Posted by SarahM, on 30 November 2017
Built into the side of a tree covered hill on a remote Japanese island lies what at first sight appears to be a super-villain’s lair, or perhaps the HQ of ...Posted by BSDB, on 30 November 2017
Established by the British Society for Developmental Biology in 2014, The Gurdon/The Company of Biologists Summer Studentship scheme provides financial support to allow highly motivated undergraduate students an opportunity to engage ...Posted by the Node Interviews, on 29 November 2017
Pavement cells in plant leaves were identified as a puzzle which deviated from normal cell shape rules by D’Arcy Thompson in his classic text On Growth and Form. Now modern approaches ...Posted by BSDB, on 28 November 2017
In preparation of our upcoming 70th anniversary to be celebrated at the special Spring Meeting in Warwick (April 15th-18th 2018), the BSDB announces a writing competition for its graduate student ...Posted by romanb, on 28 November 2017
An NIH R01-funded postdoctoral position is available in the laboratory of Dr. Beth Roman in the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh. We study the interplay between ...Posted by the Node Interviews, on 28 November 2017
Today marks the publication of Development’s special issue celebrating the centenary of D’Arcy Thompson’s ‘On Growth and Form’. Given the continuing influence of the book’s graphical elements – from its captivating ...Posted by the Node, on 28 November 2017
What explains the lasting legacy of D’Arcy Thompson’s ‘On Growth and Form’? A century on from the publication of the first issue, we reached out to authors from Development’s special ...Posted by Aidan Maartens, on 28 November 2017
In late September I boarded a tiny propeller plane to Dundee to meet Matthew Jarron, who curates the University of Dundee’s D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum. We had seen Matthew speak ...Posted by the Node, on 28 November 2017
This editorial by Thomas Lecuit and L. Mahadevan originally appeared in Development’s Special Issue: On Growth and Form – 100 Years On Morphogenesis, the study of how forms ...Posted by IRBBarcelona, on 27 November 2017
The European Molecular Biology Lab (EMBL) in Barcelona and IRB Barcelona bring together leading scientists in the conference “Morphogenetic Engineering”, an event supported by the BBVA Foundation. The merge of ...