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Posted by , on 12 August 2018

Carmen Adriaens1, Gautam Dey2, Amanda Haage3, Wouter Masselink4 *, Sundar Ram Naganathan5, Lauren Neves6, Teresa Rayon7, Samantha Seah8, Srivats Venkataramanan9.   1. Center for Cancer Biology, VIB, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium ...

Conference: Assisted Reproduction Technologies - long term perspectives

Posted by , on 9 August 2018

Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to invite you to attend the international conference: Assisted Reproduction Technologies – long term perspectives, that will take place in Auditorium Maximum of the Jagiellonian ...

The people behind the papers - Anjali Rao & Carole LaBonne

Posted by , on 9 August 2018

The neural crest is a progenitor population with the capacity to contribute to all vertebrate germ layers. The transcription factor and signalling pathway activity underlying this remarkable pluripotency have been well ...

This month in preLights - July

Posted by , on 8 August 2018

Welcome to our monthly selection of developmental biology (and related) preLights     preLights, the preprint highlighting service supported by The Company of Biologists, has now reached over 150 posts ...

Showing distributions

Posted by , on 6 August 2018

When reading about co-evolution of prey and predators, I stumbled across a cute new plot type: a half boxplot, half dot plot to show data distributions.     Wilson used ...

July in preprints

Posted by , on 2 August 2018

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental biology (and other related/just plain cool) preprints.    In one of the most contentious (at least on Twitter!) pieces of preprint news in ...

Conference Jacques Monod "Modeling Cell Fate", Roscoff, Brittany, Nov 19-23, 2018

Posted by , on 2 August 2018

Deadline extended ! 26 Aug. 2018 Conference Jacques Monod in Developmental Biology, « Modeling Cell Fate » Roscoff, Brittany, on 19-23 Nov 2018. Deadline for applications: 26 Aug. 2018 at https://cjm5-2018.sciencesconf.org/This CJM will place ...

Testing Zimmermann’s Telome Theory

Posted by , on 1 August 2018

A perspective on our recent paper ‘CLAVATA was a genetic novelty for the morphological innovation of 3D growth in land plants’1.   In the 1950’s, the German botanist Walter Zimmermann ...

Scientific Reviews Editor for Development

Posted by , on 25 July 2018

We are still looking for a Scientific Reviews Editor for the journal Development – for full details, please see the job advert here. You may have noticed that this is ...

Building the BSDB family network

Posted by , on 23 July 2018

This year the British Society for Developmental Biology turned 70, and celebrated the milestone at its Spring meeting at Warwick (check out Twitter for some of the fun, and Andreas ...

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