As well as looking for the next Executive Editor for Development, we are also recruiting a Reviews Editor on the journal. If you love developmental biology but don’t want to be ‘doing’ it any more, this is a great opportunity to stay connected to the field and the community and to help shape the content of the journal. You’ll commission and edit review-type articles and perspectives, conduct interviews, write research highlights, travel to conferences and contribute to the strategic development of the journal. As a small publishing company, you’ll get great exposure to all aspects of the business – both the publishing and the charitable side – and you’ll also get to work for an organisation that really believes in supporting the academic community. All the details can be found in the job advert on our website.
You don’t need to have prior editorial experience (though obviously we’d be delighted to receive applications from people who do); what you do need are research experience and a broad interest in the field, excellent communication skills, and a willingness to learn! If this sounds like something you might be interested in, please feel free to get in touch with informal questions, or just apply directly (instructions in the job ad). The deadline for applications is 31 March 2025.
Spotted a preprint in this list that you love? If you’re keen to gain some science writing experience and be part of a friendly, diverse and international community, consider joining preLights and writing a preprint highlight article.
Michael G. Michalopulos, Yan Liu, Dinesh Ravindra Raju, John T. Lafin, Yanru Ma, Dhruv Gaur, Sadiksha Khadka, Chao Xing, Andrew P. McMahon, Thomas J. Carroll, Keri A. Drake
Arttu Junnila, Kalle T. Rytkönen, Guillermo Martinez-Nieto, Mats Perk, Hao Li, Jenni Airaksinen, Ida Hyötyläinen, Oliver Mehtovuori, Asta Laiho, Claes Ohlsson, Laura L. Elo, Satu Kuure, Matti Poutanen, Petra Sipilä
Péter Görög, Tibor Novák, Tamás F. Polgár, Péter Bíró, Adél Gutheil, Csaba Kozma, Tamás Gajdos, Krisztina Tóth, Alexandra Tóth, Miklós Erdélyi, József Mihály, Szilárd Szikora
Ismael Hernández-Núñez, Alaina Urman, Xiaodong Zhang, William Jacobs, Christy Hoffman, Sohini Rebba, Ellen G Harding, Qiang Li, Fengbiao Mao, Andi K Cani, Shiming Chen, Meelad M Dawlaty, Rajesh C Rao, Philip A Ruzycki, John R Edwards, Brian S Clark
Ridvan Cetin, Giulia Picco, Jente van Staalduinen, Eric Bindels, Remco Hoogenboezem, Gregory van Beek, Mathijs A Sanders, Yaren Fidan, Ahmet Korkmaz, Joost Gribnau, Jeffrey van Haren, Danny Huylebroeck, Eskeatnaf Mulugeta, Frank Grosveld
Esther Rodríguez-Correa, Florian Grünschläger, Tamar Nizharadze, Natasha Anstee, Jude Al-Sabah, Vojtech Kumpost, Anastasia Sedlmeier, Congxin Li, Melanie Ball, Foteini Fotopoulou, Jeyan Jayarajan, Ian Ghezzi, Julia Knoch, Megan Druce, Theo Aurich, Marleen Büchler-Schäff, Susanne Lux, Pablo Hernández-Malmierca, Julius Gräsel, Dominik Vonficht, Anna Mathioudaki, Judith Zaugg, Ralf Mikut, Andreas Trumpp, Thomas Höfer, Daniel Hübschmann, Simon Haas, Michael D. Milsom
Nakesha Agyapong, Leslie Dominguez-Ortega, Brian Macdonough, Patrick Mulluso, Sagar Patel, Briti Prajapati, Brian Saville, Andrew Shapiro, Ethan Trim, Kara Battaglia, Jocelyn Herrera, Gianna Garifo-MacPartland, Dianne Newcombe, Latoya Okundaye, Heather Paglia, Julia Paxson
Fatemeh Mazloumi Gavgani, Johanna E.M. Kraus, Joshua November, Layla Al-Shaer, Anna Cosima Seybold, Benjamin Lerstad, Harald Hausen, Michael J. Layden, Fabian Rentzsch
Jennifer T. Stocksdale, Matthew J. Leventhal, Stephanie Lam, Yu-Xin Xu, Yang Oliver Wang, Keona Q. Wang, Reuben Tomas, Zohreh Faghihmonzavi, Yogi Raghav, Charlene Smith, Jie Wu, Ricardo Miramontes, Kanchan Sarda, Heather Johnson, Min-Gyoung Shin, Terry Huang, Mikelle Foster, Mariya Barch, Naufa Armani, Chris Paiz, Lindsay Easter, Erse Duderstadt, Vineet Vaibhav, Niveda Sundararaman, Dan P. Felsenfeld, Thomas F. Vogt, Jennifer Van Eyk, Steve Finkbeiner, Julia A. Kaye, Ernest Fraenkel, Leslie M. Thompson
