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On the Shape of Life: meeting report, SFBD meeting 2025

Posted by , on 15 June 2025

Recently, I attended ‘Shaping Life 3’, the quadrennial meeting of the French Society of Developmental Biology (SFBD). The first of these meetings happened in 2016: that’s where my current PI ...

Postdoc position: the development of electrosensory organs in weakly electric fishes

Posted by , on 13 June 2025

Clare Baker’s lab (https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/clare-baker) at the University of Cambridge is looking for a second postdoc to join the lab for a Leverhulme Trust-funded project on the development and evolution of ...

May in preprints

Posted by , 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 ...

Walentek Lab - Multiple Postdoc and PhD positions for ERC funded project MAGIX

Posted by , on 7 June 2025

University Freiburg Medical Center is a leading institution in biomedical research in the heart of Europe with close associations to other institutions and centers in the tri-national Eucor area (Germany, ...

Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Cardiovascular Genomics

Posted by , on 31 May 2025

🫀Job alert 🧬 come and be our colleague at the University of Oxford! Join a BBSRC-funded consortium aiming to understand how the human heart develops – you will be contributing ...

#DanioDigest (April 2025)

Posted by , on 24 May 2025

An easily-consumable recap of the latest happenings in the #zebrafish community and beyond! Use these links below to get to the section you want: Community news Zebrafish careers Publications Preprints ...

Because I had a long incubation time, I'm more resilient to the stress that comes with an academic career

Posted by , on 23 May 2025

No such thing as a standard career path – an interview with Eve Seuntjens

Hello from Alex (reprise)

Posted by , on 13 May 2025

About 6.5 years ago now, I wrote my first post for the Node, ‘Hello from Alex‘, introducing myself as a new Reviews Editor for Development. I was thrilled by the ...

The end of an era

Posted by , on 6 May 2025

As you may have seen in an earlier post, I’m moving on from Development after 13+ years as the journal’s Executive Editor. The good news (for me at least!) is ...

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE (postdoc) in DEVELOPMENTAL GENOMICS

Posted by , on 6 May 2025

The Williams lab at the University of Manchester is looking for an enthusiastic postdoc to join our team studying gene regulatory networks underlying cell fate decisions from the neural plate ...

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