As every year, the Spring meeting was the time of awards and medals! This year, we had awardees of three societies who are listed below. For those wanting to have a look at the topics of talks and posters presented at the meeting, please download the abstract book here.

► Medal Awards

• BSDB Waddington Award: Bill Harris – Univ. Cambridge
• The Genetics Society Medal: Marisa Bartolomei – Univ. Pennsylvania
• BSCB Hooke Award: Ewa Paluch – UCL, London
• BSCB WICB Award: Victoria Sanz Moreno – King’s College London, London
• The Mendel Medal Lecture: David Baulcombe – Univ. Cambridge
• The BSDB Cheryll Tickle Medal: Jenny Nichols – Univ. Cambridge
• BSDB Beddington Award: Erik Clark – Univ. Cambridge

► PhD Poster Prizes (are prizes still the same?)

• 1^st BSDB PhD Poster Prize winner (Attendance at SDB 76^th Annual Meeting, Minneapolis): Claire Bromley (Kings College London) – Poster 25 “Investigating biomechanical forces in zebrafish brain morphogenesis“
• 1^st BSCB PhD Poster Prize winner (visit to 2017 ASCB/EMBO meeting, Philadelphia): Christina Dix (University College London) – poster 5 “Adhesion, not cortical tension, is vital for successful cytokinesis in RPE-1 cells“
• 1^st Genetics Society (£100 cash prize sponsored by BioMed Central): Alexandra Buffry (Oxford Brookes University) – Poster 182 “Investigating gene regulatory network architecture and evolution in different developmental contexts“
• 2^nd BSDB PhD Poster Prize (£100 cash prize sponsored by BioMed Central): Ariadna Gador Navarro-Aragall (UCL Institute of Ophthalmology) – Poster 86 “SEMA3E and SEMA3C Cooperate to establish vascular boundaries“
• 2^nd BSCB PhD Poster Prize (£100 cash prize sponsored by BioMed Central): Sophie Adams (Barts Cancer Institute) – Poster 32 “‘Exosome signatures’ as biomarkers for centrosome-targeted therapy in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC)“

► Postdoc Poster Prizes

• 1^st BSDB Prize (£200 cash prize sponsored by BioMed Central): Carla Mulas (University of Cambridge) – Poster 129 “Functional characterisation of metachronous cell state transitions“
• 1^st BSCB Prize (£100 Cash prize sponsored by BioMed Central): Girish Mali (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) – Poster 47 “Assembly Mechanisms of Dynein Motors“
• 1^st Genetics Society (£100 bank transfer sponsored by BioMed Central): Laura Molina-Garicia (University College London) – Poster 122 “Sexy learning in C. elegans”
• 2^nd BSDB Prize (£100 cash prize sponsored by BioMed Central): Hadi Boukhatmi (University of Cambridge) – Poster 92 “Molecular logic behind Satellite cells specification in Drosophila”

► Others

• Genetics Society Overall Poster Prize (Junior Scientist Conference Grant, Scheme A): Alewo Idoko-Akoh (The Roslin Institute) – Poster 185 “CXCR4 and c-Kit signalling are required for directed migration of chicken primordial germ cells through the chick embryonic vascular system“
• BSDB Honorary Mention (Certificate): Eva Higginbotham (University of Cambridge) -Poster 114 “Neurotransmitter specification in the ventral nerve cord of Drosophila melanogaster”
• The BSCB Science writing Prize: Marcia Kishida (University of Cambridge)
• The BSCB Image Award:
  • 1^st: Cristiano Lucci, School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham
  • 2^nd: Anneliese Norris, School of Biology (University of St Andrews)
  • 3^rd: Mohammad Mofatteh (MRC LMB, Cambridge), Alan Prescott, College of life Sciences, University of Dundee

Movies of medal lectures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv4qZttn9is; w=520; h=405

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv9ndsOuRCE; w=520; h=405

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg3zMt6uYpY; w=520; h=405

Hooke Medal Lecture: Ewa Paluch

Women in Cell Biology Lecture: Victoria Sanz Moreno