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Meeting review: BSDB/Anne McLaren Memorial Trust 2016 Autumn Meeting

Posted by , on 10 February 2017

The use of chimaeras to study developmental mechanisms: from lineage tracing to disease models   Under the sponsorship of the Anne McLaren Memorial Trust Fund and The Company of Biologists, ...

Transposons in Embryo Space – TRACER maps in EMAGE

Posted by , on 9 February 2017

A recent publication in Developmental Biology by (Armit et al., 2017) describes how the TRACER dataset can be spatially compared with in situ hybridisation gene expression profiles.   The TRACER ...

YEN Conference 2017: Registration open now!

Posted by , on 8 February 2017

Young Embryologist Network 9th Annual Conference. 9th May 2017 at the Institute of Child Health, UCL, London. This year, YEN is honoured to have Dr Darren Gilmour from EMBL Heidelberg present the Sammy Lee ...

The people behind the papers: Philippe Foerster & Nathalie Spassky

Posted by , on 8 February 2017

Radial glial cells are multipotent progenitors in the developing vertebrate brain. At their apical interface with the ventricular cavity around which the brain forms, they bear a primary cilium, a signalling ...

D’Arcy Thompson’s On Growth and Form – 100 Years On and Still Growing!

Posted by , on 7 February 2017

“For the harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept ...

New data reveals how gene knockouts affect whole embryo gene expression

Posted by , on 7 February 2017

New DMDD data released on Expression Atlas reveals the effect of single gene knockouts on the expression of all other genes in the mouse genome. The gene expression profiles of ...

This month on the Node and beyond

Posted by , on 7 February 2017

January was a productive month on the Node, with a variety of developmental biology content from the lab bench and beyond.   Research We heard from the authors of a ...

PhD Scholarship - The Role of Cell Polarity in Tissue Repair

Posted by , on 7 February 2017

(A/Prof Helena Richardson’s & Prof Patrick Humbert’s laboratories at the Department of Biochemistry & Genetics, La Trobe Institute of Molecular Sciences (LIMS), La Trobe University Melbourne Campus (Bundoora)   We offer ...

PhD Scholarship - Embryo Development and Craniofacial Defects Research

Posted by , on 7 February 2017

A Ph.D. scholarship offered to an exceptional student, to investigate genetic mechanisms which underpin vertebrate birth defects, with a particular focus on craniofacial defects such as cleft palate.   This ...

Postdoctoral Position Developmental and Cancer Biology

Posted by , on 6 February 2017

An NIH-funded postdoctoral researcher position is available immediately in Dr. Nadia Dahmane laboratory at Cornell University-Weill Cornell Medicine in the Department of Neurological Surgery to study the transcriptional regulation of ...

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