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Posted by the Node on February 6th, 2019
This Spotlight article by Len Zon originally appeared in Development as part of our ‘Advocating developmental biology‘ campaign. We’d love to hear what you think about Len’s ideas. Developmental biology is a prominent field that has captured the imagination of many scientists. Over the years, research in the area has seen a steady number of[…]
Posted by Oli Tills on February 5th, 2019
Tills O, Spicer JI, Grimmer A, Marini S, Jie VW, Tully E, Rundle SD. 2018. A high-throughput and open-source platform for embryo phenomics. PLOS Biology, 16:1-19. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000074 Background A seasoned graduate student gave me some valuable advice at the outset of my PhD. She told me to FIND A BETTER WAY! We were both working on[…]
Posted by CENTURI on February 4th, 2019
A PhD position is open in the QARMA team (LIS – Marseille, France). The recruited student will join Paul Villoutreix’s group ( @paulvilloutreix ): Data Science and Developmental Biology. PhD students will also be part of the Turing Centre for Living Systems (CENTURI), an interdisciplinary research centre located in Marseille. PhD project: The intrinsic geometry of a developing embryo –[…]
Posted by Joachim Goedhart on February 3rd, 2019
Last year, I started to experiment with signing my reports for peer review of manuscripts, inspired by other people on twitter (@kaymtye, @AndrewPlested who in turn were inspired by Leslie Voshall). This year, the experiment is a bit different. I will only review for journals that allow non-anonymous peer-review. Why? That was the question raised[…]
Posted by Sergio Ruiz on February 1st, 2019
We offer one fully-funded postdoctoral position up to five years in the Laboratory of Genome Integrity located at the main campus of the National Institutes of Health (NIH/NCI, Bethesda, MD).Our laboratory uses human and mouse embryonic stem cells (ESCs) as well as mouse embryos to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying the maintenance/exit of pluripotency and[…]
Posted by the Node on February 1st, 2019
Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental biology (and related) preprints. January was notable for the number of preprints on Xenopus development, plus a trio on Piezo channels, two on ctenophores, and a preprint on preprints that has also been preLighted (very meta). The preprints were hosted on bioRxiv, PeerJ, and arXiv. Let us know if we missed anything, and use[…]
