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Katherine Brown

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.

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Posts by Katherine Brown

Developing a new look

Posted by , on 17 November 2015

This editorial first appeared in Development, and it was authored by Olivier Pourquié, Katherine Brown and Claire Moulton.   As you might have noticed, Development has been looking a little ...

Editorial- Human development: a Special Issue

Posted by , on 22 September 2015

This editorial first appeared in Development.   In September 2014, Development organised a four-day workshop titled ‘From Stem Cells to Human Development’. In planning this meeting, we sought to fill ...

Development Community Survey

Posted by , on 1 September 2015

At Development, we’re always thinking about how we can best serve our community, and striving to ensure that the journal is publishing the most important and relevant research for its readership. To help ...

Development: Special Issue on Plant Development

Posted by , on 27 August 2015

Development is planning a Special Issue on Plant Development – in memory of Ian Sussex, one of the founding fathers of the plant developmental biology field. Ian passed away earlier this ...

Resources for Developmental Biologists

Posted by , on 16 July 2015

At last week’s SDB Meeting in Utah, I attended the ‘Imaging Workshop’, which was designed to give attendees an overview of some of the imaging-based resources available to the community, ...

Recent jobs by Katherine Brown

Reviews Editor for the journal Development

Posted by , 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 […]

Community Manager: the Node

Posted by , 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 […]

Recent comments by Katherine Brown

I love how the Zoology museum has opened up in recent years - I visit regularly with my toddler, who loves looking at the specimens (though generally keeps me running after him too much for me to have found all the 'growing a backbone' exhibits!). It's a far cry from my earlier experience of the museum, having undergrad supervisions looking at the display cases - which certainly weren't interrupted by over-excited children or harried mothers...! Thanks to all the team at the museum for making it such a welcoming place for families, while still keeping the science at the heart of what they do.
by Katherine Brown in An afternoon in the museum with an exploded skull and a 3.5m python skeleton on March 19, 2024
Agreed - we definitely expected to see more disruption. And while all the averages look normal, I think it's fair to say that we've seen greater variation in some of these metrics than most years! I also think we might continue to see effects well into the future as the long-term consequences of delayed experiments, lab shutdowns and funding squeezes continue to play out.
by Katherine Brown in Development through the pandemic on December 3, 2020
Indeed - and it's those corridor (or exhibition hall) conversations at conferences that are particularly hard to replace virtually. Hopefully we'll figure out better ways of doing this in the online space, and hopefully we'll be able to do it again in person one day!
by Katherine Brown in Staying connected during the COVID19 pandemic on May 22, 2020
Thanks for posting Sofia - this was a great idea and glad to hear it went well. What kind of 'objects' did the scientists bring along, and did some things work better than others to initiate discussion?
by Katherine Brown in Opening the doors of scientific conferences to local citizens on November 28, 2018
I'm interested to know whether any Node readers have experience with using sites like ReviewerCredits or Publons - why did you sign up, what do you get out of it and how do you think journals should engage with these initiatives? Any comments gratefully received below!
by Katherine Brown in Recognition and metrics for peer review activity: reviewercredits.com on April 26, 2017