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Collaboration: All the things we cannot see (alone).

Posted by , on 3 June 2019

By Miriam Rosenberg and Suparna Ray Most of what we know about axial patterning in insects comes from decades of careful, beautiful work done in flies. Thanks to the genetic ...

A day in the life of a Termite lab

Posted by , on 31 May 2019

How do genes and their environment interact during development and evolution to generate phenotypic diversity? To answer these questions in the Miura lab, by focusing on diverse animal taxa, we ...

How the snail’s shell got its coil

Posted by , on 14 May 2019

Researchers from the Tokyo University of Science, Japan, have used CRISPR gene editing technology to make snails with shells that coil the ‘wrong’ way, providing insights into the fundamental basis ...

HFSP postdoctoral position in quantitative high-content imaging of [synthetic] embryos

Posted by , on 7 May 2019

Our laboratory of synthetic development at IMBA (Vienna) is looking for a postdoctoral colleague to decode the self-organising behaviours of early embryos. This position is part of a HFSP with ...

YTRB Network: Worldwide Bridges to Connect Young Tunisian Researchers in Biology

Posted by , on 4 May 2019

The Young Tunisian Researchers in Biology Network: Tunisia is suffering brain drain, especially post Tunisian-revolution (2011). Recent non-official reports say that over 90.000 senior quitted Tunisia since 2012, most of ...

Notch awakens: transitioning to the first differentiation step

Posted by , on 3 May 2019

The story behind our recent paper in eLife.   In the mid-1900s, Conrad Hal Waddington introduced the idea of development as a series of branching decisions taken under the control ...

Post-doc position at the NIH: New mechanisms of WNT/R-spondin signaling in development and stem cells

Posted by , on 30 April 2019

Position Description: We seek highly motivated post-doctoral Fellows interested in cell signaling at the intersection of development, stem cells and cancer. Candidates will join the group of Dr. Andres Lebensohn, an ...

Forces maintain order between cells

Posted by , on 30 April 2019

Written by Antoine Fruleux and Arezki Boudaoud As Lewis Wolpert put it (Wolpert, PLoS Biology 2010), if you extend your two arms, you will likely find that they match in ...

PhD position: Evolutionary origin of synaptic proteins at the Sars Centre in Bergen, Norway

Posted by , on 30 April 2019

PhD position There is a vacancy for a 4-year PhD student position at the Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology in the research group of Dr. Pawel Burkhardt (www.sars.no). ...

Postdoctoral Fellow in Neurodevelopment

Posted by , on 29 April 2019

Applications are invited from highly motivated individuals who are interested in fundamental mechanisms of neurodevelopment and neurogenetic disorders. The focus of the project is to understand neural developmental and neurological phenotypes ...

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