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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 Development @dev-journal.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social. #DevBio #StemCell

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Discover #DevBio and #StemCell biology conferences, meetings, training courses & workshops on our Events Calendar 🗓️ 👀

Missed one? Sign up & add relevant events here: thenode.biologists.com/events/
Screenshot of the Events Calendar available on the Node showing two events happening in November 2025.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Join us 19 November to hear from two early-career researchers, Stephanie Tsai & Ben Cox, working on regeneration.

Chaired by @dev-journal.bsky.social's Executive Editor, Alex Eve @amjeve.bsky.social.

📅 Wednesday 19 November – 16:00 GMT/UTC

Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
October 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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👃Sniffing out olfactory neurogenesis

New ‘Show and tell’ post on the Node from Sriivatsan G Rajan and Ankur Saxena @saxenalab.bsky.social:
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#zebrafish #devbio #neurogenesis
October 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Join us 15 October to hear from two early-career researchers, @osvaldoics.bsky.social & Yinan Wan, working on development across scales.

Chaired by @dev-journal.bsky.social Executive Editor @amjeve.bsky.social.

📅 15 October, 09:00 BST (UTC+1)

Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
September 30, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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👀 Do you have an idea for a post on the Node that you have been postponing writing for a while? This is your chance to publish your piece at last for a chance to win £200. Submit your post by 30 September 2025. 📝

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#devbio #stemcell
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September 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Congratulations to the winners of our image competition with the @mblscience.bsky.social Embryology course. The winner of the Editor’s choice is an image of a anole lizard eye, acquired by Arthur Boutillon @campaslab.bsky.social.
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#devbio 🔬🎉
Development cover: Embryonic eye of an anole lizard stained for nuclei (DAPI, blue) and F-actin (Phalloidin, orange), imaged by spinning disc confocal microscopy and processed using ImageJ. The image was acquired at the 2025 MBL Embryology course by Arthur Boutillon and was the Editor's choice from the Node image competition.
September 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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👋Introducing Ingrid - the new Reviews Editor for @dev-journal.bsky.social

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Ingrid Tsang
September 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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👀 Do you have an idea for a post on the Node that you have been postponing writing for a while? This is your chance to publish your piece at last for a chance to win £200. Submit your post by 30 September 2025. 📝

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#devbio #stemcell
Writing challenge the Node logo to the left Post on the Node before 30 September and win £200 to the right
August 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Join our #DevPres webinar on gene regulation at 15:00 BST (UTC+1) today with two of Development’s PI fellows, Anzy Miller @anzymiller.bsky.social and Marlies Oomen @marliesoomen.bsky.social

Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Development presents… Wednesday 27 August 15:00 BST Chair: James Gaham Anzy Miller (University of Manchester) ‘NGN3 oscillatory expression controls the timing of human pancreatic endocrine differentiation’ Marlies Oomen (Helmholtz Munich, Institute of Epigenetics and Stem Cells) ‘Jumping through evolution; Genome regulation of and by transposable elements during mammalian preimplantation development’ #DevPres | @dev-journal.bsky.social thenode.biologists.com/devpres The Company of Biologists logo Development
August 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Link between autism and heart defects offers hope for early autism diagnosis

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#AutismSpectrumDisorder #CongenitalHeartDisease #Cilia
The skin of a frog embryo, with cilia (in magenta and cyan) and the outline of cells (in grey) highlighted. Image credit: James Schmidt
August 7, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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One week left until our next Development presents… webinar on #stemcells and #organoids, featuring talks from Toshi Yamada (UCSF), Chrysanthi-Maria (Anthie) Moysidou (@mdc-berlin.bsky.social‬) & Daniel Medina-Cano (MSKCC).

