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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by Zach Hall, on 8 May 2018
In our recent paper published in eLife, we found a novel form of movement-dependent neural feedback that drives early forebrain growth in zebrafish. In this article, I discuss the problems, ...Posted by Juan R Martinez-Morales, on 23 April 2018
Link to the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-018-0080-5 The evolutionary history of vertebrate appendages Have you ever wondered how our hands and feet evolved? This question, which commonly evokes fish crawling from ...Posted by Burkhardt Group, on 10 April 2018
There is a vacancy for a PhD position at the Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology (www.sars.no) in the research group headed by Dr. Pawel Burkhardt. The position is for a fixed-term period of ...Posted by Alexandre Alié, on 8 March 2018
You can find our recently published eLife paper here. At the Euro-Evo-Devo meeting in Lisbao I saw a talk by Sylvie Rétaux and became hooked by a blind and ...Posted by Charlotte Blackburn, on 20 February 2018
The droso4schools initiative is an educational outreach programme run by the Manchester Fly Facility, which I had the opportunity to be actively involved in during a month-long placement (see my ...Posted by Ashrifia Adomako-Ankomah, on 5 February 2018
For both young and established developmental biologists considering their next career move, choosing a model system with which to answer one’s research questions is a big decision. Of course, the ...Posted by Katharine Goodwin, on 2 February 2018
The deadline to apply for the 2018 Mouse Development, Stem Cells & Cancer course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is March 15th. If you don’t know much about the ...Posted by Andreas Hejnol, on 26 January 2018
Our recent paper in “Nature” [1] deconstructs molecular arguments that have been used to homologize bilaterian nerve cords. Our work illustrates well the strength of the comparative approach and the ...Posted by Ahmed Elewa, on 18 January 2018
The epic journey of embryogenesis begins with a set of maternal instructions. These instructions are in the form of transcribed mRNA, some even translated into proteins and ready for action. ...Posted by Tessa Montague, on 17 January 2018
The Feburary 1st deadline to apply to the Embryology Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is quickly approaching. Maybe you’ve only just learned about the Embryology Course, or perhaps ...