This month on the Node- April 2016
Posted by the Node, on 3 May 2016
Here are some of the posts we featured on the Node in the last month!
Research
– Chen-Hui wrote about skinbow, a new system to study cell dynamics during epithelial regeneration in zebrafish.
– Our latest evo devo post was by Andrew, who discusses his recent Development paper highlighting the similarities between Shh in the gill arches and the tetrapod limb.
– Icha shared a recent video protocol on how to use light sheet microscopy to image zebrafish eye development.
– Mark described how high pressure freezing can be used to study the Drosophila trachea.
– And we highlighted two classic papers recommended by James Briscoe that examine how the mouse embryo regulates its size.
Meetings
– Last month we were at the Spring Meeting of the British Society for Developmental Biology, where we interviewed the winner of the Beddington Medal for best PhD thesis Elena Scarpa, whose thesis work focused on contact inhibition in the neural crest. We also featured a new instalment of our ongoing poster interview chain, with SDB poster winner Valeria Yartseva interviewing BSDB poster winner Mathew Tata. If you weren’t at the meeting you can check out the full list of award winners here, and several of the talks, including the Waddington Medal Lecture by Enrico Coen and the Cheryll Tickle Medal lecture by Abigail Tucker are now available on YouTube!
-Also last month, Isabella reported from the Canadian Developmental Biology conference, which took place in Banff, Alberta.
– How do you mend a broken heart? A recent Company of Biologists workshop brought together experts in the field of heart development, regeneration and tissue engineering to discuss this topic, and Juliane wrote for the Node about it!
Interviews
– Last month we featured two connected interviews. The first one was with limb developmental biologist Cheryll Tickle, who told us about how the field changed during her long career as a developmental biologist. Our second interview was with Abigail Tucker, the winner of the first Cheryll Tickle medal. Abigail told us about her work on craniofacial research, the challenges and rewards of working with funky critters and the importance of science outreach.
– We also featured an interview with Drosophila genetics pioneer Gerry Rubin, originally published in Disease Models & Mechanisms.
Also on the Node
– Plagiarism, data manipulation, author disputes… what are the biggest ethical issues in life science publishing at the moment? And how can we prevent them? Share your thoughts!
– And Bento lab is a low-cost, portable DNA laboratory that aims to bring genetic analysis to everyone. Read more about this interesting project!
Happy reading!
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