Tsuyoshi Fukushima, Trine Ahn Kristiansen, Lai Ping Wong, Samuel Keyes, Yosuke Tanaka, Michael Mazzola, Ting Zhao, Lingli He, Masaki Yagi, Konrad Hochedlinger, Satoshi Yamazaki, Ruslan I. Sadreyev, David T Scadden
Matthew K. Brachmann, Ana P. B. Costa, Shaun Robertson, Kate Donoghue, Natalie Pilakouta, Mark Whitehead, Xuan Liu, Bjarni Kristjansson, Skuli Skulason, Colin Selman, Kevin Parsons
T Cool, A Rodriguez y Baena, MGE Rommel, C Mattingly, E Bachinsky, S Saini, S Chattopadhyaya, BA Manso, S Rajendiran, AK Worthington, DM Poscablo, A Deguzman, T Berger-Cahn, DF Boyd, EC Forsberg
Alejo A. Morales, Vladimir Camarena, LéShon Peart, Sarah Smithson, Lindsay Shaw, Lucy Webber, Jose M. Negron, Juan E. Sola, Ann-Christina Brady, Katherina Walz, Gaofeng Wang, Mustafa Tekin
Sofia Makieva, Mara D. Saenz-de-Juano, Carmen Almiñana, Stefan Bauersachs, Sandra Bernal-Ulloa, Min Xie, Ana G. Velasco, Natalia Cervantes, Maike Sachs, Susanne E. Ulbrich, Brigitte Leeners
Maruthi K. Pabba, Miroslav Kuba, Tomáš Kraus, Kerem Celikay, Janis Meyer, Sunik Kumar Pradhan, Andreas Maiser, Hartmann Harz, Heinrich Leonhardt, Karl Rohr, Michal Hocek, M. Cristina Cardoso
Malika Nadour, Robert I. Valette Reveno Leatis, Marie Biard, Noémie Frébault, Lise Rivollet, Philippe St-Louis, Cassandra R. Blanchette, Andrea Thackeray, Paola Perrat, Carlo Bevilacqua, Robert Prevedel, Laurent Cappadocia, Georgia Rapti, Maria Doitsidou, Claire Y. Bénard
Juyeon Hong, Chanjae Lee, Ophelia Papoulas, Jiehong Pan, Maki Takagishi, Nadia Manzi, Daniel Dickinson, Amjad Horani, Steven Brody, Edward Marcotte, Tae Joo Park, John B Wallingford
Robert N. Rainey, Sam D. Houman, Louise Menendez, Ryan Chang, Litao Tao, Helena Bugacov, Andrew P. McMahon, Radha Kalluri, John S. Oghalai, Andrew K. Groves, Neil Segil
Zebrafish Rock! celebrates its 7th anniversary since its relaunch!
Dr. Sonya Neal receives US Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Prof. Jochen Guck awarded The Greve Prize from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
Prof. Caren Norden awarded Pfizer Premio Award for Basic Research.
Prof. Iain Couzin awarded the 2024 Fyssen International Prize.
Dr.Itamar Harel promoted to Associate Professor at the The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Dr. Patrick Murphy to move to the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Cornell University.
Dr. Philip D. Campbell started as an Assistant Professor at University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Jason (Chang) Marvin awarded the 2024 MGH Center for Faculty Development (CFD) Outstanding Research Fellow Award.
Dr. Vincenzo Torraca receives the King’s College London Innovative Teaching Award.
Phoebe Reynolds wins the British Neuroscience Association (BNA) award for Public Engagement 2024.
PhDs awarded to: Dr. Caroline Zandecki of Eve Seuntjens Lab KU Leuven. Dr. Aaron Hickey of Emília Santos Lab University of Cambridge. Drs. Tuo Shi. & Chun-Che (Ted) Tseng of Gage Crump Lab at University of Southern California. Drs. Maya Wilde &Leandro Aluisio Scholz of Ethan Scott Lab at University of Melbourne.
Special thanks to Maddie Ryan, Charli Corcoran & Michaela Noskova Fairley for putting this digest together! If you would like to thank the Zebrafish Rock! team for their time & effort, you can buy us a strong cuppa at the link below. Every little bit keeps us caffeinated and motivated! We appreciate your support 🙂
The ISSCR Annual Meeting, taking place in Hong Kong on 11-14 June, is a gathering of the brightest minds in stem cell research and regenerative medicine across geographies and disciplines. Nearly 4,000 scientists from around the globe will convene at ISSCR 2025 to take part in a 4-day program comprising the year’s most significant new advances in the fields of stem cell research and regenerative medicine.
