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Metabolic Origins: Steering of early developmental fate #MetabolismMondays

Posted by , on 7 July 2025

All the world’s a metabolic dance, early career scientists are leading the way! Emerging perspectives in metabolism This week we’ll meet Dr Kristina Stapornwongkul, a new incoming faculty at IMBA, ...

June in preprints

Posted by , on 7 July 2025

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints. The preprints this month are hosted on bioRxiv and arXiv – use these links below to ...

Event carbon calculator

Posted by , on 30 June 2025

I am excited to announce the release of our event carbon calculator, our latest resource to support the creation of sustainable events. Estimate your event’s carbon footprint in five minute ...

The Node Time Machine – June 2013

Posted by , on 27 June 2025

At the end of each month, I pick the same month from a random year from the past 15 years of the Node, and take a look at what people ...

FlyCROSS 2025–26: Mentor-mentee matching program

Posted by , on 25 June 2025

Call for Mentors from the Drosophila community. The Fly Board is excited to announce the second cycle of FlyCROSS (2025–2026), following a successful launch in 2024. The goal of FlyCROSS ...

From Posters to Parades: Inside Woodstock.Bio² & Night Science Conference

Posted by , on 25 June 2025

A fever dream of science and spirit wrapped in the forests of Bohemia. Here’s an escalating list — starting with the standard (though nothing was standard about this) — and ...

Lab meeting with the Silveira Lab

Posted by , on 24 June 2025

This is part of the ‘Lab meeting’ series featuring developmental and stem cell biology labs around the world. Lab introduction Mariana S. Silveira: I am the head of LINDes, my ...

MITOtalks and FocalPlane features... webinar on the cell biology of mitochondria

Posted by , on 23 June 2025

The recent Special Issue from Journal of Cell Science focussed on the cell biology of mitochondria. To showcase some of the research in this issue, FocalPlane and MITOtalks have teamed ...

#DanioDigest (May 2025)

Posted by , on 21 June 2025

An easily-consumable recap of the latest happenings in the #zebrafish community and beyond! Use these links below to get to the section you want: Community news Zebrafish careers Publications Preprints ...

Development presents... early embryogenesis

Posted by , on 19 June 2025

Hear from three early-career researchers studying early embyrogenesis.

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