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"Unconventional" posts from #DevMeeting23: Early branching metazoa

Posted by , on 20 September 2023

On Monday we learned a bit about early branching animals, especially the cnidarians. One poster mentioned ongoing work in ctenophores. Note: I should point out that Nematostella wasn’t the only ...
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Considerations when conducting an interview

Posted by , on 19 September 2023

Have you ever had to interview someone for an article? What are the considerations before, during and after the interview? A group of active members of the three community sites ...
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"Unconventional" posts from #DevMeeting23: Origins of multicellularity (cont'd) & Organoids

Posted by , on 19 September 2023

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NC3Rs Funding Panel vacancies

Posted by , on 19 September 2023

Help the NC3Rs fund the best new science that could replace, refine or reduce the use of animals in research. Our panels are instrumental in supporting the development of new ...
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"Unconventional" posts from #DevMeeting23: Origins of multicellularity

Posted by , on 18 September 2023

Introducing “unconventional posts,” a miniseries celebrating the “unconventional” experimental systems presented at #DevMeeting23. Each day I’ll upload handmade postcards spotlighting the breadth of unconventional systems shared in talks or posters ...
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The science of the future

Posted by , on 18 September 2023

When I was a child, I loved the movie “The Fifth Element”—the people working together with living beings from other planets, the space travel while you sleep, the queer clothes, ...
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Development presents... Why we need to study unconventional models in light of climate and biodiversity challenges

Posted by , on 18 September 2023

Development’s journal meeting, Unconventional and Emerging Experimental Organisms in Cell and Developmental Biology, took place between 17-20 September at the beautiful Wotton House in Surrey, UK. We’re delighted to be ...
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Lab meeting with the Martín-Durán lab

Posted by , on 11 September 2023

Meet the lab of Chema Martín-Durán at Queen Mary University of London, using segmented worms with spiral cleavage to study how development is controlled and evolves to generate new phenotypes.
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What do microglia do in human neurodevelopmental disorders?

Posted by , on 11 September 2023

In a recent review published in Acta Neuropathologica, Matuleviciute, Akinluyi & co-authors focus on the evidence obtained from humans to examine how microglia, the brain’s macrophages, participate in brain development. ...
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A regeneration retrospective: go fish

Posted by , on 8 September 2023

This post is part of the regeneration retrospective series. First, I’d be remiss not to acknowledge that most of my posts have been on vertebrate systems when many invertebrates are ...
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