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Green Eggs and Serrano Ham

Posted by , on 4 April 2014

Scenes from Seville (my pics) and a transgenic embryo  (A. Fernandez-Miñan) After over a decade working in Europe, I recently returned to Costa Rica to start a lab at the ...

Approaching limb regeneration in an emerging model crustacean

Posted by , on 1 April 2014

My name is Nikos. I just finished my PhD in the lab of Michalis Averof , starting my thesis at IMBB, in Crete and completing it at IGFL, in Lyon. ...

This month on the Node- March 2014

Posted by , on 1 April 2014

2014 is continuing in full force on the Node. We had many interesting posts this month, as well as several job and PhD studentships advertised in our jobs page. Here ...

Learning to Inject Platynereis Embryos

Posted by , on 31 March 2014

Hello!  My name is Maggie Pruitt and I am a postdoc in Dr. Stephan Schneider’s laboratory at Iowa State University.  At the beginning of this year, I had the wonderful ...

Planarians…the key to regenerative medicine?

Posted by , on 31 March 2014

  Of all the animal models used in biology, the freshwater planarian flatworm is one of the most fascinating: first because roughly 10% of all planarian cells are stem cells, ...

Mapping the Embryo for Developmental Biologists & Stem Cell Researchers; LifeMap Discovery® - a Roadmap of Mammalian Cell Ontology

Posted by , on 30 March 2014

Understanding how cells differentiate during embryonic development is invaluable for the in vitro derivation of functional cells from stem cells. However, mapping the human embryo, including characterization of all the ...

The SDB-BSDB Interview Chain: Kara Nordin interviews Zarah Löf-Öhlin

Posted by , on 26 March 2014

Last year we interviewed Kara Nordin, who won the SDB poster prize at the ISDB meeting in Cancun. Kara’s prize was to travel to Warwick to attend this year’s BSCB/BSDB ...

Lecturership positions at Monash University, Australia

Posted by , on 26 March 2014

Below are links to  two positions available at Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, within the School of Biomedical Sciences, Monash University, Clayton campus, Australia   Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Anatomy – ...

Get that out of my eye!

Posted by , on 24 March 2014

This is the first of several Node Posts that the Developmental Neurobiology Seminar Class at Reed College in Portland, Oregon (USA) will be posting. Each week, 12 advanced undergraduate students ...

PhD studentship investigating Somitogenesis on a Chip

Posted by , on 24 March 2014

Organisation: College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee   Supervisors: Dr Kim Dale and Dr Philip Murray   Studentship starting: 1st October 2014   BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) ...

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