Visit https://www.isscr2025.org/ to learn more about registration, abstract submission, and to view the full scientific program. Do not miss the final opportunity to present your work at ISSCR 2025 – late-breaking abstracts are due 19 March, and there will be no deadline extensions.
The scientific program is organized around 6 tracks:
Clinical Applications
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
Global Stakeholder Initiatives
Organ Generation and Regeneration
Pluripotency and Development
Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer
The ISSCR 2025 Annual Meeting is the place to meet potential collaborators and network with stem cell and regenerative medicine researchers from around the world. One-on-One Partnering and ample networking opportunities help attendees make vital connections that drive new discoveries and accelerate progress. More than 250 scientific talks will be presented across the 4-day program, as well as 1,400+ scientific poster presentations.
Meeting Co-Chairs:
Kathryn Cheah, PhD, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Eugenia Piddini, PhD, University of Bristol, UK
Meeting Organizing Committee:
Alessandro Aiuti, MD, PhD, San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, Italy
Vivian Gama, PhD, Vanderbilt University, USA
Richard J. Gilbertson, MD PhD, CRUK Cambridge Institute, UK
Valentina Greco, PhD, Yale School of Medicine, Genetics Department & Yale Stem Cell Center, USA
Lijian Hui, PhD, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology (SIBCB), China
Tina Mukherjee, PhD, Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), India
Lygia da Veiga Pereira, PhD, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Kirstin Sadler Edepli, PhD, NYU Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Takanori Takebe, MD, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, USA and Osaka University and Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
Angela R. Wu, PhD, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
At the end of each month, I pick a random year from the past 15 years of the Node, and take a look at what people were talking about back then.
Since this is the first time I’m travelling via the Time Machine, I’ve picked the first ever February that the Node experienced, back in 2011. Let’s step into the machine, and turn the dial to February 2011…
If you scroll down to the comments section, you might find a few familiar names discussing the definitions of stem cells vs progenitors. 14 years on, what are people’s views on this?
Here, Sarah Gibb told the story of how she took the leap and applied for a job at the Glasgow Science Centre after her PhD. Since that blog post, we have featured many interesting career stories on the Node. Browse through the collection.
How amazing is this? Dresses that represent different human embryonic developmental stages. Head over to the website about the exhibit to find out more!
Emma Kemp from EuroStemCell was very active on the Node from 2011-2012. In 2020, EuroStemCell was superseded by EuroGCT, but people can still find useful resources around stem cell research on their website.
Did you know that The Company of Biologists’ journals – Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology and Disease Models & Mechanisms – offer Travelling Fellowships to early-career researchers (graduate students and postdocs) so that they can make collaborative visits to other research laboratories across the world? The first cohort of Travelling Fellowships was launched for Development in 1990, which was later extended to Journal of Cell Science (JCS) in 1992 and Journal of Experimental Biology (JEB) in 1996. Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM), being a relatively younger journal (you can read about DMM’s origin in this Editorial), offered Travelling Fellowships to ECRs since it was launched in 2008.
As we celebrate the Company’s 100th birthday in 2025 (you can find out more about us in this recent Editorial), we would love to hear stories from you – our community – about how the Company has helped you in your scientific journey. If you ever received a Travelling Fellowship that enabled you to travel to other research labs, particularly in the period from 1990 to early 2000s, do get in touch and let us know about your experience and how this has impacted your career.
You can tell us your story by sending your own digital ‘message in a bottle’ in honour of the founder of the Company, George Parker Bidder III.
You can also share your story by replying to this post or to any of our social media posts with #biologists100 hashtag on Bluesky and X.
The Company of Biologists is looking for one or more interns, through the BBSRC DTP/PIPS or equivalent schemes, to work on our community sites – the Node, preLights and FocalPlane. This is a great opportunity to gain experience in the rapidly growing online science communication environment, to develop writing skills, and to learn about academic publishing.
Together, the Company’s three community sites provide platforms for the research community to share news, discuss issues relevant to the field, and read about the latest research and events.
The Node is a field-specific site for developmental biologists, FocalPlane aims to bring together the microscopy and biology communities, and preLights is focussed on highlighting the preprint literature and exploring the journey from preprint to publication. The intern will be involved in the day-to-day running of one or more of the sites and will be mentored by the relevant Community Manager(s). The internship will be based in our office in Cambridge, though hybrid working opportunities may be available.
Core responsibilities of the position include:
Creating and commissioning content, including writing posts and soliciting content from the academic community, societies and other organisations
Providing user support
Helping to run the community site social media accounts.
The successful intern will have:
Relevant scientific expertise (ideally in the developmental or cell biology field, though we are open to applications from individuals working in other areas of biology)
Strong writing and communication skills
Keen interest in science communication, ideally including experience in blogging and/or social media. Familiarity with WordPress would be a bonus.
