This month on the Node- October 2015

Research:

– Can we make embryos in silico? Miquel posted about his recent paper in Bioinformatics, and the modeling framework he implemented in the new tool EmbryoMaker.

– What does YAP do? Muriel explained the role of this Hippo effector in the Xenopus retina.

– Histones, regeneration and crickets were all present in Hideyo Ohuchi’s post.

– How are positions between protrusions in bones maintained? Tomer Stern told us about bones and scaling on his post.

– Artificial intellegence in the lab. Mike Levin posted about using machine learning to generate models for planarian regeneration.

Techniques:

– Viewing less to see more. Hiroki Ueda wrote about tissue clearing and better visualisation.

– Techniques for the live-cell analysis of plant embryogenesis were summarised by Daisuke Kurihara.

Discussion:

– Making the most of graduate school. Tomer and Itamer told us about how they organised a Graduate Peer Group and what they learnt from it.

– Don Gibson posted about his push to have Barbara McClintock as the woman on the $10 bill.

Meeting reports: 

– “Ich hab mein Herz in Heidelber verloren”. Jerome Korzelius posted about the European Drosophila Research Conference.

– Ana Ribeiro attended the joint meeting of the Spanish, Portuguese and British Societies for Developmental Biology and posted about her experience.

Also on the Node:

– An interview with Mike Levine featured on the Node this month.

– A new intern joined the Node! Say hi to Helena.

– A unique opportunity for early career scientists interested in cardiovascular regeneration is available.

Happy reading!