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YEN Conference 2017: Registration open now!

Posted by , on 8 February 2017

Young Embryologist Network 9th Annual Conference. 9th May 2017 at the Institute of Child Health, UCL, London. This year, YEN is honoured to have Dr Darren Gilmour from EMBL Heidelberg present the Sammy Lee ...

The people behind the papers: Philippe Foerster & Nathalie Spassky

Posted by , on 8 February 2017

Radial glial cells are multipotent progenitors in the developing vertebrate brain. At their apical interface with the ventricular cavity around which the brain forms, they bear a primary cilium, a signalling ...

This month on the Node and beyond

Posted by , on 7 February 2017

January was a productive month on the Node, with a variety of developmental biology content from the lab bench and beyond.   Research We heard from the authors of a ...

January in preprints

Posted by , on 3 February 2017

Our latest monthly trawl for developmental biology (and other cool) preprints. See June’s introductory post for background, and let us know if we missed anything   2017 started where 2016 had ...

Forgotten classics: Cut and paste embryology

Posted by , on 2 February 2017

Hörstadius, S. 1939. The mechanics of sea urchin development, studied by operative methods. Biological Reviews 14(2):132-179. Recommended by Bob Goldstein, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   Sven Hörstadius ...

Diversity is a good thing: coordination of collective cell migration in angiogenesis

Posted by , on 2 February 2017

Comment on “Asymmetric division coordinates collective cell migration in angiogenesis” Nat Cell Bio, 18 (12), 1292-1301, (2016).   Holly E. Lovegrove & Guilherme Costa Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, ...

Reviews Editor, Development – maternity cover

Posted by , on 1 February 2017

Reviews Editor, Development – maternity cover Based in Cambridge, UK   We are currently seeking applications for the role of Reviews Editor at Development. This is a temporary position (maternity ...

A Crumby affair: Cell ingression during gastrulation

Posted by , on 31 January 2017

Comment on “Crumbs2 promotes cell ingression during the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition at gastrulation” Ramkumar N, Omelchenko T, Silva-Gagliardi NF, McGlade CJ, Wijnholds J, Anderson KV. Nat Cell Biol. 2016 Dec;18(12):1281-1291   “It is not birth, marriage, or ...

BSDB Gurdon Summer Studentship Report (11)

Posted by , on 27 January 2017

Established  by the British Society for Developmental Biology (BSDB) in 2014, The Gurdon/The Company of Biologists Summer Studentship scheme provides financial support to allow highly motivated undergraduate students an opportunity to ...

Let’s move to 4D-biology: building the embryonic inner ear!

Posted by , on 26 January 2017

Comment on Distribution of neurosensory progenitor pools during inner ear morphogenesis unveiled by cell lineage reconstruction, eLife 2017; 6:e22268 Sylvia Dyballa and Cristina Pujades Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu ...

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