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3-year postdoc position for a bioinformatician

Posted by , on 1 November 2022

The Steinmetz group at the Sars Centre in Bergen (Norway) is looking for a bioinformatician with expertise in analysing high-throughput sequencing datasets (bulk, single-cell, ATAC-Seq). The project aims to characterise ...

Hot fish and the energetics of early development

Posted by , on 10 April 2019

The story behind our recent paper “Heat Oscillations Driven by the Embryonic Cell Cycle Reveal the Energetic Costs of Signaling” Developmental Cell, 48(5), pp.646–658.e6. At the end of 2014, a ...

Making of the nerve cord: The story of telling neural progenitors when and where not to divide

Posted by , on 5 May 2017

Comment on “Anterior-Posterior Gradient in Neural Stem and Daughter Cell Proliferation Governed by Spatial and Temporal Hox Control”, Current Biology 27, 1161-1172 (2017). Ignacio Monedero, Behzad Yaghmaeian, Stefan Thor. Department ...

An interview with Philip Zegerman

Posted by , on 15 September 2015

This interview first featured in the Journal of Cell Science and is part of their interview series Cell Scientists to Watch   Philip Zegerman earned his undergraduate degree from the University ...

Camelid antibodies go fishing

Posted by , on 18 May 2015

Figure 1. “Cytoplasm”, illustration by David S. Goodsell, the Scripps Research Institute.   When contemplating the illustrations by David S. Goodsell (Figure 1), the first thing that stands out is how ...

Neuroblastoma may arise from problems with embryonic nerve development

Posted by , on 1 May 2015

Neuroblastoma is a tumour derived from the peripheral nervous system and is the most common cancer diagnosed within the first year of life. Although is a fairly rare disease, it ...

Application of Fucci technology to analysis of endoreplicating cells

Posted by , on 18 November 2013

Endoreplication (endoreduplication or endomitosis) is the process by which a cell undergoes successive rounds of DNA replication without an intervening mitosis and its accompanying cytokinesis. Developmentally programmed endoreplication causes differentiating ...

Wave at the frogs - they're waving at you

Posted by , on 26 July 2013

  Perhaps, like me, you’ve been microinjecting Xenopus embryos for so long that you start seeing strange things – maybe that they’re waving at you.  But perhaps that’s not so ...

Stem cell decisions and the cell cycle

Posted by , on 15 February 2013

A lot of things cycle in life, even down to the cellular level.  In the developing central nervous system, regulators of the cell cycle play important roles in maintaining the ...

Postdoctoral position - MRC Department of Biomedical/Developmental Genetics, University of Sheffield, UK

Posted by , on 26 October 2011

Overview The Research Associate will work in the MRC Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics within the Department of Biomedical Science.  The department has an active community of researchers specialising ...

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