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Our next extraordinary biologist is Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, a Nobel Prize winner and Emeritus Director of the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany. #100biologists
The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard , to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard is a Nobel Prize winner and Emeritus Director of the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany. She led efforts to establish zebrafish as a genetic model for vertebrate development, contributing many papers to the famous 1996 zebrafish issue of Development. #100biologists #biologists100
December 25, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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We have been busy celebrating our 100-year anniversary this year. Scroll through our timeline to view the key milestones over the years www.biologists.com/100-years/ti...
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December 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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2025 has been a year of celebration for @biologists.bsky.social as we marked its 100th anniversary #biologists100 & in this final Editorial of the year we remember all of the celebrations for our #NotForProfit publisher & the fabulous communities we work with
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Screenshot of the PDF of the Editorial, 'Celebrating 100 years of The Company of Biologists', by O. Claire Moulton, Katie Ward and Kathryn Knight. The publishing information states: © 2025. Published by The Company of Biologists | Journal of Experimental Biology (2025) 228, jeb251941. doi:10.1242/jeb.251941. The first line of the article says, 'The year 2025 marks a significant milestone in the history of The Company of Biologists and we have enjoyed an extraordinary year of celebration'. At the top of the left column is part of a figure, showing JEB Editor, Almut Kelber, at the 2025 JEB symposium.
December 22, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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During the #biologists100 conference, the Node's conference reporter @jens-cells.bsky.social spoke with Clare Benson, Luke Simpson and @m-stower.bsky.social. Here, each researcher tells us more about the work that they presented at the conference.👇

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Throwback to Biologists @ 100: Interviews from Liverpool - the Node
Earlier this year, The Company of Biologists celebrated its 100-year anniversary with the Biologists @ 100 conference in Liverpool - bringing together
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December 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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We are featuring developmental biologist Chris Wylie as an extraordinary biologist this week. Chris is a former @biologists.bsky.social Director and the founding Editor-in-Chief of @dev-journal.bsky.social. #100biologists
The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of Chris Wylie to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Chris Wylie Chris Wylie is a former Company Director and the founding Editor-in-Chief of Development (1987-2003). With a broad research background in developmental biology, Chris has made significant discoveries in Xenopus and mouse embryogenesis and was involved in the founding of key developmental biology institutes. #100biologists #biologists100
December 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Next, we are highlighting Renata Basto, a @jcellsci.bsky.social Editor who has published in @dev-journal.bsky.social, @jcellsci.bsky.social and @biologyopen.bsky.social, as an extraordinary biologist this week. #100biologists
Headshot of Renata Basto, to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Renata Basto Renata Basto is a JCS Editor who has published in three of the Company’s journals. She is a CNRS Team Leader at the Institut Curie in France. Her team investigates the molecular mechanisms that, in response to centrosome or chromosome number deviations, can influence animal development or how they can lead to disease. #100biologists #biologists100
December 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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The Company of Biologists Travelling Fellowships programme: a commitment to support the next generation of scientists

Our Reviews Editor Saanjbati Adhikari surveys 35 years of @biologists.bsky.social's Travelling Fellowships programme for #biologists100:
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The first Travelling Fellowships were advertised in Development in April 1990. Development Travelling Fellowships The journal is pleased to announce a new travelling fellowship program that is in keeping with The Company of Biologists' commitment to support research scientists. In 1990, Development is offering five Travelling Fellowships of up to $1500 each. Graduate and postdoctoral students are invited to apply to the Editors in 1990 for funds to assist travel, and expenses involved in visits to other laboratories. Applications, which should be accompanied by a CV, an account of the work to be done, and a full breakdown of the costs involved, should include a letter a recommendation from the head of the laboratory in which the applicant is presently working and in which the work will be done. Applications should be sent to C. C. Wylie. The Editors in awarding the Fellowships will be guided by the excellence of the candidates, and the importance , and innovative quality of the work to be done. Closing date for applications in 1990: 6th April 1990.
December 17, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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As part of our #biologists100 celebrations, historian Nick Hopwood looks back over the history of our journal and the story of how we came to be named Development.

