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Posted by Eva Amsen, on 7 March 2012
(This interview originally appeared in Development.) Angela Nieto is Full Professor at the Instituto de Neurociencias (CSIC-UMH) in Alicante, Spain, and Head of the institute’s Developmental Neurobiology Unit. She is ...Posted by Nishal Patel, on 5 March 2012
I recently saw a documentary about graduate students called Naturally Obsessed: The Making of a Scientist (available to watch here). It’s hour long movie follows several PhD students from Lawrence ...Posted by Natascha Bushati, on 13 February 2012
Last June, Eva summarised the Node’s alternative careers stories, personal accounts of how scientists made their transitions from research into various alternative career paths. As a friend of Andrea Hutterer, ...Posted by Michael Barresi, on 10 February 2012
Dear Developmental biology community, I would like to bring to your attention a potentially valuable resource for your teaching and research endeavors. I am a neurodevelopmental biologist at Smith College. ...Posted by Emma Kemp, on 22 December 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 ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 17 November 2011
The web comic Piled Higher and Deeper (PHD) has been commiserating with graduate students since 1997. And now you can watch the comics come to live on the big screen, ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 25 October 2011
(This interview originally appeared in Development.) The Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge is a new research institute that aims to achieve an integrated understanding of plant development. Its Associate ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 19 October 2011
(This interview originally appeared in Development.) Gordon Keller is Director of the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University Health Network in Toronto, Canada. His research applies concepts from developmental ...Posted by Sasha Terashima, on 13 October 2011
What would you do if you were given $500,000 to fund your research for five years, with no strings attached –– no proposals to write, no progress reports to submit? ...Posted by Natascha Bushati, on 22 September 2011
Eric Wieschaus is a Professor at Princeton University, USA. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995, together with Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and the late Edward B. ...