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The Woods Hole Embryology Experience

Posted by , on 12 January 2018

My first listen to Jimi Hendrix’s album, “Are you experienced?” was as a prepubescent kid who still had a Matchbox car collection. It’s hard to describe. A world of magic ...

PhD Position - Systems Biology of Mouse Embryonic Stem Cell Spheroids

Posted by , on 11 January 2018

The InPhInit program by La Caixa offers a competitive PhD fellowship to attract international early-stage researchers to the top Spanish research center with the Severo Ochoa / Maria de Maeztu ...

Shape the leaves

Posted by , on 10 January 2018

Before I started my PhD study, I didn’t notice that leaves have two sides: the adaxial side and the abaxial side. When my supervisor Dr. Yuling Jiao first asked me ...

Developmental biology: 'not a confined, specified discipline'?

Posted by , on 10 January 2018

Catching up after the holidays, I finally got around to reading Scott Gilbert‘s recently published essay in PloS Biology. In case you haven’t seen it yet, the essay proposes that ...

The community for regenerative medicine: RegMedNet

Posted by , on 10 January 2018

What happens when you apply developmental biology to patients? Regenerative medicine! Now, here are some more difficult questions: Who owns a cell-based therapy? What is a ‘minimally manipulated’ product, and ...

Synthetic Human Embryology: The Rise of A New Era with New Collaborations

Posted by , on 9 January 2018

— A look behind the paper “A pluripotent stem cell-based model for post-implantation human amniotic sac development“   Early stages of human embryo development are vital for successful pregnancy and ...

Research Assistant/Associate: Zebrafish Optogenetics and Live-Imaging

Posted by , on 9 January 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 ...

2018 resolutions? Become fearless by attending the MBL Embryology course!

Posted by , on 8 January 2018

Last summer I had the great pleasure and privilege to attend the six-week, summer Embryology course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in the beautiful town of Woods Hole, MA. The ...

Report: Joint BSDB/Nordic Autumn Meeting

Posted by , on 8 January 2018

BSDB Autumn Meetings can be organised by members. So do not hesitate to approach meetings@bsdb.org if you have any ideas. However, note that we are booked for meetings through to ...

Two post-doc positions in skeletal muscle stem cell environment

Posted by , on 8 January 2018

The team of B. Chazaud at Institut NeuroMyoGene at the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, INSERM, at Lyon, is seeking to fill 2 postdoctoral research scientist positions in the ...

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