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Tenured faculty position in the area of Paleontology and Evolutionary Developmental Biology University of California, Berkeley

Posted by , on 6 July 2017

The Department of Integrative Biology (IB) and the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB) at the University of California, Berkeley are soliciting applications for a 100% (50 % IB, ...

The Drosophila fly brings to light the role of morphogens in limb growth

Posted by , on 5 July 2017

• Scientists at IRB Barcelona clarify the function of the genes that drive wing development in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. • Published in the journal eLife, this study unveils ...

In Development this Week (Vol. 144, Issue 13)

Posted by , on 4 July 2017

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   Heart tube formation: a gut reaction Morphogenesis of the endoderm-derived foregut (FG) is tightly linked to that of the ...

A day in the life of a modern Lernaean Hydra…

Posted by , on 3 July 2017

I am Eleni Chrysostomou, a PhD student in Uri Frank‘s lab at the National University of Ireland, Galway. The Frank lab’s general interest is development and regeneration, stem and germ ...

In Development this week (Vol. 144, Issue 12)

Posted by , on 21 June 2017

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   Btbd7 branches out across multiple organs Dynamic changes in epithelial cell-cell adhesion and motility are crucial for branching morphogenesis ...

Why do we need to understand the structure of the Enteric Nervous System?

Posted by , on 16 June 2017

Insight into the organizational structure of a growing tissue is imperative for understanding its development and function. Structure can reveal the systematic steps undertaken towards making specific positional and cell ...

Multiple stem cells, population asymmetry and position-dependent heterogeneity emerge as common features of a niche for Drosophila Follicle Stem Cells and mammalian Intestinal Stem Cells

Posted by , on 16 June 2017

A discussion of “Alternative direct stem cell derivatives defined by stem cell location and graded Wnt signalling,” Nat Cell Biol, 2017. 19(5): p. 433-444.   We have recently revised the model ...

How to color a lizard: from developmental biology to physics to mathematics

Posted by , on 7 June 2017

One of the research topics in Michel Milinkovitch’s laboratory (https://www.lanevol.org) at the University of Geneva (Switzerland) is to understand how squamates (lizards and snakes) generate such a tremendous variety of ...

In Development this week (Vol. 144, Issue 11)

Posted by , on 30 May 2017

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   Getting MAD in meiosis In meiosis I, homologous chromosomes must pair and form crossovers to ensure appropriate chromosome alignment ...

The evolution of an axon guidance model: from chemotaxis to haptotaxis

Posted by , on 16 May 2017

The canonical model The publication of Marc Tessier-Lavigne’s seminal Cell papers (1, 2) in 1994 describing the identification of netrin1 (from the Sanskrit word, netr, meaning “one who guides”) was ...

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