📅Wed 13 August 16:00 BST

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Development presents… Wednesday 13 August 16:00 BST Chair: Yuchuan Miao Image of Toshi Yamada Toshi Yamada (University of California San Francisco) ‘Synthetic organizer cells guide development via spatial and biochemical instructions’ Image of Chrysanthi-Maria (Anthie) Moysidou (Max Delbrück Center) Chrysanthi-Maria (Anthie) Moysidou (Max Delbrück Center) ‘Bioelectronics meet neuromuscular organoids: novel tools for enhancing the maturation and complexity of organoids’’ Image of Daniel Medina-Cano Daniel Medina-Cano (MSKCC) ‘A mouse organoid platform for modeling cerebral cortex development and cis-regulatory evolution in vitro’ #DevPres |@dev-journal.bsky.social Thenode.biologists.com/devprev The Company of Biologists logo Development logo QR code to register Development presents… Wednesday 13 August 16:00 BST Chair: Yuchuan Miao Image of Toshi Yamada Toshi Yamada (University of California San Francisco) ‘Synthetic organizer cells guide development via spatial and biochemical instructions’ Image of Chrysanthi-Maria (Anthie) Moysidou (Max Delbrück Center) Chrysanthi-Maria (Anthie) Moysidou (Max Delbrück Center) ‘Bioelectronics meet neuromuscular organoids: novel tools for enhancing the maturation and complexity of organoids’’ Image of Daniel Medina-Cano Daniel Medina-Cano (MSKCC) ‘A mouse organoid platform for modeling cerebral cortex development and cis-regulatory evolution in vitro’ #DevPres |@dev-journal.bsky.social Thenode.biologists.com/devprev The Company of Biologists logo Development logo QR code to register
August 6, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Our 'Honest conversations' series is a place for people to write about the ups and downs in their academic journey and create frank conversations around less-discussed topics.

Read the posts, keep the conversations going, and perhaps write a post yourself:
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August 3, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Did you know we have a dedicated Jobs Board?

Whether you're looking for your next job, or you have an open position to advertise, do check out our Jobs Board:
thenode.biologists.com/jobs/

#DevBio #StemCells
Screenshot of the Node's Jobs Board. Text reads: Welcome to the developmental and stem cell biology jobs board. The board shows only active job adverts – expired adverts will be moved to the jobs archive.
July 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Sign up to attend our next Development presents... webinar on early #embryogenesis, featuring talks from @lakshmib02.bsky.social, @dias-andre.bsky.social ‬and @nikhil-mishra.bsky.social

📅Wed 9 July 15:00BST (UTC+1)

Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Development presents... Wednesday 9 July 15:00 BST, chaired by Alex Eve. Talk 1: Lakshmi Balasubramaniam (Gurdon Institute) ‘Tissue spreading couples matrix remodelling during avian gastrulation’ Talk 2: André Dias (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) ‘Opposing Nodal and Wnt signalling activities govern the emergence of the mammalian body plan’ Talk 3: Nikhil Mishra (Institute of Science and Technology Austria) ‘Geometry-driven asymmetric cell divisions pattern cell cycles and zygotic genome activation in the zebrafish embryo’
July 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Sign up to attend our next Development presents... webinar on early #embryogenesis, featuring talks from @lakshmib02.bsky.social‬, @dias-andre.bsky.social ‬and @nikhil-mishra.bsky.social.

📅Wed 9 July 15:00BST (UTC+1)

Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Development presents... Wednesday 9 July 15:00 BST, chaired by Alex Eve. Talk 1: Lakshmi Balasubramaniam (Gurdon Institute) ‘Tissue spreading couples matrix remodelling during avian gastrulation’ Talk 2: André Dias (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) ‘Opposing Nodal and Wnt signalling activities govern the emergence of the mammalian body plan’ Talk 3: Nikhil Mishra (Institute of Science and Technology Austria) ‘Geometry-driven asymmetric cell divisions pattern cell cycles and zygotic genome activation in the zebrafish embryo’
June 23, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Did you know we have a dedicated Jobs Board?

Whether you're looking for your next job, or you have an open position to advertise, do check out our Jobs Board:
thenode.biologists.com/jobs/

#DevBio #StemCells
Screenshot of the Node's Jobs Board. Text reads: Welcome to the developmental and stem cell biology jobs board. The board shows only active job adverts – expired adverts will be moved to the jobs archive.
June 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Attending #2025SDB #2025ICDB this week?

