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A conversation with the Node Community Managers, past and present

Posted by , on 24 March 2025

To mark the 15th birthday of the Node, the past and present Community Managers of the Node got together to chat about what it's like working at the Node, and ...

3rd Crick Beddington Symposium: Anterior Fates Await Those Who Migrate - How Nodal Dynamics Shape Anteroposterior Patterning

Posted by , on 14 March 2025

Although I originally set out to highlight the work of early career researchers at the symposium, Professor Vasso Episkopou’s overwhelmingly enthusiastic response coupled with my interest in anteroposterior patterning made ...

Transitions in Development  – marking the 40th interview

Posted by , on 13 March 2025

Development has just published their 40th interview in the ‘Transitions in development‘ series. This series of interviews features principal investigators (PIs) within the first five or so years of establishing ...

3rd Crick Beddington Symposium: Somites get lost without Hox keeping time

Posted by , on 7 March 2025

The 3rd Crick-Beddington Symposium, in memory of Rosa Beddington FRS (1956-2001), took place on 10th-11th February at the Francis Crick Institute, London. Rather than providing a broad summary of the ...

The SDB-BSDB interview chain: Tamina Lebek and Corie Owen

Posted by , on 17 October 2024

Read this interview with SDB and BSDB student poster prize winners Tamina Lebek and Corie Owen.

Fantastic academic jobs and how to find them 🪄

Posted by , on 10 October 2024

At preLights, the preprint highlighting service run by early-career researchers, we recently launched ‘spotLights’: a podcast series where we delve deeper into exciting preprints, featuring interviews with the scientists behind ...

An interview with Indulekha M S, Community Manager of the Indian Society of Developmental Biologists

Posted by , on 3 July 2024

In this interview, we caught up with Indulekha M S, who joined the Indian Society of Developmental Biologists (InSDB) as their Community Manager at the end of 2023.

An interview with 2024 BSDB Beddington Medal winner Delan Alasaadi

Posted by , on 19 June 2024

We recently caught up with Delan Alasaadi, who received the 2024 British Society for Developmental Biology (BSDB) Beddington Medal for the best PhD thesis in developmental biology defended in the ...

 Ancient origin of the vertebrate sympathetic nervous system

Posted by , on 1 June 2024

A recent paper “Neural crest origin of sympathetic neurons at the dawn of vertebrates” challenges the prevailing dogma that the sympathetic ganglia arose only in jawed vertebrates. Instead, based on ...

The shrimp Parhyale hawaiensis – a non-model organism research story with Dr. Michalis Averof

Posted by , on 28 April 2024

Earlier this year, my co-correspondent for the Node Brent Foster and I published a pot pourri-style interview article asking biology researchers about their work with non-model organisms (NMOs). As they ...

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