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Experimenting with non-anonymous peer review

Posted by , on 3 February 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 ...

Postdoctoral position in Mouse Embryonic Development and Stem Cell Biology

Posted by , on 1 February 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 ...

January in preprints

Posted by , on 1 February 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, ...

What makes preprints popular?

Posted by , on 31 January 2019

A team of preLights selectors respond to a meta-analysis of bioRxiv preprints. Gautam Dey, Zhang-He Goh, Lars Hubatsch, Maiko Kitaoka, Robert Mahen, Máté Palfy, Connor Rosen and Samantha Seah* *all ...

Genetics Unzipped podcast - 005 - Vegetable soup

Posted by , on 31 January 2019

In the latest episode of Genetics Unzipped, Kat Arney is exploring some more of the leading 100 ideas in genetics. She’s been digging around in the genetic vegetable patch in ...

3year-POSTDOC + starting grant: EvoDevo in Barcelona (OPEN-CALL)

Posted by , on 31 January 2019

3 year-POSTDOC + Starting grant (OPEN-CALL BEATRIU de PINOS program) to join our lab on EvoDevoGenomics in Barcelona We are seeking candidates to join our lab to study our favorite ...

Your chance to organise a Company of Biologists Workshop

Posted by , on 31 January 2019

The Company of Biologists, as well as publishing Development and four other journals and offering travel and conference grants, runs a successful series of Workshops. The Workshops provide leading experts and ...

It’s the Father! Paternally expressed BABY BOOM1 initiates embryogenesis in rice

Posted by , on 29 January 2019

The story behind our recent Nature paper ‘A male-expressed rice embryogenic trigger redirected for asexual propagation through seeds‘ For sexually reproducing organisms, the diploid life cycle starts with the fusion ...

Post-Doctoral Researcher Cell Biology-MechanoBiology

Posted by , on 24 January 2019

DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS Position for Special Scientist (Postdoc)   Title:  Post-Doctoral Researcher Cell Biology-MechanoBiology No. of Positions:One (1) position Full Time one year employment contract (renewable ...

Embryos on the front, embryologists on the back

Posted by , on 23 January 2019

Applications for Embryology 2019 are due on February 1. Apply here! In this post, I share how I learned about the Embryology course, what made me apply and what I ...

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