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From Tip to Grain: Sculpting Barley Inflorescence Through the Regulation of Meristem Activity
Posted by Isaia Vardanega, on 12 June 2025
Written by Isaia Vardanega Behind the Paper Story of “CLAVATA signalling shapes barley inflorescence by controlling activity and determinacy of shoot meristem and rachilla”. Grasses play a crucial role in …How to organise events more sustainably (webinar)
Posted by Teodora Andreea Rinciog, on 10 June 2025
We are pleased to support The Pavilion for People, running alongside the 2025 UN Ocean Conference. Explore the space to learn more and share your thoughts on saving our oceans. …Catch up on Development presents… May webinar on Development’s 2024 outstanding paper prize
Posted by the Node, on 10 June 2025
Catch up on the Development presents… May webinar, featuring talks from the first authors of Development’s 2024 outstanding paper prize finalists.The Season’s Script: Tales of Metabolic adaptation #MetabolismMondays
Posted by Shefali Shefali, on 9 June 2025
All the world’s a metabolic dance, early career scientists are leading the way! Emerging perspectives in metabolism This week we’ll meet Dr Karin Van der Burg, a new faculty at …May in preprints
Posted by the Node, on 9 June 2025
Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints. The preprints this month are hosted on bioRxiv – use these links below to get to …Unfinished story: How events during development affect adult behaviour
Posted by Smrithi Murthy, on 6 June 2025
Many times, the project or PhD is over, and the paper published, and yet the story unfinished. During the course of PhD, there arise many mysterious observations and unanswered questions. …‘Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals’ course is open for registration
Posted by CSCCE, on 5 June 2025
The Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement (CSCCE) has announced its next offering of Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF25F), which will run on Mondays and Thursdays beginning Thursday, 4 …Squishing jellies!!
Posted by Yamini Ravichandran, on 4 June 2025
Behind the paper: “Topology changes of Hydra define actin orientation defects as organizers of morphogenesis”Visualizing with Vibes: Potential and Pitfalls
Posted by Joachim Goedhart, on 2 June 2025
Anyone—regardless of coding skills—should be able to generate a publication-quality plot of their data in minutes. That was the main motivation to develop a series of web apps to make …Switching Gears: Metabolic Rewiring in Cancer #MetabolismMondays
Posted by Shefali Shefali, on 2 June 2025
The world’s a metabolic dance & early career scientists are leading the way! Emerging perspectives in metabolism This week, we explore the story of Dr. Luis Cedeno-Rosario, a postdoctoral researcher …Subscribe to our mailing list
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- Bioinformatics Bootcamp – Zebrafish Special Edition by Kevin Thiessen
- Because I had a long incubation time, I’m more resilient to the stress that comes with an academic career
- GRS Developmental Biology 2025 Image gallery
- YEN Image Competition 2025 by Matyas Bubna-Liti
- From Shifting Skies to Toxic Tides: A Tale of Flies & Flux #MetabolismMondays by Shefali
- The Fat of the Matter: To know a fly, To know ourselves #MetabolismMondays by Shefali
- #DanioDigest (April 2025) by Zebrafish Rock!
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