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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
BSDB/BSCB Awardees and new BSDB committee members
The joint BSDB/BSCB spring meeting has again been a great and most successful event. 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 meeting report by Nestor Saiz which has recently been published on The Node. As […]
BIG grants, BIG papers! The dark side of research
On the 15th of January Times Higher Education published an article by Dorothy Bishop entitled “The big grants, the big papers: are we missing something?” This article is an important reflection on current grant funding and research evaluation strategies in the UK. It also refers to important statements by the BSDB chair Ottoline Leyser summing […]