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Improving the visibility of developmental biology: time for induction and specification

Posted by , on 6 February 2019

This Spotlight article by Len Zon originally appeared in Development as part of our ‘Advocating developmental biology‘ campaign. We’d love to hear what you think about Len’s ideas. Developmental biology ...

Experimenting with non-anonymous peer review

Posted by , on 3 February 2019

Last year, I started to experiment with signing my reports for peer review of manuscripts, inspired by other people on twitter (@kaymtye, @AndrewPlested who in turn were inspired by Leslie ...

January in preprints

Posted by , on 1 February 2019

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental biology (and related) preprints.  January was notable for the number of preprints on Xenopus development, plus a trio on Piezo channels, two on ctenophores, ...

What makes preprints popular?

Posted by , on 31 January 2019

A team of preLights selectors respond to a meta-analysis of bioRxiv preprints. Gautam Dey, Zhang-He Goh, Lars Hubatsch, Maiko Kitaoka, Robert Mahen, Máté Palfy, Connor Rosen and Samantha Seah* *all ...

Embryos on the front, embryologists on the back

Posted by , on 23 January 2019

Applications for Embryology 2019 are due on February 1. Apply here! In this post, I share how I learned about the Embryology course, what made me apply and what I ...

Group leaders in Developmental Biology & Neuroscience - Paris

Posted by , on 23 January 2019

The Institute of Biology of the École Normale Supérieure (IBENS) is seeking to recruit group leaders in Developmental Biology and Neuroscience.   IBENS develops advanced and original studies aiming at ...

Old and new: developmental biologists meet among the redwoods

Posted by , on 22 January 2019

Aidan Maartens & Jordan Ward   The Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Conference happens every couple of years in UCSC’s beautiful campus, and is seen as a kind of West Coast ...

Vilaiwan Fernandes: SCDB Young Investigator Award Winner

Posted by , on 22 January 2019

Last year I was lucky enough to travel to California for the first time for the Santa Cruz Developmental Biology meeting – see the meeting report, written with Jordan Ward, here. ...

The people behind the papers – Dongbo Shi and Thomas Greb

Posted by , on 19 January 2019

This interview, the 56th in our series, was recently published in Development Radial growth in plants is driven by proliferating cells in the cambium that give rise to the vascular tissues ...

The people behind the papers – Daniela Chavez and Gillian Stanfield

Posted by , on 18 January 2019

This interview, the 55th in our series, was published in Development last year Sperm development and differentiation are regulated by somatic cells and the extracellular signals they produce – often regulators of ...

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