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V International Meeting of the LASDB

Posted by , on 20 November 2010

Being at the end of the planet Earth and organizing an international meeting is not easy. Even harder is to prepare and hold a course intended for an international audience. ...

3rd Latin America Course in ES cells and Development

Posted by , on 19 November 2010

The 3rd Latin America Course on ES cells and Development will be in Cuernavaca, Mexico. It provides extensive hands-on experience and an incredible line-up of speakers. The course can take ...

In Development this week (Vol. 137, Issue 23)

Posted by , on 9 November 2010

The current issue of Development is now online! Here are the research highlights: Klf5: a multifaceted regulator of cell fate Kruppel-like transcription factors (Klfs) induce and maintain pluripotency in embryonic ...

Transparent mouse embryos and hematopoietic cell clusters

Posted by , on 8 November 2010

I was lucky in graduate school and my postdoctoral research—I was a microscopist working on a transparent organism (C. elegans).  Some microscopists don’t have that luxury, but have developed amazing ...

the Node update - writers, thumbs, polls, and emails

Posted by , on 8 November 2010

Writing for the Node Have any of the entries on the Node inspired you to add something yourself? Go ahead! We’d like to remind you that you don’t need to ...

A primer or two in collegiality and mutual benefit

Posted by , on 2 November 2010

Who wants to reinvent the wheel? Resources for finding or judging the worth of PCR primers, particularly for quantitation or amplification of cDNA.

An interview with Shinichi Aizawa: President of the Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists

Posted by , on 29 October 2010

(This interview previously appeared in Development) This August, the Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) held their annual meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, jointly with the Japanese Society of Developmental ...

Grant writing in Africa

Posted by , on 27 October 2010

Today I gave a grant writing seminar for about 25 participants and went through the general structure and preparation as well as the expectations of reviewers and granting agencies.  The ...

In Development this week (Vol. 137, Issue 22)

Posted by , on 26 October 2010

Research highlights from the current issue of Development: Novel Hh targets fly in Hedgehog (Hh), a secreted morphogen, acts in a paracrine fashion to regulate tissue patterning during embryogenesis. Its ...

Hello from Nairobi

Posted by , on 24 October 2010

My apologies for the lag in updates from field collections in China.  I got a little distracted with submitting a paper and writing a K99/R00 that seem to have consumed ...

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