About us
The French Society of Developmental Biology (SFBD) is a learned society that has gathered, for more than 50 years, researchers working on developmental biology on animal and plant species.
700+ members
20 French cities, 8 countries abroad
13 model organisms (animals and plants)
The SFBD
The French Society of Developmental Biology is a non-profit association. Its goal is to promote research in embryology and post-embryonic development, growth, differentiation, regeneration, teratology and genetics on all multicellular organisms using any kind of methology.
The SFBD promotes the sharing of ideas and ressources within the French Developmental Biology community. Each year, we organize a meeting in France. We also support the organization of devbio events (meetings, workshops) in France on various models.
The SFBD has a lot of actions dedicated to promote early career researchers. Registration fees to SFBD meetings are relatively low, allowing early career researchers to take part at moderate cost. We have been offering, for a few years now, travelling grants dedicated specifically to PhD students at the end of their projects and to post-doctoral researchers. Every year, the Society awards a prize for the best PhD Thesis in the field of Developmental Biology.
The SFBD edits a bi-annual letter that contains information likely to be of interest to the community. Previous letters can be found on our here.
All members of the society can submit news and job adverts that will be published on the website.
The SFBD Board
The SFBD Board is elected by the Society members for three years and can be reelected once.
Allison BARDIN
(2021, 1st term)
Bénédicte CHARRIER
(2020, 2nd term)
Claire CHAZAUD
(2021, 2nd term)
Claudio COLLINET
(2025, 1st term)
Yoan COUDERT
(2021, 2nd term)
Pascale DUFOURCQ
(2022, 1st term)
Mélanie GRACIA
(2023, 1st term)
Nikos KONSTANTINIDES
(2025, 1st term)
Mounia LAGHA
(2024, 1st term)
Laure MANCINI
(2025, 1st term)
Jean-Léon MAÎTRE
(2023, 1st term)
Vincent MIROUSE
(2024, 1st term)
Mathilde PARIS
(2023, 1st term)
Eric THEVENEAU
(2023, 1st term)
Antoine ZALC
(2025, 1st term)
Project managers
Eglantine HEUDE
(Outreach)
Maëva LUXEY
(Outreach)
Bénédicte LEFEVRE
(Outreach)
Previous board members
Margaret Buckingham (2 terms, 2006-2011)
Alain Vincent (2 terms, 2009-2014)
Stéphane Zaffran (2 terms, 2009-2014)
Angela Giangrande (2 terms, 2010-2015)
Laurent Kodjabachian (2 terms, 2011-2016)
Laurent Fasano (2 terms, 2011-2016)
Pascal de Santa Barbara (2 terms, 2011-2016)
Krzysztof Jagla (2 terms, 2012-2017)
Laure Bally-Cuif (2 terms, 2013-2018)
Pascale Gilardi-Hebenstreit (2 terms, 2013-2018)
Isabelle Le Roux (2 terms, 2013-2018)
Pascal Dollé (1 term, 2016-2018)
Sophie Bel -Vialar (2 terms, 2014-2019)
François Parcy (1 term, 2017-2019)
Michèle Studer (2 terms, 2015-2020)
Patrick Lemaire (2 terms, 2015-2020)
Samir Merabet (2 terms, 2015-2020)
Alice Davy (1 term, 2019-2021)
François Agnès (1 term, 2020-2022)
Sophie Jarriault (1 term, 2020-2022)
Delphine Duprez (2 terms, 2018-2023)
Aude Maugarny (2 terms, 2018-2023)
Marie-Ange Bonnin (2 terms, 2019-2024)
Glenda Comai (2 terms, 2019-2024)
Andrea Pasini (2 terms, 2019-2024)
Julien Vermot (2 terms, 2019-2024)
Do you want to get involved and serve the French community of developmental biologists? Become a candidate to join the SFBD board. Contact us.
The bureau
The bureau is elected each year by the board.
Claire CHAZAUD
President
Mounia LAGHA
Vice president
Jean-Léon MAÎTRE
Secretary general
Marie-Ange BONNIN
Treasurer general
Previous bureau members
Delphine DUPREZ (President, 2018-2023)
Margaret Buckingham (President, 2008-2011)
Alain Vincent (Vice-President 2009-2011 then President 2012-2014)
Krzysztof Jagla (Vice-President 2012-2014 then Président 2015-2017)
Pascal de Santa Barbara (Tresurer 2013-2015)
Stéphane Zaffran (General Secretary 2013-2014)
Isabelle Le Roux (General Secretary 2015-2018)
Sophie Bel -Vialar (Tresurer 2016-2019)
Patrick Lemaire (Vice-President 2015-2017, then Président 2018-2020)
The SFBD on Twitter
Liste de diffusion Biodevfr
Subscribe to the biodevfr mailing list created and managed by the French Society for Developmental Biology !
This mailing list allows to share information in french and english within the community (biodev meetings, workshops, job and internship adverts… ).
Signed Charters
Here some of our latests actions and support to the community.
Charter to gender-neutral public communication
Guide from the High Council for Equality between Women and Men (in French)
The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) recognizes the need to improve the ways in which the outputs of scholarly research are evaluated
