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12 GIFs of Christmas 2019

Posted by , on 20 December 2019

In keeping with a time-honoured tradition, we recently flooded Twitter with 12 beautiful developmental biology GIFs. They came from papers published this year and feature all kinds of systems and ...

The fair winds of science: LASDB 2019 in Buenos Aires

Posted by , on 18 December 2019

The Latin American Society for Developmental Biology was founded almost two decades ago and has become a vital hub for researchers across the region. Its biennial meetings bring the community ...

PhD Studentship (Developmental Mechanics) at the Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge

Posted by , on 13 December 2019

https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/24058/ The Wellcome/Cancer Research UK Gurdon institute is a leading institution in basic research of development and cancer, embedded in the first-class interdisciplinary environment of the University. Applications are invited ...

Genomic Analyst position at Xenbase, the Xenopus Model Organism Knowledgebase

Posted by , on 12 December 2019

Xenbase (www.xenbase.org) is the Xenopus bioinformatics and genomics knowledgebase funded by the NIH/NICHHD. We have has two performance sites: the curation team at Cincinnati Children’s, Cincinnati OH (PI: Dr. Aaron ...

Translational Immunology

Posted by , on 6 December 2019

Translational Immunology 8-9 DECEMBER 2020, GHENT, BELGIUM Due to the Coronavirus, Translational Immunology and the satellite BIS meeting were postponed from 26-27 March 2020 to the end of the year. ...

Suzanne Eaton (1959-2019)

Posted by , on 6 December 2019

This obituary by Frank Jülicher was recently published in Development Suzanne Eaton, Professor at the Technical University Dresden and Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and ...

November in preprints

Posted by , on 2 December 2019

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental biology (and related) preprints.  This month we found preprints detailing extensive mouse and fly knockout resources, exploring bacterial influences on development, and investigating mechanics ...

The people behind the papers – Ding Li and Jianbo Wang

Posted by , on 29 November 2019

This interview, the 72nd in our series, was recently published in Development.  Heart development in mammals is a beautifully complex process. Patterning, proliferation and differentiation are all coordinated with cell movements and ...

EDBC 2019: preprints workshop

Posted by , on 21 November 2019

For the first time in 20 years, researchers from across the continent gathered for the European Developmental Biology Congress in Alicante, Spain (October 23-26 2019). Fortunately, we won’t have to ...

The Company of Biologists announces pilot transitional open access agreement with Jisc

Posted by , on 21 November 2019

The Company of Biologists, publisher of Development, is excited to announce a two-year pilot transitional open access (OA) agreement with Jisc from January 2020. The ‘Read and Publish’ deal will permit researchers ...

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