Katherine Brown, Author at the Node

About: Katherine Brown

Biography:: I'm the Executive Editor of Development. My job involves working with the academic editors and the in-house team on the content and production of the journal, commissioning and editing review articles, attending conferences and generally keeping up-to-date with the field and the community. In my earlier life I was a developmental biologist working on eye morphogenesis in flies and then fish, before a stint as an editor at The EMBO Journal.
Website:: http://dev.biologists.org

Posts by Katherine Brown:

Development and the COVID-19 pandemic

Posted by Katherine Brown on March 23rd, 2020

Last week, I and the rest of the Development team said goodbye to our lovely office, and a new era of remote working has begun. But we’re lucky – editorial work can (we hope!) proceed pretty much as normal from our desks at home. Of course, things are not so easy for researchers: shutting down[…]

EDBC 2019: preprints workshop

Posted by Katherine Brown on November 21st, 2019

For the first time in 20 years, researchers from across the continent gathered for the European Developmental Biology Congress in Alicante, Spain (October 23-26 2019). Fortunately, we won’t have to wait another 20 years for the next one – it will be held next in the UK in 2023. But in addition to a fantastic[…]

Publishing Fly Research

Posted by Katherine Brown on May 9th, 2019

Back in January, The Cambridge Fly Club held a symposium to mark 25 years since the publication of the famous Gal4/UAS paper (Brand & Perrimon, 1993 – published in Development); the organisers have posted a meeting report here. As part of this symposium, the organisers asked me to give a talk on ‘Publishing Fly Research’.[…]

Publishing peer review reports

Posted by Katherine Brown on September 5th, 2018

Last week, Development and our sister journal Journal of Cell Science signed an open letter coordinated by ASAPbio, signalling our intention to publish peer review reports alongside published papers. I’m really delighted to be making this commitment and wanted to take the opportunity to say a few words about our thinking behind this decision. So[…]

Scientific Reviews Editor for Development

Posted by Katherine Brown on July 25th, 2018

We are still looking for a Scientific Reviews Editor for the journal Development – for full details, please see the job advert here. You may have noticed that this is not the first time we’ve posted this job. While we would ideally be hoping to recruit someone with some previous editorial experience, we don’t want[…]

Reviews Editor for the journal Development

Posted by Katherine Brown on May 17th, 2018

We are currently seeking applications for the role of Reviews Editor for the journal Development, our flagship journal for the developmental biology and stem cell community. This is a permanent, full-time position. Joining an experienced and successful team, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant contribution to one of the major journals in[…]

Scientific Copy Editor for the journal Development

Posted by Katherine Brown on March 29th, 2018

The Company of Biologists is looking to recruit a Scientific Copy Editor for the journal Development – one of the leading international journals in the field of developmental biology. This is a permanent full-time position. The role entails copyediting articles to a high standard, compiling author corrections, overseeing the journal production process, and liaising with[…]

Developmental biology: ‘not a confined, specified discipline’?

Posted by Katherine Brown on January 10th, 2018

Catching up after the holidays, I finally got around to reading Scott Gilbert‘s recently published essay in PloS Biology. In case you haven’t seen it yet, the essay proposes that developmental biology is ‘the stem cell of biological disciplines’, and that many other areas of biology – such as cell biology, genetics, immunology, oncology and[…]

Development introduces format-free submission

Posted by Katherine Brown on April 20th, 2017

At Development, we are committed to making submission as easy as possible for our authors. We realise that submitting a paper to any journal can be a lengthy process: authors are asked to comply with detailed journal-specific guidelines without knowing whether the paper will be accepted or even peer-reviewed. We are therefore delighted to announce[…]

The Naked Scientists: from stem cells to brain cells

Posted by Katherine Brown on April 12th, 2017

Last Sunday evening found me sitting in the BBC Cambridge radio studio, headphones on and mic in front of me, talking about developmental and stem cell biology with Dr. Chris Smith, better known as the naked scientist. Fortunately, both of us were fully clothed. For those of you who aren’t familiar with The Naked Scientists,[…]

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