Reminder: Essay Competition
Posted by the Node, on 20 June 2012
Less than two weeks to go until the deadline for our essay competition! How is it going? Have you finished your first draft? If you haven’t started yet, you still have time to finish an essay about the future of developmental biology before the July 2nd deadline. Good luck!
Here’s all the information from the original announcement, once more:
If you’d like to share your thoughts about the future of the field, the Node and Development invite you to participate in our essay competition “Developments in development”. Your essay can describe the direction of a particular area of research, the emergence of new techniques or model organisms, career prospects, ethics, publishing, policies or other topics that will shape the future of developmental biology research.
A panel of judges will select the top entries, after which a public vote on the Node will determine the final winner. The winning essay will appear in Development later this year. All finalists posted on the Node will receive an Amazon gift certificate worth £50.
Judges:
Olivier Pourquié – Editor-in-Chief of Development
Claire Ainsworth – science writerThis competition is open to anyone who is involved in developmental biology research, or related fields (such as stem cell science or genetics), or has been within the past three years. PhD students, postdocs, and lab heads all qualify! (N.B. Final year undergraduates and MSc students with at least a year or so of lab experience under their belt may also submit. As long as you know something about developmental biology.)
Please note that the final essays as selected by the judges will not be copy-edited before they appear on the Node. If you’re not confident about your English grammar and spelling, we recommend that you have a (near-)native speaker read over your essay before submitting it. The final winning entry will be copy-edited before publication in Development.
Deadline for submission is July 2nd, 2012 (noon GMT).
Maximum length: 2000 words
Please submit your essay, with a title and your name, as a Word attachment to thenode@biologists.com, and include a brief biography in your email (not in the essay).More information can be found in the full competition rules, and in our terms and conditions for competitions.
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When is it going to be decided which essays will be chosen for public vote?
The judges are reading the submissions at the moment, and we’ll hope to have the shortlist up some time next week.