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Posted by the Node on April 30th, 2013
Again, things have been busy on the Node this month and, as well as the usual flurry of job adverts, we’ve had some great research- and meeting-based posts. Below are just some of the highlights. Remember – it’s easy to post on the Node, so feel free to get in touch (or simply post away!)[…]
Posted by Seema Grewal on April 30th, 2013
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: In-cyst-ing on germ cell development During gametogenesis in many organisms, germ cells undergo synchronous, incomplete divisions just before meiosis that generate interconnected cell groups known as cysts, but does a cyst stage always occur during mammalian gametogenesis? Here (p. 2075), by lineage marking the[…]
Posted by benoitbruneau on April 29th, 2013
I got the call and immediately said yes. What a thrill to be asked to join the best developmental biology journal there is! Then I talked to some colleagues afterwards and one said “but that’s a LOT of work!!”. Well yes, but it’s worth it. See, Development published my first paper as an independent PI,[…]
Posted by Robert Blassberg on April 26th, 2013
On the 25th and 26th of February 2013 we were invited to attend a joint UK-Japan workshop on Neural Epigenetics at the British Embassy in Tokyo, which aimed to stimulate collaboration between researchers from the two countries. The event was organised by Adrian Moore from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Tokyo, and Adrian Bird from[…]
Posted by the Node on April 25th, 2013
SpotOn, Nature Publishing Group’s online forum for science policy, outreach and tools, and organiser of community events, is currently running a series on the use of social media for science outreach. As part of this series, we were asked to share our experience of setting up and running the Node. If you’re interested in hearing[…]
Posted by Disease Models and Mechanisms on April 25th, 2013
This week, Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM) formally announced the appointment of a new team of academic editors to lead the journal. Ross Cagan, Associate Dean of the Graduate School for Biological Sciences at Mount Sinai Medical Center, succeeds Vivian Siegel as the Editor-in-Chief, and he is joined by Senior Editors Monica Justice, Professor[…]
Posted by Roberto Mayor on April 23rd, 2013
Olivier Pourquie, Nipan Patel, Claudio Stern, John Wallingford, Mary Mullins, Alejandro Sanchez-Alvarado, Andrea Streit, among other will teach, hands-on, the paradigms, problems and technologies of modern Developmental Biology. The course will start with a plenary lecture by Scott Gilbert about the history and concepts in Developmental Biology. The course will take place in the summer[…]
Posted by uri.frank@nuigalway.ie on April 22nd, 2013
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Posted by Rada-Iglesias on April 22nd, 2013
The Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC) is a multidisciplinary center at the University of Cologne providing a forum that brings together physician scientists with basic researchers from the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences to perform competitive basic, disease-oriented research. The mission of the CMMC is to advance the[…]
Posted by Rachael Inglis on April 19th, 2013
Last week, I was distracted somewhat by a palaeontology article in Nature: Reisz and colleagues reported their discovery of some fossilised dinosaur embryos. Not exactly relevant to my research, but very cool nonetheless… The remains that they unearthed in southern China are from the early Jurassic period, almost 200 million years old, and are thought[…]
