11th Latin American Society for Developmental Biology (LASDB) Conference

总结 拉丁美洲发育生物学学会（LASDB）大会是这方面的重大事件。 自2002年以来，该组织每两年在不同国家成功举办一次， 2003.由于大流行病的原因，自2004年在阿根廷布宜诺斯艾利斯举行会议以来， 2019.因此，将于2024年在智利组织的第11届LASDB会议是一个非常特殊和期待已久的会议。 有机会重新连接拉丁美洲社区，汇集了大约300名高度积极的 来自该地区的研究生，博士后和初级科学家，以及在 世界各地的不同国家，讨论该领域的最新进展。本次会议还将 与最近成立的智利发育生物学学会（SBDCh）的成立大会相吻合 以及泛美进化发育生物学学会在拉丁美洲举行的第一次会议 （PASEDB），其目的是整合和帮助开发拉丁美洲的Evo-Devo，拉丁美洲是一个拥有丰富 令人惊奇的，然而，未被充分研究的生物多样性。LASDB的主要目标是促进积极讨论 在高度动态和互动的环境中发展生物学的最新进展，有利于 想法和联网机会的协同作用。为了编制22位杰出的特邀讲者名单， 会议的组织者由一个由顶尖科学家组成的国际科学委员会提供建议 与以前的密切联系，拉丁美洲社区，包括玛丽安布朗纳（加州理工学院，美国），罗伯托 市长伦敦大学学院，伦敦），阿方索马丁内斯阿里亚斯（UPF，西班牙）和卡伦克劳（加州大学圣克鲁斯，美国）。这 委员会关注的是确保发言者名单具有良好的科学质量， 性别、职业阶段、种族/原籍国、主题和模式有机体的良性平衡。大多数发言者 (80%）已经确认参与，其中50%是女性，23%是年轻的PI，27%是拉丁语 美洲，32%来自美国，41%来自欧盟/英国，美国和欧盟/英国中，25%来自拉丁美洲 美国血统共有六个科学会议或专题讨论会将涵盖经典主题和新兴领域， 领域每场会议将有三个邀请演讲者的演讲时间（每个30分钟），三个简短的演讲 (15从提交的摘要中选出五个海报的简短演讲（每个2.5分钟）。

SUMMARY The Congress of the Latin American Society for Developmental Biology (LASDB) is the major event in this discipline in Latin America and has successfully been organized in different countries every two years since 2003. For pandemic reasons, LASDB meetings have not occurred since the one in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2019. Hence, the 11th LASDB meeting, to be organized in Chile in 2024, is a very special and long-awaited opportunity to re-connect the Latin American community by bringing together approximately 300 highly motivated graduate students, postdocs and junior scientists from the region, as well top-notch researchers working in different countries around the world for discussions of the recent advances in the field. This meeting will also coincide with the inaugural meeting of the recently created Chilean Society for Developmental Biology (SBDCh) and with the first meeting in Latin America of the Pan-American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology (PASEDB) whose purpose is to integrate and help develop Evo-Devo in Latin America, a continent rich in amazing, yet, understudied, biological diversity. The main goal of the LASDB is to promote active discussions of the latest advances in Developmental Biology in a highly dynamic and interactive environment, favoring synergies of ideas and networking opportunities. For preparing the list of 22 outstanding invited speakers, the organizers of the meeting were advised by an international Scientific Committee formed by leading scientists with previous close ties to the Latin American community, including Marianne Bronner (Caltech, USA), Roberto Mayor UCL, London), Alfonso Martinez-Arias (UPF, Spain) and Karen Crow (UC Santa Cruz, USA). This committee was concerned with ensuring that the list of speakers was of excellent scientific quality and had a virtuous balance of gender, career stage, ethnicity/country of origin, topic, and model organism. Most speakers (80%) have already confirmed their participation, 50% are women, 23% are young PIs, 27% are based in Latin America, 32% are from the USA and 41% are from the EU/UK, and among the USA and EU/UK 25% are of Latin American origin. A total of six scientific sessions or symposia will cover classic topics and emerging areas in the field. Each session will have time allocated for three talks by invited speakers (30 mins each), three short talks (15 mins each) and five flash-talks from posters (2.5 mins each) selected from submitted abstracts.