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Group leaders in Developmental Biology & Neuroscience - Paris

Posted by , on 23 January 2019

The Institute of Biology of the École Normale Supérieure (IBENS) is seeking to recruit group leaders in Developmental Biology and Neuroscience.   IBENS develops advanced and original studies aiming at ...

Cell Biology Postdoc: cell polarity, cilia & cytoskeleton

Posted by , on 23 January 2019

A 3-year postdoctoral position is available at the UCL Ear Institute (London, UK). This cell biology project will study the role of protein trafficking in cell polarity, cilium function and ...

Embryology 2018: Where embryos changed lives

Posted by , on 22 January 2019

I had heard legendary stories about the MBL and the Embryology course in the months leading up to it. Stories about the collaborations of minds that wouldn’t normally meet in ...

Old and new: developmental biologists meet among the redwoods

Posted by , on 22 January 2019

Aidan Maartens & Jordan Ward   The Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Conference happens every couple of years in UCSC’s beautiful campus, and is seen as a kind of West Coast ...

Vilaiwan Fernandes: SCDB Young Investigator Award Winner

Posted by , on 22 January 2019

Last year I was lucky enough to travel to California for the first time for the Santa Cruz Developmental Biology meeting – see the meeting report, written with Jordan Ward, here. ...

The people behind the papers – Dongbo Shi and Thomas Greb

Posted by , on 19 January 2019

This interview, the 56th in our series, was recently published in Development Radial growth in plants is driven by proliferating cells in the cambium that give rise to the vascular tissues ...

The people behind the papers – Daniela Chavez and Gillian Stanfield

Posted by , on 18 January 2019

This interview, the 55th in our series, was published in Development last year Sperm development and differentiation are regulated by somatic cells and the extracellular signals they produce – often regulators of ...

Vitamin D: Integrating Environmental Cues into the Developmental Program

Posted by , on 17 January 2019

By Amie L. T. Romney and Jason E. Podrabsky from the Podrabsky Lab at The Center for Life in Extreme Environments at Portland State University     Environmentally-induced developmental plasticity ...

Genetics Unzipped - 004 - Witness the fitness

Posted by , on 17 January 2019

In the latest episode of Genetics Unzipped, Kat Arney is reporting back from the Genetics Society’s Autumn meeting – Genotype to Phenotype to Fitness – asking whether street smart city-dwelling birds ...

The people behind the papers – Salome Stierli and Alison Lloyd

Posted by , on 17 January 2019

This interview, the 54th in our series, was published in Development last year In contrast to nerves in the central nervous system, peripheral nerves are highly regenerative following injury. Regeneration is critically ...

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