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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 ...

Postdoctoral Position in Developmental Signaling at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Posted by , on 8 February 2018

A postdoctoral position is available to study mechanisms of Sonic Hedgehog signal transduction in Stacey Ogden’s lab at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN. The successful candidate will join ...

Updates from DORA - An interview with Stephen Curry

Posted by , on 7 February 2018

The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) was conceived in 2012 at an ASCB meeting, and has since its launch in 2013 has garnered thousands of signatories from individuals and ...

Studentship available in Claudio Stern's lab

Posted by , on 6 February 2018

Primary supervisor: Professor Claudio Stern FMedSci FRS, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London Project title: “Dynamics of cell behaviour during somite formation”   A studentship funded by ...

How does it Work? My Experience with 3 Different Model Systems

Posted by , on 5 February 2018

For both young and established developmental biologists considering their next career move, choosing a model system with which to answer one’s research questions is a big decision. Of course, the ...

CSHL Mouse Course: my perspective and why you should apply too

Posted by , on 2 February 2018

The deadline to apply for the 2018 Mouse Development, Stem Cells & Cancer course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is March 15th. If you don’t know much about the ...

January in preprints

Posted by , on 2 February 2018

Our latest monthly trawl for developmental biology (and other cool) preprints. Let us know if we missed anything. Here at the Company of Biologists we are very excited about our ...

Prevent p-value parroting

Posted by , on 1 February 2018

Recently, Nature published my correspondence “Dispense with redundant P values”. It highlights my concern that p-values are often calculated because “everybody does it”. This reminded me of the mechanical repetition ...

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