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An interview with Roger Barker

Posted by , on 19 December 2012

An interview with Roger Barker Roger Barker is Professor of Clinical Neuroscience at the Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair, and one of the authors on a recent Development paper from ...

December 19

Posted by , on 19 December 2012

Today’s recommended paper is: Transcription in the Absence of Histone H3.2 and H3K4 Methylation Martina Hödl and Konrad Basler (2012) Current Biology 08 November 2012 Submitted by Barry Thompson: “This ...

In Development this week (Vol. 140, Issue 2)

Posted by , on 18 December 2012

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   Against the segmentation clock A gene expression oscillator called the segmentation clock controls the periodic formation of somites in ...

December 18

Posted by , on 18 December 2012

Today’s recommended paper is: Cilia at the Node of mouse embryos sense fluid flow for left-right determination via Pkd2 Satoko Yoshiba et al. Science 338 (6104), 226-231 Submitted by Benoit ...

Academic Visit to Oxford University : Thanks to Development Travelling Fellowship

Posted by , on 17 December 2012

I am a second year graduate student in Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University. I got a chance to visit Center for Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Institute, University of ...

Travelling Fellowships

Posted by , on 17 December 2012

Do you need to learn a new technique?  Are you planning a collaborative visit?  If so please have a look at The Compnay of Biologist’s Travelling Fellowships – http://www.biologists.com/fellowships.html.  The ...

December 17

Posted by , on 17 December 2012

Today’s recommended paper is: A system of repressor gradients spatially organizes the boundaries of Bicoid-dependent target genes. Hongtao Chen, Zhe Xu, Constance Mei, Danyang Yu and Stephen Small (2012) Cell ...

December 16

Posted by , on 16 December 2012

Today’s recommended paper is: Specifying and Sustaining Pigmentation Patterns in Domestic and Wild Cats Christopher B. Kaelin, Xiao Xu et al. (2012) Science 337 (6101), 1536-1541 Submitted by Heather Etchevers: ...

Counting transcripts to track cell state

Posted by , on 16 December 2012

Many years ago, we started to use micro-arrays to look at how gene expression changes during differentiation of lateral mesoderm. In particular we were interested in differentiation leading to the ...

December 15

Posted by , on 15 December 2012

Today’s recommended paper is: Self-Organized Shuttling: Generating Sharp Dorsoventral Polarity in the Early Drosophila Embryo Michal Haskel-Ittah et al. (2012) Cell 150 (5), 1016 – 1028 Submitted by Tohru Yano: ...

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