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Genetics Unzipped podcast: The Cancer Ladies - Maud Slye and Pauline Gross

Posted by , on 18 June 2020

How two women - a scientist fascinated by dancing mice and a seamstress with a deadly legacy - who made significant contributions to cancer research.

An evolutionary fable: the black pencil and the rubber.

Posted by , on 18 June 2020

By Héloïse Dufour, Shigeyuki Koshikawa and Cédric Finet In this post we will discuss our recent paper entitled “Temporal flexibility of gene regulatory network underlies a novel wing pattern in ...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Mammary Stem Cell Biology

Posted by , on 17 June 2020

Location:  Highfield Campus Salary:   £30,942 to £36,914 per annum  Full Time – Fixed Term until 31/01/2022 Closing Date:  Thursday 25 June 2020 Interview Date:  Wednesday 01 July 2020 Reference:  1266420BJ ...

Workshop proposals sought

Posted by , on 17 June 2020

The Company of Biologists Workshops provide leading experts and early-career researchers from a diverse range of scientific backgrounds with a stimulating environment for the cross-fertilisation of interdisciplinary ideas. The programmes are ...

PhD position available in lymphatic biology / diabetic kidney research

Posted by , on 9 June 2020

Exploring the contribution of lymphatics towards diabetic kidney disease and their potential as a therapeutic target   A 3-year PhD Studentship funded by Diabetes UK is available within the Kidney ...

Postdoctoral position in molecular biology for studies on hunger mechanisms

Posted by , on 9 June 2020

The Alenius lab has a fully funded postdoc position opening at at Umeå university, Sweden. Our group combines Drosophila  and mouse genetics to investigate the fundamental mechanisms that control neuronal ...

Pregnancy complications in assisted reproduction linked to a specific process

Posted by , on 9 June 2020

A Press Release from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine – see the Development paper by Lisa Vrooman, Marisa Bartolomei and colleagues here. An experimental study from researchers in ...

Research Highlight #5: Leukemic stem cells from iPSCs

Posted by , on 9 June 2020

Today let’s delve into a curious case involving induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and leukemic stem cells (LSCs). Most blood cells derived from iPSCs are unable to engraft in immunodeficient ...

3-year PhD Project on "Transcriptional regulation of intestinal stem cells during ageing"

Posted by , on 9 June 2020

The Korzelius lab has a funded position for a 3-year PhD at the University of Kent in Canterbury, U.K. We use the Drosophila intestine as a model system for age-related ...

Genetics Unzipped podcast: Out Standing in the Field - the highs and lows of genetics fieldwork

Posted by , on 4 June 2020

From chasing butterflies up mountains to artificially inseminating kakapos, we talk to the researchers studying genetics in action through fieldwork.

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