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Waddington Medal-closing date for nominations 15 June 2012

The Waddington Medal, the only national award in developmental biology, is awarded for outstanding research performance as well as services to the subject community.

Nominees should be outstanding developmental biologists who have made a significant contribution to UK developmental biology and who are still currently active in the field. Examples of significant contribution to UK developmental biology include: activity in the community, mentoring UK developmental biologists, and contributing to a significant textbook or other aspect of teaching and/or training.

The closing date for nominations is 15 June 2012.

For details see the Waddington Medal Award page

BSDB Spring meeting 2012- Poster prize winners

Every year at the Spring meeting  prizes are awarded for the posters judged to be particularly outstanding in both their content and presentation.

This years winners were

Stephen Fleenor (Begbie lab, University of Oxford) Characterising the role of a regulator of G protein signalling in cranial sensory ganglia formation

Ricardo Laranjeiro (Whitmore lab, University College London) A new link between the zebrafish circadian clock and cell cycle timing

Tom Pettini (Ronshaugen lab, University of Manchester) Transvection of a novel long non-coding RNA mediates Hox gene transcription in Drosophila

The first prize winner received a trip to attend the Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) summer meeting plus £350
The two second prize winners received  £350