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Development presents... A developmental biology webinar series

Development's next #DevPres webinar focusses on stem cells and organoids, with talks from Toshi Yamada (UCSF), Chrysanthi-Maria (Anthie) Moysidou (Max Delbrück Center) & Daniel Medina-Cano (MSKCC).

Wednesday 13 August 16:00 BST (UTC+1)

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#StemCells #Organoids

The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of Andrea Paterlini to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Andrea Paterlini AndreaPaterlini was the first early-career researcher highlighted in Biology Open’s 'Future Leaders to Watch' series and wrote a 2023 Review for its ‘A Year at the Forefront of…’ collection. Andrea’s research at The University of Edinburgh, UK, focusses on the regulation of plasmodesmata in plants. #100biologists #biologists100

Our next extraordinary biologist is Andrea Paterlini, the first early-career researcher highlighted in @biologyopen.bsky.social's 'Future Leaders to Watch' series, who also wrote a 2023 Review for BiO's ‘A Year at the Forefront of…’ collection. #100biologists @apaterlini.bsky.social

Interfacing biophysical and molecular mechanisms of animal homeostasis and repair The control of animal homeostasis and repair has been studied for decades, mostly from a molecular and biochemical perspective. Recent research shows that biophysical factors, such as mechanical forc…

Our interdisciplinary @embo.org @biologists.bsky.social workshop on Biophysical and Molecular Mechanisms of Animal Homeostasis and Repair will take place in beautiful Haining, China, 6-10 April 2026. Exciting line up of international speakers! Register now: meetings.embo.org/event/26-hom...

Special Issue: In Vitro Models of Human Disease to Inform Mechanism and Drug Discovery. Edited by Vivian Li, Austin Smith and Joseph Wu. Extended deadline: 3 November 2025. Disease Models & Mechanisms Call for papers

Call for papers

Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM) invites you to submit your latest research to their upcoming special issue: In Vitro Models of Human Disease to Inform Mechanism and Drug Discovery.

Find out more: journals.biologists.com/dmm/pages/in...

#Research #CallForPapers #Disease #Science

Message in a bottle Message in a bottle – send us your stories Here at The Company of Biologists, we remember George Parker Bidder III as the man who founded our Company. But by many, Bidder is remembered for his pioneer...

We would like to hear stories from you, our community, on how The Company of Biologists has supported you over time and how that has positively impacted your careers. Tell us with a digital message in a bottle here: www.biologists.com/100-years/me... .

The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of Rohini Balakrishnan to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Rohini Balakrishnan Rohini Balakrishnan is a Journal of Experimental Biology author, Editorial Advisory Board member and a part of the first cohort of JEB Travelling Fellowship recipients. Rohini Balakrishnan is a Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, India, where she investigates animal communication and bioacoustics. #100biologists #biologists100

This week, we are highlighting Rohini Balakrishnan, a @jexpbiol.bsky.social author, Editorial Advisory Board member and a part of the first cohort of JEB Travelling Fellowship recipients, as an extraordinary biologist. #100biologists

Blog series: How to make labs more sustainable. Guest author: Jeroen Dobbelaere. The Company of Biologists logo.

Would you like to make your lab greener?

Read our blog series by Jeroen Dobbelaere to find out how to make your lab more energy efficient and less wasteful.

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#Sustainability #Energy #CarbonFootprint #Plastics #Environment

Would you like to be the Node’s new Community Manager?

If you're interested in #SciComm and passionate about #DevBio, apply to join the @dev-journal.bsky.social & @biologists.bsky.social team.

Find out more about what the role entails: bit.ly/4otQ2GL

#JobOpportunity

Don't miss the latest articles from our journals. Sign up to receive alerts. Example journal covers for Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms, and Biology Open. The Company of Biologists logo.

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There are a variety of options - opt for any or all of 'table of contents', accepted manuscripts', or 'latest published articles', for any of our five journals.

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#Academia #Publishing #Biology #Research

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Root for your favourite #TreeOfTheYear2025

From inspiring poetry, to appearing in movies, our partners at the Woodland Trust are spotlighting the real VI-Trees of the forest in this year’s competition supported by players of Peoples Postcode Lottery.

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#TreeOfTheYear

"Publishing Open Access without fees under the Read & Publish agreement was a great opportunity. It made the process smooth and accessible, allowing our research to reach a broader audience without financial barriers. I really appreciate the commitment to equitable science communication." Stefania Casagrande, Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, Germany

Thank you Stefania Casagrande @stefi-casagrande.bsky.social for sharing your experience of fee-free Open Access publishing in @jexpbiol.bsky.social.

