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January in preprints
Posted by the Node, on 5 February 2024
Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints.Special Issue on Women in Tunicate Biology
Posted by Marie Nydam, on 2 February 2024
The 1st International Symposium on Women in Tunicate Biology, organized by Anna Di Gregorio and Marie Nydam, was held online on March 28-29, 2023. This global symposium was attended by …Introducing the new cohort of the Node correspondents
Posted by the Node, on 1 February 2024
Find out more about the new Node correspondents, Alex Neaverson, James Zwierzynski and Shreyasi Mukherjee.Choose Development in 2024: serious science, community connections, progressive publishing
Posted by the Node, on 30 January 2024
This is an excerpt of the Editorial written by James Briscoe and Katherine Brown, published in Volume 151, Issue 1 of Development. The start of a new year is often …Non-model organisms: weird critters and the people who study them
Posted by Alexandra Bisia, on 29 January 2024
By Brent Foster and Alexandra Bisia When the two of us, Brent and Alex, started our Node correspondent positions early last year, we both expressed an interest in non-model organisms …Genetics Unzipped – Next Generation Sequence: Forging new paths in genetics
Posted by Kat Arney, on 25 January 2024
This episode is all about the next generation of geneticists, as we meet three up-and-coming scientists who have been supported by the Genetics Society, and learn all about Bermuda skinks, …Development presents… February webinar on organogenesis
Posted by the Node, on 23 January 2024
In the second 2024 webinar, Development Editor Liz Robertson (University of Oxford) hosts two early career researchers studying organogenesis. Tuesday 27 February – 15:00 GMT Paolo Panza (Max Planck Institute …Catch up on the preLights webinar series: From preprint to publication
Posted by Reinier Prosee, on 23 January 2024
In line with preLights’ ongoing postLights initiative, one of the preLights Ambassadors, Martin Estermann, has decided to create and host a new webinar series focusing on the journey of the preprint. This …Development Journal Meeting: From Stem Cells to Human Development
Posted by Katherine Brown, on 19 January 2024
Back in early 2013, Olivier Pourquie (Development’s then Editor-in-Chief) and I were working hard to integrate stem cell biology into Development. Reading papers and attending conferences, much of the focus …Online vs in-person conferences: advantages, disadvantages and why we need both
Posted by Dina Mikimoto, on 15 January 2024
All flavours of a conference – in-person, online, or maybe hybrid? Thinking back to my first conference, it was a confusing experience for me. It happened well into my PhD …The Node Network
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Most-read posts in January
- Earning your Green stripes: enhancing sustainability in zebrafish research by Gaia Gestri and Anya Suppermpool
- Temperature, variability and the robustness of developmentby Michael Dorrity
- A poetic response to ‘Science is more than the sum of research’by Kirsty Ferguson
- Non-model organisms: weird critters and the people who study them by Alexandra Bisia and Brent Foster
- Online vs in-person conferences: advantages, disadvantages and why we need both by Dina Mikimoto
- 2nd European Developmental Biology Congress (EDBC 2023) – The Oxford Panorama by Nawseen Tarannum
- 2023 European Developmental Biology Congress, Paris Mini-Hub – Meeting Report by Tanya Foley
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