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Using hemimetabolous insects to investigate the origin of the tra-dsx axis

Posted by , on 24 September 2019

The story behind our recent paper in eLife.   Rapid turn over of sex determination mechanisms provides biologists with an elegant study system connecting sexual selection to molecular evolution. Striking ...

Moving in concert: How lateral line primordium cells coordinate to migrate

Posted by , on 21 September 2019

Written by Tugba Colak-Champollion Story behind our recent paper in Current Biology “Cadherin-Mediated Cell Coupling Coordinates Chemokine Sensing across Collectively Migrating Cells” (Tugba Colak-Champollion, Ling Lan, Alisha R. Jadhav, Naoya ...

Inflate your embryo

Posted by , on 17 September 2019

How would you create a hole between two sticky surfaces? Simply crack it! At a first glance, trying to pull apart the two surfaces seems to be a good idea, ...

Stowers Research Conferences: Developmental Cell Biology

Posted by , on 12 September 2019

SRC DevBio Poster http://www.stowers.org/conferences Stowers Research Conferences are biennial meetings that bring together researchers, faculty, and graduate students to inspire creative thought and collaboration in the basic sciences. The Developmental ...

Genetics Unzipped podcast: Big Questions about the Big C

Posted by , on 12 September 2019

We’re digging into some of the mysteries around what’s often seen as the ultimate genetic disease: cancer.

Data Visualization with Flying Colors

Posted by , on 29 August 2019

The importance of barrier-free use of colors in images and graphs has been highlighted in letters to editors (Miall, 2007), papers (Geissbuehler and Lasser, 2013, Levine, 2009), editorials (anonymous, 2007), ...

Postdoctoral Positions - Adipocyte Development and Obesity

Posted by , on 27 August 2019

Postdoctoral Felow positions are open in the Division of Endocrinology and the Division of Developmental Biology of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in the laboratory of Dr. Sanchez-Gurmaches. The goal of Dr. ...

Postdoctoral Scientist in craniofacial development

Posted by , on 25 August 2019

The laboratory of Drs. Sally A. Moody and Andre Tavares at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (https://smhs.gwu.edu/moody-lab/) seeks a beginning Postdoctoral Scientist to study aspects of ...

Discovering the Genetic Basis of Mimetic Color Diversity in Bumble Bees

Posted by , on 20 August 2019

As a first-year graduate student, I had the good fortune of accompanying Dr. Pierre Rasmont (U. Mons, Belgium) and his lab group on an expedition to collect bumble bees in ...

Turning back the clock of neural progenitor cells: a simple recipe to generate de novo retinal ganglion cells

Posted by , on 12 August 2019

Press release for a new Development paper on reprogramming in the retina. Scientists at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute of Molecular ...

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