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The Waddington Medal Lecture 2014 now online

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Congratulations again to Philip Ingham FRS FMedSci HonFRCP who received the 2014 Waddington medal at the Spring Meeting in Warwick. A YouTube video of his Waddington Medal Lecture is now available. Philip Ingham is the Toh Kian Chui Distinguished Professor and Vice Dean research at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore. The Node’s interview with Philip Ingham can be read here.

In Autumn 2014 the BSDB is holding 2 meetings

BSMB-BSDB

The Musculoskeletal System, from development to disease

Held jointly with the British Society for Matrix Biology (BSMB)

1-3 September 2014, University of East Anglia

This is a multidisciplinary conference on the musculoskeletal system.

Session topics include; Signaling and Development, Mechanobiology and Anatomy, Human Genetics and Pathology, transcriptional and Epigenetic Regulation. Confirmed speakers include: Tom Rando, David Glass, Veronique Lefebvre, Ronen Schweitzer, Eli Zelzer, Gabrielle Kardon, Christine Hartmann, Chrissy Hammond, Andy Pitsillides.Organisers: Andrea Munsterberg,  Ian Clark, Ulrike Mayer, Graham Riley and Tonia Vincent. There are opportunities for speakers to be selected from submitted abstracts. For further details of the programme, registration and online abstract submission go to: www.bsmb.ac.uk/bsmb-bsdb

Conference grants are available for BSDB members. For details of how to apply for a BSDB conference grant, click here.


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18th International Conference of the International Society of Differentiation in conjunction with the British Society for Developmental Biology

2-5 November 2014, The Guoman Tower Hotel, London, UK

This meeting has a broad theme covering all aspects of Developmental Biology. Topics include: Reprogramming the genome in development and disease, EMT in development and Cancer, Oscillations and signaling, Regeneration, Stem cells and dynamics, Nervous system development, Reprogramming the genome in development and evolution. The Brachet Memorial lecture will be given by  John Gurdon. For further details of the programme, registration and online abstract submission go to: www.isdifferentiation.org or download the Poster.

As this is a one time international conference supported by the BSDB we will be offering  grants for our members to attend as we normally do for our spring and fall meetings.  Applications for BSDB conference awards will be due alongside abstract submission on the 15th of August. For details of how to apply for a BSDB conference grant, click here.