the community site for and by developmental and stem cell biologists
Living up to your cnidarian potential
Read this #BehindthePaper story by Aine Varley from Uri Frank's lab, detailing the trials and tribulations of developing a technique to transplant a single i-cell in #Hydractinia, and the search for pluripotency of these #stemcells:
https://thenode.biologists.com/living-up-to-your-cnidarian-potential/research/
Developing news... stem cells edition
What's been happening in the #stemcell biology field recently? Here is our round-up, including preprints on stem cell-based human embryo models, guidance on stem cell use and a survey to assess inclusivity:
https://thenode.biologists.com/developing-news-stem-cells-edition/
📢New 'Lab meeting' on the Node
Meet the lab of Claudia Gerri, based in the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG), Dresden. The lab aims to understand how the uterine microenvironment shapes the fetal-placental interface of various animals, using early embryos & placental organoids:
https://thenode.biologists.com/lab-meeting-with-the-gerri-lab/
How to turn scales into feathers (Hint: Shh)
Have you read this new #BehindthePaper story on the Node?
Rory Cooper from the Milinkovitch-Tzika lab tells us about how the project started, and the moment they saw the first feather-footed hatchling chickens:
📢New #SciArt profile on the Node!
Frank Macabenta is a developmental biologist who freelances as a scientific illustrator. Franks shares with us his artistic inspirations and how art influenced his decision to pursue his studies in #devbio:
https://thenode.biologists.com/sciart-profile-frank-macabenta/science-art/
Moving towards heart success –
@DMM_Journal Special Issue
Highlights include:
▪ A Review from Christian Mosimann’s group on lateral plate mesoderm development & syndromic defect
▪ Jeroen Bakkers & Didier Stainier on cardiac regeneration & zebrafish models of heart disease
📢 New post on FocalPlane
In our ‘Community collective’ posts we aim to give a permanent (and searchable) home for those nuggets of advice collected from the community. Our first post focusses on 3D viewers after a request for software recommendations from @engineeringjoy
https://focalplane.biologists.com/2023/06/14/community-collective-viewing-z-stacks-in-3d/
If you have requested (or seen) any microscopy advice that you would like to see be given a home on FocalPlane, comment here or contact us at focalplane@biologists.com
🎉 We are launching our 2024 Special Issue on #RareDisease 🎉
This is driven by a team of expert editors - Monica Justice , Monkol Lek , Karen Liu & Kate Rauen - and will include breakthrough #translational science
Submit your Rare Disease research now!
https://journals.biologists.com/dmm/pages/rare-disease
#OpenAccess
📢New Meeting Report on the Node - 2023 Young Embryologist Network Conference
It's the Young Embryologist Network's 15th birthday!
Ioakeim (Makis) Ampartzidis, Courtney Lancaster, Danielle Liptrot, and Rosie Marshall wrote about the #YEN2023 Conference showcasing the work of #ECRs:
📖https://thenode.biologists.com/meeting-report-2023-young-embryologist-network-conference
Many of you have voted and the results are in for the Node postcard competition!
🎉Congratulations to the winners and a big thank you to everyone who submitted their images.
Keep an eye out for the new postcards in future #devbio & #stemcell meetings👀
https://thenode.biologists.com/results-from-the-node-postcard-competition/
📢New post on the Node - Developing news
Recent #SciTwitter discussions include: it definitely matters who does science, and there is a mental health crisis gripping science.
Also check out the latest #devbio #preprint highlights on
@preLights
📢New on the Node
In this blog post, our correspondent
Dina Myasnikova talks about her experience as a women researcher in Japan, and how she found support from like-minded people by joining 'Women in Science Japan':
https://thenode.biologists.com/you-are-not-alone/discussion/
Our latest #SciArt profile features Ivana Henry @biodataclarity, a science illustrator with a background in developmental genetics.
From graphical summaries of fly embryos to 3D visualisation of antibodies, find out about Ivana's background and artwork:
https://thenode.biologists.com/sciart-profile-ivana-henry/science-art/
Our next 'Lab meeting' is with the lab of Antoine Zalc from the Cochin Institute, Paris.
The lab uses the cranial neural crest as a model to understand how cell fate decision and cell plasticity are regulated during embryogenesis.
Meet the lab ⤵
https://thenode.biologists.com/lab-meeting-with-the-zalc-lab/lablife/
Really great @the_node #behindthepaper post summarising the recent discovery that epidermal cells can be co-opted to enable touch sensing. Nice work from the Tapon lab.
I enjoyed the behind-the-scenes peek into the "eureka" moment when Federica Mangione suddenly realised how 4 cells became 5 cells in the absence of any cell division...
#PaperThemeTune is of course "Touch Sensitive" by The Fall. Hey hey hey hey!
What do you do when you observe a previously uncharacterised cell type during live imaging of the fruit fly epidermis? 🔬
Read this #behindthepaper story from Federica Mangione from the Tapon lab at the Francis Crick Institute on discovering a new cell type involved in fly touch sensing⤵
https://thenode.biologists.com/behind-the-paper-the-discovery-of-a-novel-cell-type-involved-the-fly-touch-sensing/research/
Haemorrhages in foetal brain tissue🧠associated with the presence of SARS-CoV-2: How SARS-CoV-2 impacted our PhD bringing new and important findings Marco Massimo, Carlotta Barelli from the lab of Katie Long tell their unexpected #behindthepaper story ⤵
📢Calling all #devbio postdocs and graduate students!
The organisers of the 2023 Developmental Biology GRC have raised funds to support registration fees and travel grants for postdocs and graduate students.
How do veiled chameleons make their left and right sides? What is it like working with veiled chameleons?
Read the #behindthepaper story from Dr. Natalia (Natasha) Shylo, Dr. Paul Trainor and colleagues at Stowers Institute for Medical Research:
It's the Node postcard competition voting time! 📝
Thank you to everyone who submitted their images to the competition. There were many good quality submissions - it was very difficult to narrow down the selection!
Vote for your favourite image ⤵
https://thenode.biologists.com/vote-for-your-favourite-image-for-the-node-postcards/photo/
