Society Developmental Biology Annual Meetings 2012-2014 Conference: July 19-23, 2012 Montreal Canada, 2013 Mexico and 2014 Washington State

自1939年成立以来，发育生物学学会每年都会举行会议，这些会议已成为了解发育生物学最新发现的主要会议。这个为期三年的奖项将支持三次年度会议：在加拿大蒙特利尔（2012年），在墨西哥坎昆（与第17届国际大会联合，2013年），以及在西雅图华盛顿大学（2014年）。这些会议吸引了越来越多的国际听众，特别是现在技术进步提供了跨学科的方法来探索以前未解决的机制。它们涵盖了几个世纪以来让科学家和许多非专业人士着迷的问题：受精卵的基因组是如何指定成年人所有不同的细胞类型和器官的？环境（宏观和微观）对生物体的发育和维持有什么影响？会议是及时的，描述了在遗传、细胞和系统生物学水平上理解发育过程的主要进展。平台上的演讲者（全体会议和同时会议）以及海报的作者讨论了发育生物学的核心主题，并报告了令人兴奋和重要的新进展。传统上，会议还为分享和讨论未发表的数据提供了一个重要的场所。提供必要的培训，因为学生和博士后有充足的机会与同行和高级研究员讨论他们的研究结果。深发展的会议还提供了一个论坛，教育实习科学家和学员与非专业人士交流，特别是在新闻媒体和政界出现的关于进化论教学、人类克隆和干细胞研究的“辩论”等问题上。这一点很重要，因为发育生物学为理解物种的进化和保护提供了一个重要的机会，并为我们星球的福祉及其生物多样性做出了贡献。

The Society for Developmental Biology has held annual meetings since its founding in 1939 and they have become the major conference to attend to learn about the latest findings in developmental biology. This three-year award will support three annual meetings: in Montreal, Canada (2012), in Cancun, Mexico (jointly with the 17th International Congress, 2013), and at the University of Washington, Seattle, (2014). The meetings attract an increasingly international audience, especially now that technological advances provide cross-disciplinary approaches to probe previously unresolved mechanisms. They cover questions that have fascinated scientists as well as many lay people for centuries: How does the genome of a fertilized egg specify all the different cell types and organs in the adult? What are the environmental (macro and micro) effects on the development and maintenance of organisms? The meetings are timely, describing major progress toward understanding developmental processes at the genetic, cellular, and systems biology levels. Speakers at the platform (plenary and concurrent) sessions, as well as authors of posters discuss topics from the core of developmental biology and report on exciting and important new advances. The meetings also traditionally provide an important venue to share and discuss unpublished data. Essential training is provided, as students and postdoctoral fellows have ample opportunity to discuss their results with their peers and with senior investigators. SDB meetings also provide a forum to educate practicing scientists and trainees to communicate with non-specialists, especially in regard to issues such as the "debates" appearing in news media and political circles concerning teaching evolution, human cloning, and stem cell research. This is important because developmental biology represents a significant opportunity for understanding evolution and preservation of species, and for contributing to the well being of our planet and its biodiversity.