SDB 66th Annual Meeting/1st Pan American Cong Dev Biol, Cancun, Mexico, June 16-20, 2007

发育生物学学会(SDB)自1939年成立以来一直在组织年度会议，在第二次世界大战期间只缺席了两次。这些会议一直被认为是展示发育生物学领域最新发现的世界性重大事件。2007年，SDB将与拉丁美洲发育生物学学会和墨西哥生物学会一起，在墨西哥坎昆的Gran Melia酒店举办首届泛美发育生物学大会。经过康体发展局多年来的推广和合作，以增进对本半球该领域的了解和研究，现在召开第一次大会的时机已经成熟。被邀请的43位演讲者将在三次全体会议和六次并行会议上报告他们最令人兴奋的发现，涵盖从植物和动物胚胎的早期发育到神经系统模式和生殖的主题。从提交的摘要中挑选了另外40名发言者，其中大部分是初级研究员，供同时举行的会议和博士后专题讨论会上的简短演讲。所有其他注册者将在张贴过程中展示他们的最新结果。由于教育是SDB使命中的一个主要重点，该计划包括一个关于传播科学而不使用行话的研讨会，以及关于撰写科学论文、选择最合适的博士后培训和资助机会的研讨会。代表不足的少数民族学生、博士后研究员以及主要来自教学部门或本科院校的教职员工将获得旅行援助，以便在会议上提交他们的论文。首届泛美大会沿袭了SDB年会的传统，为与会者提供了一个合作的氛围，不仅可以传播他们的新科学发现，还可以打造未来的培训或合作。

The Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) has been organizing annual meetings since its foundation in 1939, missing only two during the WW II. These meetings have always been considered the major worldwide event where the latest discoveries in the field of developmental biology are presented. In 2007, together with the Latin American Society for Developmental Biology and the Sociedad Mexicana de Biologia del Desarrollo, SDB will organize the First Pan American Congress in Developmental Biology at Gran Melia Hotel, Cancun, Mexico. The time is now ripe to hold this first congress after many years of SDB's outreach and collaboration to enhance the understanding and research in the field in this hemisphere. The 43 invited speakers will report their most exciting findings in three plenary and six concurrent sessions, covering topics from early development of the plant and animal embryo to patterning of the nervous system and reproduction. Forty additional speakers, mostly junior investigators, have been chosen from submitted abstracts for short talks in the concurrent sessions and the postdoctoral symposium. All other registrants will present their recent results in poster sessions. Since education is a major emphasis in SDB's mission, a symposium on communicating science without the jargon, workshops on writing a scientific paper, on choosing of the most appropriate postdoctoral training and on funding opportunities are included in the program. Underrepresented minority students, postdoctoral fellows, as well as faculty from primarily teaching departments or undergraduate institutions will receive travel assistance to present their papers at the meeting. This First Pan American Congress follows SDB annual meetings' tradition to provide a collegial atmosphere for the participants to not only disseminate their new scientific findings, but also to forge future trainings or collaborations.