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Posted by Seema Grewal on October 11th, 2011
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: New blood: vasculature restrains pancreas growth Although the primary function of blood vessels is to provide organs with the oxygen and nutrients that are essential for tissue growth and maintenance, blood vessels also provide positive paracrine signals during early pancreas development. Now, Yuval Dor and[…]
Posted by GrowthDivDiff on October 9th, 2011
The final day of the meeting continued with vivid discussion and scientific exchange during the presentation sessions as well as during the breaks. Coming back to the initial focus of the meeting, today’s remaining topics centered on the fly as a model system to study fundamental regulators of cell proliferation. Nic Tapon, at the London[…]
Posted by Lucia Prieto Godino on October 7th, 2011
This is the first post of others to come on the first course on insect neuroscience and Drosophila neurogenetics in Uganda, that is being partially funded by The Company of Biologist. The motivation for organizing the course is that currently in East Africa, and most parts of Africa, research in experimental neuroscience is carried out[…]
Posted by Christian Schroeter on October 7th, 2011
As a follow up to Ben Martynoga’s post from yesterday, here is some more information on the topics covered in this excellent workshop that took place a couple of weeks ago. After extensive revolutions around the cell cycle in many of the previous sessions, Ryoichiro Kageyama introduced quite a different rhythm to the meeting in[…]
Posted by Eva Amsen on October 6th, 2011
October 7 is Ada Lovelace Day, celebrating women in science and technology. This international day to promote gender equality in these fields was first held in 2009, and is named after Ada Lovelace. Ada Lovelace is considered to be the world’s first computer programmer – although in the 19th century, they weren’t called “computers” yet! Ada[…]
Posted by Ben Martynoga on October 5th, 2011
Better late than never! This excellent workshop took place a couple of weeks ago, but it is still nice to have a record of what was discussed, here on The Node. Fabienne Pituello started the day by describing how the Shh pathway can induce cell cycle regulators such as Cdc25b to increase the rate of[…]
Posted by the Node on October 5th, 2011
A few months ago we ran a survey on the Node to ask how you used the site, and if you had any suggestions. First of all, a big thank-you to all of you who took the time to answer our questions. As promised, we held a random draw among the survey participants: the winner[…]
Posted by Nanette Nascone-Yoder on October 4th, 2011
An NIH-funded postdoctoral position is available in the Nascone-Yoder laboratory at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC, USA) to study the role of non-canonical Wnt/PCP signaling in Xenopus gut morphogenesis. The successful applicant will elucidate the cellular and molecular basis of gut tube lumen formation, gut tube elongation and rotation, and/or digestive epithelial morphogenesis. We[…]
Posted by Eva Amsen on October 3rd, 2011
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has just been announced, and the winners are Bruce Beutler (The Scripps Research Institute), Jules Hoffmann (University of Strasbourg) and Ralph Steinman (Rockefeller University), for their research on the immune system. [Update 14:04: Just heard that Ralph Steinman died of pancreatic cancer this weekend. Committee still deciding[…]
Posted by the Node on September 30th, 2011
What was new on the Node this month? Here are a few of the highlights from September: EMBO meeting Natascha Bushati attended the EMBO meeting, and wrote several posts as one of their certified bloggers, including two interviews that are definitely worth a read: one with Janet Rossant, and a joint interview with Eric Wieschaus[…]
