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The 2nd Crick-Beddington Developmental Biology Symposium: Meeting Summary
Posted by Alex Eve, on 20 October 2022
The 2nd Crick-Beddington Developmental Biology Symposium took place at The Francis Crick Institute between 9-10 October 2022. The hybrid symposium was generously funded by the MRC Rosa Beddington fund, which …From Stem Cells to Human Development 2022
Posted by Katherina Tavernini, on 14 October 2022
by Haneen Alsehli, Shrinidhi Madhusudan, Marie-Christin Leitner and Katherina Tavernini For most of us, this was the first in-person conference since starting our PhDs, or since the COVID-19 pandemic hit. All of us …Workshop commentary: Creative Science Writing
Posted by Ilaria Chiaradia, on 29 September 2022
In June 2022 The Company of Biologists organised an unusual Workshop for creative science writing. For the first time, scientists interested in communication were gathered together to experiment fiction and …Present and future of quantitative developmental biology in Les Treilles
Posted by Jean-Léon Maître, on 1 September 2022
Update 10/1/23: more on this meeting in The Lonely Pipette “Why do we go to conferences?“ What an exciting time to be studying embryonic development! Emerging experimental systems, methods and …Science through the looking glass
Posted by Eva Pillai, on 17 August 2022
The method was straightforward: take a bunch of writers, novelists, a playwright, science communicators and scientists from all over the world, from fields as diverse as astrophysics and climate science …Workshop my creative science writing with a bunch of fellow scientists and/or writers? Talk about high risk-high reward!
Posted by kmsherra, on 5 July 2022
Kristin Sherrard, Staff Scientist at the University of Chicago, shares her experiences of The Company of Biologists Workshop on ‘Creative Science Writing’.Browse upcoming events
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