Dear Sponsors of the 2009 West Coast Society for Developmental Biology meeting,

In appreciation of your support and to provide visibility for your organization, we will gratefully acknowledge you in our meeting program. If you desire, we are happy to display your organization logo on the website and in the program and/or provide an electronic link from our meeting website to your organization's website. Desired URLs and logos should be forwarded as soon as possible to Jan Strudwick (jstrudwi@uci.edu), but no later than April 15, to ensure inclusion in the printed program.

For organizations donating $1000 or more, we will also distribute an advertisement or literature (brochures, etc.) and/or small "take-aways" (pens, business cards, posters, etc.) at the meeting. All materials will be available throughout the meeting and prominently displayed during our two Saturday poster sessions. The co-organizers will be transporting materials to the meeting, so we are limited in the amount of material we can accept from each company. If you want to check before sending, please contact Rahul Warrior (rwarrior@uci.edu); (949) 824-9798 to discuss your ideas.

Please send promotional materials for distribution to Rahul Warrior by April 25.

Jan Strudwick

(949) 824-5957

jstrudwi@uci.edu

Department of Developmental and Cell Biology

2316 Natural Sciences 1

University of California, Irvine

Irvine, CA  92617-2300

At the current time, we regret that we are unable to offer special registration to organizations that contribute to the meeting.

In addition to providing a service for the scientific community, your company can deduct the amount of the contribution with the IRS as the Society for Developmental Biology is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization (ID# 38-1909157).

Very sincerely,

Rahul Warrior (UC Irvine)

Jeremy Reiter (UC San Francisco)

West Coast Society for Developmental Biology 2009 meeting co-organizers