We are looking for an intern to start in early summer 2025 and encourage interested candidates to submit their application as soon as possible.
To apply, please send a CV and cover letter, stating why you are interested in this opportunity, to recruitment@biologists.com and Katherine Brown (Development’s Executive Editor) at katherine.brown@biologists.com. Please also direct informal enquiries to the same addresses.
Join us at the EMBO Workshop “EvoDevoTempo – Developmental Timing Across Species: From Mechanisms to Evolutionary Insights”.
Topics will include theoretical modelling, metabolism, and evolutionary biology, thus bringing a uniquely interdisciplinary perspective to the meeting.
Sessions:
Developmental timing in vivo
in vivo & in vitro models for timing
Metabolic rates and timing
in vitro & in silico models for timing
Cell dynamics and timing
Timing in homeostasis
New molecular mechanisms of timing
Where: Paris Brain Institute, France
When: May 6-9 2025
Abstract submission and registration deadline: 1 April 2025
Brief description of the project: The marine environment is under increasing thermal stress due to climate change. This is a major issue for development in poikilothermic animals that have thermal limits for correct development at the egg stage. Degradation in eggs quality has been a recent major issue in additionally for agriculture and human health. Prof Sato’s research group has been investigating the molecular basis of developmental robustness under thermal stress (https://www-p.sci.ocha.ac.jp/bio-atsuko-en/) and how environmental stress could have altered developmental pathways in the evolutionary process with a special focus on maternal factors. The goal of this project is to predict development and body patterning from initial maternal input by mathematical modelling. We also aim to identify heritable phenotypes by maternal environment, but not by the genome, using surrogate fish technology.
The student will be engaged in computer programing to create a mathematical model and molecular work involving collecting tissue and RNA samples from fish and/or tunicates. Molecular work will involve collecting tissue and RNA samples and the student will have opportunity to learn RNA extraction, PCR, immunohistochemistry, HR and imaging analysis, under the guidance of Dr. Sato. In the computational work, the student will learn programming and simulation, but this requires experience and basic skills in programming using python and R.
Applicant eligibility: A female student who has Master’s degree or going to obtain Master’s degree in a relevant field of study, either in mathematical or computer science or biological sciences with a strong computational or bioinformatics component by the starting date of PhD. We are looking for motivated student interested in animal biology, developmental biology, programming with problem solving abilities as well as resilience to solve daily problems. Research experience in molecular biology and basic programming would be advantageous. This position is open to applications from all nationalities.
Application deadline: 1 June 2025 midnight JST, open until filled.
The studentship will start 01 October 2025 the earliest. Full time only.
Let’s welcome the three new Node correspondents – Dosh Whye, Mariia Golden and Shefali! We look forward to working with them to bring you a wide range of content and perspectives for the Node. Stay tuned for their posts over the coming year.
Dosh Whye serves as the assistant director of the Human Neuron Core, where he leads the cell development and differentiation efforts to build complex 3D neural organoid models using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from pediatric patients with rare genetic neurodevelopmental disorders. Dosh has close to 20 years in the stem cell field, and he continues to be fascinated by the power of pluripotent cells and the technological advancements of stem cell applications in the fields of science & medicine. He plans to serve as a correspondent for several international stem cell research conferences, and he’s also inspired to write a Q&A blog series profiling many brilliant scientists in the stem cell field.
Mariia Golden is a third-year PhD student moving from Goethe University Frankfurt to Marburg University, Germany. She investigates dynamical morphogenetic events in insect development. She is passionate about live imaging and working with non-model organisms. As a Node correspondent, Mariia wants to promote diversity among the organisms we choose for our research questions through a series of interviews with established scientists who are enthusiastic about the topic. She also would like to highlight the topic of motherhood and scientific career, because she truly believes that the status quo should change in order to put a stop to the “brain drain” through female scientists.
Shefali is a fifth-year PhD student in the Tennessen Lab at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is broadly interested in inter-organ metabolic signaling, and her current research focuses on how glucose metabolism coordinates the brain-body growth signaling axis during Drosophila melanogaster brain development. Shefali also serves as the elected graduate student representative on the FlyBoard, where she has been working towards creating more mentoring opportunities for early career scientists. Beyond work, she enjoys learning various Latin-style dances and singing classic Hindi songs (which is her mother tongue). As a Node correspondent, she is eager to combine her scientific interests with her commitment towards building a strong and empowered scientific community. She looks forward to writing not only about the emerging field of inter-organ metabolic signaling, but also about unconventional scientific journeys, community resources, importance of mentoring, and bring in her perspective as a trainee to support incoming graduate students.
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