First impressions of the BSDB Spring Meeting

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 history session which looked back at the past, to then project into the future of Developmental Biology. Other specials were a very engaging PhD and postdoc social, the weaving of pedigree networks (with little labels, pins and threads of wool), and the live presentations of DB raps composed and sung by Jerry aka Gerald H Thomsen PhD and produced and mixed by Philip Larsen. See below a few image impressions of the meeting and/or listen to the two raps! A detailed meeting report will follow.

 

Rap 1: BSDB History (part I & II)

 

Rap 2: Morphogen Mix

 

Gerald Thomsen, Josh Brickman and Philip Larsen

 

Only a tiny selection of participants

 

Emilia receives the Beddington medal from Simon Bullock

 

Nick Hopwood

 

The panel discussion

 

The PhD and postdoc social

 

PhD and postdoc social

 

Gearing up for the conference dinner

 

Weaving pedigree networks: Eric Wieschaus, David Ish-Horowicz, Claudio Stern, Austin Smith

 

Concluding lecture by Sir John Gurdon

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