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The Second International Symposium on Women in Tunicate Biology
Posted by Marie Nydam, on 21 March 2025
-Program- All times below refer to West Coast USA/East Coast USA Please email Marie Nydam (mnydam “at” soka dot edu) for the Zoom link Day One: Tuesday, March 25th …A practical guide to Biologists @ 100
Posted by the Node, on 17 March 2025
With one week to go until Biologists @ 100, we can’t wait to see everyone there! Do you want to know more about the conference venue, the social events and …The Beginners’ Guide to Scientific Conferences
Posted by Jen Annoh, on 17 March 2025
Attending your first scientific conference? In my experience, the weeks leading up to it can feel equal parts exciting and daunting. Whether you’re presenting a poster or just looking to …Developing news – “Science under siege”
Posted by the Node, on 17 March 2025
An Editorial from the five Editors-in-Chief of The Company of Biologists’ journals The Editors-in-Chief have written a joint Editorial, discussing the enormous challenges currently facing researchers in the US and …3rd Crick Beddington Symposium: Anterior Fates Await Those Who Migrate – How Nodal Dynamics Shape Anteroposterior Patterning
Posted by Alex Neaverson, on 14 March 2025
Although I originally set out to highlight the work of early career researchers at the symposium, Professor Vasso Episkopou’s overwhelmingly enthusiastic response coupled with my interest in anteroposterior patterning made …Transitions in Development – marking the 40th interview
Posted by the Node, on 13 March 2025
Development has just published their 40th interview in the ‘Transitions in development‘ series. This series of interviews features principal investigators (PIs) within the first five or so years of establishing …#DanioDigest (February 2025)
Posted by Kevin Thiessen, on 12 March 2025
An easily-consumable recap of the latest happenings in the #zebrafish community! Special thanks to Maddie Ryan, Charli Corcoran & Michaela Noskova Fairley for putting this digest together! If you would …Postnatal neurodevelopment: Inside out or the reverse?
Posted by Xuanmao Chen, on 12 March 2025
The people behind the papers – Juan Yang and Xuanmao Chen In mammalian embryos, brains develop from the inside out, with younger neurons moving to the outer layers in a …Vote for your favourite image in the Node–FocalPlane image competition
Posted by the Node, on 11 March 2025
Browse through the gallery of the 15 shortlisted images and vote for your favourite image by Wednesday 26 March.3rd Crick Beddington Symposium: Somites get lost without Hox keeping time
Posted by Alex Neaverson, on 7 March 2025
The 3rd Crick-Beddington Symposium, in memory of Rosa Beddington FRS (1956-2001), took place on 10th-11th February at the Francis Crick Institute, London. Rather than providing a broad summary of the …Subscribe to our mailing list
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Most-read posts in February
- Deforming Nuclei: a way to move through the crowd! by Mariana Maia-Gil
- SciArt profile: B. Duygu Özpolat
- First issues – publishing developmental biology through the decades by Alex Eve
- Building Bridges Between Biology and Physics: Insights from a Workshop on Early Embryonic Cell Divisions by Irene Li, Magdalena Schindler and Isaac Wong
- The Arterial Maze: Unveiling the Origin of Pial Collaterals in Mouse Brain by Swarnadip Ghosh & Soumyashree Das
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