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Useful databases and resources for developmental biologists

Posted by , on 20 August 2015

As you may have noticed, as part of our recent redesign we created a new Resources section on the site, which you can access via the menu bar. Within this section we have ...

Pluripotent Stem Cell Platform Research Associate

Posted by , on 20 August 2015

Department/Location: Wellcome Trust – Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, UK Salary: £28,695-£37,394 Reference: PS06912 Closing date: 20 September 2015 Fixed-term: The funds for this post ...

Meeting Report: Pan-Am Evo-Devo's first meeting

Posted by , on 19 August 2015

The inaugural meeting of the Pan-American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology took place from August 5th–9th at the Clark Kerr campus of UC Berkley, USA. Registration was full, with nearly ...

Visiting a collaborator's lab? Apply for a travelling fellowship!

Posted by , on 19 August 2015

Are you a postdoc or student planning to visit a collaborator’s lab? Need help to offset your costs and expenses? Then apply for a Development travelling fellowship! You can be awarded up to £2,500 ...

Postdoctoral position to study Wnt signaling and cell polarity

Posted by , on 18 August 2015

A postdoctoral position is available in the Sergei Sokol laboratory in the Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, to study Wnt signaling and ...

An interview with Caroline Dean

Posted by , on 18 August 2015

This interview first featured in Development.   Caroline Dean is a plant biologist based at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK. She helped to establish Arabidopsis as a model plant ...

In Development this week (Vol. 142, Issue 16)

Posted by , on 18 August 2015

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   Probing gene expression dynamics in stem cells The accurate control of gene expression is essential for cell differentiation during ...

On progressing your career and communicating your science- Advice from the SDB meeting

Posted by , on 17 August 2015

Last month I attended the SDB annual meeting in Utah, an excellent conference that featured great scientific talks and additional educative sessions covering outreach, inclusiveness and more. I tweeted extensively from ...

(Developmental) Biology around the internet- August 2015

Posted by , on 14 August 2015

Here is August’s round-up of some of the interesting content that we spotted around the internet!   News & Research – Ian Sussex, one of the founding fathers of plant ...

The protein that keeps cells static is found to play a key role in cell movement

Posted by , on 14 August 2015

The protein E-Cadherin (E-Cad) is a kind of adhesive that keeps cells tightly bound together, thus favouring the organisation of tissues and organs. Scientists at the Institute for Research in ...

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