We are delighted to announce that registration for the BSDB/BSCB 2022 conference is now open.
Featuring talks from our recently awarded medal winners!
The 2022 Beddington Medal winner Guillermo Serrano Najera
and
The 2022 Cheryll Tickle Award winner: Emma Rawlins
Full award announcements will be communicated at the meeting, along with the super secret winners of our Waddington and Wolpert awards.
The 2020 ISD/BSDB Joint meeting, originally planned for September this year, has been postponed due to concerns about Covid-19. The meeting will be postponed by two years in order to avoid a clash with the autumn 2021 ISDB meeting.
The ISD/BSDB meeting will now take place on 4-8 September 2022. It will still take place in the beautiful setting of Valletta Malta. Registration will open in early 2022.
Following the cancellation of BSDB/GenSoc2020, the meeting organisers have been seeking ways to maintain some elements of the meeting through online interactions. We do not plan to run a full virtual meeting, but we do have plans to enable speakers and poster presenters to give brief informal summaries, tweetorials, gifs or visual abstracts of their work, to share their talks or posters using figshare, or even to upload recordings of their talks if they wish to. These options are open to (and optional for) all presenters but we particularly encourage students and postdocs to participate. Hopefully this will also allow those who were not registered for the meeting this year to benefit too!
We also hope to provide an online version of our always-popular Careers session as well as interviews with some of our medal winners and other speakers. Other highlights will include the big reveal of this years Waddington Medal winner and even an e-conference-party via a curated spotify dancefloor playlist that you will all be invited to contribute to.
We will post guidelines for participation in eBSDB/GenSoc on this post over the coming few days. This will be updated periodically as our plans progress so do keep an eye on this blog post or the BSDB twitter feed https://twitter.com/_BSDB_ (the meeting hashtag is #BSDBGenSoc2020).
The BSDB and GenSoc are hugely grateful to the editors at Development and The Node for initiating these plans, providing expertise and infrastructure, and for their generous offer to put in the considerable amount of work to make this happen. Yet another reason to support your community journal!
We are delighted to announce the ISD/BSDB International Conference 2020 registration and abstract form is now open!
The meeting will be held on Sunday 13th – Wednesday 16th September 2020 at the Excelsior Hotel, Valletta, Malta.
The deadline to submit your abstract is Midnight GMT Friday 12 June, 2020. Please click the button below in order to submit your abstract online.
The BSDB have set up a fund to help offset additional child care costs incurred by participants or speakers when participating at BSDB Spring or Autumn meetings. Eligible costs include contributions towards fees for a baby-sitter or child-care facility, travel costs for a care giver, or travel costs for taking the child to the meeting etc. This fund is not strictly restricted to childcare – requests for costs related to other caring responsibilities will also be considered.
Please note that (for now) this fund can only be used for attendance at BSDB meetings where the applicant will present their work as a poster or a talk.
We will provide up to a maximum of £250 per applicant.
Applicants must be BSDB members.
The application deadline is 6 weeks prior the start of the relevant BSDB meeting. We aim to inform applicants of the outcome within 2 weeks of the deadline.
To apply please email the meetings secretary Sally Lowell at meetings@bsdb.org with the following information:
* Your name and email address
* Your current place of work (Institution /City /Country)
* Which BSDB meeting you plan to attend
* Title and co-authors for the poster or talk that you will present at the meeting
* Confirmation that you are a member of the BSDB
* A justification for why the support is required (no more than 250 words)
* A breakdown of the costs requested (no more than £250)