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A day in the life of a Honeybee lab

Posted by , on 19 January 2015

Welcome to the Lab for Evolution and Development. The lab is situated in the deep south of New Zealand in the quaint Scottish inspired little city of Dunedin. 1/5 of ...
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A Day in the Life of a Turtle lab

Posted by , on 9 December 2014

We are Juan Pascual-Anaya and Tatsuya Hirasawa, two postdoctoral fellows at RIKEN (Kobe, Japan), in the laboratory of Shigeru Kuratani. We both have been working for the last 4-5 years ...
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A day in the life of a cnidarian lab

Posted by , on 4 December 2014

I presume the first question that comes into people’s mind when they read the title would be “What are cnidarians?” I also presume a logical follow-up question would be “Why ...
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BSDB Gurdon Summer Studentship Report (2)

Posted by , on 27 November 2014

In 2014, the BSDB has initiated the Gurdon Summer Studentship program with the intention to provide highly motivated students with exceptional qualities and a strong interest in Developmental Biology an ...
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BSDB Gurdon Summer Studentship Report (1)

Posted by , on 27 November 2014

In 2014, the BSDB has initiated the Gurdon Summer Studentship program with the intention to provide highly motivated students with exceptional qualities and a strong interest in Developmental Biology an ...
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A day in the life of a shark lab

Posted by , on 31 October 2014

Hi! I am Nuria, a PhD student. I work in the Department of Cell Biology at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Our group, the BRAINSHARK group, has been ...
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What do you call your PCR machine?

Posted by , on 13 October 2014

Last Friday we came across the blog of the Sauka-Spengler lab in Oxford, and noticed that their PCR machines are called Kit and Kat. This made us think- who else ...
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The Future of Research Symposium:

The Structure of the Workforce

Posted by , on 25 September 2014

This is the second of four posts relating to the Future of Research symposium which was announced in a previous blog post. Each of these posts will discuss a topic ...
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What is your favourite conference venue?

Posted by , on 10 September 2014

  Last month I was lucky enough to attend the Xenopus meeting, which took place at the Asilomar conference grounds, close to Monterey, California. This meeting was fantastic, combining great science with a great venue. ...
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Designing ChIP primers

Posted by , on 4 September 2014

Hello everyone, Recently I got assigned with the task of designing good primers for ChIP. My supervisor advised me to use the Primer BLAST tool from NCBI together with AmplifiX ...
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