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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 ...

Behind the paper: “Temporal variability and cell mechanics control robustness in mammalian embryogenesis”

Posted by , on 15 December 2024

The massive presence of disorder and variability challenges the traditional metaphor of the developmental process as a perfectly executed program leading to precise mechanisms at every level [1,2]. Yet, the ...

November in preprints

Posted by , on 10 December 2024

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 ...

Junior group leader positition at Institut Pasteur

Posted by , on 8 December 2024

The Institut Pasteur is opening a call for junior group leader. Among the different axis covered, one will be related to developmental biology (https://research.pasteur.fr/fr/call/call-for-applications-2025-creation-of-new-research-groups-at-the-institut-pasteur/). Highly attractive packages to match the ...

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