Since 1992, the SCDB has been one of the premier meetings in Developmental Biology.  The 2010 meeting continues its emphasis on the leading edge of developmental inquiry focusing on questions of: cell polarity and asymmetry, transcriptional and translational control of development, self-renewal, germline vs. soma decisions, epigenetic regulation of development, signaling and positional information, morphogenesis and organogenesis, evolution and development, neural development, and developmental systems biology.  The meeting will be held on the beautiful UC Santa Cruz campus and is designed to foster scientific interactions among scientists--from beginning students to leaders in the field of Developmental Biology--from labs around the world.