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PhD position on angiogenesis

Posted by , on 24 March 2023

A fully funded 4-year PhD position is immediately available in the group of Coert Margadant at the faculty of science, Leiden University in the Netherlands. We work on the mechanisms ...

Behind the paper story: 'How heterotypic cis/trans factors drive stomatal cell fate commitment’

Posted by , on 16 March 2023

Dr. Eun-Deok Kim and Professor Keiko Torii from The University of Texas at Austin, USA, have recently published an article in Nature Plants. The article discusses how heterotypic cis/trans factors ...

Brazilian-France European Research Council (ERC) connections: great opportunities to foster an international Evo-Devo

Posted by , on 14 March 2023

Latin-America is well-known as one of the largest hotspots of biodiversity, inspiring a generation of important naturalists during the emergence of comparative developmental biology in the 19th century. One of ...

Cut + Paste: Crick exhibition on the future and ethics of genome editing invites the public to give their opinion

Posted by , on 10 March 2023

On Thursday 23 February I visited the Crick Institute in London to see their new exhibition, Cut + Paste, and to meet the organisers. Cut + Paste is an interactive ...

The Node postcard competition

Posted by , on 9 March 2023

One of our favourite giveaways here at the Node is our collection of postcards. With our supplies dwindling (they are a crowd-favourite at meetings!), we are planning to reprint the ...

NSF-funded postdoc position studying Hydra patterning

Posted by , on 7 March 2023

We invite applications for a postdoctoral position in biological physics to work in the Collins lab in the Biology Department at Swarthmore College. We are an interdisciplinary group of undergraduate ...

An interview with Scott Gilbert

Posted by , on 1 March 2023

Scott Gilbert literally wrote the book on developmental biology! With the 13th edition of ‘Developmental Biology’ about to be published, we took the opportunity to find out more about the ...

Periodic inhibition of Erk activity drives sequential somite segmentation

Posted by , on 23 February 2023

Node Blog: Behind the Paper Story Clocks, gradients and segmentation Muhammed Simsek, Ertuğrul Özbudak and colleagues have discovered that oscillations in the ppErk gradient, driven by the Her1-Her7 oscillator, is ...

January in preprints

Posted by , on 3 February 2023

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints. Congratulations to all the researchers who kicked off 2023 by preprinting their research. The preprints this ...

BSDB Gurdon Studentship Report - Paula Richter

Posted by , on 10 January 2023

NRAP H100Q Mutation in Zebrafish During the first year of my course in biological sciences, I became interested in developmental biology. I am mesmerized by the exploration of the beginnings ...

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