Welcome to the webpage of the Portuguese Society for Developmental Biology (SPBD)
The SPBD aims to represent and strengthen the interactions among Portuguese developmental biologists. The SPBD also welcomes researchers from related fields with the aim of pursuing research and educational activities of mutual interest.
SPBD main activities are to organise the conference series Development in Action (DIA), designed to promote scientific interaction within the national developmental biology community, to promote and organize national and international meetings and workshops, as well as to represent the Portuguese developmental biology community in international settings.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is Developmental Biology? Read Scott F. Gilbert's "Developmental Biology, the stem cell of biological disciplines".

Read about: SPBD prize for the best thesis in Developmental Biology

Research Groups in Developmental Biology

Click on the city to find out where we are and what we do!

This list only includes groups working in Developmental Biology per se. Stem Cell groups, Biomaterials groups and others working in the multiple areas bordering and interfacing with Developmental Biology were too many to be included!

Braga

Porto

Coimbra

Lisboa

Oeiras

Faro

Are you a group working in Developmental Biology? Send us your link!
To visualize the Research Groups in a bigger map click here
To see as a list, click here

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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