Find out if your employer has a Read & Publish agreement: www.biologists.com/library-hub/...

#OA #OpenAccess #Publishing #Academia #Biology #Research

The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of Teresa Valencak to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Teresa Valencak Teresa Valencak is a JEB author and a former Outside JEB contributing writer. Teresa is an Associate Professor at Zhejiang University, China, researching physiology and age-related, sex-specific differences in energy metabolism in mammals. #100biologists #biologists100

Our next extraordinary biologist is Teresa Valencak, a @jexpbiol.bsky.social author and a former Outside JEB contributing writer. #100biologists

Workshop Macro to Micro: Quantitative Plant Images Across Scales. Organisers: Mark Fricker, Alexander Johnson, Joseph McKenna and Markéta Šámalová. Early-career researchers apply for funded places. 22-25 February 2026, Buxted Park, East Sussex, UK. The Company of Biologists logo.

Early-career researchers, apply for a funded place at our Macro to Micro: Quantitative Plant Imaging Across Scales Workshop.

Find out more: www.biologists.com/workshops/fe...

#Workshop #Plants #Cells #Imaging #Microscopy #Microscope #Research #PlantPhysiology #PlantCells

Introducing a novel mechanism to control heart rate in the ancestral Pacific hagfish Summary: A novel bicarbonate-stimulated, soluble adenylyl cyclase-mediated mechanism to control heart rate in Pacific hagfish (Eptatretus stoutii), together with catecholamine control, explains tachyc...

You can read the paper co-authored by Tony, which was shortlisted for the 2016 @jexpbiol.bsky.social Outstanding Paper Prize, here: doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of Tony Farrell to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Tony Farrell Tony Farrell, a leading cardiovascular physiologist, co-authored the 2016 JEB paper on Pacific hagfish, which was shortlisted for the JEB Outstanding Paper Prize. Tony is a Professor Emeritus at University of British Columbia, Canada, who has published around 500 papers and has studied over 70 fish species.   #100biologists #biologists100

Today, we are highlighting Tony Farrell, co-author of the 2016 @jexpbiol.bsky.social paper that was shortlisted for the JEB Outstanding Paper Prize, as an extraordinary biologist. #100biologists

Do you quality for APC-free Open Access publishing? Find out at biologists.com/read-publish/institutions

Over 1,000 institutions in 55 countries are participating in our Read & Publish Open Access initiative.

Find out your institution is signed up, giving you access to fee-free publishing in our journals.

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#OpenAccess #OA #Publishing #Academia #Research #Biology

“We believe in the power of Open Access. Thanks to the Read & Publish agreement between The Company of Biologists and the University of Regensburg, we were able to publish our work without additional fees. This was especially important to us, as our research was conducted without third-party funding. We hope other publishers follow this example to help reduce inequalities in academic publishing and ensure that the focus remains on scientific rigor.” Christoph Kurze, University of Regensburg, Germany

Thank you Christoph Kurze for sharing your experience of fee-free Open Access publishing in @biologyopen.bsky.social.

Read Christoph’s paper: doi.org/10.1242/bio....

See if your institution is participating: www.biologists.com/library-hub/...

#Publishing #OpenAccess #OA #ReadAndPublish #Academia

The Node at 15 - Then and now with Helena Jambor - the Node The Node is 15 years old this year! We thought it’d be fun to get in touch with prolific authors of the Node over the past 15 years, revisit the posts

You can now read Helena's recent interview on @the-node.bsky.social here: thenode.biologists.com/the-node-at-...

Is There Tree Equity Where You Live? - Woodland Trust

Today marks the start of Love Parks Week!

It highlights the importance of tree equity - how every community deserves equitable access to trees.

Find out the tree equity score for your region:

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#LoveParks #GreenSpaces #Trees #Equity #HealthAndWellbeing

Get an inside look into a successful, sustainable conference 11 July 2024 It can be problematic to perfectly blend social, environmental and financial goals when organising an academic event, but we think that Chrissy Hammond (University of Bristol) and her co-...

This #PlasticFreeJuly, read how reducing the use of plastic was just one step that one of our grant recipients took to make their conference more sustainable:

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#Event #Sustainability #Plastic #Environment #Conference #Grants #Biology

Targeted gene expression as a means of altering cell fates and generating dominant phenotypes ABSTRACT. We have designed a system for targeted gene expression that allows the selective activation of any cloned gene in a wide variety of tissueand cell-specific patterns. The gene encoding the ye...

