Travel grants
Each year, the French Society of Developmental Biology (SFBD) awards travel grants to PhD students (minimum 2nd year of PhD) or young post-doctoral students (less than 2 years of postdoc) members of the SFBD and willing to present their work at international conferences with a poster or an oral presentation.
The sanitary crisis has made the period unfavourable for travels over the past two years. However, in 2022 the meetings are actively resuming in face-to-face format. A specific call for applications to participate in the ISDB meeting which will take place in Portugal on October 16-20, 2022 and the SFBD-JSDB-HFSP meeting, which will take place in Strasbourg on November 7-10, 2022. We also give a bonus for eco-responsible trips avoiding flight travel.
How to apply?
The application (in French or English) must include the following information in a single pdf file:
- A CV of two pages maximum mentioning academic and professional background, publications and previous participation to other meetings
- A short letter of no more than one page explaining the choice of the meeting and the relationship with Developmental Biology
- Information on the meeting and the abstract submitted to the congress (one page maximum, in English)
Selection procedure
The selection is made by the SFBD Board based on the submitted pdf file.
- Travel grants are awarded subject to SFBD membership as an individual or as a member of a team belonging to the SFBD.
- The SFBD logo must be displayed in the poster or slideshow.
- At the end of the meeting, a text (1/2 page max.) describing the benefits of participating in the congress must be sent to the SFBD (bourses-voyages@sfbd.fr). It will be published on the website as well as in the annual SFBD letter.
APPLICATION FORM
2022 awardees
2021 awardees

Florencia Di Pietro
Annual Drosophila Research Conference from the Genetics Society of America (online)
Postdoc with Yohanns Bellaiche, Institut Curie, Paris

Ségolène Bernheim
Weinstein cardiovascular development and regeneration, Marseille
PhD student with Sigolène Meilhac, Institut Imagine, Paris

Julien Leclercq
International Astyanax Meeting, San Antonio, Texas
PhD student with Sylvie Rétaux, Institut des Neurosciences Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette

Julia Schaeffer
Central Nervous System Injury and Repair Gordon Conference
Postdoc with Homaira Nawabi, Institut des Neurosciences INSERM U1216, Grenoble

Anaël Soubigou
Euro Evo Devo 2022, Naples
PhD student with Stéphanie Bertrand and Hector Escriva, Observatoire Oceanologique de Banyuls, Banyuls sur Mer
2021 awardees - Shaping Life 2

Mike Altounian
PhD student, Institut de biologie du développement de Marseille (IBDM)

Jerome Avellaneda
PhD student, Institut de biologie du développement de Marseille (IBDM)

Marion Baraban
PhD student, Laboratoire de biologie du développement (IBPS), Paris

Kévin Bellande
Postdoc at DIversity-Adaptation-plant DEvelopment Laboratory (DIADE), IRD, Montpellier

Maëlle Bellec
PhD student, Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier (IGMM)

Samuel Boscq
PhD student, Marine Biological Station, Roscoff

Johny Bou Rouphael
PhD student, Laboratoire de biologie du développement (IBPS), Paris

Laetitia Bouchard
PhD student, Marseille Medical Genetics (MMG)

Fanny Chazal
PhD student, Institut de biologie du développement de Marseille (IBDM)

Audrey Desgrange
Postdoc, Imagine – Institut Pasteur, Paris

Sana Dieudonné
PhD student, Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, ENS de Lyon

Julie Firmin
PhD student, College de France/Institut Cochin/Institut Curie, Paris

Florence Giger
Postdoc, MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College, London

Wenyue Guan
Postdoc, Institute of Functional Genomics of Lyon, ENS de Lyon

Julien Leclercq
PhD student, Institut des Neurosciences Paris-Saclay

Tomas Legier
PhD student, Institut de biologie du développement de Marseille (IBDM)

Joana Esteves de Lima
Postdoc, Mondor Institut for Biomedical Research (IMRB), Créteil

Lucie Boulgakoff
PhD student, Institut de biologie du développement de Marseille (IBDM)

Alice Malivert
PhD student, Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, ENS de Lyon

Mao Qiyan
Postdoc, Institut de biologie du développement de Marseille (IBDM)

Grégoire Mathonnet
PhD student, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC), Illkirch

Ismael Morin-Poulard
Postdoc, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCD) / Center of Integrative Biology (CBI), Toulouse

Rosa Nicolas
PhD student, Laboratoire de biologie du développement (IBPS), Paris

Marcia Mesquita Peixoto
PhD student, Pasteur Institute, Paris

Olivier Piau
PhD student, Laboratoire de biologie du développement (IBPS), Paris

Corentin Porada
PhD student, Marseille Medical Genetics (MMG)

Clément Rodier
PhD student, Institut de biologie du développement de Marseille (IBDM)

Micaela Roque
PhD student, Institut de biologie du développement de Marseille (IBDM)

Sulov Saha
PhD student, Center for Integrative Biology (CBI), Toulouse

Marta Scelzo
Postdoc, Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement de Villefranche-sur-Mer (LBDV)

