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This month on the Node- October 2013

Posted by , on 1 November 2013

 
The Node was full of activity in October. Here are some of the highlights!

New series

‘A day in the life’ is our new series on the model organisms used in developmental biology. Check out the current posts already available:

mouse_house_copy   A day in the life of a Xenopus lab

   A day in the life of a zebrafish lab

   A day in the life of a mouse lab

   A day in the life of a Drosophila lab

 

FINAL outreach logo– As if one series was not enough, we also launched a series on Science Outreach, which we hope will highlight interesting projects out there, as well as few easy activities you may want to try. Check out our first case studies: Science outreach in music festivals, the EMBL programme bridging the gap between labs and schools, how to combine music, art and performance to talk about Evo Devo, and what it is like to participate in ‘I’m a scientist, get me out of here!’. Also have a look at our two first activities- speed dating with scientists and explaining protein folding.

 

Meeting reports

– The students who attended the 13th FASEB Plant Biology conference on ‘Mechanisms in Plant Development’ wrote about the meeting.

– Francesca reposted her article for the BSDB newsletter about the BSDB meeting on Axon Guidance and Regeneration.

Steve and Alexandra wrote about attending the Company of Biologists workshop on the evolution of the human neocortex, while Katherine reported on the associated public talk at the Royal Society.

– and we summarised some coming meeting deadlines that you might want to put in your diary.

 

University of Aberdeen

 

Research

– This month’s Stem Cell Beauty post is on a Cell Stem Cell paper where Andoniadou and colleagues identify a pool of stem cells in the adult pituitary gland.

– A recent paper by the Benitah lab (IRB Barcelona) described the daily cyclic activity of the genes in skin stem cells, and how disruption of this cyclical activity has implications for disease.

 

Also on the Node

Janet Rossant.large– We interviewed mouse and stem cell developmental biologist and current ISSCR president Janet Rossant.

– Ewart wrote a literary interpretation of cellular reprogramming.

– and Thomas posted an opinion piece where he considered what may be wrong with the current structure of science.
 
 
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