You can read Andrea’s work from 1993, which is @dev-journal.bsky.social‘s most cited paper, here: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of Andrea Brand to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Andrea Brand Andrea Brand authored Development’s most cited paper, originating the GAL4 system for targeted gene expression. Andrea is the Chair of Department of Cell Biology and Director of the Regenerative Medicine Institute at NYU School of Medicine, USA, investigating neural stem cells in human brain organoids and Drosophila. #100biologists #biologists100

We are also highlighting Andrea Brand, who authored @dev-journal.bsky.social‘s most cited paper, as an extraordinary biologist this week. #100biologists

The Company of Biologists’ Sustainability Grants We offer grants to support innovative ideas that enable biologists to collaborate productively while minimising their environmental impact.

Organising an event? Have an innovative idea that could make it greener?

Let us take the financial burden from you with a grant from our Fund for Innovations in Sustainable Conferencing:

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Application deadline: 1 August

#Events #Sustainability #CarbonFootprint

The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of Norbert Perrimon to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Norbert Perrimon Norbert Perrimon is a DMM Editorial Advisory Board member and author of one of Development’s most cited papers. Norbert is a FlyBase PI, a Professor at Harvard Medical School, USA, and an HHMI Investigator studying how cells, tissues and organs communicate during development and in mature organisms. #100biologists #biologists100

Our next extraordinary biologist is Norbert Perrimon, a @dmmjournal.bsky.social Editorial Advisory Board member and author of one of @dev-journal.bsky.social's most cited papers. #100biologists
@perrimonlab.bsky.social

Two scatter plots compare the time to first decision with reviews (in working days) for "Fast & Fair" and "Conventional" peer review methods. The left plot, titled "July-Dec 2024 peer reviewed only," and the right plot, titled "Jan-Jun 2025 peer reviewed only," both show that "Fast & Fair" has significantly lower decision times than "Conventional." Each plot has a Y-axis ranging from 0 to 100 working days and X-axis categories for the two review methods. Data points cluster lower for "Fast & Fair" and higher for "Conventional," with blue lines indicating lower mean times for "Fast & Fair." Asterisks (****) above both plots indicate statistical significance. A caption notes that the blue line represents the mean.

Phase II of our Fast & Fair peer review experiment is testing scalability. Results so far are promising. Read more at bit.ly/41N31tO.

#FastandFairPeerReview #PeerReview #ScientificPublishing

Supporting early-career researchers On these pages we highlight the range of resources that we offer to early-career researchers.

We offer a number of practical ways to help early-career researchers meet their professional needs and challenges.

Read more:

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#EarlyCareer #Researcher #Research #Academic #Academia #Laboratory #FieldWork #Travel #Opportunities #Career #Science

The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of Helena Jambor to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Helena Jambor Helena Jambor has written many 'How to' posts on the Node, presented a FocalPlane features... webinar and authored Perspective articles for Journal of Cell Science. Helena is an Associate Professor at the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons, Switzerland, and is an advocate for accessibility and interpretability of image data. #100biologists #biologists100

This week, we are highlighting Helena Jambor, a prolific contributor to our community sites @the-node.bsky.social and
@focalplane.bsky.social, as an extraordinary biologist. #100biologists

@helenajambor.bsky.social

How sustainable is your event? Find out with our new event carbon calculator. The Company of Biologists logo, and a doughnut chart with different colours.

Read about the features of our latest resource, the event carbon calculator, and how it can help you organise more sustainable events.

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#Sustainability #Events #CarbonFootprint #SocialResponsibility

Workshop attendees standing on the steps in front of the event venue. The individuals are dressed in casual to semi-formal attire. Image text: Why Are Cells the Size They Are? Buxted Park, East Sussex, UK 13-16 July 2025

The Company of Biologists Workshop: Why Are Cells the Size They Are?

Thank you to Workshop organisers Dustin Marshall and Craig White.

#Workshop #Biology #CellBiology #Cells #Community #Collaboration #Research #Researchers #Academia #Academics

Journey through the history of Journal of Experimental Biology: a timeline Summary: This Commentary summarises the history of Journal of Experimental Biology from its foundation by Lancelot Hogben, Julian Huxley and Francis Crew in 1923 to the present day.

To know more about the history of @jexpbiol.bsky.social, read this Editorial: doi.org/10.1242/jeb....