Congratulations to all the members of the department who participated in the Midwest meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology in September 2018. Susan Cole and Adriana Dawes served as session chairs. We especially congratulate Jared Talbot (Amacher lab) who won the award for best postdoctoral talk and Kara Braunreiter (MG PHD student in the Cole lab) who was the runner up for best graduate student talk.