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Mark your calendar for the
72nd Annual SDB Meeting to be held
June 16-20, 2013 in Cancun, Mexico in conjunction with the 17th
International Congress of Developmental Biology!
Don't miss the
2013 SDB Regional Meetings
schedule below!
 In an effort to increase the number of underrepresented minorities (URM) and persons with disabilities entering doctoral programs in pursuit of research careers in developmental biology, the Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) has launched a new three-year National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded project called CHOOSE DEVELOPMENT!
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 The Society for Developmental Biology participated
in the 2nd New Jersey Science & Engineering Festival
held October 13-14, 2012 in Clifton, New Jersey. The
festival, about forty five minutes outside of New
York City, attracted many students, parents, and
science educators from the community.
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The Embryology Course at the Marine Biological
Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts is the
premier comprehensive lecture and laboratory course
in animal developmental biology.
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Nominations for the 2013
SDB Awards are now being
accepted.
Deadline for receipt of all nominations:
December 10, 2012.
We invite submission of proposals for Satellite
Symposia for the SDB 2013 Annual Meeting to be held
jointly with the 17th International Congress of Developmental Biology, in Cancun, Mexico, June 15, 2013. See guidelines
here.
Deadline for receipt of all proposals:
November 5, 2012.
 The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was
awarded to
John Gurdon (Gurdon
Institute, UK), the 2001 Conklin Medal winner, and
Shinya Yamanaka
(Kyoto University, Japan) "for the discovery that mature cells
can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent."
 Former SDB President and SDB Lifetime Achievement Award
winner,
Donald Brown
(Carnegie Institution), and
Tom Maniatis (Columbia
University) were awarded the Lasker-Koshland Special
Achievement Award in Medical Science for
their contributions to understanding the nature of
genes and for their exceptional leadership and
citizenship in biomedical science.
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SDB
72nd Annual Meeting/17th International Congress
of Developmental Biology, June
16-23, 2013, Cancun, Mexico
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2013 SDB Southwest Regional Meeting,
February 15-16, 2013, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
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2013 SDB West Coast Regional Meeting,
March 14-17, 2013, Cambria Pines Lodge, Cambria, CA
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2013 SDB Northwest Regional Meeting,
March 20-23, Friday Harbor Labs, University of Washington, San Juan Island, WA
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2013 SDB Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting,
April 19-21, 2013, College of William & Mary,
Williamsburg, VA
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2013 SDB Northeast Regional Meeting,
April 19-21, 2013, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
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2013 SDB Southeast Regional Meeting,
May 13-15, 2013, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
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2013 SDB Midwest Regional Meeting,
September 26-28, 2013, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
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Did you know?
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SDB members can apply for
non-SDB meeting grants to fund
member-organized conferences central to
developmental biology. Deadline: December
1, 2012.
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SDB members are eligible for travel awards
through the
FASEB MARC Program.
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SDB will provide travel assistance for Latin
American investigators to visit a
host lab in the US or Canada to learn new
techniques or approaches in developmental
biology with the
SDB Latin American Short Visit Grant.
Proposal deadline: December 1,
2012.
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