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Post-doc in developmental and regenerative biology

Posted by , on 27 June 2019

The Kamberov lab is seeking a creative and exceptionally motivated candidate to fill a post-doctoral position in the field of skin development and regeneration. The relevant project will investigate genetic ...

Postdoc position in cnidarian neurogenesis at the Sars Centre, Norway

Posted by , on 27 June 2019

A two year postdoc position is available in the group of Fabian Rentzsch at the Sars Centre in Bergen, Norway.  The group studies neurogenesis in the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis with the aim ...

Research Scientist Position on Diabetes and Stem Cell Research in Dresden

Posted by , on 26 June 2019

Research Scientist Position German Centre for Diabetes Research Dresden A research scientist position is available in the research group of Dr Anthony Gavalas. The group investigates the role of signaling ...

Embryonic hydraulics triumphs

Posted by , on 26 June 2019

In this article I share with you a more personal, chronological account of how our story unfolds (recently published in Nature), and highlight some key events and insights that help ...

Data manipulation? It's normal(ization)!

Posted by , on 25 June 2019

In a previous blog, I have highlighted several ways to visualize the cell-to-cell heterogeneity from time-lapse imaging data. However, I have ignored that data is often rescaled in a way ...

Beyond morphogen signaling

Posted by , on 25 June 2019

By Dörthe Jülich & Scott Holley   Organizers pattern surrounding tissues via secreted morphogens that specify different cell states as a function of concentration. Wolpert’s French Flag model is commonly ...

The Pros and Cons of having an ELN: What I’ve learned from my time in a wet lab

Posted by , on 24 June 2019

With its growing adoption in the laboratory, an electronic lab notebook, or ELN, can be a useful tool to aid research, whether in academia or industry. But I found there ...

The people behind the papers – Amsha Proag and Magali Suzanne

Posted by , on 24 June 2019

This interview, the 65th in our series, was recently published in Development During development, mechanical forces sculpt tissues into myriad forms. Actomyosin contractility generated within the cell has an increasingly appreciated role ...

Non-zero baselines: the good, the bad, and the ugly

Posted by , on 20 June 2019

Of all the charts being ridiculed at WTFviz, many get shamed for their lack of a zero-baseline. When teaching DataViz, zero-baselines are invariably a topic of debate. The rules about ...

Genetics Unzipped podcast: Genetics by numbers

Posted by , on 20 June 2019

We’re unravelling the story of the double helix, cracking the triplet code, and sketching out a Punnett square.

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