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John Doctor Education Prize—A Best Education Video Competition

Posted by , on 10 May 2016

The Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) Professional Development and Education Committee (PDEC) created the John Doctor Education Prize to highlight great developmental biology education research.  In previous years, the committee ...

The Inaugural Sainsbury Lab Symposium on Induced Plant Development 2016

Posted by , on 9 May 2016

By: Erin Sparks and Matthias Benoit Set in the idyllic location of the Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) building adjacent to the Cambridge University Botanic Garden, the inaugural Sainsbury Lab ...

Back to basics: Unraveling the mystery of mammalian germ cell connectivity using lineage analysis

Posted by , on 9 May 2016

Lei Lei and Allan Spradling           Germ cells are unique among all metazoan cells in their ability to persist from one generation to the next. In ...

New Node banners!

Posted by , on 6 May 2016

As you may have noticed, we have a series of new Node banners (alongside some of our old favourites). As there isn’t really space to give credit to the authors ...

Career Workshop at the BSDB/BSCB Meeting at the University of Warwick

Posted by , on 6 May 2016

I was kindly asked to shortly summarize my experience at the Career Workshop at the BSDB/BSCB Meeting at the University of Warwick.   My name is Hamze Beati and I ...

Goodbye from Cat!

Posted by , on 6 May 2016

Today is my last day on the Node, so this is my chance to say goodbye!  It has been 3 very busy years on the Node, but I have really ...

YEN 2016 - register now!

Posted by , on 4 May 2016

Young Embryologists’ Network 2016 As a neglectful member of this parish over the last few months/years (insert standard academic administration/teaching workload complaints here), I have the great pleasure to come ...

Insights into the pathogenic role of UVRAG in intestinal dysplasia

Posted by , on 4 May 2016

This post highlights the approach and findings of a new research article published in Disease Models & Mechanisms: ‘Stem cell-specific endocytic degradation defects lead to intestinal dysplasia in Drosophila’. This ...

This month on the Node- April 2016

Posted by , on 3 May 2016

Here are some of the posts we featured on the Node in the last month!   Research – Chen-Hui wrote about skinbow,  a new system to study cell dynamics during epithelial ...

From our sister journals- April 2016

Posted by , on 29 April 2016

Here is some developmental biology related content from other journals published by The Company of Biologists.           New neural crest EMT reporter Stewart and colleagues describe a novel neural ...

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