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Last month on the Node: March 2013

Posted by , on 2 April 2013

We had another busy month on the Node, with posts and comments relating to research articles, upcoming meetings, resources for developmental biologists…and, of course, the stem cell image contest.

 

Here’s a round-up of some of the highlights:

 

Stem cell image contest

160px-A_coloured_voting_boxVoting for the stem cell image contest opened earlier this month, and we’ve had close to 2000 votes in so far. It looks like a close race between a couple of the images – which is your favourite? Get your vote in if you haven’t done so already! Voting will close at noon GMT on Wednesday 10th April.

The winning image will appear on a cover of Development as well as on the new stem cell pages we’re developing for the journal’s website.

 

 

Research

– Over the last couple of years, Kim Cooper (a post-doc in the Tabin lab) has been providing us with updates (see her intro post here) from her multiple trips to China, during which time she has been collecting jerboas. This month, Kim shared with us the news of the first research article using jerboas to answer a fundamental question in developmental biology.

– Cat Vicente highlighted an cracking (!) paper on the development of crocodile head scales.

– We heard more about a recent paper that identified hair cell progenitors in the postnatal cochlea.

 

Resources

As always, the Node  proved to be a great place to find and share useful resources. This month we were introduced to:

– an updated toolkit of stem cell resources.

CiteAb: a search engine for antibodies.

PostPostDoc: a website for PhDs and postdocs.

 

Meetings

Mariana Delfino-Machin reported back from the RIKEN CDB Symposium: “The Making of a Vertebrate”

A number of upcoming meetings were also announced:

– the EMBO Workshop on Morphogen Gradients

– a Wellcome Trust meeting on Regenerative Medicine

– a University of Maine Developmental Biology Teaching Workshop

 

Finally, it was also a busy month in terms of job postings – a good sign really, in light of the current economic climate. To see the most recent job ads, click here. Don’t forget that it’s easy to post a job advert…or anything else that is relevant for the community…simply register and get posting!

 

 

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