Development and COVID-19

We are aware that the COVID-19 pandemic is having an unprecedented impact on researchers worldwide. The Editors of all The Company of Biologists’ journals have been considering ways in which we can alleviate concerns that members of our community may have around publishing activities during this time. Read about the actions we are taking at this time.

Please don’t hesitate to contact the Editorial Office if you have any questions or concerns.

How can we stay connected?

The Development team is thinking about organising webinars to help stay connected and support the community during the ongoing pandemic. Would you be interested?

Find out more on the Node, fill in our short survey and spread the word! 

Recognition for Development Editors

Congratulations to François Guillemot, one of our Editors, who has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and to Olivier Pourquie, our former Editor-in-Chief, and Alex Schier, who sits on our Advisory Editorial Board, who have both been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

The people behind the papers

A new paper in Development investigates the roles of Fgf signalling and Tbx transcription factors in zebrafish muscle development. We caught up with the paper's two first authors, Daniel Osborn and Kuoyu Li, and their supervisor Simon Hughes, to hear more about the story.

Do you have an idea for a Workshop?

Our Workshop programme may be on hold for now, but we are welcoming ideas for the 2022 line-up. The proposal deadline is 29 May 2020, so find out how to pitch your idea to the Workshop Committee in good time.