Read 'Identities of an embryology journal in a molecular age; or, How Development got its name' here:
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Change in JEEM covers compared with Cell. (A) Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology, February 1978. (B) Redesign to highlight ‘the word “JEEM”’, January 1979. (C) Cell, showing Drosophila abdominal muscles from a paper by JEEM editor Peter Lawrence, from Cell 45, 23 May 1986, reproduced with permission from Elsevier. (D) Development, June 1987, advertising interest in plant development by showing a germinating pea, Pisum sativum cv. Meteor, the only one of hundreds to produce a root growing in the opposite direction to the shoot (photo by Jeremy Burgess). The cover dropped the reference to JEEM in May 1988.
December 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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We are also featuring developmental biologist K. Vijayraghavan, a @dev-journal.bsky.social Advisory Board member and a Development and @biologyopen.bsky.social author, as an extraordinary biologist this week. #100biologists
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Headshot of K. Vijayraghavan, to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists K. Vijayraghavan K. VijayRaghavan is a Development Advisory Board member and a Development and Biology Open author. He serves as a Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India and is a Distinguished Professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, India, investigating the development and function of neural circuits. #100biologists #biologists100
December 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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An organisation is only ever as good as the people who work in it. I've now been at @biologists.bsky.social for 14 years, and there's no way I'd have stayed so long were it not for the friendly, talented and dedicated people I get to work with every day. #biologists100
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As we reflect on the past 100 years, one thing becomes clear: the impact we have had on the communities we serve is only possible because of our inspiring and motivated staff. Read more about the people behind the Company here: bit.ly/44nyx2r
A collage of nine of our staff members at The Company of Biologists.
December 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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2025 has been a year of celebration #biologists100 for @biologists.bsky.social, JEB's #NotForProfit #Publisher. In this Perspective, Saanjbati Adhikari reviews the history of the fantastic @Co_Biologists Travelling Fellowships scheme 🔁

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A screenshot of the advertisement for the first Travelling Fellowships awarded be The Company of Biologists in 1990 in the journal Development
December 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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We are also highlighting Clotilde Cadart, who was part of
@dev-journal.bsky.social's inaugural Pathway to Independence Programme cohort and a co-organiser of the Company Workshop on cell size and growth, as an extraordinary biologist this week. #100biologists
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Headshot of Clotilde Cadart, to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Clotilde Cadart Clotilde Cadart was part of the inaugural Pathway to Independence Programme cohort. She organised the 2022 Workshop on cell size and growth and spoke at the 2025 Workshop on whole genome doubling. Clotilde is a Junior Group Leader at Institut Cochin, France, focusing on the quantitative biology of cells and embryos. #100biologists #biologists100
December 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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We are also highlighting Claire Moulton, previously our Publisher and @biologists.bsky.social's first ever CEO, who led the creation of The Forest of Biologists, as an extraordinary biologist this week. #100biologists
The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Cartoon depiction of Claire Moulton, to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Claire Moulton Claire Moulton, previously our Publisher, is the Company’s first ever Chief Executive Officer. Claire is responsible for setting the Company’s strategic plan, championing quality publishing and community support. Claire led the creation of The Forest of Biologists, now in its fourth year, as a biopositive publishing initiative. #100biologists #biologists100
December 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Learn more about why this programme was started in 2022, and some of the PI fellows we have supported so far, in this #biologists100 Perspective article by Reviews Editor, @ingridtsang.bsky.social:
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The 2023 PI fellows outside The Company of Biologists' office in Histon, Cambridge, UK. From left to right: Leah Greenspan, Loic Fort, Priti Agarwal (front), Thomas Juan (back), Clotilde Cadart, James Gahan, Yuchuan Miao and Polina Kameneva. Originally posted on the Node (https://thenode.biologists.com/sharing-is-caring-developments-pathway-to-independence-programme/news/).
December 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Our next extraordinary biologist is the columnist who writes under the pseudonym ‘Mole', a regular contributor to @jcellsci.bsky.social for over 20 years. #100biologists
The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Cartoon depiction of Mole, to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Mole The columnist who writes under the pseudonym ‘Mole’ has been a regular contributor to Journal of Cell Science for over 20 years, providing humorous and often controversial perspectives on the challenges of the academic science system. #100biologists #biologists100
December 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Our next extraordinary biologist is Grace Lim, a prolific preLighter @prelights.bsky.social and a contributor to @the-node.bsky.social and @dev-journal.bsky.social. #100biologists
the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of Grace Lim to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Grace Lim Grace Lim is a prolific preLighter, contributor to the Node and a Development author. As a Senior Scientist at A*STAR in Singapore, Grace is leading innovative research at the frontier of stem cell biology through her discoveries on novel gastric cancer stem cell markers for targeted therapeutics. #100biologists #biologists100
November 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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We are also highlighting August Krogh, @jexpbiol.bsky.social author and 1920 Nobel Prize winner, as an extraordinary biologist this week. #100biologists
The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of August Krogh, to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists August Krogh August Krogh, JEB author and winner of the Nobel Prize in 1920 for the discovery of the mechanism of regulation of the capillaries in skeletal muscle, founded the field of comparative physiology in 1929 with his principle, 'For many problems there will be an animal of choice on which it can be most conveniently studied. #100biologists #biologists100
November 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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We are highlighting Jennifer Waters, a @focalplane.bsky.social Scientific Advisory Board member, Director of CITE, Harvard Medical School, and creator of MicroList (now featured in FocalPlane) and Microtutor, as an extraordinary biologist. #100biologists
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The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of Jennifer Waters to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Jennifer Waters Jennifer Waters, a FocalPlane Scientific Advisory Board member, is the Director of Core for Imaging Technology & Education, Harvard Medical School, USA. She created MicroList and draws on over 25 years of teaching experience to create accessible microscopy education resources, including the online platform Microtutor. #100biologists #biologists100
November 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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We are highlighting Simon Maddrell, former @biologists.bsky.social Treasurer and Director, who helped secure the Company's finances, and a prolific @jexpbiol.bsky.social author, as an extraordinary biologist. #100biologists
The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of Simon Maddrell, to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Simon Maddrell Former Treasurer and then Director Simon Maddrell helped acquire financial security for The Company of Biologists. He was also a prolific Journal of Experimental Biology author, where he published his work as an insect physiologist, focusing on Malpighian tubules in blood-sucking insect excretion. #100biologists #biologists100
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Also in Issue 21:
▪️2 In preprints articles on echninoderms & temperature
▪️A #Biologists100 Spotlight on plant development
▪️Physics of morphogenesis Spotlight
▪️3 Research Highlights on cortical development, face evolution and Hedgehog signalling

