Travel grants
Each year, the French Society of Developmental Biology awards around 10 travel grants to PhD students (in their 2nd year at least) or to young post-doctoral researchers members of the SFBD and willing to present their work (with a poster or an oral presentation) during an international conference.
The sanitary crisis has made the period not very propitious to travel. Congresses have been successively cancelled or postponed, as well as our travel grant calls. Nevertheless, in this particular period, some meetings are still held by videoconference with registration fees. Therefore, we opened a travel grant call for participation in online meetings.
How to apply?
The application (in French or English) must include the following information in a single pdf file:
- Your CV mentioning your academic career, publications and previous participation to other conferences (2 pages max),
- A short letter explaining the choice of the congress in relationship with the developmental biology field,
- A letter from the thesis director / team leader justifying the need for funding,
- The congress information and a copy of the abstract submitted to the congress (one page maximum, in English).
Selection procedure
The selection is made by the SFBD Board based on the content of the application.
- Candidates must be affiliated to the SFBD as an individual or as a member of an affiliated team.
- The logo of the SFBD must appear in the poster or powerpoint
- After the congress, a text (1/2 page) describing the benefits of attending the congress should be sent to us (bourses-voyages@sfbd.fr). This text will be published on the website as well as in the next letter of the SFBD.
APPLICATION FORM
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

Maelle 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)

Saha Sulov
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 Life2, grant postponed for 2021 (Covid19)
2nd year PhD student with Nicolas David, Laboratoire Optique et Biosciences, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau

Benoit Godard
Shaping Life2, grant postponed for 2021 (Covid19)
Postdoc with Alex McDougall, Institut de la mer de Villefranche, Villefranche-sur-Mer

Lisa Calvary
Shaping Life2, grant postponed for 2021 (Covid19)
2nd year PhD student with Vincent Mirouse, CBRC, Clermont-Ferrand

Emmanuelle Grall
Shaping Life2, 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
Congrès Weinstein, 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.