Local Organizer: José Xavier-Neto, M.D., Ph.D. Heart Institute. Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Chair: Ruth Lehmann, Ph.D. Skirball Inst.of Biomolec. Med./New York Univ., USA. SDB 2002-2003 President
Organizer SDB: Ida Chow, Ph.D., Executive Officer, SDB, Bethesda, USA
Organizer LASDB: Roberto Mayor, Ph.D. Department of Anatomy & Developmental Biology, University College London, Millennium Nucleus in Developmental Biology, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. LASDB President
Maria de Nazare: Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi
Richard Behringer: Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, and Department of Molecular Genetics,University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX.
Carlos Roberto Ferreira Brandão: Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
Marianne Bronner- Fraser: Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.
Wellington Cardoso: Pulmonary Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA.
Ida Chow: Society for Developmental Biology, Bethesda, MD.
Miguel Concha: Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Brad Davidson: Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Division of Genetics and Development, Center for Integrative Genomics, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
Eugênia del Pino: Departamento de Ciencias Biologicas, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.
Emmanuel Dias Neto: Departamento de Bioquimica, Universidade de S
Scott Fraser: Biological Imaging Center, Beckman Institute and Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.
Scott Gilbert: Department of Biology, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA.
Klaus Hartfelder:
Tatiana Hochgreb: Universidade de Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
Linda Holland: Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA.
Alejandra Jaramillo: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Ruth Lehmann:
Roberto Mayor: Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Nadia Monesi: Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Universidade de São Paulo-Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
Alejandro Montaberry: (INGEBI-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Eric Moss: Department of Molecular Biology, UMDNJ, Stratford, NJ.
Nipam H Patel:
Nadia Rosenthal: Mouse Biology Program, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Monterotondo-Scalo, Italy.
Didier Y Stainier: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Programs in Developmental Biology, Genetics and Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, CA.
Gerald H Thomsen: Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology Center for Molecular Medicine, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY.
Michelle Vasconcelos: Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil.
Luiz Violin: Departamento de Histologia e Embriologia, Instituto de Biologia Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brazil.
José Xavier Neto: Heart Institute, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.