BSDB Autumn meeting-registration deadline extended until 28 May 2012
Our next meeting will be the 2012 Autumn Conference 2-6 September 2012
The 2012 Autumn Conference, co-sponsored with EMBO, is the Molecular and Cellular Basis of Regeneration and Tissue Repair to be held at St Catherine’s College, Oxford 2-6 September 2012.
There will be a £50 discount on the registration fee for BSDB members.
BSDB travel grants are available for this meeting.
The Registration deadline has now been extended until 28th May 2012
2012 Spring Conference
The 2012 Spring Conference is a joint meeting of the British Society for Cell Biology, the British Society for Developmental Biology and the Japanese Society for Developmental Biologists and will take place at Warwick University, from 15-18 April 2012. 
The meeting features a series of plenary and parallel sessions, with an outstanding line up of speakers from around the world. There are three highlight prize lectures –the Hooke Medal Lecture (BSCB), Waddington Medal Lecture (BSDB and the Beddington prize lecture (best PhD student) as well as poster sessions and social events.
Find out more about the speakers, the programme and how to register on the 2012 Conference website or download a PDF of the meeting poster.
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The annual spring symposium is a major meeting in the international calendar. It covers a broad range of topics in developmental biology and is often held jointly with the British Society for Cell Biology (BSCB) or the Genetics Society. Attendance is usually 400-500 delegates. The format usually includes:
- Four or five sessions of research talks
- Sessions on other topics of interest to UK developmental biologists (e.g. funding, careers)
- Waddington Medal Lecture
- Beddington Medal Lecture
- Poster sessions with prizes for the best poster
- The BSDB AGM, including elections of new committee members
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A new website for the BSDB
Those who’ve visited the website before will notice that we have launched a new website. We hope you like the improvements we’ve made, but welcome any feedback on how we can improve it further. You can also find us on Twitter and Facebook or collect our RSS feed.
Please let us know what you think of the new website – you can email comms@bsdb.org or post on our Facebook wall or Twitter feed.
BSDB Newsletter – Summer 2011
The Summer 2011 issue of the BSDB Newsletter (PDF, 19 pages) is now available to download. 
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