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Postdoc position - near Washington DC

Posted by , on 25 January 2017

A position (#121670) is available immediately for a Postdoc Associate to contribute to our studies in neural crest and placodes. The Postdoc Associate will conduct independent research and assist in ...

The people behind the papers: Ehsan Pourkarimi & Iestyn Whitehouse

Posted by , on 25 January 2017

How does a developing embryo coordinate DNA replication with gene transcription? This fundamental question is the focus of today’s paper, recently published in eLife. We caught up with lead author Ehsan Pourkarimi ...

BSDB Gurdon Summer Studentship Report (9)

Posted by , on 25 January 2017

Established  by the British Society for Developmental Biology (BSDB) in 2014, The Gurdon/The Company of Biologists Summer Studentship scheme provides financial support to allow highly motivated undergraduate students an opportunity to ...

The First International Hemichordate Meeting: the Birth of a Community

Posted by , on 24 January 2017

Tetsuto Miyashita   Certain scientific meetings have their place in the book of history as a visible shift — or a turning point, if you will — in a particular ...

BSDB Gurdon Summer Studentship Report (8)

Posted by , on 24 January 2017

Established  by the British Society for Developmental Biology (BSDB) in 2014, the Gurdon/The Company of Biologists Summer Studentship scheme provides financial support to allow highly motivated undergraduate students an opportunity to ...

PhD Studentship in developmental mechano-biology: The role of the actomyosin cytoskeleton in skin development.

Posted by , on 23 January 2017

The group of Chen Luxenburg at the Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University invites applications for PhD student position.   Our laboratory is looking for excellent and highly motivated PhD ...

Can you handle the tooth?

Posted by , on 23 January 2017

Reflections on “Sox2+ progenitors in sharks link taste development with the evolution of regenerative teeth from denticles”, PNAS 113(51), 14769-14774, 2016.   Despite an overwhelming amount of carefully curated data, such as the ...

The tale of three cities – Valdivia, Jyväskylä and London

Posted by , on 23 January 2017

This is the latest dispatch from a recipient of a Company of Biologists Travelling Fellowship. Learn more about the scheme, including how to apply, here, and read more stories from the ...

A CoB-assisted adventure in lamprey embryology

Posted by , on 20 January 2017

This is the latest dispatch from a recipient of a Company of Biologists Travelling Fellowship. Learn more about the scheme, including how to apply, here, and read more stories from the ...

Kicking It Up a Notch: Becoming a Culturally Relevant Science Educator

Posted by , on 19 January 2017

I want to talk about how you can take your science teaching to the next level, where young people, and especially underrepresented young people (people of color, LGBT, immigrants, girls, ...

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