Markus Schliffka
PhD student, Institut Curie

Prune Smolen
PhD student, Institut de biologie Valrose (iBV), Nice

Baptiste Tesson
PhD student, ENS de Lyon

Ioannis Theodorou
PhD student, Marine Biological Station, Roscoff

Jorge Torres Paz
Postdoc, Institut des Neurosciences Paris-Saclay

Yushun Tian
PhD student, Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), Toulouse

Axelle Wilmerding
PhD student, Institut de biologie du développement de Marseille (IBDM)

Antoine Zalc
Postdoc, Mondor Institut for Biomedical Research (IMRB), Créteil

Marie Zilliox
PhD student, Center for Integrative Biology (CBI), Toulouse
2020 awardees

Arthur Boutillon
Shaping Life 2, grant postponed for 2021 (Covid19)
2nd year PhD student with Nicolas David, Laboratoire Optique et Biosciences, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau

Benoit Godard
Shaping Life 2, grant postponed for 2021 (Covid19)
Postdoc with Alex McDougall, Institut de la mer de Villefranche, Villefranche-sur-Mer

Lisa Calvary
Shaping Life 2, grant postponed for 2021 (Covid19)
2nd year PhD student with Vincent Mirouse, CBRC, Clermont-Ferrand

Emmanuelle Grall
Shaping Life 2, grant postponed for 2021 (Covid19)
3rd year PhD student with Patrick Tschopp, Universität Basel, Switzerland

Sandrine Denaud
Online meeting «Chromatin and Epigenetics» organised by EMBL, 17-20 May 2020
3rd year PhD student with Bernd Schuettengruber, Giacomo Cavalli Team, Institut de Génétique Humaine, Montpellier
2019 awardees

Sandy Al Hayek
Annual Drosophila Research Conference, Dallas, 27-31 March 2019
4th year PhD student with François Payre, Centre de Biologie du Développement, Toulouse

Karine Casier
26th European Drosophila Research Conference, Lausanne, 5-8 September 2019
3rd year PhD student with Laure Teysset, Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement, Paris

Eva Seipelt
Weinstein Conference, Indiana, 9-11 May 2019
3rd year PhD student with Michel Puceat, INSERM, Marseille

Serena Prigent Garcia
22nd International C. elegans Conference, Los Angeles, 20-24 June 2019
2nd year PhD student with François Robin, IBPS, Paris

Hanane Khoury
1st France-USA Stem cell symposium, Los Angeles, 26-29 June 2019
4th year PhD student with Thierry Jaffredo , UMR 7622 – Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement, Paris

Joana Estaves De Lima
78th Annual Meeting of the Developmental Biology Society, Boston, 25-30 July 2019
Postdoc with Frédéric Relaix, INSERM U955, Créteil

Pénélope Darnat
European Developmental Biology Congress, Alicante, 23-26 October 2019
3rd year PhD student with Agnès Audibert, IBPS, Paris

Florence Giger
European Developmental Biology Congress, Alicante, 23-26 October 2019
Postdoc with Corinne Houart, King’s College, London

Mélanie Roussat
European Developmental Biology Congress, Alicante, 23-26 October 2019
3rd year PhD student with Sophie Bel-Vialar, CBI, Toulouse
2018 awardees

Jennifer Durant-Vesga
Transcription and Chromatin EMBL conference, Heidelberg, 25-28 August 2018
2nd year PhD student with Jean-François Riou, IBPS, Paris

Laurent Formery
7th Euro-Evo-Devo Meeting, Galway, June 26-29 2018
4th year PhD student with Jennifer Croce, LBDV, Villefranche-sur-mer

Hereroa Johnston
7th Euro-Evo-Devo Meeting, Galway, June 26-29 2018
4th year PhD student with Eric Röttinger, IRCAN, Nice

Audrey Desgrange
EMBO Workshop “Imaging Mouse Development”, Heidelberg, 24 – 27 July 2018
Post-doc with Sigolène Meilhac, Institut Imagine – Institut Pasteur, Paris

Sarah Dinvaut
Molecular Mechanisms of Neuronal Connectivity Cold Spring Harbour, 25-29 september 2018
3rd year PhD student with Julien Falk, Institut NeuroMyoGène, Lyon

Lea Rambaud-Lavigne
29th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR), Helsinki, 25-29 June 2018
3rd year PhD student with Pradeep Das, RDP, ENS-Lyon

João E. Carvalho
Joint Meeting of the Portuguese, Spanish and French Societies for Developmental Biology, Porto, 7-10 November 2018
FRM Postdoc with Eric Röttinger, IRCAN, Nice

Alexandre Chuyen
Joint Meeting of the Portuguese, Spanish and French Societies for Developmental Biology, Porto, 7-10 November 2018
2rd year PhD student with Andrea Pasini, team Biology of ciliated epithelia, IBDM, Marseille

Anabelle Planques
Joint Meeting of the Portuguese, Spanish and French Societies for Developmental Biology, Porto, 7-10 November 2018
Postdoc with Michel Vervoort, Inst. J. Monod, Paris

Nathan Hervieux
Joint Meeting of the Portuguese, Spanish and French Societies for Developmental Biology, Porto, 7-10 November 2018
Postdoc with Benedicte Sanson, Physiology, Development et Neuroscience Department, U. Cambridge.