The Company of Biologists celebrating 100th birthday

This year marks the 100-year anniversary of The Company of Biologists. As part of their celebrations, the Company will be organising Biologists @ 100, a unique conference that will bring together their different communities.
The conference will incorporate the Spring Meetings of the British Society for Cell Biology (BSCB) and the British Society for Developmental Biology (BSDB). It will further include a Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) one-day Satellite Meeting ‘Experimental biology and impact: solutions to climate change and biodiversity loss’, the Journal of Experimental Biology (JEB) Symposium ‘Sensory perception in a changing world’, and a one-day Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM) programme ‘Interdisciplinary approaches to combatting antimicrobial resistance’.
In the plenary sessions, the keynote speakers will consider topics of importance to the whole biological community: climate change and biodiversity, health and disease and emerging technologies.
Final registration deadline is 28 February. To view the programme and register, visit https://biologists.com/100-years/conference.
As part of the celebrations, the Company is inviting its community to tell stories on how The Company of Biologists has supported them over time and how that has positively impacted their careers. The “Message in a Bottle” initiative recognises the organisation’s founder George Parker Bidder III. Back in the early 1900s, Bidder was working on a project investigating ocean currents and released 1,000 bottles into the North Sea. Each bottle had a message inside, asking the finder to send it back in return for a shilling.
Bidder hit the news in 2015 when one of his bottles was found on a beach in Germany – at the time it was thought to be the oldest message in a bottle.