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August in preprints

Posted by , on 1 September 2020

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

Deadline approaching for Cell State Transitions Workshop

Posted by , on 26 August 2020

Virtual Workshop from The Company of Biologists Cell State Transitions: Approaches, Experimental Systems and Models Organisers: Kevin Chalut and Austin Smith Date: 15 – 17 December 2020   Transitions between cellular identities ...

July in preprints

Posted by , on 4 August 2020

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental biology (and related) preprints.  This month features a host of preprints on human development at the single cell level (perhaps all submitted in ...

Pandemic networking: meeting people is easy

Posted by , on 22 July 2020

Registration is now open for our virtual networking event!     With COVID-19 cancelling conferences, researchers have lost one of their best ways to network. So we thought we’d try ...

An ode to the Node: 10 years in the life of a community blog

Posted by , on 7 July 2020

This Editorial by Aidan Maartens, Katherine Brown and James Briscoe was published yesterday in Development. Don’t forget that we’re celebrating 10 years with a free online networking event on July ...

Recent jobs by the Node

PhD studentship: Engineering an in vitro human embryo implantation platform to study pathologies arising in early pregnancy

Posted by , on 5 November 2025

About the Project A fully funded PhD opportunity to participate in the world-leading research undertaken by the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award at the University of Sheffield. Embryo implantation is the step in early pregnancy where the founding tissue of the placenta from the embryo, called the trophoblast, establishes a physical connection with the mother at the inner […]

MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Building a virtual human embryo to predict developmental success and failure

Posted by , on 5 November 2025

About the Project Unlocking the secrets of human embryo development demands a new, dynamic approach. This PhD project offers a unique opportunity to apply cutting-edge computational methods to a fundamental challenge in reproductive biology: understanding why human embryos fail. As delayed childbearing becomes more common, pinpointing the barriers to healthy development is critical. You’ll be […]

Community site paid internship

Posted by , on 21 May 2025

The Company of Biologists currently has an opportunity for a paid three-month internship to work on our community sites – the Node, preLights and FocalPlane. This is a great opportunity to gain experience in the rapidly growing online science communication environment, to develop writing skills, and to learn about academic publishing. Together, the Company’s three community sites provide platforms […]