Araújo, Sofia J.Almudi, IsabelBozal-Basterra, LauraCasares, FernandoCasas-Tintó, SergioEscalante, AugustoGarcía-Moreno, FernandoLosada-Pérez, MaríaMaeso, IgnacioMarcon, Luciano, 1983-Ocaña, OscarPampliega, OlatzRada-Iglesias, ÁlvaroRayon, TeresaSharpe, JamesSutherland, James D.Villa del Campo, CristinaBarrio, Rosario2022-03-152022-03-152021Araújo SJ, Almundi I, Bozal-Basterra L, Casares F, Casas-Tintó S, Escalante A et al. Virtual meeting, real and sound science: report of the 17 th Meeting of the Spanish Society for Developmental Biology (SEBD-2020). Int J Dev Biol. 2021;65(7-8-9):457-464. DOI: 10.1387/ijdb.210005rb0214-6282http://hdl.handle.net/10230/52697The Spanish Society for Developmental Biology (SEBD) organized its 17th meeting in November 2020 (herein referred to as SEBD2020). This meeting, originally programmed to take place in the city of Bilbao, was forced onto an online format due to the SARS-CoV2, COVID-19 pandemic. Although, we missed the live personal interactions and missed out on the Bilbao social scene, we were able to meet online to present our work and discuss our latest results. An overview of the activities that took place around the meeting, the different scientific sessions and the speakers involved are presented here. The pros and cons of virtual meetings are discussed.application/pdfeng© 2021 UPV/EHU Press (Bilbao, Spain) and Creative Commons CC-BY. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/), which permits you to Share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and Adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially), providing you give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your useBiologia del desenvolupamentinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1387/ijdb.210005rbinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess