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.
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-1 François Agnes, conseil d'administration SFBD 2020](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_150,h_189/https://sfbd.fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Allison-1-150x189.png)
Allison BARDIN
(2021, 1st term)
![Marie-Ange_BONNIN Marie-Ange Bonnin](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_150,h_189/https://sfbd.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Marie-Ange_BONNIN-150x189.jpg)
Marie-Ange BONNIN
(2019, 2nd term)
![Photo_Bio_Charrier_300dpi Bénédicte Charrier, élue en 2020 au CA de la société française de biologie du développement](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_150,h_189/https://sfbd.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Photo_Bio_Charrier_300dpi-e1578515421444-150x189.jpg)
Bénédicte CHARRIER
(2020, 2nd term)
![Claire-1 Claire CHAZAUD, membre du conseil d'administration SFBD 2021](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_150,h_189/https://sfbd.fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Claire-1-150x189.png)
Claire CHAZAUD
(2021, 2nd term)
![Glenda_COMAI Glenda Comai, responsable du site web de la SFBD](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_150,h_189/https://sfbd.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Glenda_COMAI-150x189.jpg)
Glenda COMAI
(2019, 2nd term)
![Yoan-1 Yoan COUDERT, membre du conseil d'administration SFBD 2021](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_150,h_189/https://sfbd.fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Yoan-1-150x189.png)
Yoan COUDERT
(2021, 2nd term)
![Dufourcq Dufourcq](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_150,h_189/https://sfbd.fr/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Dufourcq-150x189.jpg)
Pascale DUFOURCQ
(2022, 1st term)
![GRACIA_Mélanie GRACIA_Mélanie](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_150,h_189/https://sfbd.fr/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/GRACIA_Mélanie-scaled-150x189.jpg)
Mélanie GRACIA
(2023, 1st term)
![Lagha-21 Lagha-21](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_150,h_189/https://sfbd.fr/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Lagha-21-scaled-150x189.jpg)
Mounia LAGHA
(2024, 1st term)
![JLM JLM](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_150,h_189/https://sfbd.fr/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/JLM-150x189.jpg)
Jean-Léon MAÎTRE
(2023, 1st term)
![GraphiqueCollé-1 GraphiqueCollé-1](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_137,h_137/https://sfbd.fr/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/GraphiqueCollé-1.png)
Vincent MIROUSE
(2024, 1st term)
![Mathilde_Paris_IGFL Mathilde_Paris_IGFL](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_150,h_189/https://sfbd.fr/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Mathilde_Paris_IGFL-150x189.png)
Mathilde PARIS
(2023, 1st term)
![Andrea_PASINI Andrea Pasini](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_150,h_189/https://sfbd.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Andrea_PASINI-150x189.jpg)
Andrea PASINI
(2019, 2nd term)
![Eric-Theveneau Eric-Theveneau](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_150,h_189/https://sfbd.fr/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Eric-Theveneau-150x189.jpg)
Eric THEVENEAU
(2023, 1st term)
![Julien_VERMOT Julien Vermot, représentant des chercheurs à l'étranger au conseil de la SFBD](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_150,h_189/https://sfbd.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Julien_VERMOT-150x189.jpg)
Julien VERMOT
(2019, 2nd term)
Project managers
![EHEUDE_Photo EHEUDE_Photo](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_150,h_189/https://sfbd.fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/EHEUDE_Photo-150x189.jpg)
Eglantine HEUDE
(Outreach)
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Maëva LUXEY
(Outreach)
![Gineste Gineste](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_150,h_189/https://sfbd.fr/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Gineste-150x189.png)
Mathieu GINESTE
(Féderation Biogée)
![Benedicte_LEFEVRE-2 Benedicte_LEFEVRE-2](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_150,h_189/https://sfbd.fr/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Benedicte_LEFEVRE-2-150x189.jpg)
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)
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-1 Claire CHAZAUD, membre du conseil d'administration SFBD 2021](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_150,h_189/https://sfbd.fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Claire-1-150x189.png)
Claire CHAZAUD
President
![Lagha-21 Lagha-21](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_150,h_189/https://sfbd.fr/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Lagha-21-scaled-150x189.jpg)
Mounia LAGHA
Vice president
![JLM JLM](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_150,h_189/https://sfbd.fr/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/JLM-150x189.jpg)
Jean-Léon MAÎTRE
Secretary general
![Marie-Ange_BONNIN Marie-Ange Bonnin](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_150,h_189/https://sfbd.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Marie-Ange_BONNIN-150x189.jpg)
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