Visit the @biologists.bsky.social booth (#4) to find out about writing for the Node, join the Node Network and pick up @dev-journal.bsky.social article collections, posters and the Node coasters (image credits: @ebardot.bsky.social & @gaparicio.bsky.social‬)!
The two designs of the Node coasters. Image credits: Evan Bardot (mouse embryo) and Gonzalo Aparicio (zebrafish retina). Text reads: Visit The Company of Biologists booth at SDB 2025 to pick up some free goodies from us and find out about joining the Node Network. Email: thenode@biologists.com. X: @the_Node. Bluesky: @the-node.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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In this SciArt profile, we find out more about Henning Falk @falk-illustrations.de‬, who did a PhD in developmental biology, and now enjoys creating science-related cartoons as a freelancer. Check out his recent illustrations about biological data management:
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The cartoon was done for German BioImaging (GerBI-GMB) to illustrate the enabling power of research data management (RDM) This cartoon is part of a series of post cards raising awareness for the work of the NFDI4BIOIMAGE consortium. Published under a CC BY 4.0 licence.
June 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Attending #2025SDB #2025ICDB next week?

Visit the @biologists.bsky.social booth (#4) to find out about writing for the Node, join the Node Network and pick up @dev-journal.bsky.social article collections, posters and the Node coasters (image credits: @ebardot.bsky.social & @gaparicio.bsky.social‬)!
The two designs of the Node coasters. Image credits: Evan Bardot (mouse embryo) and Gonzalo Aparicio (zebrafish retina). Text reads: Visit The Company of Biologists booth at SDB 2025 to pick up some free goodies from us and find out about joining the Node Network. Email: thenode@biologists.com. X: @the_Node. Bluesky: @the-node.bsky.social
June 14, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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*TODAY Wed 4 June 15:00 BST (UTC+1)*

Development presents... webinar, celebrating the winners of the @bsdb.bsky.social postdoc poster prize from the Biologists @ 100 conference. We'll hear from @giuliapaci.bsky.social and @shifaant.bsky.social

Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Development presents... Wednesday 4 June 15:00 BST. BSDB poster prize winners. Chair: Abigail Tucker. Talk 1: Giulia Paci (University College London) ‘3D cell topology regulates signalling range to promote precise patterning of wing sensory organs’ Talk 2: Shifaan Thowfeequ (University of Oxford) ‘Visualising calcium dynamics in the developing embryo : from fertilisation to the first heartbeat’
June 4, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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*The survey closes tomorrow Mon 2 June!*

What kind of posts would you like to read? Any comments about the design of the website, our social media presence and the emails we send?

Please spare 5 mins to take the survey: www.surveymonkey.com/r/7QHYQCW

#DevBio #StemCells
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June 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Did you know we have a dedicated Jobs Board?

Whether you're looking for your next job, or you have an open position to advertise, do check out our Jobs Board:
thenode.biologists.com/jobs/

#DevBio #StemCells
Screenshot of the Node's Jobs Board. Text reads: Welcome to the developmental and stem cell biology jobs board. The board shows only active job adverts – expired adverts will be moved to the jobs archive.
May 29, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Last few days to tell us what you think about the Node!

What kind of posts would you like to read? Any comments about the design of the website, our social media presence and the emails we send?

Please spare 5 mins to take the survey: www.surveymonkey.com/r/7QHYQCW

#DevBio #StemCells
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May 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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In our latest #SciArt profile, we meet Queralt Tolosa @queralttolosa.bsky.social, a biochemist/developmental biologist turned scientific illustrator.

Find out about her background, her artistic influences and how she ended up becoming a scientific illustrator:
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Steampunk Zebrafish Embryo – Digital artwork representing the dynamic world of Cell and Developmental Mechanobiology, blending biological accuracy with a steampunk aesthetic. Ribosomal RNA Modifications Fingerprint – Cover illustration for Molecular Cell, Volume 85, Issue 1 (2025), depicting findings from the study “Epitranscriptomic rRNA Fingerprinting Reveals Tissue-of-Origin and Tumor-Specific Signatures” by Milenkovic, I. et al.
May 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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We need your help!

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Tell us what you think in this survey - it'll only take 5min: www.surveymonkey.com/r/7QHYQCW

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