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Behind the paper story: From a tiny primordium to a fully developed gynoecium

Posted by , on 5 July 2024

In this post, I invite you to join me on the journey through our recent article titled “Two Orthogonal Differentiation Gradients Locally Coordinate Fruit Morphogenesis.” This story started when I ...

AdamTS matrix metalloproteases mediate basement membrane heterogeneity required for organ elongation

Posted by , on 4 July 2024

Basement membranes (BMs) are thin, specialized extracellular matrices that surround most tissues and organs (Jayadev and Sherwood, 2017). These meshworks serve as scaffolds for cell adhesion, influencing cell signaling, cell ...

An interview with Indulekha M S, Community Manager of the Indian Society of Developmental Biologists

Posted by , on 3 July 2024

In this interview, we caught up with Indulekha M S, who joined the Indian Society of Developmental Biologists (InSDB) as their Community Manager at the end of 2023.

How we found a switch from genitalia to limbs

Posted by , on 28 June 2024

While the vertebrate body consists of diverse structures formed during embryogenesis, there is a limited number of genetic regulatory modules that are repurposed in different developmental contexts. For example, the ...

PhD position at the Princess Maxima Center, Utrecht

Posted by , on 28 June 2024

We are looking for a motivated, talented and energetic PhD student to join our lab under the supervision of Dr. Benedetta Artegiani and Dr. Delilah Hendriks. Our lab has expertise ...

Microscopy Training Needs Survey

Posted by , on 20 June 2024

The Royal Microscopical Society (RMS) are currently running a Training Needs Survey, which will be live until 30th July, 2024. Fill in the survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/66TLZQW In a recent review ...

An interview with 2024 BSDB Beddington Medal winner Delan Alasaadi

Posted by , on 19 June 2024

We recently caught up with Delan Alasaadi, who received the 2024 British Society for Developmental Biology (BSDB) Beddington Medal for the best PhD thesis in developmental biology defended in the ...

Networking with the preclinical modelling community - DMM Meeting Report

Posted by , on 18 June 2024

On the 8th-10th of May Disease Models and Mechanisms organised their first journal meeting entitled Preclinical Modelling of Human Disease and Therapy to showcase the latest advances in modelling human ...

Ascidian embryonic cells offer clues to the evolutionary origin of vertebrate neural crest cells and neuromesodermal progenitors

Posted by , on 11 June 2024

Read the story behind the paper "Ascidian embryonic cells with properties of neural-crest cells and neuromesodermal progenitors of vertebrates".

May in preprints

Posted by , on 7 June 2024

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 ...

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