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BSDB Gurdon/The Company of Biologists 2019 Summer Studentship Report - Grace Blakeley

Posted by , on 15 January 2020

Established by the British Society for Developmental Biology in 2014, The Gurdon/The Company of Biologists Summer Studentship scheme provides financial support to allow highly motivated undergraduate students an opportunity to engage ...

The people behind the papers – Daniel Osório, Elaine Chan, Joana Saramago and Ana Carvalho

Posted by , on 13 January 2020

This interview, the 73rd in our series, was recently published in Development.  Animal cytokinesis is driven by an actomyosin ring that assembles at the cell equator and constricts to physically separate the ...

Drosophila Neuroanatomy Biocurator (University of Cambridge)

Posted by , on 13 January 2020

We are seeking to recruit a Drosophila Neuroanatomy Biocurator to join our team at the University of Cambridge. The post is suitable for those with an undergraduate degree (Research Assistant level) or post-PhD (Research ...

PhD candidates in quantitative developmental biology at Leiden University

Posted by , on 8 January 2020

PhD candidates on Quantitative Developmental Biology and Mathematical Modeling of Blood Vessel Growth near Tumors at Leiden University, The Netherlands Key responsibilities  The PhD projects will be part of an interdisciplinary ...

PhD – Horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of insects: a genomic approach

Posted by , on 8 January 2020

Background Horizontal gene transfer has played a major role in the evolution of bacteria, however, its importance in animals is less clear. Recent evidence suggests that insects have repeatedly acquired ...

What might evolutionary muscle loss and pathological atrophies have in common?

Posted by , on 8 January 2020

By Mai P. Tran and Kimberly L. Cooper “It’s the cutest rodent I have ever seen, even cuter than a cuddly hamster, and it would be fun doing a rotation for ...

PhD – The epigenetic regulation of early annelid development

Posted by , on 7 January 2020

Background The development of an entire animal from a single totipotent cell – the zygote – is arguably one of the most fascinating processes in Nature. Strikingly, how this process ...

the Node's 2019 highlights

Posted by , on 7 January 2020

A new year is a good opportunity to look back on the one just passed, and whether you’re a Node regular or new to us, this selection of our 2019 ...

December in preprints

Posted by , on 3 January 2020

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental biology (and related) preprints.  Here’s the last cache of preprints of 2019 – happy preprinting in 2020! They were hosted on bioRxiv and arXiv. Let us ...

Transcriptional control of vertebrate neurogenesis

Posted by , on 27 December 2019

A 2 year post-doctoral position is available starting early 2020 to study transcriptional control of neurogenesis in Xenopus and mouse. The research will be conducted in the laboratory of Developmental ...

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