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Medaka fish sheds light on the evolutionary origin of vertebrate pair appendages

Posted by , on 23 April 2018

Link to the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-018-0080-5   The evolutionary history of vertebrate appendages Have you ever wondered how our hands and feet evolved? This question, which commonly evokes fish crawling from ...

Laboratory Technician Position - Millman Lab

Posted by , on 23 April 2018

We are looking for someone to join our team in a NIH R01-funded laboratory technician position. The Millman lab is located at Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis, MO) ...

Stressed out: Mechanisms of how C. elegans copes with unfavorable environments

Posted by , on 19 April 2018

Sarah E. Hall Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244   For over a century, the nature versus nurture debate has questioned the relative contributions of genetic sequences and ...

YEN Conference 2018: Abstract submission and registration is open!

Posted by , on 11 April 2018

***Abstract Deadline is Saturday, 14th April!*** Young Embryologist Network Conference 2018 14th May 2018 The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK   This year we are pleased to announce Professor Wolf Reik as ...

PhD position: Origin and Evolution of Synaptic Proteins at Sars Centre in Bergen, Norway

Posted by , on 10 April 2018

There is a vacancy for a PhD position at the Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology (www.sars.no) in the research group headed by Dr. Pawel Burkhardt. The position is for a fixed-term period of ...

A tribute to parrots

Posted by , on 5 April 2018

In a previous blog, I have disgraced parrots by associating them with P-values and discrediting them for their mechanic repetition. Nevertheless, I admire the vivid colours of these multifaceted birds. ...

Sensing and making sense of clonal fragmentation in developing tissues

Posted by , on 23 March 2018

Steffen Rulands and Benjamin Simons A discussion of our recent paper: Rulands S et al., Universality of clone dynamics during tissue development. Nature Physics | doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0055-6   Often, the most ...

Mechanical cues as developmental pacers that orchestrate morphogenesis

Posted by , on 22 March 2018

In these lines I share with you some details of our recently published Nature paper. I will comment how this project was started and details which are not included in ...

Postdoctoral Fellow Positions in Development and Regenerative Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Posted by , on 20 March 2018

Two Postdoctoral positions are immediately available at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), in the laboratory of Sarah Knox. Position 1: The applicant will be part of an NIH-funded investigation ...

When the obvious fails, look at the unexpected: interneuron individual behavior affects the population migration.

Posted by , on 19 March 2018

The story behind our paper: Cell-Intrinsic Control of Interneuron Migration Drives Cortical Morphogenesis. Carla G. Silva, Elise Peyre, Mohit H. Adhikari, Sylvia Tielens, Sebastian Tanco, Petra Van Damme, Lorenza Magno, ...

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