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Posted by ama on March 29th, 2013
See below a posting from our website (http://amapress.gen.cam.ac.uk/) on the discussion that took place at the BSDB on whether to change or not the name of the society to include Stem Cell Biology. Some of the people who have read it have encouraged me to post it here to see what people think and I[…]
Posted by Emma Kemp on March 28th, 2013
I’ve just sent out EuroStemCell’s monthly newsletter and thought I’d share a couple of the big items that might interest all of you. It’s been another busy month, with lots of events ranging from schools activities to discussions with policy makers about changes to the EU Clinical Trials Directive. Plus, we’ve given our toolkit of[…]
Posted by Kim Cooper on March 27th, 2013
Sproing! Sproing! Sproing! If there is one animal that deserves its own cartoon sound, it is the jerboa – a bipedal desert rodent with extraordinarily elongated hindlegs, fused foot bones, and loss of the first and fifth toes. I blogged here from China last spring during the most recent field collection of jerboa embryos, and[…]
Posted by Seema Grewal on March 26th, 2013
Here are the highlights from the new issue of Development: Molecular map of posterior hypothalamus The hypothalamus is a key integrative centre in the vertebrate brain that regulates many essential functions, including homeostasis and stress responses. Several transcription factors that are essential for hypothalamic development have been identified but the production of diverse neuron types[…]
Posted by Marsha Lucas on March 22nd, 2013
The University of Maine Darling Marine Center will once again host a Developmental Biology Teaching Workshop, June 25-29, 2013. Openings are still available! This workshop is geared toward university faculty, postdocs, and graduate students interested in teaching developmental biology. It provides basic hands-on experience with organisms commonly studied in teaching laboratories. These include sea urchins[…]
Posted by Caroline Hendry on March 22nd, 2013
Dear readers of the Node, Hi there! My name is Caroline and I am the new Reviews Editor covering all things stem cells at Development. I come to you from the land down under, namely Australia, where I did my PhD on kidney development and stem cells in the lab of Prof Melissa Little at[…]
Posted by Mariana Delfino-Machin on March 22nd, 2013
When your model organism of choice is medaka, and you spend your mornings trying to rid your embryos of their tough chorion, you comfort yourself thinking that one day all the hard work will result in A) a paper, and/or, B) a visit to Japan. After all, medaka are Japanese killifish (Oryzias latipes). When the[…]
Posted by Savraj Grewal on March 20th, 2013
Post-doctoral and PhD positions are available in the lab of Savraj Grewal, University of Calgary, Canada. (https://www.facebook.com/The.Grewal.Lab). The main focus of the lab is to study the control of growth using Drosophila as a model system. We use a combination of molecular, genetic and proteomic approaches to investigate the cell-cell signalling pathways and the genetic[…]
Posted by ac270 on March 14th, 2013
This week we’re launching CiteAb – a brand new antibody search engine suitable for Developmental Biologists working with model organisms, including C. elegans, Drosophila, Zebrafish, Xenopus and Chick, as well as mammals. We feature nearly 1 million antibodies, rated by citations. See http://citeab.com for more details. This is a new site so we would very[…]
Posted by Katherine Brown on March 14th, 2013
Over the last few weeks, you’ve been submitting your images for the Node and Development‘s stem cell cover competition. We received a large number of entries, and you’ve proved to us that stem cells – both in their natural environments and in a dish – can be just as beautiful as the embryos that normally[…]
