DMM would like to congratulate founding editor Allan Spradling on receiving the 2008 Gruber Genetics Prize. This award bestows a gold medal and US$500,000 in recognition of an outstanding scientist whose unusual talents have made significant contributions to genetics research. Spradling, director of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Embryology, used the fruit fly to discover the first described stem cell niche in the fly ovary. He was also a co-developer of the first techniques that provided successful gene insertion into the fly genome. His work has advanced the tractability of the fly as a model organism and has significantly advanced our understanding of stem cells and their niches.
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November 2008
Call for Papers – Infectious Disease: Evolution, Mechanisms and Global Health
Showcase your latest research on our upcoming Special Issue: Infectious Disease: Evolution, Mechanisms and Global Health. This issue will be coordinated by DMM Editors Sumana Sanyal and David Tobin alongside Guest Editors Judi Allen and Russell Vance. The deadline for submitting articles to this Special Issue has been extended to Monday 24 February 2025.
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 a DMM programme on antimicrobial resistance on 26 March 2025. Find out more and register to join us in March 2025 in Liverpool, UK. The deadline for abstract submission and early-bird registration is 17 January 2025.
It's about time: the heterochronic background for the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
In this Editorial, Bruce Wightman writes about the groundwork laid by investigating the timing of developmental events in nematodes which led to the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Read & Publish Open Access publishing: what authors say
We have had great feedback from authors who have benefitted from our Read & Publish agreement with their institution and have been able to publish Open Access with us without paying an APC. Read what they had to say.
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