Travel Awardees

ISD Travel Award Program

ISD supports students and post doc researchers by offering travel awards to ISD members presenting at conferences both sponsored by ISD and toother events related to cell and developmental biology.

Learn more about the ISD Researcher Travel Award program.

2025 ISD Sponsored Conference

Indian Society of Developmental Biologists (InSDB)

ISD provided 119 travel awards to student and post docs presenting their research at the joint   ISD-InSDB 2025 conference held December 14-17, 2025 at IISER-Berhampur, India.

2024 ISD Sponsored Conferences

Chilean Society for Developmental Biology

ISD provided travel awards to students and postdoc to support their attendance at the inaugural meeting of the Chilean Society for Developmental Biology took place December 13-15, 2024.

Latin American Developmental Biology Conference

ISD provided travel support to students/post-docs attending the ISD co-sponsored conference, the 2024 Latin American Developmental Biology Conference, March 17-20, 2024 in Valparaiso Chile. The long-awaited Latin American Developmental Biology Conference (LADBC) brought together an interdisciplinary group of researchers with a shared focus on emerging issues in developmental biology, and was a shared effort between ISD and the Latin American Society for Developmental Biology, the Pan American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology, and the Chilean Society for Developmental Biology.

2023 Travel Awardees

When ISD does not sponsor a conference, travel awards are available to student and early-career ISD members presenting developmental biology research at other conferences worldwide.

David Paz, University of Texas, El Paso
Society of Developmental Biology (July 20-24, 2023, Chicago, IL U.S.A.)
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Cash Kumar, Banaras Hindu University, India
Society of Developmental Biology (July 20-24, 2023, Chicago, IL U.S.A.)
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Daniela Di Bella, Harvard University, U.S.A.
EMBO Workshop: Gene regulatory mechanisms in neural fate decisions (Sept 7-10, 2023, Alicante, Spain)
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Viraj Doddihal, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, U.S.A.
Unconventional and Emerging Experimental Organisms in Cell and Developmental Biology organized by The Company of Biologists (Sept 17-20, 2023 in Wotton House, Surrey, United Kingdom)
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Bahareh Estiri, University of Galway, Ireland
European Developmental Biology Conference (September 25-28, 2023, Keble College, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Harriet Sharp, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Biochemical Society RNA Granules 2023 (October 9-11, 2023, De Vere Horsley Estate, Surrey, United Kingdom)
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Bethany Barnes, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
The Notch Meeting XI (October 6-10, 2023, Athens, Greece)
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Sukanya Raman, National Centre for Biological Sciences, India
The Company of Biologists' Workshop: Single Cell View 3D Genome Architecture (November 26-29, 2023, East Sussex, United Kingdom)
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