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POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN CELL and DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Posted by , on 7 April 2016

Post doctoral position available to study the genetic and epigenetic control of stem cell attributes and pluripotency, focusing on the neural crest gene regulatory network (NC-GRN). Neural crest cells are ...

The Node at the BSDB Spring meeting (with new freebies!)

Posted by , on 7 April 2016

The 2016 Spring meeting of the British Society for Development Biology (held jointly with the British Society for Cell Biology) will start this Sunday at the University of Warwick and ...

From London to Paris – Travelling through Cell Science

Posted by , on 7 April 2016

Thanks to the Cell Science Travel Fellowship of the Company of Biologists, I was able to work for 2 months at the Institut National de la Recherché Agronomique (INRA) in ...

High-pressure tubes

Posted by , on 6 April 2016

Notes on “Intracellular lumen formation in Drosophila proceeds via a novel subcellular compartment” by Linda S. Nikolova and Mark M. Metzstein. Development 2015 142: 3964-3973; doi: 10.1242/dev.127902 In this post, ...

PhD opportunities in Montpellier to work on pretty ascidian embryos!

Posted by , on 6 April 2016

Applications are open for 3-year PhD fellowships in the Montpellier Health Science doctoral program (To apply visit http://www.adum.fr/as/ed/cbs2/page.pl?page=concoursed-gb before May 3rd 2016). Our group is proposing three possible independent PhD ...

Forgotten classics- Regulating the size of the mouse embryo

Posted by , on 6 April 2016

  Snow, M. H. L., Tam, P. P. L. (1979) Is compensatory growth a complicating factor in mouse teratology? Nature 279, 555-557 Lewis, N. E., Rossant, J. (1982) Mechanism of ...

An interview with Abigail Tucker

Posted by , on 5 April 2016

This interview first featured in Development.   Abigail Tucker is a professor at King’s College London, UK and her lab works on various aspects of craniofacial development – from basic, ...

An interview with Cheryll Tickle

Posted by , on 5 April 2016

This interview first featured in Development.   Cheryll Tickle is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Bath, UK. She dedicated her long research career mainly to the study of ...

In Development this week (Vol. 143, Issue 7)

Posted by , on 5 April 2016

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   TUBB5 analysis yields insights into microcephaly Mutations affecting tubulin genes have been implicated in a range of human neurological ...

This month on the Node- March 2016

Posted by , on 1 April 2016

  Focus on organoids Following Development’s call for papers for their upcoming Special Issue on Organoids, we featured an interview with their guest editor Melissa Little, discussing her career and research on ...

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