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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. 
 
                                
								SDB 
								72nd Annual Meeting/17th International Congress 
								of Developmental Biology, June 
								16-23, 2013, Cancun, Mexico
								
								2013 SDB Southwest Regional Meeting, 
								February 15-16, 2013, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
								
								2013 SDB West Coast Regional Meeting, 
								March 14-17, 2013, Cambria Pines Lodge, Cambria, CA
								
								2013 SDB Northwest Regional Meeting, 
								March 20-23, Friday Harbor Labs, University of Washington, San Juan Island, WA
								
								2013 SDB Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting, 
								April 19-21, 2013, College of William & Mary, 
								Williamsburg, VA
								
								2013 SDB Northeast Regional Meeting, 
								April 19-21, 2013, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
								
								2013 SDB Southeast Regional Meeting, 
								May 13-15, 2013, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
								
								2013 SDB Midwest Regional Meeting, 
								September 26-28, 2013, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 
							
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							Did you know?
                                
								SDB members can apply for 
								non-SDB meeting grants to fund 
								member-organized conferences central to 
								developmental biology.  Deadline: December 
								1, 2012.
								SDB members are eligible for travel awards 
								through the 
								FASEB MARC Program.  
								
								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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