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We are 4 years old!

Posted by , on 22 June 2014

It is our birthday today! It is exactly 4 years since the Node was launched, and since then we have grown in users and readers every year! Thank you all ...
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Lectureship available in Cell and Developmental Biology

Posted by , on 20 June 2014

We have a lectureship available in Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Bath, UK. Please share with anybody who you think might be interested.   http://www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.aspx?ref=BK2506
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Queenstown NZ Developmental Biology meeting 2014

Posted by , on 20 June 2014

Registration is now open for the Queenstown Molecular Biology meeting, Queenstown, New Zealand including the Developmental Biology and Reproduction satellite meeting. August 28-29th 2014, Rydges Hotel, Queenstown, New Zealand Sessions ...
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47th Meeting of the Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists, Nagoya

Posted by , on 19 June 2014

The heat started to increase in Japan, as the rainy season approached and with it the high levels of temperature and humidity. But this was not an obstacle for scientists from ...
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Bioimage Analysis 2014 at EMBL, a recap.

Posted by , on 18 June 2014

Last month 39 people from around the world gathered together in the flagship European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany to take part in the Master Course on Bioimage ...
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Getting on the short list: academic job applications

Posted by , on 18 June 2014

After serving on some academic selection committees recently, I’m worried about the future of some of our young scientists. Especially concerning are the number of applications where the candidate, pursuing ...
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Electrifying news for embryologists

Posted by , on 17 June 2014

Electroporation: an efficient technique for embryologists During embryonic development, the specification of different cell types giving rise to the future organs involves a precise spatiotemporal regulation of cell proliferation, migration, ...
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(Developmental) Biology around the internet- June 2014

Posted by , on 17 June 2014

Here is June’s round-up of some of the interesting content that we spotted around the internet:   News & Research: – Fly developmental geneticist Walter Gehring sadly passed away this ...
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Nuclear sponges in embryonic stem cells

Posted by , on 17 June 2014

Once upon a time, physicists got curious about the cytoskeleton. They characterised the cytoskeleton – using tools of soft matter, statistical and polymer physics – as a mesoscale material whose ...
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Of mice and zebrafish

Posted by , on 16 June 2014

This story starts with me shaking and nervous and stumbling through my mid-term thesis committee meeting presentation. Not only was I presenting the results from the first half of my ...
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