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Welcome Message from SDB President Helen McNeill
I am truly honored to serve as the president of the Society for Developmental Biology. My primary responsibility as president is to organize the SDB annual meeting next year, and I am filled with enthusiasm for our community after the great SDB 2026 meeting in Las Vegas.
Report from the Society for Developmental Biology 85th Annual Meeting
The 85th annual meeting of the Society of Developmental Biology met in Las Vegas, Nevada to enjoy the mild weather of late July - highs of 115°F/48°C and summer nights close to 100°F/38°C. As I settled in for the first session of the week, I overheard a concise summary of the experience of arriving in Vegas: "Why does it have to be so bright and loud?"
Nicholas Desnoyer Makes Science Communication Bloom
People love flowers. They have them in their homes and visit gardens to admire their colors and scents. For Nicholas Desnoyer, a postdoctoral researcher at the Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich, UK, this universal appeal is a powerful tool to spark curiosity about the development of living organisms. His science communication project, OpenFlower, creates novel designer flowers and plant development films for education and art.
Boosting Developmental Biology in Latin America: The Legacy of Roberto Mayor
After finishing a postdoctoral fellowship in the United Kingdom, Roberto Mayor returned to his home country, Chile, to start his own research group. During his postdoctoral studies, he identified, for the first time, genes that mark the neural crest and was excited to continue this work.
Interview with Jeffrey Farrell, 2026 Elizabeth D. Hay New Investigator Award Winner
The Elizabeth D. Hay New Investigator Award honors early career investigators—those at the pre-tenure assistant professor rank at the time of their nomination—performing outstanding and expansively impactful research in developmental biology. This year’s recipient is Jeffrey Farrell, who since 2020 has served as an Earl Stadtman Investigator in the Unit on Cell Specification and Differentiation at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development ...
Alexandra Joyner Awarded 2026 Society for Developmental Biology Lifetime Achievement Award
Alexandra Joyner is the recipient of the 2026 Society for Developmental Biology Lifetime Achievement Award. She was surprised and honored to hear the news from SDB president Richard Behringer. Joyner helped to create the foundation of mouse genetics and in 1983 published one of the first textbooks on manipulating the mouse genome...
Lee Niswander awarded 2026 Edwin G. Conklin Medal
Lee Niswander was named the 2026 recipient of the Edwin G. Conklin Medal. A distinguished professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Colorado Boulder, she joins a group of researchers recognized for their exceptional contributions to developmental biology and their dedication to training the next generation of scientists.
Congress must stop the politicization of peer review and American science
Op-Ed by Carole LaBonne
For generations, the U.S. has led the world in scientific discovery because federal research grants are judged primarily by scientists, not by politicians. That principle is now in jeopardy.
Developmental Biology
Developmental Biology, the official journal of the Society for Developmental Biology, publishes original research on mechanisms of development, differentiation, and growth in animals and plants at the molecular, cellular, genetic and evolutionary levels.
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WIREs Mechanisms of Disease
WIREs Developmental Biology, previously published in association with the Society for Developmental Biology, has merged into WIREs Mechanisms of Disease. All SDB members can access WIREs Mechanisms of Disease articles for free by signing in to their SDB Membership Portal.
