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New PI diaries: Hiring people and building a lab

On my first day at the ZMBP last October I saw our lab space and my first thought was ‘I have a lab!’. A little over half a year later, ...

When a medical doctor steps into a developmental biology lab to study the mechanics of human embryo development

Read the story behind the paper “Mechanics of human embryo compaction” from Jean-Léon Maître and Julie Firmin.

SciCommConnect: A masterclass in how to deliver your message in the spoken or the written word

[This report is co-authored by Alex Neaverson, Rachel McKeown and Anna Guixeras Fontana.] The clock struck 1PM in the UK, the Zoom room opened, and in flooded over 50 scientists. ...

Development presents… October webinar on environment, evolution and development

Hear from three early-career researchers studying environment, evolution and development. Chaired by Guest Editor, Karen Sears.

Catch up on Development presents… September webinar on cardiac development and regeneration

Posted by the Node, on 6 September 2024

Catch up on the Development presents… webinar on 4 September, featuring talks from Lydia Djenoune and Keaton Schuster.

Development presents… October webinar on environment, evolution and development

Posted by the Node, on 4 September 2024

Hear from three early-career researchers studying environment, evolution and development. Chaired by Guest Editor, Karen Sears.

August in preprints

Posted by the Node, on 4 September 2024

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints.

How we learned to build a gliding mammal

Posted by Jorge Moreno, on 2 September 2024

Read the story behind the paper “Emx2 underlies the development and evolution of marsupial gliding membranes” from first author Jorge Moreno.

Help optimise the SAFE Labs Handbook by filling in our survey

Posted by Pip Coen, on 30 August 2024

We need your help to optimise the SAFE Labs Handbook before it is disseminated throughout the academic community. Please complete our this survey to help optimize this tool for the …

SciCommConnect: A masterclass in how to deliver your message in the spoken or the written word

Posted by Alex Neaverson, on 30 August 2024

[This report is co-authored by Alex Neaverson, Rachel McKeown and Anna Guixeras Fontana.] The clock struck 1PM in the UK, the Zoom room opened, and in flooded over 50 scientists. …