The Network on Developmental Biology was approved by the ESF Executive Council in March 1989 for an initial two-years period.
The Chairman was Anne McLaren, Director of the UK Medical Research Council's Mammalian Development Unit, in London.

The dossier contains meetings organized by the Network on Developmental Biology during the years 1989-1990: proposal for a Network on Developmental biology; first meeting of the Coordination Committee, 17-18 May 1989, Strasbourg; second meeting of the Coordination Committee in Utrecht, 23 Aug 1989; advanced research workshop, Paris, 12-14 Sep 1990; Coordination Committee meeting, Amalfi, 3 Oct 1990.
The dossier also contains correspondence: newsletter July 1989; correspondence and documents concerning workshops, conferences and fellowships: Study Workshop on Developmental Biology, 30 Sep-7 Oct 1990, Amalfi; application forms for the workshop on "Retinoids in Development and Cancer", Amsterdam, 10-12 Oct 1990; workshop on "Enhancer Detection", Ascona (Switzerland), 2-4 May 1991 (photographs); workshop on "Genetic control of vertebrate development", Les Diablerets (Switzerland), 23-26 May 1991;
workshop on "Local and short range signals in development", Paris, 12-14 Sep 1990.

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Photograph, Textual

The dossier contains a photograph of the participants in the workshop held in Les Diablerets in 1991 (positive on paper).