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Spotlight – An interview with James Sharpe
James Sharpe talks to us about how he became interested in embryology and developmental biology, his vision as head of the new EMBL Barcelona site, and why he thinks computational modelling and programming skills are so important.
Review – The regulation of cilium assembly and disassembly in development and disease
Lei Wang and Brian D. Dynlacht discuss the molecular factors involved in cilium formation and removal, the relevance of these processes to development and how recent findings are highlighting new possibilities for therapeutic intervention in disease.
Travelling Fellowships – Of mice and chicks…
While studying Wnts and their regulation during mouse embryonic stem cell differentiation, PhD student Barbara Swierczek wanted to find out more about the link between Wnt signalling and miRNA. She used a Travelling Fellowship from Development to spend time in Prof. Andrea Münsterberg’s lab at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK. There, she had the opportunity to learn about miRNA function during development in a new model organism – the chick embryo. Read her story on the Node, and find out more about how to apply for a Travelling Fellowship.
Journal news – publishing peer review reports
Development, along with our sister journal Journal of Cell Science, has signed an open letter coordinated by ASAPbio signalling our intention to publish peer review reports alongside published papers. Find out more over on the Node.
Call for papers – Development at the single cell level
Development is pleased to welcome submissions for an upcoming special issue on ‘Development at the single cell level’, guest-edited by Allon Klein and Barbara Treutlein. This special issue aims to showcase the best research in stem cell and developmental biology, building on the rapidly evolving tools of single cell analysis. Extended submission deadline: 15 November 2018.
preLights – EGFR signaling coordinates patterning with cell survival during Drosophila epidermal development
Why do cells die when they are in the ‘wrong’ place? Sarah Bowling highlights a preprint from Jean-Paul Vincent and colleagues showing that a lack of EGFR signalling, rather than any cell fitness recognition event, is responsible.
Catch up with recent preLights selected for the developmental biology community in our latest Table of Contents.
Articles of interest in our sister journals
The Drosophila Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor does not act in the nucleus
Maximilien Courgeon, Dan Qing He, Hui Hua Liu, Kevin Legent, Jessica E. Treisman. J Cell Sci 2018 131: jcs220251
Tbx1 represses Mef2c gene expression and is correlated with histone 3 deacetylation of the anterior heart field enhancer
Luna Simona Pane, Filomena Gabriella Fulcoli, Andrea Cirino, Alessandra Altomonte, Rosa Ferrentino, Marchesa Bilio, Antonio Baldini. Disease Models & Mechanisms 2018 11: dmm029967