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The science of the cat in your computer: our journey into crowdfunded sequencing of LilBUB

Posted by , on 27 April 2015

About a year ago – when spending some quality afterwork time on the Internet – me and my benchmate Dario stumbled upon LilBUB. If you’re an internet cat afficionado you’ve probably ...

(Developmental) Biology around the internet- April 2015

Posted by , on 22 April 2015

Here is April’s round-up of some of the interesting content that we spotted around the internet!   News & Research – There is a growing number of postdocs and not ...

BSDB nominations, a new prize and a history call

Posted by , on 20 April 2015

The BSDB committee invites self-nominations for a new post graduate representative. Please, include a short text (max. 1 page) explaining your motivation and intentions to serve on the committee. Deadline ...

Final call for YEN:2015 abstracts! Deadline tomorrow (21st)!

Posted by , on 20 April 2015

7th Young Embryologist Network Annual General Meeting 15th May 2015 09:15-17:30 King’s College London Registration and abstract submission are now open!  Abstract submission closes TOMORROW!  The 7th Young Embryologist Network ...

BSDB/BSCB awardees and new BSDB committee members

Posted by , on 16 April 2015

This is a news item which was first posted on the bsdb.org site. Please, note that not all items will be duplicated on The Node, and that only the BSDB ...

''The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.'' - The Nurse review of science funding.

Posted by , on 10 April 2015

The following is my response to the Nurse review on scientific funding call for evidence: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/nurse-review-of-research-councils-call-for-evidence Now he has lots of free time(!) having stepped down from running the Royal ...

The Node at the BSDB Spring Meeting!

Posted by , on 9 April 2015

From this Sunday the University of Warwick will be the location of this year’s British Society for Developmental Biology Spring meeting, held jointly with the British Society for Cell Biology. ...

How a new startup is bridging the gap between universities and industry

Posted by , on 3 April 2015

  About a year ago, I met someone at a conference who worked at a food chemistry lab in New Orleans. She was telling me about how her company had ...

BSDB Gurdon Summer Studenships – DEADLINE!

Posted by , on 12 March 2015

End of March is the application deadline for the Gurdon Studentship scheme. This scheme provides financial support to allow highly motivated undergraduate students an opportunity to engage in practical research ...

Woods Hole images 2014 round 3- the winner

Posted by , on 2 March 2015

And the winner of the latest round of images from the Woods Hole embryology course is… the skate embryo!   Here are the full results: – SEM of butterfly scale: ...

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