Modern scientific innovation involves the integration of diverse disciplines and the bridging of pure and application-oriented research. This requires a new generation of bioscientists who are trained to think and experiment beyond traditional boundaries. The recently established Living Systems Institute (LSI), University of Exeter, provides this opportunity by housing world-leading Biologists, Physicists, Mathematicians, Computational Scientists[…]

We know surprisingly little about how evolution has created new cell types. One of the best examples of a recently evolved cell type comes from early sea urchin development. Most sea urchins produce a group of early embryonic cells known as micromeres- four small blastomeres that form by unequal cell division at the vegetal pole[…]

A short-term post-doc position is available with Professor Kate Storey, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee – immediately until 31 January 2021, with some flexibility if required. There may also be a possibility to extend this end date. The project involves developing our ongoing work with a human iPS cell derived neural differentiation assay[…]

Richard Bailleul, Jonathan Touboul and Marie Manceau   Patterning in question: 60 years of mathematical and biological studies The coat of Vertebrates displays a stunning diversity of motifs created by the spatial arrangement of appendages and pigments across the skin surface. Strikingly, many have similar periodicity (i.e., number of repetitions within a period of space[…]

We invite applications for an ERC funded postdoctoral research position to study divergence in brains and behaviour in Heliconius butterflies with Dr Richard Merrill’s research group at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich. The project will run in close collaboration with Dr Stephen Montgomery at the University of Bristol, with project partners at Universidad Regional Amazónica (Ecuador) and[…]