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Postdoctoral Research Fellow position: Evolutionary Origin of Synapses and Neurons at Sars Centre in Bergen, Norway

Posted by , on 10 April 2018

There is a vacancy for a postdoctoral research fellow position at the Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology (www.sars.no) in the research group headed by Dr. Pawel Burkhardt. The ...

PhD position: Origin and Evolution of Synaptic Proteins at Sars Centre in Bergen, Norway

Posted by , on 10 April 2018

There is a vacancy for a PhD position at the Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology (www.sars.no) in the research group headed by Dr. Pawel Burkhardt. The position is for a fixed-term period of ...

The people behind the papers - Jinjin Zhu & Justin Kumar

Posted by , on 9 April 2018

Cell fate commitment relies on both activation of appropriate genes and suppression of inappropriate ones. Polycomb group proteins are known to be crucial epigenetic silencers of developmental genes, but the ...

Postdoc: RNAi biology in intragenomic conflict and speciation (Lai lab, NYC)

Posted by , on 7 April 2018

Eric Lai Lab, Sloan-Kettering, NYC We have an opening for a postdoctoral position that will address fundamental questions in small RNA biology, genomic conflict, and speciation. What is endogenous RNAi ...

Postdoctoral Positions - Unit on Genome Structure and Regulation - NIH/NICHD

Posted by , on 6 April 2018

We are at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) at NIH, Bethesda, Maryland USA. Our lab is interested in understanding cell lineage differentiation, gene regulation and ...

A tribute to parrots

Posted by , on 5 April 2018

In a previous blog, I have disgraced parrots by associating them with P-values and discrediting them for their mechanic repetition. Nevertheless, I admire the vivid colours of these multifaceted birds. ...

The people behind the papers - Rémi-Xavier Coux & Ruth Lehmann

Posted by , on 5 April 2018

Development and homeostasis depend crucially on the maintenance of cell identity, and in gamete-producing tissues the somatic/germline distinction is paramount. A recent paper in Development explores how cell identity is ...

Collaborative PhD position at the Turing Centre in Marseille

Posted by , on 4 April 2018

Muscle building: bridging molecular order to macroscopic morphogenesis   PHD2018-11 (PDF link)

March in preprints

Posted by , on 4 April 2018

One of the most talked about preprints this month was a corrigendum to that Nature Methods paper reporting widespread off-target mutations following CRISPR-Cas9 editing in  mice. The paper was challenged quickly on ...

PhD position: Single-cell elucidation of the evolution of an embryonic transcriptional programme

Posted by , on 3 April 2018

The project: Single-cell approaches are revolutionizing developmental biology. We can now  trace in time the behavior of each cell in a live developing organism (1). In parallel, single-cell transcriptomics and ...

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