Repost please !! We have extended the abstract deadline for the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Conference to June 20. scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu. Get those abstract in !
*** GRC Developmental Biology 2027 - Jan 17-22 @ Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco Resort ***
Join us for a fabulous 2027 Gordon Conference on all things #devbio & the trainee-led GRS!
More info on registration, abstract submission, et al., here:
www.grc.org/developmenta...
#GRCDevBio2027 🧬🐭🐟🪰🌱❤️
Only FIVE DAYS LEFT to register for the 2026 Santa Cruz Dev Biol meeting! Great speakers! Tons of talks selected from abstracts! Workshop with Scott Fraser! Workshop with Rashmi Priya! Redwoods trees! 🧬🐸🐟🪰🐭🪱🍃🔥🔬. @devbiol.bsky.social @socdevbio.bsky.social
scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu
Is this the future of peer review?
New from @biologyopen.bsky.social: expanded Fast & Fair trial paying reviewers £220 per paper
The result: rapid peer review with no drop in quality or change in acceptance rate
Paying referees makes peer review faster & fairer
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The YEN conference is around the corner!
You can still register and participate in the YEN 2026 Image Competition.
More details here:
thenode.biologists.com/yen-2026-con...
Looks like the 2027 Dev Bio GRC is shaping up to be another good one:
www.grc.org/developmenta...
DEADLINE EXTENDED! There's still time to register for the Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting! Great science, great people, big trees! Join us!
scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu
We hope you are looking forward to the Young Embryologist Network Conference 2026! The meeting will be held at the Francis Crick Insitute on the 15th June
Did you know Scott Fraser will be at the Santa Cruz Dev Biol meeting? He's President of Dynamic Imaging and Head at the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative BioHub, and a developmental biologist! He'll speak about his 40 years at the interface of academia, industry, and philanthropy.
scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu
John Wallingford
Young Embryologist Network
The 2027 Gordon Research Conference on Developmental Biology will be held in Lucca (Barga), Lucca Italy. Apply today to reserve your spot.
Our latest manuscript on (Harry Potter and) the effect of elevated temperature on embryonic development in flies. Even a small increase in temperature causes developmental defects, indicating problems in the face of global warming! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
John Wallingford
James Briscoe
James Briscoe
Kale et al. show that nuclear divisions are defective at elevated temperature, leading to gastrulation defects and embryo lethality. Their work finds that F-actin – microtubule interactions during mit...
