Society for Developmental Biology Annual Meetings 2019-2023

项目摘要 发育生物学学会（SDB）成立于1939年，将庆祝其 2019年80周年。它从最初的300名会员发展到今天的 全世界有2 200多名成员，是致力于这一领域的最大成员。其成员包括 本科生和研究生，博士后研究员，初级和成熟的研究人员， 他们中的许多人拥有国家卫生研究院的赠款和奖学金。协会组织了一次重要会议， 在过去的80年里，发育生物学（在第二次世界大战期间缺失了两个）。以来 年会的形式从单一主题的专题讨论会转变为开放、包容的 自1993年举行会议以来，与会者人数增加了三倍多（从1994年的236人增加到1994年的236人）。 在过去的15年中平均为740人）。包括前沿主题和新兴领域 发展生物学，如干细胞和再生生物学，以及快速 技术进步使调查人员能够找到对未回答问题的解释， 在此之前也有助于这种增长出席，以及发展的地位， 生物医学研究和公共利益的今天。发育生物学家利用 在成像和基因组学方面的创新，以促进对胚胎发生的理解， 器官发生和干细胞生物学与出生缺陷、精确性和再生 药此外，通过允许本科生和研究生的演讲， 博士后研究员，会议也是下一代科学家的训练场， 这和相关的主题：既要介绍他们的研究，并满足未来的顾问，导师 和合作者。该提案要求提供资金，以部分支持该协会的年度 未来五年（2019-2023年）。拟议的会议将延续传统， 混合海报介绍，全体会议，同时举行的专题讨论会，希尔德曼戈尔德 博士后研讨会，颁奖讲座，教育研讨会和新的研讨会 技术、教育和当前问题。在所有会议上，都特别努力使 受邀演讲者在以下方面的多样性：模式生物，实验方法， 演讲者所在机构的地理位置、职业阶段、性别和种族/族裔 背景除了邀请演讲者进行较长时间的演讲外，研讨会还包括简短的， 从提交的论文中选择摘要的海报预告片谈话时段，优先考虑 合格的初级调查员教育研讨会和讲习班的重点是以下主题， 在大学和大学预科阶段实施有效的教学和辅导战略， 非专业人士、专业发展、解决当前问题（如骚扰）的会议， 多样性和包容性。它们还涉及研究的生物伦理问题，这与以下方面高度相关： 制定关于干细胞、克隆和基因组编辑研究的国家政策， 公众对科学过程和进化的理解。

PROJECT SUMMARY The Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) was founded in 1939 and will be celebrating its 80th anniversary in 2019. It grew from an initially restricted membership society of 300 to today’s over 2,200 members worldwide, the largest devoted to this field. Its membership now includes undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, junior and established investigators, many of whom hold NIH grants and fellowships. The Society has organized the major meeting in developmental biology for the past 80 years (missing two during World War II). Since the annual meeting changed its format from a single theme symposium to an open, inclusive meeting in 1993, the number of participants has grown over three-fold (from 236 in 1994 to an average of 740 in the last 15 years). The inclusion of cutting edge themes and burgeoning areas of developmental biology such as stem cell and regenerative biology, together with the fast technical advances that allowed investigators to find explanations to questions unanswered before also contributed to this growth in attendance, as well as to standing of developmental biology today in biomedical research and public interest. Developmental biologists leverage innovations in imaging and genomics to advance understanding of embryogenesis, organogenesis and stem cell biology with relevance to birth defects, precision and regenerative medicine. In addition, by allowing presentations by undergraduate and graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows, the meeting is also a training ground for the next generation of scientists in this and related subjects: both to present their research and to meet future advisors, mentors and collaborators. This proposal requests funds for partial support of the Society’s annual meetings for the next five years (2019-2023). The proposed meetings will continue the tradition of mixing poster presentations, plenary sessions, concurrent symposia, the Hilde Mangold Postdoctoral Symposium, the awards lectures, an education symposium and workshops on new technologies, education and current issues. In all sessions, a special effort is made to have a diversity of invited speakers in terms of: model organisms, experimental approaches, geographical location of the speakers’ institutions, their career stages, gender and racial/ethnic background. In addition to longer talks by invited speakers, the symposia include short and poster-teaser talk slots for abstracts selected from submissions, with preference given to qualified junior investigators. The education symposium and workshops focus on topics such as effective teaching and mentoring strategies at university and pre-college levels, outreach to the lay public, professional development, sessions to address current issues such as harassment, diversity and inclusion. They also address bioethics of research, which is highly relevant to establishing national policies for research on stem cells, cloning and genome editing, as well as public understanding of the scientific process and evolution.