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Does (brain) size matter?

Posted by , on 30 October 2015

Chris Puhl and Rebecca McIntosh   As a part of a team of students from the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, Kings College London we commissioned and edited an issue ...

PhD positions in Quantitative Stem Cell Biology in Dortmund

Posted by , on 30 October 2015

Two PhD positions in the area of quantitative stem cell biology are available in the laboratory of Christian Schroeter, starting in spring 2016 at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology ...

Graduate Peer Group: How to Lead When You Are Not in Charge

Posted by , on 29 October 2015

Itamar Harel¹* and Tomer Stern²* ¹ Department of Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel Present address: Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA ² Department ...

Tenure track positions as Assistant Professor

Posted by , on 27 October 2015

Tenure track positions as Assistant Professor within the Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine at Umeå University, Sweden. Deadline 1st of December 2015 The Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM) at ...

The Story Behind the Campaign to Put a Woman of Science on the $10 Bill

Posted by , on 26 October 2015

  Originally posted to the blog Genes to Genomes, reposed with permission. Don Gibson (University of California, Davis) describes how he decided to start the Barbara on the Bill Campaign When I heard that ...

An interview with Mike Levine

Posted by , on 20 October 2015

This interview first featured in Development.   Mike Levine, director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University, is a developmental biologist who has dedicated his career to understanding ...

Research Assistant - Bioinformatician

Posted by , on 20 October 2015

Department/Location: Wellcome Trust – Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, UK Salary: £24,775-£28,695 Reference: PS07303 Closing date: 12 November 2015 Fixed-term: The funds for this post ...

(Developmental) Biology around the internet- October 2015

Posted by , on 16 October 2015

Here is October’s round-up of some of the interesting content that we spotted around the internet!   News & Research – Developmental Biologist Eric Davidson, who was based at CalTech, ...

Biocurator positions at Xenbase, the Xenopus Model Organism database

Posted by , on 13 October 2015

Xenbase (www.xenbase.org) is the Xenopus bioinformatics and genomics resource. Xenopus is a major model for fundamental cell and developmental biology and a model for human disease. Xenbase is a totally ...

Postdoctoral Researcher position with Andrea Münsterberg, UEA Norwich

Posted by , on 13 October 2015

Using chick embryos we recently identified BMP/Smad and Wnt/GSK3b signals as extrinsic cues that control the migration of prospective cardiac cells. We showed that BMP and Wnt pathways converge on a ...

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