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Metabolic Origins: Steering of early developmental fate #MetabolismMondays

Posted by , on 7 July 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 Kristina Stapornwongkul, a new incoming faculty at IMBA, ...

June in preprints

Posted by , on 7 July 2025

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints. The preprints this month are hosted on bioRxiv and arXiv – use these links below to ...

The Node Time Machine – June 2013

Posted by , on 27 June 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 ...

FlyCROSS 2025–26: Mentor-mentee matching program

Posted by , on 25 June 2025

Call for Mentors from the Drosophila community. The Fly Board is excited to announce the second cycle of FlyCROSS (2025–2026), following a successful launch in 2024. The goal of FlyCROSS ...

Lab meeting with the Silveira Lab

Posted by , on 24 June 2025

Meet the Silveira lab, based at the Institute of Biophysics Carlos Chagas Filho, part of the Center for Health Sciences at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

#DanioDigest (May 2025)

Posted by , on 21 June 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 ...

Development presents... early embryogenesis

Posted by , on 19 June 2025

Hear from three early-career researchers studying early embyrogenesis.

SciArt profile: Henning Falk

Posted by , on 17 June 2025

In this SciArt profile, we find out more about Henning Falk, who did a PhD in developmental biology, and now enjoys creating science-related cartoons as a freelancer.

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 ...

The Season's Script: Tales of Metabolic adaptation #MetabolismMondays

Posted by , 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 ...

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