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This month on the Node- November 2015

Posted by , on 1 December 2015

Our jobs page was very busy this month! Check out the 13 new positions available. Elsewhere on the Node:

 

Research:

– Mike Levin explains how his group used artificial intelligence to produce a model that explains the all-or-none phenotypes seen in depolarised Xenopus tadpoles.

– How do you express two genes stably and bicistronically through electroporation in chick? Joana Lima posted about her recent paper in BMC Developmental Biology.

– Julia posted a new stem cell image, and told us a bit about pancreas development!

 

Discussion:

– The New Year is coming! What is your wish list for your research in the year 2016? Tell us in the latest question of the month!

– Why was Micrographia such an important book? Cat Vicente posted about why scientists should know about Robert Hooke’s work.

Hooke R, IM002201

 

 

Also on the Node:

Embedded Image– Marcela told us about the time she spent in Jeremy Brocke’s lab in UCL and her visit to the lab of Aziz Aboobaker at the University of Oxford, sponsored by a Development Travelling Fellowship.

– An interview with José Silva featured in the Node this month!

– A new Mole cartoon, about grant writing (and proposing to Fundamentally Change the World As We Know It). And two more Sticky Wicket posts on bad and not-so-bad ideas.

– Check out the SDB’s new small grants program!

– And Oliver Davis wrote about his time at Jean-Paul Vincent’s lab sponsored by a BSDB Gurdon Studentship!

 

 

 

 

 

Happy reading!

 

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