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The Node is looking for a new Community Manager

Posted by , on 23 March 2021

I joined the Node and Development out of a postdoc in 2016 and now after five enjoyable years I’m moving on. I’ll write something a bit more reflective closer to ...

Community Manager: the Node

Posted by , on 19 March 2021

The Company of Biologists and its journal Development are seeking to appoint a new Community Manager to run its successful community website ‘the Node’ (https://thenode.biologists.com) and the journal’s social media ...

May the 4th (Be With You) - Registration is now open for YEN 2021!

Posted by , on 15 March 2021

The annual Young Embryologist Network Conference is happening this year on May 4th! Put the date in your calendars now!  YEN is thrilled to announce that Nobel Laureate Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard from the ...

A new look for the Node

Posted by , on 15 March 2021

We've had an upgrade for 2021 - new homepage design, jobs board and author interface

Reshaping morphogen gradients, one miRNA at a time

Posted by , on 15 March 2021

Jacqueline Copeland and Marcos Simoes-Costa Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA The neural crest has long been referred to as “the fourth germ layer” for ...

Development presents... March webinar

Posted by , on 1 March 2021

  The next webinar in our Development presents… series will be chaired by Development editor, Thomas Lecuit (Institut de Biologie du Développment de Marseille). Thomas has brought together three talks on the ...

February in preprints

Posted by , on 1 March 2021

Our monthly trawl for developmental biology (and related) preprints

Precision by design: Setting boundaries in patterning

Posted by , on 1 March 2021

Developmental patterning is an essential process for multicellular development, as it drives the cell-fate decisions that determine an organism’s body plan. One of the aspects that has fascinated me is ...

SciArt profiles: Eva Pillai

Posted by , on 26 February 2021

In our sixth excursion into the overlap between science and art we meet Eva Pillai, a postdoc in Kristian Franze’s lab at the University of Cambridge.   Where are you ...

The people behind the papers – Zhi Ye and David Kimelman

Posted by , on 21 February 2021

This interview, the 91st in our series, was published in Development last year.  The anterior to posterior extension of the vertebrate body axis relies on a population of bipotent neuromesodermal progenitors in ...

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