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A bumpy – emotional – ride towards a PhD

Posted by , on 16 May 2018

To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, we’re sharing this blog post on the MRC WIMM blog from Gregorio Dias, who describes his experiences with stress and anxiety as a PhD student. If ...

Postdoctoral Position at UCSF to Study Mammalian Morphogenesis

Posted by , on 15 May 2018

A postdoctoral position is available in the Bush lab bush.ucsf.edu at the University of California, San Francisco to study the cellular basis of morphogenesis using live imaging, mouse genetic, and ...

From stem cells to human development: meeting reporter competition

Posted by , on 15 May 2018

***DEADLINE IS TODAY – MAY 15!***   In September, Development is hosting the third of its highly successful series of meetings focusing on human developmental biology. Held in the Wotton ...

Post-doctoral Research Fellow Position Available - New Approaches for Manipulation of the Mammalian Epigenome

Posted by , on 10 May 2018

The Centre for BioNano Interactions (CBNI), University College Dublin is seeking a highly motivated Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with research background in relevant areas of molecular and cellular biology to join ...

Post-doctoral Research Fellow Position Available - Exosome Detection and Manipulation

Posted by , on 10 May 2018

The Centre for BioNano Interactions, University College Dublin is seeking a highly motivated Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with research background in relevant areas of molecular and cellular biology to join a ...

Borders and communities: solving old puzzles with new tools

Posted by , on 10 May 2018

An important question in developmental biology is how regions with distinct identity are established despite the intermingling of cells that occurs during growth and morphogenesis. Our recent work revisited some ...

The dorsal root of the matter: Using zebrafish to study the importance of movement on early brain growth

Posted by , on 8 May 2018

In our recent paper published in eLife, we found a novel form of movement-dependent neural feedback that drives early forebrain growth in zebrafish. In this article, I discuss the problems, ...

Call for PhD and Postdoc. HFSP Positions - Coupling of cell polarization and differentiation in organoids

Posted by , on 8 May 2018

HFSP_Call for PhD and Postdoc_May_2018   Understanding how out of single cells functional tissues and organs develop is a major challenge of biology. Recent progress allows us to grow organ-like ...

Lymphoblastoid Cell Lines: The Next Frontier of ALS Research

Posted by , on 4 May 2018

This post highlights the approach and finding of a new research article published by Disease Models and Mechanisms (DMM). This feature is written by Lacey Kennedy as apart of a seminar ...

Redefining the Aging Process

Posted by , on 4 May 2018

This post highlights the approach and findings of a new research article published in Disease Models and Mechanisms (DMM). This feature was written by J. Brucker Nourse Jr. as part ...

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