The 10th Annual Program in Developmental Biology Scientific Retreat was held on Friday and Saturday, September 22-23, 2006 at Paris Landing State Park.  Although the weather was less then optimal the 16 oral and 57 poster presentations were anything but!  We were also fortunate to have two outstanding keynote speakers:

• Richard Behringer, Ph.D. (Professor of Molecular Genetics at MD. Anderson Cancer Center) who spoke about "Genetic mechanisms of morphological diversity between species"
• Guillermo Oliver, Ph.D. (Genetics & Tumor Cell Biology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) who spoke about "Homeobox genes in vertebrate organogenesis"

Congratulations go out to all of our 2006 presenters, with a special acknowledgment to the following attendees:

• Miriam Dillard (Best Poster by a Research Assistant)
• Lauren Beihoffer (Best Poster by a Research Assistant)
• Xin Geng (Best Poster by a Postdoctoral Fellow)
• Nathan Mundell (Best Poster by a Graduate Student)
• Ron Chandler (Best Poster by a Graduate Student)
• Russell McConnell (Best Poster by a Graduate Student)
• Michelle Self (Best Poster by a Graduate Student)
• Jessica Rivera (Best Talk by a Graduate Student)
• Sarah Kucenas (Best Talk by a Postdoctoral Fellow)

All 2006 speakers and topics are listed on the Retreat X Schedule.