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In Development this week (Vol. 141, Issue 12)

Posted by , on 10 June 2014

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   Insights into familial dysautonomia Familial dysautonomia (FD) is a germline autosomal recessive disease that is characterized by impaired peripheral ...

Woods Hole images 2014 round 1- the winner

Posted by , on 10 June 2014

Time to announce the winner of this year’s first round of Woods Hole images: the fluorescent image of the squid embryo!     Many congratulations to Nathan Kenny (University of Oxford), Kathryn ...

Development Travelling Fellowship: a node connecting Woods Hole with the Stowers Institute

Posted by , on 10 June 2014

June 1st, 2014: Exactly one year after my departure flight from Bologna to Boston to attend the 2013 MBL Embryology course held at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, ...

Gastrulation: Local actions, global movements and self-organisation

Posted by , on 6 June 2014

Cells move in (still) mysterious ways to achieve morphogenesis. Prominently, cells of an early vertebrate embryo (blastula, a mass of undifferentiated cells) move extensively during gastrulation to generate the three ...

The PHD movie- support the sequel!

Posted by , on 6 June 2014

If you are doing a PhD (or involved in research in any way), you probably take a lot of humour, procrastination and comfort from PHD comics. The comic strip ‘Piled Higher ...

Postdoctoral Positions in Craniofacial and Skin Development– Virginia

Posted by , on 5 June 2014

Postdoctoral positions are available in the laboratory of Amanda Dickinson to study craniofacial and skin development in Xenopus. I am looking for highly motivated and tenacious applicants with a passion ...

This month on the Node- May 2014

Posted by , on 1 June 2014

Our jobs page has been very busy again, including several positions in publishing. Here are some of the other highlights:   Research: – Néstor discussed his recent paper in Developmental Cell on ...

Post-doctoral Position in tendon development, Paris, France

Posted by , on 30 May 2014

A postdoctoral fellowship for 3 years is available from October 2014 in Delphine DUPREZ’s team, located in the Developmental Biology laboratory in Paris (bio–dev.snv.jussieu.fr/). The team focuses on tendon and ...

GATA6 and the power of single cells

Posted by , on 29 May 2014

Any mammal who celebrated Mother’s Day earlier this month realizes how important mothers are for us and the tight bond between them and their children. Forget clean shirts and packed ...

Research assistant - Electron microscopy

Posted by , on 28 May 2014

We are looking for a Research Assistant to join the Electron Microscope (EM) Facility based in the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at the University of Oxford. The successful ...

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