The Node correspondents
At the beginning of 2023, we appointed our first three correspondents, Alexandra Bisia, Brent Foster and Dina Mikimoto. In 2024, we welcome three new Node correspondents, Alex Neaverson, James Zwierzynski and Shreyasi Mukherjee. We are looking forward to working with them throughout the year and we hope you enjoy reading their posts on a range of topics.
Different Ways to Build a Brain: Millie Race’s PhD research
Posted by Alex Neaverson, on 19 August 2024
Congratulations to Millie Race, who won this year’s ‘Sammy Lee Award for Research in Embryology’ at the Young Embryologist Network (YEN) meeting 2024! This medal is given annually to someone …The shrimp Parhyale hawaiensis – a non-model organism research story with Dr. Michalis Averof
Posted by Alexandra Bisia, on 28 April 2024
Earlier this year, my co-correspondent for the Node Brent Foster and I published a pot pourri-style interview article asking biology researchers about their work with non-model organisms (NMOs). As they …Who was Rita Levi-Montalcini?
Posted by Alex Neaverson, on 22 April 2024
Rita-Levi Montalcini (1909-2012) was an Italian neurobiologist who lived an extraordinary life, and today (22nd April) would have been her 115th birthday. Click on each image to enlarge and read …Mexican cavefish (Astyanax mexicanus): a non-model organism research story with Dr. Claudia Patricia Ornelas-García
Posted by Alexandra Bisia, on 16 March 2024
Recently, Brent Foster and I published an article on non-model organism (NMO) research, where we interviewed several researchers working across the globe on the challenges, rewards, and the particular questions …Meet the Node correspondents — Shreyasi Mukherjee
Posted by the Node, on 7 March 2024
Find out more about our new correspondent, Shreyasi Mukherjee, a postdoc at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.Meet the Node correspondents — Alex Neaverson
Posted by the Node, on 29 February 2024
An interview with the 2024 Node correspondent Alex Neaverson, a third-year PhD student at the University of Cambridge.