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The people behind the papers – Marina Matsumiya & Ryoichiro Kageyama

Posted by , on 19 February 2018

Vertebrate segmentation involves the periodic formation of somites from the presomitic mesoderm, in a manner controlled by oscillating gene expression (the oscillations of the segmentation clock must be one of the ...

Genes activated in metastasis also drive the first stages of tumour growth

Posted by , on 19 February 2018

In spite of the difference between the cell functions responsible for giving rise to a tumour and for the metastasis of this same tumour, studies at IRB Barcelona using the ...

Emilia Favuzzi: winner of the 2018 Beddington medal

Posted by , on 17 February 2018

The Beddington Medal is the BSDB’s major commendation to promising young biologists, awarded for the best PhD thesis in Developmental Biology defended in the year previous to the award. Rosa ...

A journey towards uncovering the mechanics of embryonic polarization

Posted by , on 17 February 2018

The key results of our recent paper in Nature Cell Biology   Cell polarization defines the spatial biological specificities in a cell. During the first cell cycle of a C. elegans ...

Nominate BSDB committee members,

Posted by , on 16 February 2018

Sear BSDB Members,   I am writing to ask you to consider nominating individuals for membership of the BSDB committee.   Due to committee retirements, three new individuals are needed to ...

PhD positions in Marseille (France) - Turing Centre for Living Systems (CENTURI)

Posted by , on 15 February 2018

The Turing Centre for Living Systems aims at attracting students willing to work in an interdisciplinary life-science environment and with backgrounds in cell or developmental biology, immunology, neurosciences, theoretical physics, biophysics, computer ...

Nominate your Drosophila genes of interest for CRISPR fly stock production

Posted by , on 13 February 2018

The DRSC/TRiP-Functional Genomics Resources is a Drosophila community resource with three main focus areas: (1) cell-based Drosophila cell screening, (2) fly stock production, and (3) bioinformatics. Our TRiP fly stock production ...

Research Assistant/Associate: Zebrafish Optogenetics and Live-Imaging

Posted by , on 13 February 2018

The Buckley lab at the department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience (PDN), University of Cambridge is recruiting a postdoctoral research associate or research assistant. The lab uses cutting edge optogenetic ...

2-year Postdoctoral position (University of Birmingham) - Research Fellow in Cardiovascular genetics and development

Posted by , on 13 February 2018

Applications are invited from outstanding individuals to work under the supervision of Dr Rui Monteiro, Birmingham Fellow, on a BHF funded research project to study the role of TGFb signalling ...

2-Year postdoctoral position (Marseille, France): Computational study of cell pattern emergence in embryonic and tumorigenic tissues

Posted by , on 9 February 2018

PD2018-03 – Computational study of cell pattern emergence in embryonic and tumorigenic tissues Project abstract – The ability of cells to self-organize into patterned tissues composed of multiple cell types ...

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