On 7-10 Oct 2015 the Joint meeting of the BSDB with the Spanish and Portuguese Societies of Developmental Biology took place on a sea side resort of the Algarve in Portugal, organised by António Jacinto, Domingos Henrique, Miguel Manzanares, Josh Brickman and Kate Storey. If you did not have the opportunity to attend or would like to relive the experience, please read the detailed meeting report by Ana Ribeiro which has now been published on The Node and features talks by Austin Smith, Sally Lowell, Berenika Plusa, Andrew Johnson, Kate Storey, Elisa Marti, Anna Philpott, François Guillemot, Alexandre Raposo, Cláudia Barros, Rita Sousa-Nunes, Leonor Saúde, Andrew Oates, Berta Alsina, Juan R. Martinez-Morales, Claudia Linker, Ana Pombo, Rui Martinho, Javier Lopez-Rios and Moisés Mallo.
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BSCB-BSDB joint Spring Meeting 2016
Joint Spring Meeting
Sunday 10th – Wednesday 13th April, 2016
Venue: University of Warwick, Warwick
Prepare for THE annual BSDB event, the BSDB’s and BSCB’s joint Spring meeting. Important deadlines are:
- Travel grant applications: open
- Early bird registration: 07 March 2015
- Pre-registration: 01 April 2015
For registration and more information visit the conference site.
News and News Reminders
- All four award lectures of the last BSCB/BSDB Joint Spring meeting including the BSDB Waddington Medal lecture by Lewis Wolpert (UCL, London), the BSCB Hooke Medal lecture by Kairbaan Hodivala-Dilke (Barts Cancer Inst, QMUL, London), the BSCB WICB Medal lecture by Victoria Cowling (Univ. Dundee), and the BSDB Beddington Medal lecture by John Robert Davis (CRUK/Crick, London) have now been uploaded on YouTube and can be watched here.
- The BSDB newly announced the Cheryll Tickle award for women in their mid-scientific career (~ 15 years post PhD). The Nomination deadline will be 1 July 2015.
- The Waddington Medal nomination deadline will be 1 August 2015, and nominations for outstanding candidates are being invited.
- The BSDB is approaching its 70th anniversary in 2018. We are concerned that documents of the pioneer days might get lost with increasing numbers of older BSDB members approaching retirement. Please, let us know if you have old documents including old newsletter (we currently can’t trace back further than 2nd half of 1999). We will make sure that such documents are being stored and/or digitalised and kept for future research. Furthermore, we would like to reconstruct the list of BSDB chairs starting from the inaugural meeting. Any help with this would be most welcome. Just contact Andreas Prokop under comms@bsdb.org.
- The 2015 Gurdon Summer Studentship awardees have been announced and can be viewed here.
BSDB Medal Award lectures now on YouTube
The lectures of the two BSDB medal award winners announced on the 2015 Spring Meeting are now available on YouTube:
- the Waddington Medal lecture by Lewis Wolpert (UCL, London) who presented a talk about his seminal discoveries of concepts of positional information, and
- the Beddington Medal lecture by John Robert Davis who presented a talk entitled “Intercellular forces orchestrate cell repulsion and embryonic pattern formation“.
These two talks are embedded below. Information about all other awardees, links to interviews performed by The Node, and a meeting report can be found in an earlier post which has been updated accordingly.
BSDB/BSCB Spring Meeting report
For those who want to relive the BSDB/BSCB Spring meeting, and those who could not make it but would like to know what happened: read a lively report by Nestor Saiz which has recently been published on The Node.
A list of all recipients of awards and prizes which were announced on the meeting can be found in our previous post.