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The people behind the papers: Alaa Hachem & John Parrington

Posted by , on 16 August 2017

Embryogenesis begins with fertilisation, and defective activation of the egg by the sperm is implicated in human infertility. Today’s paper, published in the most recent issue of Development, investigates the ...

An interview with Jim Smith

Posted by , on 3 August 2017

To interview Jim Smith I took a train to London and visited the Francis Crick Institute for the first time. The building had opened in 2016 and, by the time ...

The people behind the papers – Giri Dahal, Sarala Pradhan & Emily Bates

Posted by , on 2 August 2017

Ion channels are famous for their roles in neurons and muscles, but the spectrum of phenotypes seen in ion channel mutants indicate a diversity of roles in development; the underlying ...

Meet Evan Brooks – The 2017 Choose Development! Fellow selected to spend one week with the Embryology Course

Posted by , on 21 July 2017

Evan Brooks is a rising senior at North Carolina State University. For the past two years, he has worked in the lab of Nanette Nascone-Yoder studying the developmental mechanisms of ...

The people behind the papers – Ivette Olivares-Castiñeira & Marta Llimargas

Posted by , on 21 July 2017

The Drosophila tracheal system is a powerful model for understanding the genetic and cell biological control of tubulogenesis. In their new PLoS Genetics paper, Ivette Olivares-Castiñeira and her PI Marta Llimargas of ...

The people behind the papers – Kimberly McArthur & Joseph Fetcho

Posted by , on 20 July 2017

Development depends on cells coming together in the right place to form functioning tissues. Our latest paper in this series was published recently in Current Biology and asks what happens to ...

An interview with Bill Harris

Posted by , on 6 July 2017

This interview by Aidan Maartens originally appeared in Development, Volume 143, Issue 13.    William ‘Bill’ Harris is Head of the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the University ...

The people behind the papers: Lijun Chi and Paul Delgado-Olguin

Posted by , on 9 June 2017

Development of the placental vasculature – known as the labyrinth – is critical for foetal development. Today’s paper comes from the most recent issue of Development and addresses the signalling events ...

An interview with Hiroshi Hamada

Posted by , on 5 June 2017

This interview by Katherine Brown first appeared in Development, Volume 144, Issue 11. Hiroshi Hamada is the Director of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) in Kobe, Japan. His lab ...

The SDB-BSDB interview chain: Yusuff Abdu interviews Claire Bromley

Posted by , on 26 May 2017

Each year, the British and US societies for Developmental Biology have their annual meeting, the BSDB‘s usually in April, the SDB‘s usually in July. The winner of the student poster prize in ...

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