BETTY HAY MEMORIAL AWARDS

The EMT field has developed from the pioneering work of Dr Elizabeth Hay and her students during the late 1970s, when she began to discuss the differences between epithelial cells and mesenchymal cells in the embryo. The first experimental investigation of EMT developed from the immersion of embryonic epithelial cells into an extracellular matrix (Greenburg and Hay, 1982).

The TEMTIA meeting recognizes her contributions to the field through the Betty Hay Lecture, delivered at the EMT Conference and the Betty Hay Postdoctoral Student Travel Award. A Betty Hay Reception followed the presentation of the Keynote address.

Descriptions of Dr. Hay and her work can be found below.
Elizabeth Hay Biography - from the series: Changing the Face of Medicine
Elizabeth Hay - Tribute and Obituary in Boston News
Elizabeth Hay - Tribute in Developmental Dynamics (Wiley-Liss Inc)
Elizabeth Hay - Interview in Women in Cell Science (Company of Biologists)

2009 Awardees

The 2009 Betty Hay Lecture was delivered by Marianne Bronner-Fraser (Los Angeles) with an outstanding presentation on the topic: Gene regulatory interactions mediating neural crest formation and onset of migration

The recipient of the Betty Hay Postdoctoral Student Travel Award was Dr Irina Shapiro (Boston): A transcriptome-wide analysis of gene expression and alternative splicing during EMT