Int. J. Dev. Biol. 65: 457 - 464 (2021)

https://doi.org/10.1387/ijdb.210005rb

Vol 65, Issue 7-8-9

Virtual meeting, real and sound science: report of the 17^th Meeting of the Spanish Society for Developmental Biology (SEBD-2020)

Open Access | Meeting Report | Published: 22 January 2021

Sofia J. Araújo*^,1,2, Isabel Almudi³, Laura Bozal-Basterra⁴, Fernando Casares³, Sergio Casas-Tintó⁵, Augusto Escalante⁶, Fernando García-Moreno^7,8, María Losada-Pérez⁵, Ignacio Maeso³, Luciano Marcon³, Oscar H. Ocaña⁹, Olatz Pampliega⁷, Álvaro Rada-Iglesias¹⁰, Teresa Rayon¹¹, James Sharpe^12,13,14, James D. Sutherland⁴, Cristina Villa del Campo⁹ and Rosa Barrio*^,4

¹Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics, and Institute of Biomedicine (IBUB), School of Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ²Institute of Biomedicine, University of Barcelona (IBUB), Barcelona, Spain, ³The CABD (CSIC-UPO-JA), Seville, Spain, ⁴Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (CIC bioGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Bizkaia Technology Park, Derio, Spain, ⁵Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Neurobiology Department, Instituto Cajal-CSIC, Madrid, Spain, ⁶Institute of Neurosciences, CSIC-Universidad Miguel Hernández, Campus de San Juan, Alicante, Spain, ⁷Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience, Scientific Park of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Spain and Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine and Nursing, UPV/EHU, Leioa, Bizkaia, Spain, ⁸IKERBASQUE Foundation, Bilbao, Spain, ⁹Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁰Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology of Cantabria (IBBTEC), CSIC-University of Cantabria-Sociedad para el Desarrollo de Cantabria, Santander, Spain, ¹¹The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK, ¹²European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ¹³Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona, Spain and ¹⁴Institucio' Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain.

Abstract

The Spanish Society for Developmental Biology (SEBD) organized its 17th meeting in November 2020 (herein referred to as SEBD2020). This meeting, originally programmed to take place in the city of Bilbao, was forced onto an online format due to the SARS-CoV2, COVID-19 pandemic. Although, we missed the live personal interactions and missed out on the Bilbao social scene, we were able to meet online to present our work and discuss our latest results. An overview of the activities that took place around the meeting, the different scientific sessions and the speakers involved are presented here. The pros and cons of virtual meetings are discussed.

Keywords

Developmental Biology, virtual meeting, Spanish Society for Developmental Biology, SEBD, scientific society, meeting, preprint, growth, self-organization, neurodevelopment, genome, Cell Biology, disease, evo-devo