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The long road to understanding homeobox genes in the nervous system

Posted by , on 1 October 2020

Following the initial discovery of the homeobox in the 1980s in invertebrates and then vertebrates, it became quickly clear that homeobox genes come in two flavors – that of the ...

September in preprints

Posted by , on 1 October 2020

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental biology (and related) preprints.  The preprints this month are hosted on bioRxiv and arXiv – use these links to get to the section ...

The people behind the papers – Chase Bryan and Kristen Kwan

Posted by , on 30 September 2020

This interview, the 78th in our series, was published in Development earlier this year.  Optic cup development involves a series of intricate cell and tissue movements, and cells’ interaction with the extracellular ...

The Southwest of the UK – a thriving environment for zebrafish research

Posted by , on 29 September 2020

Meeting report of the SWZM20 The Southwest Zebrafish Meeting 2020 (SWZM20) took place as an online-only meeting organized by the Scholpp lab at the Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter ...

Converting spreadsheets to tidy data - Part 2

Posted by , on 29 September 2020

The superplot was recently proposed as a data visualization strategy that improves the communication of experimental results (Lord et al, 2020). To simplify the visualization of data with a superplot, ...

Stem Cell Culture Platform Manager for the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Biology

Posted by , on 28 September 2020

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences University of Copenhagen We are seeking a highly motivated and self-starting Cell Culture Specialist. About us The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell ...

Tenure Track Group Leader Position in MULTICELLULAR SYSTEMS

Posted by , on 28 September 2020

The Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) invites applications for a tenure-track group leader position (assistant professor level). We encourage applications from candidates who have an innovative research program ...

From Image to Insight – Morphogenesis Meets Data Science

Posted by , on 26 September 2020

A wave of innovations is advancing data-driven computational analysis and machine learning – time for developmental biologists to hop on the surf board! This post, inspired by our recent data-driven ...

'Another look' at peer review: reviewing review articles

Posted by , on 25 September 2020

If this post causes a sense of déjà vu, it might be because you’ve read our recent articles: An Introduction to Writing Review Articles and Getting involved in peer review. ...

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Position Department of Genetics & Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY

Posted by , on 24 September 2020

The Department of Genetics and Development invites applications for one tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level. We are seeking outstanding applicants who use genetic approaches to study developmental or ...

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