Scientific Programme

The Scientific Programme for the conference is currently being finalised, however a draft programme is available to view.

Please click here to view the current draft programme.

Student Symposium

BSCB/BSDB/JSDB Joint Spring meeting Graduate Student Symposium Following the success of the Graduate Student Symposia that have taken place prior to the last 2 Spring meetings, a similar event is planned for the 2012 Spring meeting. This event is organised by the societies Graduate student representatives and provides an opportunity for graduate students who are society members to present their work in a short talk and network with their peers

Workshops

Monday 16th April, 2012 – 12.30-13.30
Panel of Principal Investigators Describing the Do’s and Don’ts and the Many Alternative Routes of an Academic Career Path

Panelists: Denis Duboule, Jim Smith, Liz Robertson, Josh Brickman, Sally Lowell, Claudio Stern, Alan Schafer

The career workshop will be based on a panel of PIs, industrial researchers and consultant scientists at different stages in their career giving their experiences and opinions on a number of topics relevant to developing a career as an academic and/or in industry researcher. Panel members will also provide brief synopses on the path they travelled to get to where they are now.)

The success of this workshop will depend on an active dialogue between the participants and panels members so please come along with lots of questions! It is not destined to be a means of getting all the answers but it is your opportunity to discuss your concerns and to talk to leading scientists about career options and to learn from their experiences and, dare we say, their mistakes too!

Topics:
1) Planning your career: After your Ph.D. – what comes next? How to obtain a suitable postdoc position.
2) Publishing: How important is it for your career? When is your story ready to be published? Which journal to try? Who should be involved in writing the paper?
3) Starting your own lab: where and how? Job application strategies for academic positions:
4) Raising kids while pursuing a career in research.
5) Is life science research changing? Should the next generation of scientists plan to be more multidisciplinary?

Tuesday 17th April 13.00 – 14.00 hours
Lunchtime workshop to be held by Scientific Volume Imaging entitled
Improving image resolution and signal to noise with Huygens deconvolution

Microscopic images are no more than a good representation of the object under investigation. Artifacts like blurring, noise and misaligned lenses all distort the image and affect signal distribution. Fortunately, the most important distortion factor of a system can be captured as the point spread function (PSF), and used to deconvolve the image to create a better estimate of the real object. Using the Huygens software, this workshop focuses on improving image contrast and xyz resolution, and producing more reliable data for visualization, analysis and quantification.

2012 Scientific Organising Committee are as follows:

British Society for Developmental Biology (BSDB)

Kim Dale – Royal Society University Research Fellow Div. Cell & Developmental Biology
College of Life Sciences University of Dundee, Dow Street  Dundee DD1 5EH   

Malcolm Logan – Malcolm Logan Division of Developmental Biology MRC National Institute for Medical Research Mill Hill London

James Briscoe – Division of Developmental Biology,  National Institute for Medical Research

British Society for Cell Biology (BSCB)

Prof Tomoyuki Tanaka - Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression
College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee MSI/WTB/JBC complex, Dow Street
Dundee DD1 5EH, UK

Dr Helfrid Hochegger – Senior Research Fellow Genome Damage And Stability Centre
University of Sussex  

Andrew McAinsh – Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick

Japanese Society for Developmental Biologists (JSDB)

Naoto Ueno - National Institute for Basic Biology 38 Nishigonaka, Myodaiji-cho Okazaki 444-8585, Japan (JSDB)

Atsuko Sehara-Fujisawa, Instituter for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, 53 Kawabata-cho, Shogoin, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan

A special thanks to the following organisations for sponsoring this year's BSCB/BSDB/JSDB Joint Spring Meeting.