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The Company of Biologists Workshop: From Stem Cells to Human Development

Posted by , on 18 February 2014

As you may know, the Company of Biologists runs a fantastic series of small Workshops on diverse topics across the life sciences (more details on our website). I’m excited to ...

Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência's PhD Programme: applications for the 2015 class are now open!

Posted by , on 18 February 2014

Applications for the 2015 class of the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC) PhD programme in Integrative Biology and Biomedicine are open until March 30th. This Programme is run in collaboration ...

In Development this week (Vol. 141, Issue 5):

Posted by , on 18 February 2014

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   Time to update the mammalian CV The dorsal aorta (DA) and the cardinal vein (CV) are the first vascular ...

The first Xenopus imaging course

Posted by , on 17 February 2014

The first Xenopus imaging workshop was held at the Xenopus Resource Centre at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Wood’s Hole, MA from November 17th – 22nd.    Kymograph of a ...

A Day in the Life of a Sea Urchin Lab

Posted by , on 17 February 2014

Hi! I’m Tanvi, a third year PhD student in the Ettensohn Lab at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. The big question our lab is concerned with is how ...

(Developmental) Biology around the internet- February 2014

Posted by , on 13 February 2014

Here is our monthly round-up of some of the interesting content that we spotted around the internet:   News & Research: – A new paper in Nature claims that cellular ...

A day in the life of an Ascidian Lab

Posted by , on 10 February 2014

Dear The Node readers, We are Alicia (1st year PhD student) and Marion (3rd year PhD student) and we work in an ascidian lab at CNRS, Montpellier in France. Alicia’s ...

BioImage Data Analysis Course @ EMBL Heidelberg

Posted by , on 7 February 2014

Dear Node colleagues, This is a call for the registration to the EMBL Master Course Bioimage Data Analysis to be held from Monday, 12 May – Friday, 16 May 2014. ...

BSCB/BSDB Early Bird Registration Deadline is Today!

Posted by , on 7 February 2014

The early bird deadline for the BSCB/BSDB spring meeting registration is today (Friday 7th of Feb). http://www.bscb-bsdb-meetings.co.uk/reg.htm

The pivotal role of the stem cell environment

Posted by , on 7 February 2014

Why iodine deficiency during pregnancy may have disastrous consequences   Higher mammals, such as humans, have markedly larger brains than other mammals. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular ...

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