Vote for a Development cover from the Quintay International Course on Developmental Biology
Posted by the Node, on 10 June 2026
In January of 2025, advanced graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from across the Americas gathered in Chile to participate in the International Course on Developmental Biology, an EMBO Practical Course held at the Marine Biology Station of Quintay (CIMARQ). Over two weeks of intensive training, the students generated some beautiful images of development across different species. We’re excited to launch a competition to pick an image taken by the students to become the cover of an issue of Development, immortalised in a future issue of the journal – a testament to the bright future of developmental biology in Latin America. The next cohort of the International Course on Developmental Biology is currently accepting applications until 31 July 2026.
Please vote for your favourite image using the poll at the bottom of the page. The voting will close on Wednesday, 24 June 2026, at 13:00 BST (UTC + 1). One vote per person.
Browse through the gallery (click to view full image)
Amphipod collected in Quintay Bay by students of the 2025 course, and stained with phalloidin and DAPI.
Live chicken embryo observed under a stereomicroscope.
Confocal micrograph captures a late-stage Drosophila melanogaster embryo viewed from a ventrolateral or lateral perspective. It features triple-fluorescence labelling targeted at the developing musculoskeletal and nervous systems.
Segmentation and homeotic (Hox) gene expressions in a blastoderm-stage Drosophila melanogaster embryo
Transgenic zebrafish embryo (Danio rerio), 24 to 48 hours post-fertilisation. Cyan: GFP; Magenta: DAPI
Micrograph of a developing zebrafish brain, showing cellular circuits and asymmetrical structures in cyan and magenta
This image captures the developing ocular structure of a zebrafish embryo, visualised using high-resolution confocal/light-sheet fluorescence microscopy.
Fluorescence microscopy image of a developing zebrafish embryo eye. Blue: DAPI, Magenta: retinal tissue
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