Wow, a Central University is taking punitive action because some teachers are running an Ambedkar Study Circle.

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First 20 registrants! Email Editor-in-Chief Ondine Cleaver, at: [email protected]

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🌟Introducing 'Behind the Bench,' our series where we feature the people behind the science. Through this series, we will highlight the members of InSDB and the science they do.
Stay tuned for fascinating stories from the people who shape InSDB!✨

📢Our website has a new opportunities page!
insdb.in/opportunities/

This will be a space for PhD, project, internship, and other roles in developmental biology. If you have a vacancy in your lab, fill out this form, and we will feature it on the website!
forms.gle/ysn3B4KCYFiAoT…

The YEN community keeps expanding! Thank you to all of our international reps.🌎

Join the team today: forms.gle/nG4MffM7UCRdmi…

Here's the first from our 'Stories from #InSDB24 ' series, where we talk to poster winners from the conference. In the first article, we talk to Sameera from the lab of Ramkumar Sambasivan at IISER Tirupati.

Read it here: insdb.in/news/stories-f…

Next up in our 'Stories from #InSDB24 ' series, we chat with Aravind from Manish Jaiswal lab. He talks about the work that won him the best poster award at the conference, and how he stumbled upon this project by chance.
Read the article here: insdb.in/news/stories-f…

Today’s antics in the National Centre for Biological Sciences pond — slithering snakes with frolicking fangs.

#DBfeature 🐍🫁

Sox9 is associated with two distinct patterning events during Snake Lung morphogenesis

by Benjamin van Soldt, Wellington Cardoso et al Benjamin van Soldt
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Lost track of all the new #preprints that came out recently? We've compiled a list of #DevBio and stem cell biology preprints that came out in March for you!👇

📜thenode.biologists.com/march-in-prepr…

A superb evening!

Join us every Wednesday to pour though a paper, hear perspectives, or discuss works in progress. DBJC is always fun and we’re hybrid! So you can join us from ANYWHERE! We won’t be able to share our our chai with you :(, but certainly a link :)

Do read about some of the highlights from the #InSDB24 meeting.
…and watch this space for interviews with the poster prize winners, some talk recordings, and more!

The meeting was fantastic - the dev bio community in India is amazing: vibrant, engaged and equal parts serious and fun. Stay tuned as we launch more initiatives, and as we begin the count-down to 50 years of InSDB

#InSDB24 was so eventful that it took us some time to compile this report. For those who were a part of it, here's a chance to reminisce; for those who missed out, read on to see what it was all about!

Read our meeting report here: insdb.in/news/a-recap-o…

“Thames Water boss says bills need to rise by 40%.” Here’s why 👇

Check out the latest from the lab. Beautiful work from Suraj!
Initiation and Formation of Stereocilia during the Development of Mouse Cochlear Hair Cells biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Last Day extended to 5 April 2024!

Applications are now open for the PhD admissions in the joint NCBS-ICTS Physics of Life program. Candidates with valid GATE/JEST/CSIR scores, apply! For details and inquiries, visit https://pol.ncbs.res.inor contact [email protected].

Honoured to be giving the S. P. Modak lecture at the Savitribhai Phule Pune University. Professor Modak was a battery that energized the Zoology Department at the SPPU. Here's an obit that captures his science and personality, by Ghaskadbi Surendra Ghaskadbi Ghaskadbi, Sonawane