SEB Brighton 2016

SEB's 2016 Annual Meeting and Egg Satellite Meeting took place at the Brighton Centre on 3-7 July 2016. An archive of the conference programmes, abstracts presented at the conferences, plenary lecturers and prize winners are available on this page:

An integrative biology of the egg: From the shell's structure to the physiology within

Programme and abstracts

Egg Satellite meeting conference programme

SEB Brighton 2016

Plenary Lecturers

Bidder Lecture: Tribute to Prof Roger Wooledge' - Prof Chris Barclay (Griffith University, Australia), Prof Di Newham (King’s College London, UK) and Prof Nancy Curtin (Imperial College London, UK)

Woolhouse Lecture: 'Understanding Kranz Anatomy in Maize with a View to Engineering C₄ Rice' - Prof Jane Langdale (University of Oxford, UK)

Cell Biology Plenary Lecture: 'Synthetic biology: Life redesigned' - Prof James Collins (Harvard University, United States)

President's Medallists and prize winners

The SEB would like to congratulate the following President's medallists and prize winners:

President's Medallists

Animal Section: Dr Carol Bucking (York University, United States)
Cell Section: Dr Oliver Castell (Cardiff University, UK)
Plant Section: Dr Matt Johnson (University of Sheffield, UK)
SEB+: Dr Jodie Rummer (James Cook University, Australia)

YSAS winners

Animal-Cell
Joint winners: Miss Lauren Nadler (James Cook University, Australia) and Dr Cosima Porteus (University of Exeter, UK)
Runner up: Mr Andrew Wood (CSIRO, Australia)

Plant-Cell
Winner: Miss Jordan Brown (University of Sheffield, UK)
Runners up: Mr Hayoto Hiraki (Iwate University, Japan) and Mrs Aakriti Wanchoo-Kohli (Rothamsted Research, UK)

Irene Manton prize winners

Animal Section: Mr Benedict Chivers (University of Lincoln, UK)
Cell Section: Miss Kelly Atkins (University of Bristol, UK)
Plant Section: Miss Amy Jacobsen (Durham University, UK)
SEB+: Mr Dominic Henry (University of Hull, UK)