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PhD programLaunching

Posted by , on 12 March 2013

WELCOME to the INFORM PhD Program! The INFORM program (INformation Flow and ORganization at the Membrane) sets up an interdisciplinary consortium at the site of Scientific Park of Luminy in ...

The Post-Doctoral Treadmill

Posted by , on 11 March 2013

Like most things in life, research requires funding. This becomes increasingly apparent as researchers progress through their career. At some point, everyone has to jump on the funding treadmill. For ...

Becoming a confident scientific speaker

Posted by , on 9 March 2013

Like needles in a haystack, interesting speakers that bring charisma and rock n’ roll to their talks are hard to come by. No matter what the research interests of the ...

A website for PostDocs and PhDs

Posted by , on 8 March 2013

After a life in science, some of those years getting paid, some of those years not, I decided to set up a website to help PhDs and PostDocs with decisions ...

Stripes and Stem Cells

Posted by , on 7 March 2013

You didn’t stop developing once you were born (or hatched).  Our infant selves barely resemble ourselves as adults, thankfully, and stem cells play an important role in this continued development.  ...

Regenerative Medicine: From Biology to Therapy: 30 October-1 November 2013

Posted by , on 6 March 2013

Regenerative Medicine: From Biology to Therapy 30 October-1 November 2013 Few topics in contemporary medicine have attracted more attention than stem cells and their potential for enabling the discovery of ...

EMBO Workshop: Morphogen Gradients

Posted by , on 4 March 2013

We are pleased to announce that an EMBO Workshop on Morphogen Gradients will be held in Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, UK from 26 – 29th June 2013. Registration is now ...

Crocodile heads teach us a cracking lesson

Posted by , on 3 March 2013

  I recently came across a study by Milinkovitch and colleagues on the development of crocodile head scales. I think it highlights how nature sometimes chooses unusual ways to approach ...

Making sense of Wnt signaling

Posted by , on 3 March 2013

Did it ever occur to you that to enjoy music from Antonio Vivaldi to Lil Wayne, we use only about 22,000 sensory hair cells in our ears? Because hair cells ...

Cosy Science London

Posted by , on 28 February 2013

The Company of Biologists is sponsoring the next Cosy Science Meeting.  “Jerky or Smooth: The Evolution of Cancer!”, a talk by David Pellman, will be held on March 13th at ...

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