Development presents… the environment and evolution
Posted by the Node, on 5 January 2026

In mid-January, we will hear from three of Development’s Pathway to Independence (PI) fellows studying development, evolution and the environment. Chaired by one of Development’s first PI fellows, Priti Agarwal, Principal Investigator of the Organ Mechanobiology Lab at The National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), India. Priti’s group studies the role of physical forces and their interaction with biochemical signals in regulating robust organ morphogenesis and homeostasis using C. elegans.
Wednesday 14 January – 15:00 GMT/UTC
Chee Kiang (Ethan) Ewe (Tel Aviv University)
‘Neuronal oversight of germline small RNAs prevents heat-induced sterility in Caenorhabditis elegans’
Max Farnworth (University of Bristol)
‘How the evolution of spatial foraging shaped centres of cognition in Heliconiini butterflies’
Sonya Widen (IMBA, Vienna BioCenter)
‘“Unpacking” eukaryotic horizontal gene transfer: Mavericks transfer novel “cargo” genes across the globe’
At the speakers’ discretion, the webinar will be recorded to view on demand. To see the other webinars scheduled in our series, and to catch up on previous talks, please visit: thenode.biologists.com/devpres
