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The preLights homepage has just undergone a bit of a makeover. ✨

One thing you’ll notice is that we’ve introduced custom-designed icons for all 27 bioRxiv categories. Check them out! ⬇️ 👀

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If you’re working in animal comparative physiology or biomechanics & are within 5 years of setting up your first lab, apply for our ECR Visiting Fellowships & Research Partnership Kickstart Travel Grants. Deadline 3 June

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Researchers IIT Kanpur now benefit from uncapped, APC-free #openaccess publishing in Development J Cell Science Journal of Experimental Biology DMM Journal Biology Open & unlimited access to the journals and archives, thanks to new #ReadAndPublish #OA agreement. #IISER
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Do you have an idea for a #BiologistsWorkshops for our 2026 programme? We're now accepting proposals. Submit yours by 19 July 2024. biologists.com/workshops/prop…

Researchers at JMU now benefit from uncapped, APC-free #openaccess publishing in Development J Cell Science Journal of Experimental Biology DMM Journal Biology Open & unlimited access to the journals & their archives, thanks to new #ReadAndPublish #OA agreement.
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Thank you to organisers Wendy Bickmore, Liver Growth and Cancer Lab, Sara 💙💛 🇺🇦, The Mill Lab, Liz Patton & Owen Sansom 🏳️‍🌈 and everyone who joined us in Edinburgh for our #DMMgenetics Journal Meeting on Pre-clinical Modelling of Human Genetic Disease and Therapy.
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Final chance to apply for a funded early-career researcher place at our Workshop 'Physics of the Early Embryonic Cell Divisions' organised by Lendert Gelens
Lendert Gelens & Julia Kamenz KamenzLab.
Deadline: 17 May
Apply at bit.ly/42Aifkx
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Researchers at Wuhan University now benefit from uncapped, APC-free #openaccess publishing in all our journals, plus unlimited access to the journals & their archives, thanks to new #ReadAndPublish #OA agreement. #DRAA
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If you have an image sitting on your datastore that deserves to be shared with the world, then there is still time for this to happen as we’ve extended the deadline of our FocalPlane-elmi2024 image competition until 21 May!
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Pleased to announce Kapasa Makasa University, Zambia as the latest institution to join our #ReadAndPublish initiative. That's now 51 countries participating!

Check if your institution is also eligible for fee-free #OpenAccess publishing with us.
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🚨One month to go!

Register to #SciComm Connect now and dive into the exciting world of #SciComm together with fellow biologists on 10 June! This is a free online event thanks to the support of The Company of Biologists.

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Thank you to Dorothea Schulte for sharing her experience of fee-free #OA publishing in J Cell Science via our #ReadAndPublish agreement with Goethe-Universität Universitätsbibliothek J.C. Senckenberg

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Don’t miss your chance to hear about some fantastic open microscopy projects from Richard Bowman Richard Bowman, Jan Huisken Jan Huisken and Dumi Lumkwana Dumi Lumkwana.
Register here for #FocalPlaneFeatures on Thurs 16 May at 15:00 BST: focalplane.biologists.com/2024/05/02/foc…
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'The Pond'

In this 'Developmental Twists', Tsuku Mogami takes a dive into the murky waters pertaining to a specific developmental geneticist from the 1900s:
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In this #SciArt profile, we meet Philipp Dexheimer Philipp Dexheimer, PhD, who combines his research background in RNA biology in 🪱 and his love for art to create biology-inspired graffiti and scientific illustrations🖌️

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Register now for On Demand Access to Keystone Symposia #AI in Biomedicine, which took place 1-3 May, exploring emerging #DrugDiscovery #Bioengineering research. hubs.la/Q02r3DFR0 #KSAIBiomed24

If you’re working in animal comparative physiology or biomechanics & are within 5 years of setting up your first lab, apply for our ECR Visiting Fellowships & Research Partnership Kickstart Travel Grants.
Deadline 3 June

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