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The Node at 15 - Then and now with Joachim Goedhart

Posted by , on 16 July 2025

The Node is 15 years old this year! We thought it’d be fun to get in touch with prolific authors of the Node over the past 15 years, revisit the ...

Currents of Change: Metabolism shaping cell fate and evolution #MetabolismMondays

Posted by , on 15 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 Anna-Lena Vigil, who is a PhD candidate in the ...

Catch up on Development presents… July webinar on early embryogenesis

Posted by , on 11 July 2025

Catch up on the Development presents... May webinar, featuring talks from the first authors of Development's 2024 outstanding paper prize finalists.

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

Meet the Silveira lab, based at the Institute of Biophysics Carlos Chagas Filho, part of the Center for Health Sciences at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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