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Posted by Katherine Brown on June 30th, 2020
When COVID-19 hit Europe, it quickly became clear that holding scientific conferences was not going to be possible (or responsible) for some time, and that we weren’t going to be able to gather in September for Development’s 4th From Stem Cells to Human Development conference. Having been deeply involved in this meeting series since its[…]
Posted by the Node on June 30th, 2020
The scuttling of conferences by COVID-19 has deprived scientists of one of their main ways to network*. Gone now are the chance (or not so chance) encounters with people you know only from author lists as you stand in line for coffee between talks, in elevators or bars, at poster sessions and organised socials…This new world[…]
Posted by the Node on June 29th, 2020
Updated 29 June. Let us know if we missed anything Various organisations and looser assemblies of locked down researchers have begun to put together online seminar and talk series, many of which are open to anyone (usually with registration), and many of which also have previous talks recorded. Here’s a list of what we’ve[…]
Posted by the Node Interviews on June 29th, 2020
Of the many virtual seminar series that have sprung up in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, one in particular caught our eye – the New PIs in Cell and Developmental Biology Forum (you can follow updates and find information by following #NewPICellDev on Twitter). To find out more about the series we met Salah Elias,[…]
Posted by the Node on June 17th, 2020
The Company of Biologists Workshops provide leading experts and early-career researchers from a diverse range of scientific backgrounds with a stimulating environment for the cross-fertilisation of interdisciplinary ideas. The programmes are carefully developed and are intended to champion the novel techniques and innovations that will underpin important scientific advances. The Workshops really are fantastic events, but[…]
Posted by npujol on June 2nd, 2020
EWM2020 meeting is going online June 22nd-23rd. follow by a Poster Session June 29-30th with new abstract submission Details at shorturl.at/mvFY7 & Twitter Ewbank Pujol lab #EWM2020; Wormbase (+1 rating, 1 votes)Loading…
Posted by Katherine Brown on May 21st, 2020
Among many other (many more important) things, pandemic times have meant an end to travel, which for the Development team means no conferences and no lab visits. For me personally, it’s meant cancelled trips to Shanghai, Kyoto, Washington and Chicago, and while I’m delighted to be keeping my carbon footprint down, I’m definitely missing the[…]
Posted by amyldickson on April 21st, 2020
The Southeast Regional Society for Developmental Biology Conference will be held virtually in a Zoom Webinar on May 20-21. Registration is required for all attendees by May 6, 2020 (limited space). Registration is Free, please use Fee Waiver Code: FREE when completing your registration. Abstract submission for short talks will be through April 30, with notification[…]
Posted by Amanda Amodeo on April 3rd, 2020
Meeting report: 2nd EMBO workshop “Awakening of the genome: the maternal-to-zygotic transition” Amanda Amodeo1*, Johanna Gassler2* and Ksenia Kuznetsova3*, Philip Zegerman4 *These authors contributed equally Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics. Carl Icahn Laboratory Washington Rd., Princeton University. Princeton, NJ 08544 Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA), Vienna Biocenter[…]
Posted by the Node on March 18th, 2020
BSDB/GenSoc 2020 had a fantastic planned line up of plenary speakers. Over the past three days we managed to sit down for a virtual chat with five of them – in these short videos, you’ll hear about their science, their connection to the BSDB, how the coronavirus has been affecting their labs, and more. […]
