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Pairing of segmentation clock genes results in robust pattern formation

Posted by , on 4 February 2021

Oriana Zinani, Kemal Keseroğlu, Ahmet Ay and Ertuğrul Özbudak on how gene pairing promotes oscillations in segmentation

SciArt profiles: Sydney Wyatt

Posted by , on 4 February 2021

In our third SciArt Profile we meet Sydney Wyatt, a PhD student based at the University of California, Davis.   Where are you originally from, where do you work now, ...

Postdoctoral position to model Alzheimer’s disease with iPSC-derived neurons

Posted by , on 4 February 2021

A postdoctoral position is available in the Scholpp lab at the Living Systems Institute (LSI) at the University of Exeter (https://www.exeter.ac.uk/livingsystems/). The mission of the institute is to study the ...

4D Morphological Atlas of C. elegans Embryogenesis

Posted by , on 2 February 2021

A joint research team co-led by Prof. Chao Tang (Peking University, PKU), Prof. Zhongying Zhao (Hong Kong Baptist University, HKBU) and Prof. Hong Yan (City University of Hong Kong, CityU) ...

PhD position “Deciphering muscle self-organization principles with DNA-PAINT super-resolution and deep learning” - Schnorrer Lab, IBDM, Marseille, France

Posted by , on 2 February 2021

The Schnorrer team is welcoming applications for a PhD position funded by the ERC synergy grant StuDySarcomere to decipher how sarcomere components self-organize at the molecular scale to build a ...

January in preprints

Posted by , on 2 February 2021

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental biology (and related) preprints.  The preprints this month are hosted on bioRxiv, arXiv and, for the first time, preprints.org (check out our new ‘Reviews’ ...

Postdoctoral position in mammalian developmental stem cell biology

Posted by , on 1 February 2021

The Sozen laboratory is looking for talented postdoctoral associates with a background in mammalian developmental stem cell biology to join our team. We conduct research in early mouse/human embryogenesis with ...

Remembering Lewis Wolpert

Posted by , on 1 February 2021

On Friday we learned of the death of Lewis Wolpert, a huge figure in developmental biology, a popular science writer and communicator. Here we’ve gathered some memories of Wolpert from ...

The people behind the papers – Andrew Economou and Jeremy Green

Posted by , on 31 January 2021

This interview, the 89th in our series, was published in Development last year.  Interacting morphogens produce periodic patterns in developing tissues. Such patterning can be modelled as reaction-diffusion (RD) processes (as originally ...

Genetics Unzipped podcast: 100 not out? Genes and ageing

Posted by , on 28 January 2021

We a look at the biological changes that underpin ageing, and how we can use this knowledge to live longer, healthier lives.

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