Full contents: journals.biologists.com/dev/issue/15...
Volume 152 Issue 21 | Development | The Company of Biologists
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November 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Our next extraordinary biologist is Sylvie Urbé, a @biologists.bsky.social Director and a @jcellsci.bsky.social Editorial Advisory Board member and author. #100biologists
The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of Sylvie Urbé, to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Sylvie Urbé Sylvie Urbé joined The Company of Biologists as a Director in 2025 and is a JCS Editorial Advisory Board member and author. Sylvie is a cell biologist and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at the University of Liverpool, UK, investigating membrane trafficking, mitophagy and the deubiquitylase family of enzymes. #100biologists #biologists100
November 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Plant development: from sessile to fertile.

As part of the #biologists100 anniversary, Ben Scheres discusses the features of plants that make their developmental strategy ‘special’
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November 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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We are highlighting Charles Swanton, former @jcellsci.bsky.social author and recent @dmmjournal.bsky.social interviewee, who was a plenary speaker at the Biologists @ 100 conference, as an extraordinary biologist. #100biologists @crick.ac.uk
The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of Charles Swanton, to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Charles Swanton Charles Swanton, Deputy Clinical Director at The Francis Crick Institute, UK, and Chief Clinician at Cancer Research UK, was a plenary speaker at the Biologists @ 100 conference. A former JCS author and recent DMM interviewee, Charles has made significant contributions to our understanding of lung cancer evolution. #100biologists #biologists100
November 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Our next extraordinary biologist is Michael Dickinson, a McArthur Fellowship-winning neuroscientist who was a @jexpbiol.bsky.social Editor for 11 years. #100biologists
The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of Michael Dickinson to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Michael Dickinson Michael Dickinson is a McArthur Fellowship-winning neuroscientist who was a JEB Editor for 11 years (2009-2020) and played a key role in three JEB Symposia. Michael is currently the ZaremProfessor of Bioengineering and Aeronautics at Caltech, USA, where he researches the biomechanics and neural control of insect flight. #100biologists #biologists100
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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JEB has been hosting its Symposium for almost 50 years & this year, as part of @biologists.bsky.social 100th Anniversary #biologists100, the symposium, 'Sensory perception in a changing world', was open to anyone at the Biologists @ 100 meeting. Find out more

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A montage showing delegates and attendees at the JEB Symposium (clockwise from top left): Nathan Putnam, Michael Berenbrink, Hema Somanathan, Daniel Robert, Robyn Grant.
November 6, 2025 at 12:04 PM