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Development's Pathway to Independence programme: meet the 2025 fellows

Posted by , on 19 August 2025

Earlier in 2025, we welcomed our third cohort of Development’s Pathway to Independence (PI) fellows – researchers whom we will be supporting as they transition from postdoc to Principal Investigator. ...

July in preprints

Posted by , on 12 August 2025

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints. The preprints this month are hosted on bioRxiv.

Could you be the Node's next Community Manager?

Posted by , on 12 August 2025

The Company of Biologists is recruiting a new Community Manager for the Node - a community site hosted by Development for developmental and stem cell biologists.

FlyCROSS 2025–26: Call for Drosophila early career scientists

Posted by , on 1 August 2025

Do not miss this call for mentees from the Drosophila community. The Fly Board is excited to announce the second cycle of FlyCROSS (2025–2026). The goal of FlyCROSS is to ...

The Node Time Machine – July 2013

Posted by , on 31 July 2025

At the end of each month, I pick the same month from a random year from the past 15 years of the Node, and take a look at what people ...

InSDB-ISD Joint Meeting 2025

Posted by , on 28 July 2025

The Indian Society of Developmental Biologists (InSDB) is hosting our 2025 meeting from December 14–17 at IISER Berhampur. This year will be a joint meeting with the International Society for ...

The Node at 15 - Then and now with Helena Jambor

Posted by , on 23 July 2025

The Node is 15 years old this year! We thought it’d be fun to get in touch with prolific authors of the Node over the past 15 years, revisit the ...

3 year Research Assistant position in the St Johnston group in the Gurdon Institute

Posted by , on 22 July 2025

Applications are invited for a Research Assistant position in the group of Prof Daniel St Johnston at the Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge. The post is available for up to ...

Between Molecules and Milestones: Tales from Seattle to Heidelberg for grad school

Posted by , on 21 July 2025

We pick up where we left off with Anna-Lena Vigil, now a PhD candidate in the Crocker Group at EMBL, as her journey unfolds to moments beyond the bench that ...

Closing the chapter: Goodbye from Joyce

Posted by , on 17 July 2025

Today marks the end of the chapter for my time at the Node and Development. What a ride it has been! I don’t think you can find many jobs like ...

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