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.
Posted by Katherine Brown, on 6 October 2023
As readers of the Node’s monthly preprint round-up will know, it can be hard to keep up with the ever-growing number of preprints. That’s one of the reasons why Development ...Posted by Katherine Brown, on 4 October 2023
We currently have several vacancies across our journals – if you’re interested in a career in publishing (or are already working as an editor but looking for a move), and ...Posted by Katherine Brown, on 21 December 2022
At Development, we know that going on the job market and then setting up a lab is a real crunch time in an academic’s career, and not everyone receives the ...Posted by Katherine Brown, on 21 December 2022
It’s musical chairs at The Company of Biologists at the moment (though fortunately without any chairs actually being removed!) – after Seema Grewal left Development last month to become the ...Posted by Katherine Brown, on 9 November 2022
Over the last few months, I’ve been involved in a project coordinated by ASAPbio looking at the potential benefits of, and challenges with using, public preprint peer review – for ...Posted by Katherine Brown, on 11 October 2022
Development, published by The Company of Biologists, is currently seeking applications for a Reviews Editor, a role that has become available following an internal promotion. Development is our flagship journal for the developmental biology and stem cell community. Joining an experienced and successful team, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant contribution to […]
Posted by Katherine Brown, on 19 March 2021
The Company of Biologists and its journal Development are seeking to appoint a new Community Manager to run its successful community website ‘the Node’ (https://thenode.biologists.com) and the journal’s social media activities. Launched in 2010, the Node is the place for the developmental biology community to share news, discuss issues relevant to the field and read […]
