Our laboratory at the Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland is looking for a postdoc to work in the field of gene regulation during mammalian development, by using in vitro cultured, ES cells-derived gastruloids (pseudo-embryos) as a model system. Key-words: Transcriptional regulation, enhancers, CRISPR/cas9, mutant gastruloids, epigenetic profiling, 3D chromatin structure, single-cell RNA-seq[…]

There is a 4-year PhD position available at the Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology (www.sars.no/) in the lab of Dr. Patrick Steinmetz. The successful applicant will study how starvation-induced degrowth is controlled in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. The project may also involve studying key aspects of degrowth in the sea anemone Aiptasia[…]

  Dawei Sun has just finished his PhD in Dr Emma Rawlins’ lab at The Gurdon Institute here in Cambridge, UK. He has remained in the city with his wife for the duration of the pandemic. In the middle of the UK’s second lockdown we met him, virtually, to find out how he is doing,[…]

We are seeking candidates to apply for two upcoming calls for Postdoctoral Researchers from the Spanish Government (Juan de la Cierva). Candidates should have an interest in Developmental Neurobiology, with expertise ranging from embryology, to stem cell biology, bioinformatics and/or quantitative biology to investigate development of the vertebrate Central Nervous System (CNS) in health and[…]

This Obituary by James M. A. Turner, Shantha K. Mahadevaiah, Arthur P. Arnold and Robin Lovell-Badge was recently published in Development.      Paul Burgoyne was an outstanding mouse geneticist and developmental biologist who made fundamental discoveries about the sex chromosomes and their biology. He was born on 10th January 1946, spending most of his[…]