The Company of Biologists: celebrating 100 years
2025 marks 100 years since the formation of The Company of Biologists, which was set up in 1925 to save The British Journal of Experimental Biology (now Journal of Experimental Biology). As part of our celebrations, we are sharing content with you about the past, present and future of the Company, our journals and charitable activities throughout our anniversary year. This content will be spread across each the five journals that we publish today: Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open. We are diving into our archives and reaching out to extraordinary members of our community to bring you new and original material that is related to our anniversary. As well as discussing the Company's history and activities, we are publishing articles reviewing the development of our field. We hope that you will find these stories interesting and, to learn more about the other activities we have planned in 2025, please visit The Company of Biologists’ anniversary page.
The articles published so far in the journal are listed below and you can see the growing collection of articles from all of our journals on our cross-title collection page.
Biologists @ 100 - join us in Liverpool in March 2025
We are excited to invite you to a unique scientific conference, celebrating the 100-year anniversary of The Company of Biologists, and bringing together our different communities. The conference will incorporate the Spring Meetings of the BSCB and the BSDB, the JEB Symposium Sensory Perception in a Changing World and a DMM programme on antimicrobial resistance. Find out more and register your interest to join us in March 2025 in Liverpool, UK.
Call for papers – Lifelong Development: the Maintenance, Regeneration and Plasticity of Tissues
Development invites you to submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue – Lifelong Development: the Maintenance, Regeneration and Plasticity of Tissues. This issue will be coordinated by Guest Editors Meritxell Huch (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany) and Mansi Srivastava (Harvard University and Museum of Comparative Zoology, USA), working alongside our team of academic Editors. Submit your articles by 15 May 2025.
Development presents…
Development is excited to host a webinar series showcasing the latest developmental biology and stem cell research. The webinars are chaired each month by a different Development Editor, who invites talks from authors of exciting new papers and preprints. Visit Development presents... on the Node to see which topics are coming up and to catch up on recordings of past webinars.
Development’s Pathway to independence programme
We are delighted to announce a new call for our Pathway to Independence (PI) programme. This scheme is aimed at supporting postdocs planning to go on the job market in 2025, and will provide mentorship, training, networking and profile-raising opportunities. Apply by 31 Jan 2025.
Become a 2025 Node correspondent
The Node is looking for new correspondents to work together with the team to develop and produce content over the coming year. Apply by 20 January 2025.
