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Background & History
Following a generous donation, the BSDB has instituted the Dennis Summerbell Lecture, to be delivered at its annual Spring Meeting by a postdoctoral researcher who is close to approaching independence. The awardee is selected from abstracts submitted for the Spring Meeting. The awardee’s costs for attending the meeting will be met in full.
Dennis Summerbell made seminal contributions to our understanding of limb bud patterning by combining detailed quantitative analysis with elegant models, bringing insightful conceptual advances to the field. In addition to his research, Dennis made major contributions to Developmental Biology through his mentoring of junior researchers. An account of his work can be found on page 10 0f the BSDB Summer Newsletter from 2005 [LINK].
Summerbell Awardees
The 2026 Summerbell Award Lecture was awarded to Sergio Menchero (Francis Crick Institute) at the 2026 BSDB Spring Meeting at the University of Warwick.
Past recipients
- 2022 Lara Busby (University of Cambridge)
- 2018 Mariya Dobreva VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research and Department of Human Genetics, KU Leuven, Belgium)
- 2017 Helen Weavers (School of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biomedical – [blog post]
- 2016 Iwo Kucinski (Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) – [details]
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