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Postdoctoral position in cancer metabolism at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Posted by , on 3 August 2018

An opportunity is available for a Postdoctoral position in the Cox Lab at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia. The position requires a highly motivated and enthusiastic postdoctoral scientist ...

July in preprints

Posted by , on 2 August 2018

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental biology (and other related/just plain cool) preprints.    In one of the most contentious (at least on Twitter!) pieces of preprint news in ...

Conference Jacques Monod "Modeling Cell Fate", Roscoff, Brittany, Nov 19-23, 2018

Posted by , on 2 August 2018

Deadline extended ! 26 Aug. 2018 Conference Jacques Monod in Developmental Biology, « Modeling Cell Fate » Roscoff, Brittany, on 19-23 Nov 2018. Deadline for applications: 26 Aug. 2018 at https://cjm5-2018.sciencesconf.org/This CJM will place ...

Testing Zimmermann’s Telome Theory

Posted by , on 1 August 2018

A perspective on our recent paper ‘CLAVATA was a genetic novelty for the morphological innovation of 3D growth in land plants’1.   In the 1950’s, the German botanist Walter Zimmermann ...

POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN STEM CELL BIOLOGY NEW YORK CITY

Posted by , on 25 July 2018

A postdoctoral position is immediately available or on the date upon mutual agreement in the laboratory of Jianlong Wang, Ph.D., Department of Cell, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, Black Family Stem ...

Scientific Reviews Editor for Development

Posted by , on 25 July 2018

We are still looking for a Scientific Reviews Editor for the journal Development – for full details, please see the job advert here. You may have noticed that this is ...

Building the BSDB family network

Posted by , on 23 July 2018

This year the British Society for Developmental Biology turned 70, and celebrated the milestone at its Spring meeting at Warwick (check out Twitter for some of the fun, and Andreas ...

The people behind the papers - Takanori Wakatake & Ken Shirasu

Posted by , on 23 July 2018

Parasitic plants are fascinating and agriculturally relevant organisms that rely for their success on the haustorium, a specialised root structure that invades host root vasculature to derive nutrients and water. A ...

Life changing experiences with Embryos

Posted by , on 18 July 2018

It’s hard to describe with words how my experience has been at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, but I’m going to give it a try… My ...

The people behind the papers - Ximena Anleu Gil & Dominique Bergmann

Posted by , on 18 July 2018

Asymmetric division is a widespread mechanism for generating cellular diversity during developmental patterning. The stomata of flowering plants are epidermal valves that regulate gas exchange, and provide an accessible system to investigate the mechanisms ...

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