The Waddington Medal is the only national award in Developmental Biology. It honours outstanding research performance as well as services to the subject community. The medal is awarded annually at the BSDB Spring Meeting, where the recipient presents the Waddington Medal Lecture. Here we introduce the 2019 winner Kate Storey who won the 2019 Waddington medal […]
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David Munro – Beddington Medal Winner 2019
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 […]
Mariya Dobreva – Dennis Summerbell Awardee 2018
Following a generous donation, the BSDB has instituted the Dennis Summerbell Lecture, to be delivered at its annual Autumn Meeting by a junior researcher at either PhD or Post-doctoral level. The 2018 lecture awardee was Mariya Dobreva (VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research and Department of Human Genetics, KU Leuven, Belgium) with her […]
The BSDB Archive now available at the John Innes Centre
The BSDB Archive covers 70 years of our society’s history, providing deep insights into its early years, its long trail of scientific conferences, workshops and committee meetings; it includes an almost complete collection of the many newsletters that have been published since issue 1 came out in 1979. A year ago, many of the archive’s […]
Autumn meeting report: Nora and Nestor catch you up with the 2018 meeting on Embryonic Extraembryonic interactions
Hello there! This is Nora Braak and Nestor Saiz, we are based in Oxford and New York respectively and we study butterfly and mouse development. Last week we went to the BSDB Autumn meeting, which also happened to be the third workshop on Embryonic Extraembryonic Interactions. We enjoyed it so much that we wanted to […]