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Associate Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology

Posted by , on 8 October 2020

The Dunn School of Pathology at the University of Oxford seeks an outstanding candidate for the position of Associate Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology. The Dunn School has an ...

Features & Reviews Editor - Journal of Cell Science

Posted by , on 6 October 2020

Journal of Cell Science, published by The Company of Biologists, is seeking enthusiastic and motivated applicants for the role of Features & Reviews Editor. Joining an experienced and successful team, ...

Community Manager for Microscopy Community Site FocalPlane

Posted by , on 6 October 2020

Journal of Cell Science and its publisher The Company of Biologists are seeking to appoint a new Community Manager to run our newly launched microscopy community website, FocalPlane. This is initially ...

Butterfly Visual System Development

Posted by , on 6 October 2020

  We seek an outstanding postdoctoral candidate to join the Perry lab at the University of California, San Diego. Our group uses genetic and genomic approaches to study the development ...

Doctoral positions available at the Graduate School Life Science Munich

Posted by , on 2 October 2020

The Graduate School Life Science Munich (LSM) offers an international doctoral programme to motivated and academically qualified next generation researchers at one of Europe’s top Universities. LSM members are internationally ...

Development presents... A new developmental biology webinar series

Posted by , on 2 October 2020

Updated 2 October We’ve had over 400 registrations already! For those attending, this post has been updated with an order of play for the day, and the webinar homepage has ...

Forgotten filaments to the fore

Posted by , on 1 October 2020

The cytoskeletal filament network within our cells underpins the functionality of virtually all cellular processes. Apart from conferring a structural framework giving cells their unique shapes, the cytoskeleton also regulates ...

The long road to understanding homeobox genes in the nervous system

Posted by , on 1 October 2020

Following the initial discovery of the homeobox in the 1980s in invertebrates and then vertebrates, it became quickly clear that homeobox genes come in two flavors – that of the ...

September in preprints

Posted by , on 1 October 2020

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental biology (and related) preprints.  The preprints this month are hosted on bioRxiv and arXiv – use these links to get to the section ...

The people behind the papers – Chase Bryan and Kristen Kwan

Posted by , on 30 September 2020

This interview, the 78th in our series, was published in Development earlier this year.  Optic cup development involves a series of intricate cell and tissue movements, and cells’ interaction with the extracellular ...

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