The Southeast Regional Society of Developmental Biology will hold its next meeting at the Scarritt Bennett Center and Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday, May 13 through Wednesday, May 15, 2013. The Scarritt Bennett Center is conveniently located next to Vanderbilt's main campus. Important meeeting dates to remember are:

Abstract Submission Deadline: March 29, 2013
Early Registration Deadline: March 31, 2013
SDB Membership Application Deadline: March 31, 2013
Late Registration Deadline: April 15, 2013
(can attend only, cannot present)

The meeting will be hosted by members of Vanderbilt University's Program in Developmental Biology. They have planned an exciting, interactive meeting and hope that you will make plans to join them in May for what promises to be three terrific days of developmental biology!

Highlights of the meeting include:

• Keynote speakers Frank Costantini, Ph.D. and Lynn Riddiford, Ph.D.
• Platform talks by regional developmental biologists
• Additional selected platform speakers
• An educational session focused on encouraging URM participation in the sciences
• Two poster sessions
• Vendor exhibits
• Poster and talk awards

This meeting provides a tremendous opportunity for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty to interact with each other in a relaxed environment while highlighting the growing size and strength of the developmental biology community here in the Southeast.