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 Registration
and abstract submission
will open in
March for the
73rd Annual SDB Meeting to be held
July 17-21, 2014 at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA. The
5th SDB Boot Camp for
New Faculty will be
held
July 16-17, 2014. Renew
your membership today
for reduced registration
rates, eligibility for
consideration for a
short talk, and
application for travel
awards! The abstract
submission deadline is
April 18
and the early-discounted
meeting registration
deadline is
May 5.
Latin American-Caribbean
Student and Faculty
Scholarship applications
are due
April 18.
Student, postdoc, and
teaching faculty travel
award applications are
due
May 5.
The Society for Developmental Biology website has a
new look. Check it out at
www.sdbonline.org.
Let us know what you think. Feel free to send
comments and suggestions to Marsha Lucas at
[email protected].
The SDB Board of Directors selected the following
recipients for the 2014 SDB Awards. The
presentations and award lectures will take place at the 73rd Annual SDB Meeting in
Seattle, WA.
Edwin G. Conklin Medal:
Richard Harland,
University of California, Berkeley
Developmental Biology-SDB Lifetime Achievement Award:
Christopher Wylie and
Janet Heasman, Cincinnati
Children's Hospital
Viktor Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize:
Larry Bock,
Founder,
USA Science & Engineering Festival
 I
think that one of the scariest parts of being
President of SDB is coming up with topics for these
editorials in the Newsletter. This time, however, I
want to write about an issue that has bothered me
for many years: how people apply for postdoctoral
positions. In my experience most people (around 99%)
apply incorrectly for their postdocs, and I suspect
that many people do not get the postdoc that they
want because of their applications. I’d like to
change that situation. ...
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 The
NSF–funded Choose Development!
summer research training program is seeking mentors
committed to increasing the number of
underrepresented minorities and persons with disabilities entering doctoral programs in pursuit of research careers in developmental biology.
Apply to be an SDB Academic Mentor and host an SDB
Fellow in your lab. Encourage eligible
undergraduates to apply. Deadline for
Mentor and
Fellow applications is
February 14.
Learn more
here.
 The Society for Developmental Biology will
participate in the
3rd USA Science & Engineering
Festival Expo to be held April 26-27 in
Washington, DC with a special sneak peak event on
Friday, April 25. Volunteers are need for our
"Developmental Changes Form All Creatures"
exhibit which will feature developing fish and frog embryos,
and an exercise on plant evolution. Visit the
SDB
website or contact Marsha Lucas at
[email protected] for more information on this outreach
opportunity for sharing developmental biology with
the masses.
Seven SDB regional meetings will be held throughout
the US this year (six this spring and one in the
fall). Regional
meetings are an excellent opportunity for students
and postdocs to present their research and give
short talks. See
upcoming events below for meeting dates and
locations.
SDB is now accepting nominations for
President-elect, Treasurer, and
Representatives for the Northeast, Midwest, and
Southwest regions. Go
here for nomination
details. Deadline is
February 28, 2014.
Applications are being accepted for the 2014
Embryology Course at the Marine Biological
Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
The 6-week course accepts 24 students from around
the world. Course directors
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado and
Richard Behringer
strongly encourage outstanding graduate students and
postdoctoral fellows to apply. Deadline is
February 7, 2014.
Learn more
here.
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SDB
73rd Annual Meeting, July
17-21, 2014, University of Washington, Seattle,
WA.
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2014 SDB Southwest Regional Meeting,
March 6-8, 2014, University of Colorado-Denver, Aurora, CO
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7th Canadian Developmental Biology Meeting,
March 17-20, 2014, Le Grand Lodge, Mont-Tremblant, Quebec
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2014 SDB Northwest Regional Meeting,
March 19-22, 2014, Friday Harbor Laboratories,
San Juan Island, WA
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2014 SDB Northeast Regional Meeting,
April 11-13, 2014, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
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2014 SDB Southeast Regional Meeting,
May 16-18, 2014, Callaway Gardens, Pine Mountain, GA
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2014 SDB Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting,
May 30-31, 2014, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
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2014 SDB Midwest Regional Meeting,
October 16-18,2014, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO
more meetings
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: May 31, 2014.
- 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: May 31,
2014.
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