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This month on the Node and beyond

Posted by , on 7 February 2017

January was a productive month on the Node, with a variety of developmental biology content from the lab bench and beyond.

 

Research

We heard from the authors of a bunch of recent papers, including Ripla Arora on her recent Development paper on imaging the implanting embryo and uterine environment in 3D, and Kyle Martin on his recent PNAS paper which links taste, teeth and scales in sharks.

 

 

Nitya Ramkumar told us what Crumbs has to do with cell shape and gastrulation, highlighting her recent NCB paper, and Sylvia Dyballa and Cristina Pujades intorduced their eLife paper on using 4D imaging to understand inner ear morphogenesis. Highlighting another eLife paper, Ko Currie told us how planarian adults controlled neurogenesis.

 

People

Our People behind the Papers series continued with Miguel Brun-Usan and Isaac Salazar-Ciudad (University of Helsinki) on modelling and embryology, and Ehsan Pourkarimi and Iestyn Whitehouse (Sloan-Kettering, NY) on DNA replication and gene transcription.

 

 

Isabel Almudi, a postdoc in Fernando Casares’ lab in Seville, walked us through a day in the life of a mayfly lab and the beautiful eyes of the male flies.

 

 

We heard from three Company of Biologists Travelling Fellows – Hanna Hakkinen,  Nanami Morooka and Tetsuto Miyashita – who collectively crossed continents to learn new techniques in host labs.

 

 

Testsuto also told us about a meeting he had been to: the First International Hemichordate Meeting, and celebrated the potential of this enigmatic group of animals. We also heard from four undergraduate students who had received the Gurdon/The Company of Biologists Summer Studentships from the BSDB.

 

Beyond the lab

Valerie Butler argued for culturally relevant science education, to increase engagement and representation. Finally, a couple of resources: first in our latest round up of developmental biology preprints, and second in the awesome Lifemap, a zoomable and addictive online tool for exploring the tree of life, as introduced by its creator Damien de Vienne.

 

Around the web

 

The best tweets

 

 

https://twitter.com/AuditoryNerves/status/824301219460030464

 

 

 

https://twitter.com/FredrikJutfelt/status/823512955522256896

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://twitter.com/vividbiology/status/818491340489162752

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://twitter.com/debivort/status/823934351985545216

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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