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Stefan Hoppler

I was born and brought up in Switzerland. Undergraduate studies at the University of Zürich in Switzerland ('86-'90). PhD with Mariann Bienz mostly at MRC LMB in Cambridge, UK on homeotic genes (labial) in Drosophila midgut development ('91-'93). Short-term postdoc research with Mariann Bienz mostly at MRC LMB in Cambridge on wingless (wnt) signalling in Drosophila (1994). Post-doc research with Randall Moon in Seattle (USA) on Wnt8 in Xenopus mesoderm patterning ('95-'97). Short-term postdoc research with Enrique Amaya at Wellcome/CRC Institute in Cambridge on Xenopus transgenics (1997). Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellow and Lecturer at University of Dundee ('98-'03), investigating 1) The functional role of Wnt signalling during Xenopus organogenesis; and 2) Molecular mechanisms ensuring tissue-specific response to Wnt signalling. Senior Lecturer then Reader in Institute of Medical Sciences at University of Aberdeen (since 2003) investigating 1) Molecular Mechanisms of tissue-specific Wnt signalling in embryonic development and cancer, 2) Wnt Signalling in Xenopus Heart Development.

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Post-Doc Position: Alternative-Splicing and RNA isoform expression in Wnt signalling

Posted by , on 25 November 2019

We are looking for an RNA molecular biologist/molecular developmental biologist (three years, BBSRC funded, mostly based in Aberdeen) (apply by 5 January 2020, https://www.abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/research-fellow-molecular-biology–391526.html) This project will study alternative transcript ...

Two Post-Doc Positions on 'Molecular Evolution of Wnt signalling' (St. Andrews and Aberdeen, Scotland)

Posted by , on 29 July 2019

Two BBSRC-funded post-doctoral positions are 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, ...

Pre-Announcement: Post-doctoral Positions in Scotland

Posted by , on 21 May 2019

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: ...