the community site for and by developmental biologists
Posted by HelenaR on June 1st, 2011
Position Available: POST DOCTORAL RESEARCHER With A/Prof Helena Richardson Cell Cycle and Development Lab Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Melbourne, Victoria Australia Project: Apico-basal polarity regulators, Signalling pathways and Tumourigenesis Available from Sept 2011 – contract initially 1 year with scope for extension Our lab uses Drosophila as a model of tumour development, and through[…]
Posted by Delphine Duprez on June 1st, 2011
A 2 year post-doc position is available from October 2011 in Delphine DUPREZ’s team, in Paris. Tendon and ligament injuries are common clinical problems during aging or following accidents. No treatment currently exists to restore injured or defective tendon/ligament to its normal condition. The ultimate aim of this project is to build an in vitro[…]
Posted by Natascha Bushati on May 31st, 2011
Each year, three medals to honour extraordinary research achievements in cell and developmental biology are awarded at the joint conference of the British Societies for Cell Biology (BSCB) and Developmental Biology (BSDB). Here on the Node, Eva has recently posted an interview with Carlos Carmona-Fontaine, to whom this year’s Beddington medal was awarded, for his[…]
Posted by Eva Amsen on May 27th, 2011
(This interview originally appeared in Development) Every two years, the German Society for Developmental Biology (GfE – Gesellschaft für Entwicklungsbiologie) holds a scientific meeting for their members. This year, from 23 to 26 March, their meeting was held in Dresden, jointly with the Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists (JSDB). At this meeting, we sat down[…]
Posted by Stefan Hoppler on May 25th, 2011
The French Society for Developmental Biology (SFBD) together with the British Society for Developmental Biology (BSDB) organize their 2nd joint meeting. The meeting will take place September 3-6, 2011 in Nice, at the Saint-Jean d’Angély campus located close to the city centre. Leading researchers from Great Britain, France and the rest of the world will[…]
Posted by Eva Amsen on May 25th, 2011
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is launching a documentary film initiative to bring high quality science to TV. Benefiting from HHMI’s direct access to scientific resources and researchers, the $60 million project aims to give the public an accurate overview of the scientific process, while highlighting compelling stories. Recently, HHMI announced that the film initiative[…]
Posted by kara_cerveny on May 24th, 2011
Although I’m no longer working at the bench, I still think of myself as a scientist. During grad school and much of my post-doc, I assumed that I would follow the “grad student to post-doc to professor track” so that I could continue to be paid to learn for the rest of my life. I’ve[…]
Posted by Seema Grewal on May 24th, 2011
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: How transcriptional silencing goes into reverse The Polycomb group (PcG) machinery silences terminal differentiation genes in stem cell lineages. Reversal of this epigenetic transcriptional silencing is implicated in the selective activation of these genes during differentiation, but little is known about the mechanism of this[…]
Posted by Melinda on May 23rd, 2011
Hi there! My name is Melinda, and I’m a postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge University in the UK in the lab of Dr. Clare Baker (http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/baker/). I’ve just wrapped up my research trip to work on paddlefish embryos in the southeastern state of Georgia in the United States, generously funding by the Development Travelling Fellowship award![…]
Posted by SophieP on May 23rd, 2011
Sophie Pryor Institute of Child Health University College London The third Young Embryologist Meeting, which brings together PhD students, Post-Doctoral and Young PI researchers, was held on Friday 6th May at King’s College, London. The meeting was initially established in 2008 by PhD students and Dr Yoshiyuki Yamamoto from the UCL Research Department of Cell[…]
