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Madrid Adventure to Study Autophagy in Melanoma Stem Cells

Posted by , on 20 May 2016

I am hugely grateful to the Journal of Cell Science and the Company of Biologists for awarding me a traveling fellowship to visit the laboratory of Dr Guillermo Velasco at ...

Mole's Wow! So now you have your own lab! Part IX – The big fight

Posted by , on 20 April 2016

This cartoon was first published in the Journal of Cell Science. Read other articles and cartoons of Mole & Friends here.     Part I- ‘The imposter’ Part II- ‘The teaching monster’ ...

A Day in the Life of a Bat Lab

Posted by , on 15 March 2016

I am Aaron Harnsberger, a second year Master’s degree student in the Department of Biological Sciences at Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho.  The focus of this lab is on ...

Raw Data: a cautionary tale

Posted by , on 4 March 2016

I’ve just finished reading ‘Raw Data’ by Pernille Rørth. As a disclaimer, Pernille ran the lab next door to me when I was a postdoc, and as Editor in Chief ...

A day in the life of a Spider Lab

Posted by , on 17 February 2016

We (Anna Schönauer, Daniel Leite and Christian Bonatto) are PhD students in Alistair McGregor’s group (http://mcgregor-evo-devo-lab.net) at Oxford Brookes University, and it is a pleasure to briefly present our research ...

How far is India from Europe?

Posted by , on 12 February 2016

The launch of a new partnership between EMBO and India made me think about what international connections mean to European research. One of the pleasures of being a research scientist ...

Zürich to Dresden and back: of small fish and big data

Posted by , on 9 February 2016

In Spring 2015, just a couple of months into my PhD, I started to settle with my new surroundings in Zürich, making friends in my PhD lab of Dr. Christian ...

A day in the life of an embryonic stem cell lab!

Posted by , on 5 February 2016

Hi everyone! I’m Helena. Some of you may know me as the current intern here at the Node, but next week, I will go back to Alfonso Martínez Arias’ lab ...

21st Century Journal Clubs

Posted by , on 2 February 2016

Does anyone have 21st century ideas on how to run a diverse (not just developmental biology) departmental journal club?

Mole- So now you have your own lab! Part VIII- Money Matters

Posted by , on 11 January 2016

This cartoon was first published in the Journal of Cell Science. Read other articles and cartoons of Mole & Friends here.   Part I- ‘The imposter’ Part II- ‘The teaching monster’ Part ...

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