Since the Young Embryologist Network (YEN) was established in 2008, its annual conference grows from strength to strength, and thanks to the introduction of travel grants in 2017, the YEN meeting now welcomes an international delegation of attendees studying a variety of developmental problems. YEN conferences are special because they organised by early career researchers[…]

This interview, the 62nd in our series, was recently published in Development Vascular development critically involves pruning, which helps to remodel an immature network containing excess microvessels into a mature and functioning one. The mechanisms of vascular remodelling and the relationship between the endothelial cells and the other cell types with which they are closely associated are,[…]

Pre-Announcement: Post-Doctoral Positions in Scotland (St Andrews & Aberdeen)   Two BBSRC-funded post-doctoral positions will become available as part of a collaboration between the Universities of St Andrews and Aberdeen: evolutionary developmental biologist (three years, currently proposed start date 1 January 2020, mostly based in St Andrews) molecular developmental biologist/RNA molecular biologist (three years, currently proposed start[…]

Job Location: Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Development of the Musculo-Skeletal system / Pourquie Lab, Boston, MA, USA   Job Summary The Research Lab Manager will assume a key role in the Pourquie lab (Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Pathology/Harvard Medical School/Genetics Departments) (15 to 18-person lab). The Lab manager works under the very general direction of[…]