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The first time I went to an SDB meeting as a new PhD student was in 2016. This year at the annual meeting in Las Vegas, I couldn’t believe that it had been 10 years since I first went. I can still remember my first meeting, I knew very little about developmental biology (having never [...] The post Journey through two lenses: SDB meeting 2026 appeared first on the Node .
How Parhyale hawaiensis went from mundane beach critter to lab celebrity across biology, chemistry and even physics. The post The little beach hopper that could appeared first on the Node .
With most first-year PhD students starting graduate programs this month, it seemed like a good time to address the most important dilemma faced by many incoming PhD students—how to choose rotation labs. Although perhaps obvious to those of us with some experience, many of the key factors are often overlooked by early career scientists. This [...] The post How to choose rotations and a dissertation…
By: The FlyPower Team From July 27–28, 2026, the Institute of Biosciences at the University of São Paulo (IB-USP) hosted the FlyPower Meeting 2026, held as an official satellite event of the XXIII Congress of the Brazilian Society for Cell Biology (SBBC). Figure 1: FlyPower Meeting attendees at the Universidade de São Paulo. Bringing together [...] The post From Bench to Bedside: Highlights from…
A chance to win £200 by posting on the Node before 4 September The post Win £200 for your post on the Node appeared first on the Node .
Job offer: PhD contract (4 years) Cristian Cañestro’s lab offers a fully funded 4-year FPI PhD contract associated with our newly granted project PID2025-170547NB-I00, “Gene loss impact: evolution of cardioparaxial-neuromesodermal development and genome scrambling in Oikopleura dioica as a case study” (OikoLoss). The PhD will be carried out within the Genetics Doctoral Programme at [...] The post…
One limitation of comparative genomics and transcriptomics in understanding the origin of evolutionary novelties is that these approaches typically provide long (or short) lists of genes that differ among the species being compared, but they cannot distinguish causal mechanisms from subsequent adaptive outcomes. The former are most likely involved in the rewiring of gene regulatory [...] The post…
The adventure of a brave ENGAGE-Bio post-bac scholar at the MBL who set up a new sea cucumber species in the Perillo lab. The post A day in the life of a sea cucumber lab appeared first on the Node .
Comparative Developmental Biology Course at the MBL, October 2026 The post Comparative Developmental Biology Course at the MBL, October 2026 appeared first on the Node .
\ Limb development as a model for regulation and evolution of vertebrate form: Fellowship position to investigate dynamics of Shh regulation and function. Mackem lab is recruiting for NIH-funded post-doc position in developmental morphogenesis to study the roles of Shh in vertebrate limb patterning (different digit types, numbers, adaptations) using molecular-genetic and genomic approaches. Our…
