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Closing the chapter: Goodbye from Joyce
Posted by Joyce Yu, on 17 July 2025
Today marks the end of the chapter for my time at the Node and Development. What a ride it has been! I don’t think you can find many jobs like …The Node at 15 – Then and now with Joachim Goedhart
Posted by the Node, on 16 July 2025
The Node is 15 years old this year! We thought it’d be fun to get in touch with prolific authors of the Node over the past 15 years, revisit the …Currents of Change: Metabolism shaping cell fate and evolution #MetabolismMondays
Posted by Shefali Shefali, on 15 July 2025
All the world’s a metabolic dance, early career scientists are leading the way! Emerging perspectives in metabolism This week we’ll meet Anna-Lena Vigil, who is a PhD candidate in the …Catch up on Development presents… July webinar on early embryogenesis
Posted by the Node, on 11 July 2025
Catch up on the Development presents… May webinar, featuring talks from the first authors of Development’s 2024 outstanding paper prize finalists.Metabolic Origins: Steering of early developmental fate #MetabolismMondays
Posted by Shefali Shefali, on 7 July 2025
All the world’s a metabolic dance, early career scientists are leading the way! Emerging perspectives in metabolism This week we’ll meet Dr Kristina Stapornwongkul, a new incoming faculty at IMBA, …June in preprints
Posted by the Node, on 7 July 2025
Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints. The preprints this month are hosted on bioRxiv and arXiv – use these links below to …Event carbon calculator
Posted by Teodora Andreea Rinciog, on 30 June 2025
I am excited to announce the release of our event carbon calculator, our latest resource to support the creation of sustainable events. Estimate your event’s carbon footprint in five minute …The Node Time Machine – June 2013
Posted by Joyce Yu, on 27 June 2025
At the end of each month, I pick the same month from a random year from the past 15 years of the Node, and take a look at what people …FlyCROSS 2025–26: Mentor-mentee matching program
Posted by Shefali Shefali, on 25 June 2025
Call for Mentors from the Drosophila community. The Fly Board is excited to announce the second cycle of FlyCROSS (2025–2026), following a successful launch in 2024. The goal of FlyCROSS …From Posters to Parades: Inside Woodstock.Bio² & Night Science Conference
Posted by NatanellaE, on 25 June 2025
A fever dream of science and spirit wrapped in the forests of Bohemia. Here’s an escalating list — starting with the standard (though nothing was standard about this) — and …Subscribe to our mailing list
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Most-read posts in June
- From Posters to Parades: Inside Woodstock.Bio² & Night Science Conference by Natanella Eliaz
- Visualizing with Vibes: Potential and Pitfalls by Joachim Goedhart
- Cellular Worlds – An Art Exhibition Inspired by Microscopic Universes
- On the Shape of Life: meeting report, SFBD meeting 2025 by Girish Kale
- #DanioDigest (May 2025) by Kevin Thiessen
- Squishing jellies!! by Yamini Ravichandran
- Lab meeting with the Silveira Lab
- SciArt profile: Henning Falk
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