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Company logo with the centenary visual (numbers 100 incorporating the Company colours)

Celebrating 100 years

2025 will mark the 100-year anniversary of The Company of Biologists. We will be celebrating this important milestone with a community conference and other activities throughout the year.

Sharing scientific knowledge and discoveries has always been at the heart of The Company of Biologists. The Company was set up in 1925 to save The British Journal of Experimental Biology, currently known as Journal of Experimental Biology. During 2025 we will share content with you from the five journals that we publish today: Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanism and Biology Open. We are diving into the archives, but will also publish new and original material that is related to our anniversary.

100 years into our existence, we do much more than publishing journals. We provide support to societies, conference organisers and individual researchers through our charitable grants and have a keen interest in supporting early-career researchers. We bring people together on our three community websites: the Node, preLights and FocalPlane.

We also organise our own Meetings and Workshops, providing biologists with networking opportunities and a platform to share their latest research. In 2025 we will be organising a unique conference that brings all our communities together.

We can’t wait to unveil more of our plans as we get closer to 2025. If you want to stay up to date on our 100-year anniversary activities, sign up to our newsletter and follow us on social media. We look forward to celebrating with you.

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JEB centenary

In 2023, Journal of Experimental Biology celebrated its 100th anniversary. Find out more about the journal’s history and how we celebrated this important birthday.

Sustainability

We are committed to ensuring our environmental impact is kept to a minimum and we are working hard to make sustainability a consideration in everything we do, including our anniversary activities.

Libraries and consortia

We are proud to have built up vital relationships with libraries and consortia around the world, helping us disseminate the research that our community publishes with us.

A visit to The Forest of Biologists

18 January 2024

Our Publisher Claire Moulton recently visited the two Woodland Trust UK sites where we are planting new native trees for published Research and Review papers and protecting ancient woodland on behalf of our peer reviewers.


Visit our journal websites

Development Journal of Cell Science The Journal of Experimental Biology Disease Models & Mechanisms Biology Open

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