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Second Symposium on Women in Tunicate Biology: March 25-26, 2025

Posted by , on 10 January 2025

Dear Colleagues,Happy New Year! Two years ago, we organized the inaugural symposium dedicated to Women in Tunicate Biology. It was a joyful event, celebrating women scientists from the 19th century ...

PhD position in cancer neuroscience

Posted by , on 7 January 2025

A 4-year funded PhD position in understanding the molecular and cellular crosstalk between cancer and the nervous system has become available at Umeå University, Sweden. The project is multidisciplinary – ...

Biological Research Trump Cards: from fruit flies to stem cells... who will come out on top?

Posted by , on 6 January 2025

In 2023 I was awarded a NC3Rs 20th Anniversary Public Engagement Award to develop and print a “Biological Research Trump Cards” game. I have now designed and printed 100 packs ...

December in preprints

Posted by , on 3 January 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 ...

Fully-funded PhD position available - Mining white blood cell diversity to enhance phagocytosis - deadline 6th Jan

Posted by , on 2 January 2025

A fully-funded PhD position is available to study macrophage biology using fruit flies in the Evans lab at the University of Sheffield. The project is funded by the BBSRC and ...

Genetics Society - Communicating Your Science workshop

Posted by , on 31 December 2024

The application deadline for the workshop is the 24th of January. This is a residential workshop at Chicheley Hall on 2nd- 4th April 2025. An important part of science is getting your ...

2024: that's a wrap!

Posted by , on 28 December 2024

With almost 200 posts published on the Node in 2024, below are just a few of our highlights. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the Node in the ...

PhD studentship opportunity at City St George's University of London

Posted by , on 17 December 2024

Title of project: Functional characterisation of FRIZZLED5 variants associated with coloboma and microphthalmia   Supervisory Team – Dr Florencia Cavodeassi – fcavodea@sgul.ac.uk Dr Alan Pittman – apittman@sgul.ac.uk Dr Christopher Carroll ...

Become a Node correspondent

Posted by , on 17 December 2024

Enthusiastic about science communication and looking for a chance to broaden your writing experience alongside your research activities? We would like to appoint three correspondents who will play a key ...

Peer review - why we need it and what we need

Posted by , on 16 December 2024

Hopefully some of you will have seen the recent editorial in Development on our approach to peer review. If you haven’t read it yet, please do take a look. In ...

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