Call for papers. Submit your latest research to Development's upcoming special issue – The Extracellular Environment in Development, Regeneration and Stem Cells.
Guest Editors: Alex Hughes and Rashmi Priya
Deadline: 1 March 2026
https://journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/extracellular-environment
Join us as the new Community Manager to run @the_node.
A great opportunity for someone with a love of developmental and/or stem cell biology, science communication and engaging with researchers.
Apply by 19 May 2025.
https://www.biologists.com/about-us/work-for-us/
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Working for us We’re always looking for talented and motivated people to work as part of our close-knit team. Roles range from editorial to production, marketing to event co-ordination, HR to accounts. Our size means that you will also have the opportunity to get involved with specialist projects. Our staff have a variety of backgrounds[...] Read More
To celebrate our 100-year anniversary, we are highlighting 100 biologists with an extraordinary link to the Company. Over the past month, we have featured the first eight extraordinary biologists: George Parker Bidder III, @Abinagui, Jordan Raff, Sadaf Farooqi, Monica Justice, Vincent Wigglesworth, Nadia Rosenthal and Aymen al-Rawi.
Follow #100biologists on social media or see the collection as it grows on our anniversary page: https://www.biologists.com/100-years/100-biologists/.
100 extraordinary biologists As we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of The Company of Biologists, we are looking back at some of the amazing accomplishments in the field and the researchers behind them. Extraordinary has many faces and there are many more people who have helped shape the field of biology and The Company of[...] Read More
"Past and future of human developmental biology"
Published to coincide with the 6th #CoBHumanDev meeting this week, this Perspective by historian Nick Hopwood proposes that the human #DevBio field has gone through periods of attention and neglect:
https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/151/17/dev203085/361886/Past-and-future-of-human-developmental-biology
In a companion piece, researchers from eight countries comment on how they believe their local legal, political, regulatory, societal and technological frameworks are influencing the field's trajectory:
https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/151/17/dev203092/361884/Human-developmental-biology-a-global-perspective
📢Register now for our next Development Presents... webinar!
🗓️Wed 2 Oct 15:00BST
Chaired by @Dev_journal Guest Editor Karen Sears, the webinar will feature talks on the topic of environment, evolution and development by Girish Kale, Natasha Shylo and Sergio Menchero.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9716740379156/WN_O_FO7J1lQ7qQBXK782dAXQ
On the topic of environment, evolution and development, chaired by Development's Guest Editor, Karen Sears (UCLA). Girish Kale (University of Hohenheim) ‘Elevated temperature fatally disrupts nuclear divisions in the early Drosophila embryo’ Natasha Shylo (Stowers Institute for Medical Research) ‘Gastrulation and Left-Right patterning in veiled chameleons’ Sergio Menchero (The Francis Crick Institute) ‘Understanding temporal diversity in mammalian developmental programmes using marsupial single-cell transcriptomics’ At the speakers' discretion, the webinar will be recorded for viewing on demand.
Gearing up for #CoBHumanDev starting next Monday. This will be our 6th 'From stem cells to human development' meeting. It's been fantastic to see how far the field has come - we're looking forward to hearing the latest advances! For those of you attending, please do come and talk to us (Ed-in-Chief @jamesbriscoe, Academic Editors Debby Silver, Peter Rugg-Gunn, Jim Wells & Matthias Lutolf, Exec Ed Katherine Brown or Senior Ed @amjeve) about the journal and @Co_Biologists.
From Stem Cells to Human Development 2024 marks ten years since the first of Development’s meetings on this topic. The past decade has seen tremendous advances in our ability to analyse and understand human development – from the advent of single cell sequencing technologies to the explosion of organoid culture systems and the development of[...] Read More
Thrilled to announce that three wonderful preLighters will take up the #preLightsAmbassador role this year: Isabella Cisneros (NIH IRTA), Chee Kiang (Ethan) Ewe (Tel Aviv University) & Shreya Pramanik (Oregon Health and Science University)
They’ll be taking over from Jennifer Ann Black, Martin Estermann, Girish Kale & Juan Moriano who have all done a brilliant job over the last year helping preLights expand as a platform for preprint discussions and community building!
https://prelights.biologists.com/news/introducing-the-2024-25-prelights-ambassadors/
It’s time to introduce our three new preLights Ambassadors! But not before extending a heartfelt thank you to the four Ambassadors who served last year: Jennifer Ann Black, Martin Estermann, Girish Kale and Juan Moriano Their dedication and contributions to help preLights expand as a platform for preprint discussions and community building has made a[...] Read More
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