News from Development: January 2025
Posted by the Node, on 22 January 2025
[This January newsletter was originally sent out to Development’s journal news mailing list.]
Welcome to Development’s January newsletter. We’ll start by wishing all our readers a happy and productive 2025, which – as highlighted below – marks The Company of Biologists’ 100th birthday.
Celebrating 100 years of The Company of Biologists
Development’s publisher, The Company of Biologists, was founded in 1925 and this year marks our 100th anniversary. You can find out more about the history and ethos of this unique organisation in our January Editorial. We’ll be celebrating throughout the year with content in the journal, our community sites and on social media – check out the #100biologists hashtag on Bluesky and X to find out about some of the extraordinary scientists who’ve been associated with the Company over our long history. We’d also love to hear your stories – how has the Company supported you in your career? Please send us your ‘message in a bottle’ to let us know.
The centrepiece of our celebrations is the Biologists @ 100 conference, being held in Liverpool 24-27 March 2025. We’d love to see you there. The registration deadline is 28 February 2025.
Constructive Critics: Development’s approach to peer review
We all know that the peer review process isn’t perfect and here at Development we’re always trying to find ways to ease the path to publication without compromising our high standards. This Editorial summarises some of the things we’ve done in recent years, including our latest recommendation that authors should include a ‘Limitations’ section in their article – providing the opportunity for frank discussion of potential caveats of the work.
We also invite you to read the follow-up blog posts to this Editorial, written by our Editor-in-Chief James Briscoe and Executive Editor Katherine Brown, and we welcome your thoughts on this – feel free to comment over on the Node.
Lifelong Development: the Maintenance, Regeneration and Plasticity of Tissues
We are delighted to announce a call for papers for our 2025 special issue. Guest-edited by Meritxell Huch and Mansi Srivastava, working alongside our team of Academic Editors, this issue will focus on developmental processes beyond the embryo. Full details of the scope of the issue can be found on our website and you’re welcome to send us a presubmission enquiry if you’re unsure whether the scope of your work fits within this issue.
Pathway to Independence programme: call for applications
Are you a postdoc planning to go on the job market this year? Could you benefit from some mentorship, training and networking opportunities? If so, Development’s Pathway to Independence programme could be for you. Now in its third year, this competitive scheme aims to support postdocs as they seek their first independent position: we welcome applications from across the globe and look forward to growing our network of PI fellows.
The Company of Biologists’ Grants and Workshops: upcoming deadlines
Pathway to Independence programme: 31 January 2025
Travelling Fellowships: 31 January 2025
Scientific Meeting Grants and Sustainable Conferencing Grants: 7 March 2025
JCS-FocalPlane Training Grants (for attending a microscopy training course): 7 March 2025
Recent highlights from the journal
Allometry in limb regeneration and scale-invariant patterning as the basis of normal morphogenesis from different sizes of blastemas
Yoshihiro Morishita, Akira Satoh and colleagues
Axolotl limb regeneration demonstrates scale-invariant patterning and allometric scaling, ensuring consistent limb morphogenesis from varying blastema sizes through coordinated Shh and Fgf8 signaling.
Early autonomous patterning of the anteroposterior axis in gastruloids
Vikas Trivedi and colleagues
Autonomous anteroposterior polarization in aggregates of mouse embryonic stem cells illustrates how alternative initial cell states between the embryo and the aggregates may converge onto similar fates.
SLC25A1 regulates placental development to ensure embryonic heart morphogenesis
Ming Sun, Zhongzhou Yang and colleagues
The mitochondrial citrate carrier, SLC25A1, regulates trophoblast differentiation and placental development to safeguard embryonic heart formation.
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