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September in preprints

Posted by , on 2 October 2019

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental biology (and related) preprints.  In recent preprint news, CSHL, which runs bioRxiv, launched Transparent Review in Preprints (TRiP), a new project enabling journals and peer ...

Down from the crest to clear the dead

Posted by , on 30 September 2019

Yunlu Zhu & Sarah Kucenas   Introduction Cells are the building blocks of life. However, in multi-cellular organisms, millions of cells are subject to death due to injury, infection and ...

PhD fellowship OPEN CALL to join our lab on EvoDevoGenomics in Barcelona

Posted by , on 29 September 2019

We are seeking a PhD candidate to join our EvoDevo lab in the University of Barcelona to study our favorite chordate model Oikopleura dioica, in which we are currently interested ...

Tenure-track faculty Positions in Neurobiology - Molecular or Cellular Neurobiology and Neurobiology of Autism & Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Posted by , on 25 September 2019

The Department of Biological Sciences at the University of South Carolina (UofSC) invites applications for two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in neurobiology. The successful candidates will be expected to establish ...

Group Leader - Developmental Biology at EMBL Heidelberg, Germany

Posted by , on 25 September 2019

We are seeking to recruit an outstanding group leader who aims to explore bold new areas of biological inquiry and carry out interdisciplinary research to investigate multicellular development at all ...

Using hemimetabolous insects to investigate the origin of the tra-dsx axis

Posted by , on 24 September 2019

The story behind our recent paper in eLife.   Rapid turn over of sex determination mechanisms provides biologists with an elegant study system connecting sexual selection to molecular evolution. Striking ...

Moving in concert: How lateral line primordium cells coordinate to migrate

Posted by , on 21 September 2019

Written by Tugba Colak-Champollion Story behind our recent paper in Current Biology “Cadherin-Mediated Cell Coupling Coordinates Chemokine Sensing across Collectively Migrating Cells” (Tugba Colak-Champollion, Ling Lan, Alisha R. Jadhav, Naoya ...

Tenure Track Faculty Position in Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine

Posted by , on 17 September 2019

The Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology (CDIB) https://www.uab.edu/medicine/cdib/ at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) seeks highly-qualified applicants for a position of tenure-earning Assistant Professor with a ...

Cluster Hire for Assistant Professor in Regenerative Medicine

Posted by , on 16 September 2019

The Center of Regenerative Medicine (CRM), together with the Departments of Cell Biology & Physiology, Developmental Biology, Genetics, Neurosurgery, Pathology and Immunology, and the Divisions of Nephrology and Gastroenterology within the Department ...

Workshop commentary: past, present and future of choroid plexus and cerebrospinal fluid biology

Posted by , on 16 September 2019

Written by: Aida Rodrigo Albors, Laura Pellegrini and Neil Dani. This July, The Company of Biologists Workshops together with Maria K. Lehtinen and Fiona Doetsch organized a meeting titled “New Frontiers ...

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