Biologists @ 100
Development’s publisher, The Company of Biologists, is celebrating 100 years with a special conference that brings together the different communities supported by the Company’s journals for the first time. The ‘Biologists @ 100’ conference in Liverpool, UK, features three plenary sessions on themes that affect the future of biology: biodiversity and climate change, health and disease, and emerging technologies. This subject collection features review-type articles that complement these plenary themes, including articles that explore how developmental and stem cell biologists can contribute to understanding developmental responses to climate change and the protection of biodiversity, how studying development is key to understanding developmental differences and human disease, and how important emerging technologies (including molecular tools and computational advances in machine learning) are being applied for studying developmental biology and stem cells.
Development’s in-house team and several of the journal’s Editors are attending Biologists @ 100 – we are looking forward to celebrating with you.
Related content:
- An overview of The Company of Biologists anniversary activities
- The Company of Biologists: celebrating 100 years anniversary article collection
Interviews with Biologists @ 100 conference speakers
Explore our interviews with keynote speakers from the Biologists @ 100 conference, hosted to celebrate our publisher’s 100th anniversary, where we discuss climate change and biodiversity with Hans-Otto Pörtner and Jane Francis, health and disease with Charles Swanton and emerging technologies with Manu Prakash and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz.
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.
A case for broadening our view of mechanism in developmental biology
In this Perspective, B. Duygu Özpolat and colleagues survey researchers on their views on what it takes to infer mechanism in developmental biology. They examine what factors shape our idea of what we mean by ‘mechanism’ and suggest a path forward that embraces a broad outlook on the diversity of studies that advance knowledge in our field.
In preprints
How to build a community site for developmental biologists
Our community site, the Node, has been serving the developmental and stem cell biology community for 15 years. In this post, our Community Manager, Joyce Yu, shares how the Node was born and describes how to build a community site from scratch.
