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BSDB Gurdon Studentship Report – Anna Granés

Posted by , on 21 December 2022

The making of colorful neuromesodermal progenitors During the embryonic development, while the gastrulation process is taking place, cells within embryos self-organize by creating groups and layers of cells, where each ...

Molecular study of changing expression of photoreceptor genes throughout development of Anopheles gambiae

Posted by , on 18 December 2022

Hannah Cowling, MBiol at Durham University Introduction Over summer 2022, I had the opportunity to work with Dr Olena Riabinina in Insect Neuro Lab at Durham University. Her team specialises ...

A day in the life of a Trichoplax lab

Posted by , on 14 December 2022

Marvin Leria, a PhD student at Aix-Marseille University, describes a day in the life of a Trichoplax lab.

BSDB Gurdon Summer Studentship Report - Delia Capatina

Posted by , on 28 November 2022

Investigating the rules of cell-to-cell interaction during pre-somitic mesoderm elongation I discovered the field of developmental biology through independent reading during the first year of my undergraduate biomedical sciences program. ...

Conflict between neighbours: a perfect way of rebuilding a complete organ system

Posted by , on 16 November 2022

Mabel Mathew gives us some insights into the story behind their paper on the mechanism underlying de novo shoot regeneration.

Back-to-school: Resources for #devbio

Posted by , on 11 October 2022

In 2017, our Node Intern, Sarah Morson, revamped our ‘Resources’ topic area on the Node. With a bigger emphasis on advocacy and outreach, we also cover teaching resources, societies and ...

A Day in the Life of a Killifish Lab

Posted by , on 25 September 2022

What is a Killifish? My name is Andrew Thompson, and I am an assistant professor and principal investigator of the Xtremo-Devo Lab at Western Michigan University. In our lab, we ...

Behind the paper: Uncovering the dual origins of human cortical astrocytes

Posted by , on 18 August 2022

Behind the paper story from Denise Allen and Tomasz Nowakowski

From China to the UK - an interview with Chengting Zhang

Posted by , on 28 July 2022

Chengting Zhang is a PhD student in the laboratory of Professor Steffen Scholpp at the Living Systems Institute, UK. Originally from China, Chengting came to the UK in 2018 after ...

Journal of Cell Science 'Equity, diversity and inclusion in cell biology' essay series

Posted by , on 7 June 2022

At the end of 2021 and beginning of 2022, Journal of Cell Science (JCS) put out a call for essays on ‘Equity, diversity and inclusion in cell biology’. JCS introduced ...

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