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Post-doctoral Positions at Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford

Posted by , on 2 September 2010

Grade 7 £28,983 – £35,646 We are seeking two Post-Doctoral Research Assistants for Professor Liz Robertson’s Wellcome Trust funded Research Group studying mammalian developmental biology at the Sir William Dunn ...

Postdoctoral Positions at the University of Pittsburgh in Cellular Mechanics and Biophysics of Morphogenesis

Posted by , on 20 August 2010

Postdoctoral Positions are available for highly qualified and motivated candidates to study the physical principles of morphogenesis in the Davidson Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh in the Department of ...

Changes in Canadian postdoc funding

Posted by , on 17 August 2010

Some Canadian postdocs are awaiting the next academic year with bated breath: will they earn less than they did during their PhD, or twice as much as their colleagues? Canada’s ...

Too many postdocs and PhD students?

Posted by , on 23 July 2010

There was a nice piece on the Naturejobs site this week, written by postdoc Katherine Sixt. She describes how she started to realize that not every postdoc will eventually become ...

How do sea anemones make babies?

Posted by , on 24 October 2026

Inspiration for scientific research projects can come from many unexpected places. With the publication of my second PhD research paper [1], I am looking back at my sources of inspiration ...

Celebrating the Centenary of The Theory of the Gene Through Cinema and Public Outreach

Posted by , on 23 October 2026

This post is co-authored by Dante Albino Idesti and Larissa de Moraes Chiarelli One hundred years ago, in 1926, Thomas Hunt Morgan published The Theory of the Gene, a landmark ...

What is the cost of knowledge?

Posted by , on 23 October 2026

To mark International Open Access Week 2026, The Company of Biologists has been reflecting on this year’s theme: ‘The Cost of Knowledge’. In our latest blog post, ‘The true cost ...

Meet Bill Hinchen, winner of the 2026 writing challenge

Posted by , on 22 October 2026

Read our interview with Bill Hinchen, winner of the 2026 Writing Challenge from August.

Gene expression in the formation of the avian hypoblast

Posted by , on 12 October 2026

Rahma Mohamed writes about her 9 week internship in James DiFrisco's lab at The Crick.

2026 writing challenge: your words matter 

Posted by , on 7 October 2026

During September, we ran a writing challenge on the Node. Here, we reflect on the writing challenge and name the winner.

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