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the Node is a community site for and by developmental and stem cell biologists, covering news, meetings, and research. Hosted by @Dev_journal. #devbio
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#MetabolismMondays In Part 2 of our chat, Anna Vigil reflects on her journey beyond the bench, her transition into #gradschool from #Seattle to #Heidelberg. @the_Node #devbio #evodevo #phdlife #academia #earlycareer 👉🏽thenode.biologists.com/molecules-and-…
#MetabolismMondays Meet Anna Vigil, #PhD student in Crocker lab @embl, @LucasBSullivan lab @fredhutch alumni sharing her work on how #metabolism impacts cell fate, development & #evolution in #Drosophila. #theNodeCorrespondents #ecr @the_Node #DevBio 👉🏽thenode.biologists.com/currents-of-ch…
#MetabolismMondays Meet Anna Vigil, #PhD student in Crocker lab @embl, @LucasBSullivan lab @fredhutch alumni sharing her work on how #metabolism impacts cell fate, development & #evolution in #Drosophila. #theNodeCorrespondents #ecr @the_Node #DevBio 👉🏽thenode.biologists.com/currents-of-ch…
🧬🔍 Last chance to get your abstract in for 'The mobile genome: genetic and physiological impacts of transposable elements' – you have until 29 July! ⏰ #EMBOMobileGenome 👉🏼 s.embl.org/mge25-01-x 🧑🏼🔬⭐ Spotlight on you! 24 talks and 15 flash talks will be selected from poster…
Join our "Advances in Single-Cell Technologies" meeting in December in Freiburg, co-organised with Marco Prinz and Katrin Kierdorf. Excellent line-up of speakers covering spatial technologies, lineage tracing, computational methods, and more. uniklinik-freiburg.de/single-cell-te…
Thank you Joyce @joyz_yu, for everything you have done for @the_Node and the #Devbio community. Everyone - go and check out all her posts. Working with you and learning from you was a wonderful experience (and I'll miss you a lot). Wishing you well always ❤️
Closing the chapter: Goodbye from Joyce Our (former) Community Manager @joyz_yu bids farewell👋 to the Node community. Check out her (almost) final post: thenode.biologists.com/closing-the-ch…
Closing the chapter: Goodbye from Joyce Our (former) Community Manager @joyz_yu bids farewell👋 to the Node community. Check out her (almost) final post: thenode.biologists.com/closing-the-ch…
This week, we are highlighting Helena Jambor, a prolific contributor to our community sites @the_Node and @focalplane_jcs, as an extraordinary biologist. #100biologists @helenajambor
#DevBio #Postdocs! Abstracts are being accepted for speakers in the 2025-2026 Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series. SDB postdoctoral members are eligible to apply. Deadline: August 1. #SDBPostdocSeminar bit.ly/3x1ptgb
Catch up on Development presents… July webinar on early embryogenesis Featuring talks from @Lakshmib02, @_andre_Dias_ and Nikhil Mishra 🎥thenode.biologists.com/catch-up-on-de… @Dev_journal

Excited to share that the Zhu Lab will officially open at Texas A&M University on August 1st, 2025! Actively recruiting! Postdoc Advertisement: drive.google.com/file/d/1Gpvni5…
12th Avian Model Systems Meeting bit.ly/3ZBw2qS @ScienceStowers We will be joined by @mariannebronner, Olivier Pourquié, @twobluechickens Julie Elie, @JeromeGros , Carlos Lois, @PLwigale, @MorphoLab_AS_AR, Marcos Simoes-Costa, @MelanieDWhite and YOU!
Our Journal Meetings return in 2026. Find out more and sign up for registration and abstract updates at biologists.com/meetings @J_Cell_Sci @Dev_journal @DMM_Journal
Save the Date! Development has teamed up with the Wellcome-funded consortium the Human Developmental Biology Initiative to co-organise a meeting on #HumanDevelopment. 📅7 - 9 Sep 2026 📍University of Warwick, UK Register your interest for #HumanDev26: biologists.com/meetings/devhd…
Mansi Srivastava is a Guest Editor for our special issue on lifelong development #LifelongDevSI. Here, Mansi @acoel_hofstenia talks about the importance of studying development across the lifetime of an organism and how this relates to her own research: doi.org/10.1242/dev.20…
📢Only 21 days remain to register for THE #developmentalbiology #conference in Europe, the V4SDB Meeting 2025, that will take place on the 5th-7th September 2025 in 🇸🇰⛰️! Join us: v4sdb2025.img.cas.cz/registration-a… #morphogenesis #stemcells #evodevo #organoids #modeling #embryogenesis
Looking to get involved in #PeerReview? Attending #SEB2025? Visit us at booth 3 to ask about @BiologyOpen's Fast & Fair peer review initiative. bit.ly/41N31tO @SEBiology
Spurring and Siloing: Identity Navigation in Scientific Writing Among Asian Early-Career Researchers A new #preLight by Jeny Jose spotlights the Devon Goss's & the team #preprint about scientific research culture. prelights.biologists.com/highlights/spu…
Seeing and (not) believing! The role of hypoblast in primitive streak induction. In her second #preLight, Ruoheng Li covers the #preprint by @VilledieuA_bio and the @JgrosL research team. prelights.biologists.com/highlights/liv…