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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by Annabel Nicholson, on 14 July 2020
Alistair McGregor’s group at Oxford Brookes University uses Drosophila and the common house spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum to understand how different shapes and sizes of animals evolve. Back in 2016, two ...Posted by Mayank Chugh, on 13 July 2020
My university has reopened and being reunited with the lab bench after months have reminded me again how much I love what I do for a living. Of course I ...Posted by the Node, on 13 May 2020
This piece recently featured on The Company of Biologists’ WeChat Channel. For more information about our efforts to engage Chinese researchers, read Annabel Nicholson’s post from last month. ...Posted by Mariana Rama Pedro Alves, on 17 April 2020
My first impression of Nigeria remained loyal to what I would experience the following two weeks: very warm weather, very colourful attires, very warm and joyful hearts. Also, it is ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 7 April 2020
Last week, I gave a talk (online, of course) about ‘Writing review articles’. It was aimed at graduate students who, as part of their training, had to identify a topic ...Posted by Alex Eve, on 24 March 2020
As labs shut down in response to the coronavirus pandemic, some might be unsure of what to do next. Even if your project doesn’t have a computational (i.e. bioinformatic) aspect, ...Posted by zelhanil, on 28 October 2019
A bit of background The dependence of a protein’s function on its structure is a well-known phenomenon. Back in 1970’s, it was suggested that most proteins would fold into one ...Posted by WIMMBlogEditor, on 8 August 2019
This post was originally posted on the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine’s blog Dominic Owens, PhD student in the De Bruijn group at MRC MHU, recounts how puzzling results and a fortuitous ...Posted by Sandra Treffkorn, on 7 August 2019
What are onychophorans and why do we study them? My name is Sandra Treffkorn, and I recently finished my PhD in the department of zoology lead by Georg Mayer at ...Posted by karakasilioti, on 24 July 2019
The Department of the Director Prof Miltos Tsiantis is looking for early stage researchers to employ at the Ph.D. and Post Doc level in the areas of plant development, morphogenesis ...