will take place at
the 78th SDB Annual Meeting in Boston, MA.
Edwin G. Conklin Medal:
Eric N. Olson,
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Developmental Biology-SDB Lifetime Achievement Award:
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
Elizabeth D. Hay New Investigator Award:
Otger Campàs,
University of California, Santa Barbara
Viktor Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize:
Gary C. Schoenwolf,
University of Utah School of Medicine
The SDB Professional Development and Education
Committee reinvented the
John Doctor
Education Prize (formally a best education
poster award) as a best education video
award. We challenge SDB members to produce
short videos on their approach to teaching one of
the following developmental biology topics
to an undergraduate, graduate, or lay public
audience: (1) Differential Gene Expression, (2) Body
Axes, or (3) Gastrulation. Individuals or teams may
participate. See guidelines
here.
Submission deadline is
July 5, 2019.
 Jeff Rasmussen is a new faculty member at the
University of Washington in Seattle. He won the best
postdoctoral presentation at the Hilde Mangold
Postdoctoral Symposium at the Society for
Developmental Biology’s 77th Annual Meeting in
Portland, Oregon. His prize was a travel award to
the meeting or course of his choice. Below is his
report from the 8th Strategic Conference of
Zebrafish Investigators.
continue reading
SDB is accepting nominations for candidates for the following positions on the SDB Board of Directors (BOD): President-elect, Jr. Faculty Representative,
Trainee Representative, and Representatives for Mid-Atlantic and West Coast regions.
See
nomination details for more information.
Nomination deadline is
April 10, 2019.
Registration is now open for the
Southeast Regional SDB Meeting at the University
of Alabama Birmingham, the
Mid-Atlantic Regional SDB Meeting at The Penn
State University, University Park Campus and the
Midwest Regional SDB Meeting at Case Western
Reserve University in Cleveland. See
upcoming events
below for more information.
The SDB Innovation
Grant provides seed funds to develop innovative tools and methods with the potential
for broad impact on the developmental biology community.
The
SDB Meeting Grant helps defray costs of meetings
organized by SDB members. The submission
deadline for both is
Friday, May 31.
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SDB
78th Annual Meeting, July 26-30,
2019, Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA
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2019 SDB Northeast Regional
Meeting, April 5-7, 2019,
Marine Biological Laboratory,
Woods Hole, MA
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2019 SDB Southeast Regional
Meeting, May 15-17, 2019,
University of Alabama Birmingham,
Birmingham, AL
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2019 SDB Mid-Atlantic Regional
Meeting,
May 17-18, 2019, Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, PA
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2018 SDB Midwest Regional
Meeting, September 16-18, 2019,
Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, OH
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