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Virtual Meeting: Developmental Disorders: From Mechanism to Treatment Organisers: Phil Beales, James Briscoe, Monica J. Justice and Lee Niswander Date: 14-17 September 2021 Location: Online This Meeting, a collaboration between the Development and Disease Models & Mechanisms journal teams, aims to bring together developmental biologists, human geneticists and clinical researchers who are united in the goal of understanding […]

Lewis Wolpert has been one of the most influential Developmental Biologists in recent times, sadly he passed away at the beginning of this years. Several obituaries have been written in many journals, such as Science, Developmental Cell, Cells & Development, Development, etc. : https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6535/1208 https://www.cell.com/developmental-cell/pdf/S1534-5807(21)00319-1.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667290121000206 https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/148/7/dev199618/238665/Lewis-Wolpert-1929-2021 To honour Lewis Wolpert life and remember his […]

The Beddington Medal is the BSDB’s major commendation to promising young biologists, awarded for the best PhD thesis in Developmental Biology defended in the year previous to the award. Rosa Beddington was one of the greatest talents and inspirational leaders in the field of developmental biology. Rosa made an enormous contribution to the field in […]

Our community is terribly saddened by the loss of Lewis Wolpert, someone who contributed to our field a great deal. Here are just a few thoughts from current members of our committee. We will commemorate Lewis’s illustrious career and contributions to our science and community in due course.  You can watch Lewis’s 2015 Waddington medal […]