This year, is the BSDB’s 70th anniversary, and this was clearly reflected at our Spring Meeting, 15-18 April 2018 in Warwick! Apart from an outstanding speaker list, and the award of most BSDB medals & prizes of 2018, we saw a very special event with many extras, as is well described here by Dillan Saunders. […] At the last AGM, held at the 2018 Spring Meeting in Warwick, five new BSDB committee members were elected to take term in autumn. They will replace the five leaving members: our Graduate Representative Alexandra Ashcroft, Postdoc Representative Michelle Ware, Secretary Kim Dale, Meetings Officer Josh Brickman, and Communications Officer Andreas Prokop (see a complete […] This year is the 70th anniversary of the BSDB, an obvious occasion to look back at the society’s history. As the BSDB’s communications officer I felt a need to become proactive and started, a good three years ago, to investigate the society’s past – only to find a rather blank sheet, with the laudable exception […]
BSDB Meeting Report: 70th Anniversary Spring Meeting
Get to know the new BSDB committee members
A deep look into the BSDB Archive reveals 70 years of our society’s and discipline’s history
BSDB Autumn Meeting 2018
Embryonic-Extraembryonic Interactions – from genetics to environment
- date: 10-13 September 2018
- place: Oxford, UK (Corpus Christi College)
- organisers: Kat Hadjantonakis, Kristen Panfilio, Tristan Rodriguez, Susana Chuva de Sousa Lopes, Shankar Srinivas
- website: www.bsdbautumn2018.co.uk
- registration: www.eventsforce.net/hg3/127/42059
- Poster: download here
- Note that BSDB members INCLUDING PIs can apply for BSDB Conference Grants to attend this meeting
BSDB/BSCB Spring Meeting 2019
- date: 7-10 April 2019
- location: Warwick
- organisers: Rita Sousa-Nunes (BSDB), Tristan Rodriguez (BSDB), Victoria Sanz-Moreno (BSCB), Susana Godinho (BSCB)
- Note that BSDB members INCLUDING PIs can apply for BSDB Conference Grants to attend this meeting
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Topics for future Society meetings
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