# Society for Developmental Biology Annual Meetings 2019-2023

> **NIH NIH R13** · SOCIETY FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY · 2021 · $20,000

## Abstract

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
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## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10201701
- **Project number:** 5R13HD100133-03
- **Recipient organization:** SOCIETY FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
- **Principal Investigator:** LILIANNA SOLNICAKREZEL
- **Activity code:** R13 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $20,000
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2019-07-15 → 2024-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10201701

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10201701, Society for Developmental Biology Annual Meetings 2019-2023 (5R13HD100133-03). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10201701. Licensed CC0.

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