This month on the Node- October 2015
Posted by the Node, on 1 November 2015
Research:
– Can we make embryos in silico? Miquel posted about his recent paper in Bioinformatics, and the modeling framework he implemented in the new tool EmbryoMaker.
– What does YAP do? Muriel explained the role of this Hippo effector in the Xenopus retina.
– Histones, regeneration and crickets were all present in Hideyo Ohuchi’s post.
– How are positions between protrusions in bones maintained? Tomer Stern told us about bones and scaling on his post.
– Artificial intellegence in the lab. Mike Levin posted about using machine learning to generate models for planarian regeneration.
Techniques:
– Viewing less to see more. Hiroki Ueda wrote about tissue clearing and better visualisation.
– Techniques for the live-cell analysis of plant embryogenesis were summarised by Daisuke Kurihara.
Discussion:
– Making the most of graduate school. Tomer and Itamer told us about how they organised a Graduate Peer Group and what they learnt from it.
– Don Gibson posted about his push to have Barbara McClintock as the woman on the $10 bill.
Meeting reports:
– “Ich hab mein Herz in Heidelber verloren”. Jerome Korzelius posted about the European Drosophila Research Conference.
– Ana Ribeiro attended the joint meeting of the Spanish, Portuguese and British Societies for Developmental Biology and posted about her experience.
Also on the Node:
– An interview with Mike Levine featured on the Node this month.
– A new intern joined the Node! Say hi to Helena.
Happy reading!
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