the community site for and by developmental biologists
the community site for and by developmental biologists
Posted by Emma Kemp on December 22nd, 2011
It’s been a busy year for EuroStemCell: Europe’s stem cell hub – see www.eurostemcell.org for more information on who we are. We’d like to wish The Node community a happy festive season and a great start to 2012. But before we say goodbye to 2011, we thought you might be interested to know about some[…]
Posted by Lucia Prieto Godino on October 27th, 2011
We have now finished the first two weeks of the course. Over these two weeks the students have learned about Drosophila as a model organism and how to set-up a Drosophila lab. They have learn about the genetics of Drosophila, which took quite some time, but now I am sure it is almost like their[…]
Posted by MaryWilliams on October 13th, 2011
Teaching Tools in Plant Biology is an online educational resource published by The Plant Cell and the American Society of Plant Biologists. Each Teaching Tool includes a set of about 100 PowerPoint slides, a review article suitable for undergraduates with hyperlinked reading lists, and a teaching guide that includes learning objectives and discussion questions. Each[…]
Posted by Lucia Prieto Godino on October 7th, 2011
This is the first post of others to come on the first course on insect neuroscience and Drosophila neurogenetics in Uganda, that is being partially funded by The Company of Biologist. The motivation for organizing the course is that currently in East Africa, and most parts of Africa, research in experimental neuroscience is carried out[…]
Posted by Eva Amsen on September 26th, 2011
Whether you’re familiar with the web comic or not, most of you will probably recognize your own current or past career as a graduate student in the new PHD Comics movie. PHD Movie Trailer from PHD Comics on Vimeo. It’s playing at university campuses across the world. If your city is not on the list,[…]
Posted by Syed on September 20th, 2011
Okinawa institute of Science and technology (OIST), situated on Okinawa Island is an ideal and inspiring place to discuss and learn science. The student participants and mentors of the developmental neurobiology course (July 17- 31, 2011) were from every corner of the globe. The course began with a wonderful talk about history of developmental neuroscience by[…]
Posted by Roberto Mayor on July 25th, 2011
Top Developmental Biologists meet in Chile for a laboratory and lecture course
Posted by Eva Amsen on March 31st, 2011
Every two years, the German society for developmental biology (Gesellschaft für Entwicklungsbiologie – GfE) hands out an award for the best PhD thesis of the previous two years. At their society meeting last week, this award went to Marion Silies, for her PhD thesis on glial cell migration. I met up with Marion after her[…]
Posted by Lance Davidson on March 8th, 2011
The Third USNCB Symposium on Frontiers in Biomechanics: Mechanics of Development June 21, 2011, Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, Farmington, PA In the fields of tissue engineering, synthetic biology, and regenerative medicine, much can be learned by studying how nature creates tissues and organs in the embryo. Accordingly, the last decade has seen rapidly expanding interest among[…]
Posted by Nipam on February 8th, 2011
Dear students, postdocs and mentors, We write to share our enthusiasm about the MBL Embryology course and to encourage graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to apply for the 2011 summer course “Embryology: Concepts and Techniques in Modern Developmental Biology” at the Marine Biological Laboratory from June 5 – July 17, 2011. The application deadline has[…]
