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BSDB Gurdon Studentship Report – Sonia Paoli

Posted by , on 6 January 2023

Exploring how germ cells are metabolically supported in Drosophila testes During the summer I had the privilege to work in Dr. Amoyel’s lab at UCL, to study the mechanisms providing ...

BSDB Gurdon Studentship Report - Xueqing Li

Posted by , on 6 January 2023

The role of canonical Wnt signalling in embryogenesis of the invertebrate chordate Ciona intestinalis. Ascidians, as the closest invertebrate sister group of vertebrates, are important to study the development and ...

BSDB Gurdon Studentship Report - Aleksandr Markov

Posted by , on 5 January 2023

Role of PAX6 in human cerebral organoid development The cerebral cortex contains two major classes of neurons: excitatory and inhibitory. The imbalance between them is postulated to underlie some autism ...

BSDB Gurdon Studentship Report – Anna Granés

Posted by , on 21 December 2022

The making of colorful neuromesodermal progenitors During the embryonic development, while the gastrulation process is taking place, cells within embryos self-organize by creating groups and layers of cells, where each ...

Development presents... December videos

Posted by , on 20 December 2022

On Wednesday 7 December, Development hosted three talks on metabolic and nutritional control of development and regeneration, the topic of our upcoming Special Issue. Below you’ll find each of the ...

Molecular study of changing expression of photoreceptor genes throughout development of Anopheles gambiae

Posted by , on 18 December 2022

Hannah Cowling, MBiol at Durham University Introduction Over summer 2022, I had the opportunity to work with Dr Olena Riabinina in Insect Neuro Lab at Durham University. Her team specialises ...

November in preprints

Posted by , on 15 December 2022

Welcome to our monthly trawl for preprints in developmental and stem cell biology (and related topics). The preprints this month are hosted on bioRxiv.

Behind the paper: Using OptoShroom3 to alter organoid shape with light

Posted by , on 15 December 2022

Guillermo Martínez-Ara and colleagues from Miki Ebisuya lab have developed a new optogenetic tool that induces apical constriction in mammalian epithelia. The new tool called OptoShroom3 induces tissue folding in ...

Gastrulation in a Dish

Posted by , on 12 December 2022

This summer, I was under the supervision of Ashley Libby in James Briscoe’s Lab at the Crick, where they are interested in studying how the spinal cord forms before birth. ...

Gene expansions underlying placenta evolution

Posted by , on 12 December 2022

As part of the Crick-Calleva program, I had the opportunity to work with Greg Slodkowicz in Margarida Cardoso-Moreira’s lab at the Francis Crick Institute over the past summer, studying the ...

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